“He bailed on football practice.” As soon as the words left me, my stomach pitched. This wasn’t any of Phil’s business. He chuckled. “So, the Golden Boy isn’t so golden after all.” He lifted his arm toward my house. “Walk you home?” “Um . . . OK,” I heard myself agree.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I think your work likes you. You find beauty where others don’t see it. Or rather, they choose to ignore.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“It had been a perfect fit, but perfection can be an illusion.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“The human spirit is amazingly resilient, and the human body is surprisingly horny.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I’d been rushing to a finish line, and I’d failed to enjoy the run along the way.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“Sinking onto the sand, I turned my face into the wind, hoping the breeze would blow away the pain. The pain of rejection, the pain of betrayal, and the pain of everything that had been lost to us.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“You might not feel anything for me, but I feel everything for you.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“True artists elicit an emotional response through their work. You, Aims, are an artist.” I”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I don’t know how.” “You’ll find a way,” she said. “I don’t know what to do.” “You’ll figure something out.” “I’m all alone.” She”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll toast to us becoming great friends if you promise to tell me when you want something more with me.” My eyes rounded, then I tossed back my head, laughing at his deliberate word choice. When, not if. “You’re something else,” I teased. He shook his head. “Nah, just optimistic.” “All right.” I lifted my glass. “You’ve got yourself a deal.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“Good thing a look couldn’t scald flesh. I’d have blisters.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I was falling in love with my best friend, and I desperately missed him.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“My brows arched upward. “That’s an interesting selection. You’re feisty tonight, aren’t you?” He rolled his shoulders and grinned, slow and sexy. My stomach quickened.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“The pallbearers lowered the casket onto a metal stand, then moved to their seats. Thomas, James’s brother, slid into the front pew beside Claire, who was dressed in a black suit with her silver hair coiled as tight and rigid as her posture. Phil, James’s cousin, moved into the pew to stand on her other side. He turned and looked at me, dipping his head in acknowledgment. I swallowed, inching back until my calves pressed into the wood bench. Claire”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“Everything was in its place except the man who lived there. I”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“Fall for me, Aimee. I’ll catch you. Let go, baby.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll toast to us becoming great friends if you promise to tell me when you want something more with me."
My eyes rounded, then I tossed back my head, laughing at his deliberate word choice. When, not if.
"You're something else," I teased.
He shook his head. "Nah, just optimistic."
"All right." I lifted my glass. "You've got yourself a deal.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“His hands moved over my back, frantic. His lips were everywhere, my jaw, my chin, the length of my neck. His tongue traced my pulse point, making me hyperaware of every inch of skin. It was too much. I tore my mouth away. "Why are you doing this?" I panted. "Why now?"
His lips skimmed across my cheek. He nipped my ear. "I couldn't compete with a dead guy. You worshipped him."
"So I wouldn't forget him," I cried, desperate. I felt out of control.
Ian dug his fingers into my hair and seared his gaze with mine. "He's alive, Aimee. Flesh and blood. That I can compete with.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“Fall for me, Aimee. I'll catch you.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“background check on Lacy, look into the gallery, maybe find out the name of the artist on the painting”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“finished circling the room, ending at the desk in back. Books stacked against the wall spanned many genres and years, from Stephen King to Shakespeare, Spanish-titled novels and art instruction”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“Propped on the wide window ledge was a breathtaking photo of a lavender-orange sky kissing aquamarine waters. The image was magical, simply titled Belize Sunrise.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“It had been a perfect fit, but perfection can be an illusion. I stared at my naked finger, the band of pale skin pink and tender.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I shook my head, pressing my tongue to the roof of my mouth to stifle the sob threatening to be heard. I stepped from Thomas’s arms. “I have to go.” “We”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I sat beside my parents in the sanctuary filled with friends and relatives. They should have been our wedding guests. Instead, they’d come to pay their respects to a man who’d died too young and too soon. He’d just turned twenty-nine. Now”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“I’d be twenty-seven and well on my way to becoming the proud, naive owner of a business with no plan, no employees, and no product.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“But instead of walking down the aisle toward my best friend, my first and only love, I was at his funeral.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
“The organ blared as the funeral ceremony commenced. Everyone surged to their feet. I rose slowly, my entire body feeling achy and aged, and gripped the pew in front of me to keep from collapsing back into my seat. All heads turned to the rear of the church, where the pallbearers hoisted James’s casket onto their shoulders. As I watched them process behind the priest, I couldn’t help thinking they carried more than James’s remains, his body too decomposed for an open casket. Our hopes and dreams, the future we had road-mapped, also rode on their shoulders. James’s plan to open an art gallery downtown after he quit the family business. My dream to start my own restaurant when my parents retired from theirs. The little boy I imagined standing between James and me, his small hands linked with ours. Everything”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep
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“Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.”
― China Miéville, quote from Railsea
“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”
― Leonard Cohen, quote from Book of Longing
“You've gone all red. It's cooking over a hot stove. That's why I've never cultivated the art. It simply ruins the complexion. I'm terribly sorry."
"It's all right," said miss Pettigrew with resignation. "I've reached the age when... when complexions don't matter."
"Not matter!" said miss LaFosse, shocked. "Complexions always matter.”
― Winifred Watson, quote from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. —Charles Darwin”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from The Consequences Series Box Set
“So it was that the Red Tower put into production its new, more terrible and perplexing, line of unique novelty items. Among the objects and constructions now manufactured were several of an almost innocent nature. These included tiny, delicate cameos that were heavier than their size would suggest, far heavier, and lockets whose shiny outer surface flipped open to reveal a black reverberant abyss inside, a deep blackness roaring with echoes. Along the same lines was a series of lifelike replicas of internal organs and physiological structures, many of them evidencing an advanced stages of disease and all of them displeasingly warm and soft to the touch. There was a fake disembodied hand on which fingernails would grow several inches overnight and insistently grew back should one attempt to clip them. Numerous natural objects, mostly bulbous gourds, were designed to produce a long, deafening scream whenever they were picked up or otherwise disturbed in their vegetable stillness. Less scrutable were such things as hardened globs of lava into whose rough, igneous forms were sent a pair of rheumy eyes that perpetually shifted their gaze from side to side like a relentless pendulum. And there was also a humble piece of cement, a fragment broken away from any street or sidewalk, that left a most intractable stain, greasy and green, on whatever surface it was placed. But such fairly simple items were eventually followed, and ultimately replaced, by more articulated objects and constructions. One example of this complex type of novelty item was an ornate music box that, when opened, emitted a brief gurgling or sucking sound in emulation of a dying individual's death rattle. Another product manufactured in great quantity at the Red Tower was a pocket watch in a gold casing which opened to reveal a curious timepiece whose numerals were represented by tiny quivering insects while the circling 'hands' were reptilian tongues, slender and pink. But these examples hardly begin to hint at the range of goods that came from the factory during its novelty phase of production. I should at least mention the exotic carpets woven with intricate abstract patterns that, when focused upon for a certain length of time, composed themselves into fleeting phantasmagoric scenes of a kind which might pass through a fever-stricken or even permanently damaged brain.”
― Thomas Ligotti, quote from Teatro Grottesco
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