“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
“He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Evercrossed
“One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.”
― Stephen Fry, quote from The Fry Chronicles
“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”
― Fritjof Capra, quote from The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
“What kind of a dork uses a lame stage name anyway? And why Shade? Because he wears sunglasses all the time?"
"Yeah, he has to wear them. He has vision problems.."
Melanie's stomach dropped and she covered her big, blabbering mouth with one hand. "He does? Shit. Now I feel bad."
The guy chuckled. "I'm just fucking with you. He wears them because he enjoys looking like a douche twenty-four seven.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
“It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from Ember
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