“When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“You have this deer-in-headlights look sometimes that I'm sure means you're going to run. Run to me, Amy, not from me.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“I told you I do not do anything because I have to. And I don't. But to be inside you right now, baby, I have to. I need to. And, yes - right here in the kitchen.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“All I know is he's letting me see it, and him, and he is exactly what he preaches. Raw and honest, and intense and I believe in this moment that we are a rainbow of the same colors, none of them bright or beautiful. We are the many shades of gray and black, hoping to find a glimmer of light in each other, not more darkness. ”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“while being alone sucks, losing someone you care about is far worse. ”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“I’m insane for you, Amy. ‘Like’ lasted all of ten minutes.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“But just know that I have every intention of making you forget everything but what it feels like to have my tongue and my cock buried inside you.” ”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“If you tell me you don’t want to be with me. I will listen. I won’t like it, but I’ll listen. I need you to know that. But when you say you ‘can’t’ be with me, like some obstacle out of your control is stopping you from seeing me, I’m not going to listen.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“We are raw and honest, or we are nothing.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“Escape, baby. The lack of control is control. When you’re hanging on each moment, anticipating what comes next, it leaves room for nothing else. That’s what I want to do for you.
…
“And who helps you escape, Liam?”
“We’re going to the same place, Amy. I’m not standing outside, watching.” His lips find my neck and then my ear. “I’m right here with you.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“He wants you. I want you. I can’t walk away from you, Amy, and I have this sense that you could bolt at any minute. And yes, you’re right. I’m being barbaric. And intense. That’s who I am and I can’t be anyone but me. When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don’t.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“Fear and a secret are two different things,” I remind him, pointing out the difference in the two phrases. “Often they come together. A secret that leads to fear in one way, shape, or form.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“The two men’s gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“You’re a beautiful woman who deserves to be properly fucked, and I conclude from your actions and your answers to my questions that you haven’t been. I want to be the man to remedy that. I want it very much.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“I think all men get a macho rise out of the idea of creating a baby on some level, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy when the big belly and dirty diapers come around.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“I’m not going away, Amy. You do know that, don’t you?”
… “I don’t need a protector, Liam.”
“I see things differently.”
My spine locks into a steel bar. “I’m not your ---”
“Not yet. But I want you to be.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“And some violinist—” “David Garrett.” “David Garrett,” I repeat, “who you swear will seduce me into loving his music.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“You do know I couldn’t let you run, don’t you?” “I wasn’t—” “You were.” “If you think that, then why’d you come after me?” “Because you didn’t want to run. You just thought you had to.” “That’s a little arrogant.” “It’s honest. I like honesty.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“But I have every intention of making you forget everything but what it feels like to have my tongue and my cock buried inside you.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“Until then,” he says, all velvet and seduction, “I’ll be fantasizing about the moment when the only thing wrapped around me is you.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Escaping Reality
“Now I have more freedom than I have ever had at any time in my life, and I do only the things I always have. They were empty before, but Selina has given a meaning to them, I do them for her. I am waiting, for her - but, waiting, I think, is too poor a word for it. I am engaged with the substance of the minutes as they pass. I feel the surface of my flesh stir - it is like the surface of the sea that knows the moon is drawing near it. If I take up a book, I might as well never have seen a line of print before - books are filled, now, with messages aimed only at me. An hour ago, I found this:
The blood is listening in my frame,
And thronging shadows, fast and thick,
Fall on my overflowing eyes...
It is as if every poet who ever wrote a line to his own love wrote secretly for me, and for Selina. My blood - even as I write this - my blood, my muscle and every fibre of me, is listening, for her. When I sleep, it is to dream of her. When shadows move across my eye, I know them now for shadows of her. My room is still, but never silent - I hear her heart, beating across the night in time to my own. My room is dark, but darkness is different for me now. I know all its depths and textures - darkness like velvet, darkness like felt, darkness bristling as coir or prison wool.”
― Sarah Waters, quote from Affinity
“Da igual si estaba escrito o no; no me corresponde a mí cambiarlo solo porque puedo.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, quote from Time Between Us
“Now you know what it’s like to want something you can’t have.”
― Michelle A. Valentine, quote from Rock the Heart
“What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.”
― Stephen King, quote from Joyland
“I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from A Prisoner of Birth
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