“Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.
I swear, I do.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“Sometimes there is a darkness you can hear, a swallowing of your senses that blots out everything going on in the world around you, leaving only the chaos colliding and exploding in you own head. -- Olivia”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“But can’t we do that with our clothes on?”
“We could,” he said, giving me that cocky grin of his. “But where’s the fun in that?”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“Money talks. And throwing that money around shuts everyone else up.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“Do you only think you love me? Are you pretty sure you love me? Or are you absolutely positive?” I asked. “Because it’s kind of an important distinction.”
“I think I’m pretty positive I love you.” He grinned down at me.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“I think you've had a very hard life," Passion said calmly, "and you see everyone and everthing through a lens of mistrust." - Passion to Marcus”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“After all, eyes are the windows to the soul. But Renzo had a bit too much soul in his eye.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“He and Blake had been busy, and I’d been busy talking to customers about random stuff while they waited. I was surprised by how nice everyone had been—with the exception of Dex's dumb face.
There hadn't been a single biker in the shop either. Weird.
All of this assured me that I’d avoided having to interact much with my boss. The owner. The bleeding mouth sore.
The snot-faced ass**le that I only kind-of, sort-of hoped came down with an infectious illness in his private parts. But you know, something he could get medicine for.
I tried my best to keep from replaying the scenario in the office but it was impossible. It wasn't his tone but the words that had seared me.
And each time, it made me want to cry. It didn’t get any easier or any less painful. How the hell could someone be so rude? I didn't understand and I couldn't get over it.
Every cycle had me coming up with different things to call him. A dick. A slimy bastard. A slimy, small-dicked bastard. Right? Maybe he wouldn't be so mad at the world if his pubic hair wasn’t longer than his full-blown erection. God, I felt awkward thinking about what he had under his clothes but it was the best insult I could come up with.”
― Mariana Zapata, quote from Under Locke
“So you’re a stalker?” I asked with a hard stare.
He smirked, a knees-turning-to jelly kind of smirk. “I prefer gravitationally linked to your presence.”
― R.S. Grey, quote from With This Heart
“Well kids, I am heading out. I have a hot date with brand new pussy tonight,” Josh announced without a care in the world.”
― Rachel Brookes, quote from Be My December
“The ashes from the crematory pits fell like snowflakes onto his hair and his black uniform. These were the ashes of the dead and murdered. The very thought nauseated him.”
― Roberta Kagan, quote from You Are My Sunshine
“Sometimes we have to face things, face people, face situations in life that we don’t like to deal with,” he said. “It can feel like everybody is out to get you. That’s when you have to refuse to succumb, make people realize you are a force—but you also have to give and take in these situations.”
― Duff McKagan, quote from It's So Easy: And Other Lies
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