“What are you still doing up?”
I twisted around, spotting Hayden in the doorway. “Watching the… uh,” I turned back, frowning at the screen, “the… way tigers mate.” I sighed. Damn you, Discovery Channel.
He chuckled deep in his throat. “Didn’t know that kind of thing interested you.”
“Oh. Yeah, always wanted to know how they picked their boyfriends.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“You quoted Oscar Wilde.” I smiled.
Hayden laughed. “Yeah, that was, like, the height of geekdom.”
“No. It was kind of cool.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Listen to me, Ember. I couldn’t hurt you. I can’t.” Hayden settled his eyes on me. They were softer than I’d ever seen. “I love you— I’ve loved you since the first time I saw you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“I admitted. If I was going to hallucinate, then at least it was some hot dude instead of something gross.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Hunger gnawed at my stomach, but I was afraid someone would be in the kitchen again. So I found myself staring at the front door. Freedom seemed just a doorknob-turn away.
When I did open the door, freedom didn't wait — a half-naked Hayden did.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“For a brief second, I entertained the idea of ripping off my gloves, rushing down the hall, and jumping on Dustin’s back like a psychotic monkey.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Don’t ever touch her again,” Hayden growled.
Kurt looked up, eyes wide. “Are you threatening me— over her? I’m like your brother, Hayden!”
“Not anymore.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Hayden’s gaze fell to my lips.
My heart did a stupid little jump that made me all warm and fuzzy. He liked me— really liked me. Even after seeing my scars. It was like hitting the jackpot of awesome guys.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“His gaze lifted as he leaned in, placing his mouth an inch from mine. The air was sucked right out of the room, and I felt dizzy again. “Ever since I first saw you.” He moved so that his mouth was angled with mine. “And right now I want to so badly it hurts. You have no idea, Em, but I don’t want to hurt you.”
My gaze dropped to his parted lips. What would it be like to feel them against my own? Unable to stop myself, I brought my mouth within a hair’s breadth of his. “I want to kiss you, too.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“We always have something running in the back of our thoughts. What's running behind yours?"
Right now I was thinking about how nice his eyes looked, but I'd shave my head before I admitted that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“You can hate me forever, but it won’t change how I feel.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Em, you have a soul.”
“How can you be so sure of that, Hayden? How many people die and come back?”
“No one dies and comes back. You did because of your sister, and you have a gift. Maybe that played a role in your coming back, but you have a soul. You aren’t evil. There’s nothing you can say that will make me think that.”
I looked up and our gazes locked. “And there’s nothing you can say to make me feel differently.”
He lowered his eyes. Thick lashes fanned his cheeks. “I know you do, because I wouldn’t want to… to kiss you if you didn’t have a soul.” I froze.
“You… you want to kiss me?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“I like your hair down." He twisted his fingers through the curls.
My eyes drifted shut as I relaxed next to him. "It's a mess. I need to get a haircut."
Hayden's fingers stilled. "No. You shouldn't cut your hair. It's beautiful."
I would never cut my hair. Ever.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“I glanced at my reflection and forced a smile. It was broken.
And I also had the hugest zit ever on my temple.
Awesome.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Gabe slowly backed out of the kitchen, hands raised. "Wow. That takes family drama to a whole new level."
Hayded stared at him.
"And I think I'll go to my room now." Gabe said.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“You worry about hurting me, but you never seem to worry about me hurting you. And I’m the one with the killer touch.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“...Cromwell informed me I’d only have the keys to my car once I’d earned his trust back. His trust? Like I was the creeptastic person who whipped kids off the street and collected them like figurines?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Ember, he’s not going to—” I pushed off the car. “Please. Hayden, please don’t tell him. I’m all Olivia really has. Please.” My voice cracked, and I looked away, embarrassed. “She’s all I have.”
Hayden made a soft noise deep in his throat. Then he clasped my elbows and pulled me right up against him. His arms carefully snaked around my waist, trapping me in a hug. It could have been the bunny. Hell, it could’ve been the last two years that suddenly made me want to stay in Hayden’s embrace. Surely— surely not the way his heat thawed the ice encasing my entire body. Or how hard his chest felt under the sweater… or how perfectly I fit against him. And he was a chivalrous type of guy. Right? He wanted to help me control my gift, as ridiculous as that sounded. Comfort— he offered comfort, and I needed to remember that. His arms around my waist made it hard, really hard to keep that in mind, though.
“Okay.” Hayden’s breath stirred the hair around my ear. “Even though I think I should tell him, I won’t. But I will figure out who did this.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“...soft light ate away at the darkness and revealed a rather large room outfitted with a small kitchen, an antique-looking couch, and a… a bed. Nervously, I turned away and folded my arms. The place reminded me more of a love-nest than anything else. Then again, the stockpile of rifles hanging on the wall kind of ruined the cozy feel.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“This is you." She pointed at the stick figure with enormous red curly marks and blue eyes.
Did my hair really look like that? I ran a hand over my head, feeling a bit like Little Orphan Annie.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Hayden gave me a lopsided smile before turning to Olivia. “Aunt Liz is baking cookies.”Her eyes lit up like someone shoved a diamond in her face. “Cookies? Coca chip?”“Uh-huh, but isn’t it your bedtime?” asked Hayden. “You probably missed out on the chance.”“Nooo.” She dragged the word out, eyes wide.I shook my head, smiling. “So wrong.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“What are you still doing up?”
I twisted around, spotting Hayden in the doorway. “Watching the… uh,” I turned back, frowning at the screen, “the … way tigers mate.” I sighed. Damn you, Discovery Channel.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“¿Sabes que? No me importa lo que pienses o lo que quieras. La única forma en que me iré sin Olivia es si me arrastan fuera de aquí. Y me gustaría verte intentarlo.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
“Petersburg was the kind of town people missed if they sneezed.
Armentrout, Jennifer (2012-09-18). Cursed (p. 86). Midpoint Trade Books. Kindle Edition.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Cursed
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“She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Nineteen Minutes
“WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?" There was a sound of shattering glass, and they both sat up to see Alec glaring at them. He had dropped the empty bottle of wine he had been carrying, and there were bits of sparkly glass all over the cave floor. "WHY CAN'T YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE TO DO THESE HORRIBLE THINGS? MY EYES."
"It's a demon realm, Alec," Isabelle said. "There's nowhere for us to go."
"And you said I should look after her-" Simon began, then realized that would not be a productive line of conversation, and shut up.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from City of Heavenly Fire
“What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, quote from The Remains of the Day
“I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, quote from Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“She’s way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy.” “Please. Just please with the blame-my-mommy-’cause-I’m-a-bitch crap,”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Betrayed
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