“Gotta take life by the balls at some point and squeeze those fuckers with the skill of a whore.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Marry me. You wanna do all this shit right. Then marry me."
"Under God's holy law?" she asked.
I shrugged. "Under a fuckin' pink unicorn's law for all I care, I don't give a shit."
"You would do this for me?"
"Baby, I've done a complete one-eighty for you. May as well shackle myself to you for life too.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Ky, my heart...it beats for you. My lungs, they breathe for you. My soul..."
Ky's eyes filled with emotion as I spoke.
"What sweet cheeks? Tell me," he asked, a hint of desperation in his voice.
"My soul...belongs to you. You saved me, baby. You wanted me for the me inside. Even looking like this, you make me believe I am enough.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I love you, Li. You're mine. My woman. My property. My fuckin' old lady...my fuckin' forever.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I'm gonna love you with all these scars, with this sexy-as-fuck- short hair. However the fuck you look, wearing a damn Glad bag if you want. I'm in this with you 'til the very end.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Fucking was easy. It was this intimacy between two people that destroyed your heart so you couldn’t see anything else but the bitch before you, giving you something you never knew you even needed.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Cause scars or not, hacked-off hair or not, lash marks on your back, a fuckin' cross burned onto your stomach or not, you are perfect to me. You will always exist to me. And anything you did to yourself to fuck that up didn't work because you'll always be the most beautiful bitch I've ever seen. You'll always be the only bitch I'll ever see, period.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I am just so impossibly happy. Before you I was vacant of love. Now I am replete. Before you I lived without hope. Now I am inspired. Before you I was broken. Now I am whole."
"Lilah," I rasped, fighting a fucking lump in my throat at her words. I tapped over my heart with my fist and said, "You're in here, Li. You're fuckin' always in here.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Don't fuckin' do shit like that again, baby," he interuppted in a raspy, hurt voice. There was no anger in is voice, just a desolate crushed roughness. "Cause I ain't wanting to be without you. You hearing me? You're my fuckin' woman. We ride this road together, no matter what gets in our way.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I love you, baby. We're gonna get you through this, 'cause, fuck, you deserve more to life than what you've been getting. You deserve to be happy with me.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I wish… to kiss you now.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Love if life, and you are my love...You are my entire life.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“He watches only you. Sees only you. Smiles at only you...I think, for him, you are the brightest star in his sky, blotting out those who have come before.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I love you. I never thought it would have ever been possible for me to feel this emotion...but I love you...with all of my heart.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Gripping her finger, I brought it to my lips and kissed it, my chest almost exploding as I confessed, "Because I fuckin' love you, Li...I'm fuckin' insane over you. You ain't no burden."
Lilah sucked in a deep breath and her eyes widened. "Ky...why?"
I huffed out a laugh. "Stupid fuckin' question, sweet cheeks," I replied. "Like asking me the impossible. I just do. I fuckin' love your crazy pilgrim ass.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“The scars on her face had freed her of her demons. She thought herself ugly. I thought she was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I'm gonna make you feel beautiful, baby. And you'll never be made to feel less than anyone else, ever again.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“You may not wanna fuck me yet, baby, but you let me touch you, have your mouth on mine and now I ain't ever gonna stop touching you, kissing you.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I'm changed; she's changed me. I'm under her damn spell and I sure as shit don't wanna get out.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“You're my woman. You've been my fuckin' everything since I first saw you. Do you not understand that by now?”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Every single second of my life...because it eventually led me to you. It led me to fall so deeply in love with you, Ky...the man who recaptured this bruised and battered heart.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“No talking baby," I whispered as my lips closed in on hers. "I'm gonna kiss you now and I'm gonna show you how fuckin' good it feels.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I love you, Li. Christ, I fuckin' love you," he confessed. I could hear the disbelief and shock laced in his voice. My heart swelled and I began to think of a life with him. A life far from all I had been taught was true, but my soul was attached to his...joined, melded with his.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“He always kept me safe. He would forever have my heart...even if I could never have his.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Fine, I fuckin' love the pilgrim bitch. You happy? Can't get her outta my head. Can't see anyone but her.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I was fuckin' in love with the bat shit-crazy pilgrim blonde taking a shower in my bathroom right now...naked.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“She offered a timid smile, lifted the bottle slowly to her lips, tried the beer, spat it out, laughed about it, and damn near crushed my whore heart.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“But now, when he smiles at you, his eyes smile too”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“I'd kill for you baby. Anyone even comes close to trying to take you away from me and I'll slit their motherfuckin' throat. You belong to me, you're mine, and right now, in this bed, I'm gonna do something else for the very first time. We both are. I'm gonna make love to you, Lilah. I'm gonna take you as mine, possess you. 'Cause there ain't no one out there...no one else who could do this to me, but you.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“He had taken a piece of my tainted soul...of my heart...and made him a part of me. He was in my every cell, my conscience. He was simply part of me.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
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“Nolan said his mother had got a bit better about things and that she had agreed to go away next summer for a holiday by the sea. Nolan’s whole family had been wanting to do this for ages but his mother had always said the seaside was full of rats and beetles and sea snakes. St. Patrick had only got rid of the land snakes according to Nolan’s mother, but he had no power over the huge snakes calling themselves eels which came in on beaches all over the country.”
― Maeve Binchy, quote from Echoes
“I have never tried anything psychedelic, but I’ve always wanted to. Would I be wrapped up in colors, attacked by sounds, filled with insights about worlds I don’t even know exist?”
― quote from Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
“This is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something to leave behind even after she was gone, something that showed what she had observed in a way that no one else had and no one else would after her.”
― Edwidge Danticat, quote from Krik? Krak!
“Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent on her needles and her silk, some discussion meantime going on around her, in the course of which peculiarities of character are being developed, or important interests canvassed; she takes no part in int; her humble, feminine mind is wholl with her knitting; none of her features move; she neither presumes to smile approval, nor frown disapprobation; her little hands assiduously ply their unpretending task; if she can only get this purse finished, or this bonnet-grec completed, it is enough for her.”
― Charlotte Brontë, quote from The Professor
“Exercise: Letting Go As you read this, take a deep breath and, as you exhale, allow all the tension to leave your body. Let your scalp and your forehead and your face relax. Your head does not need to be tense in order for you to read. Let your tongue and your throat and your shoulders relax. You can hold a book with relaxed arms and hands. Do that now. Let your back and your abdomen and your pelvis relax. Let your breathing be at peace as you relax your legs and feet. Is there a big change in your body since you began the previous paragraph? Notice how much you hold on. If you are doing it with your body, you are doing it with your mind. In this relaxed, comfortable position, say to yourself, “I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all ten- sion. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.” Go over this exercise two or three times. Feel the ease of letting go.”
― Louise L. Hay, quote from You Can Heal Your Life
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