“Maybe we aren't so very different after all. There's good and bad in both of us, and that's what binds us together, for better or worse.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“If Chase's wings are broken, then mine are shattered.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Kay is a sandcastle on the beach, and I'm a fucking hurricane. I'd not only wash her away, I'd fucking destroy her.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Tell me, Chase. Tell me what I think I already know. Tell me what you’re feeling. I feel it too, I do.' My slaughtered heart stitches back together, more solid than ever. `I love you,' I whisper. `I love you so fucking much.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“You're not broken.' I touch the angel between the wings on his back for emphasis. 'You're putting your life back together. Building isn't breaking, Chase.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“We both still, lips touching, breaths shared. This is what we are, two broken people who when connected are made whole, made right. I feel this everywhere, my body, my heart, my soul.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I knew the things happening in my life would eventually define my future, and I guess I hoped no matter what occurred those things wouldn't ultimately define me.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“As I stand before you, judge me not.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“He kisses me hard, tells me between frenzied kisses, `You feel so good, beautiful, beautiful, sweet girl. Feel how much I want you.' He circles his hips against mine. `I want you like this all the fucking time.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“For Chase, I accept dares, I'm learning to take chances. He makes me feel unafraid.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I decide this day with Chase Gartner--my friend, my maybe-possibility--is the best one yet.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“As we held tightly to one another, like two lost ships on a sea of confusion, I breathed in the guy I've grown to care for so very much.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“This is what Kay needs right now, soft touching and caring. When we're together, I want to love her just like this.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“It’s at that exact second I realize—in a rush, like a wave crashing all around me—I have fallen in love. I am head over heels in love with Chase Gartner.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Chase has made me feel a lot of things today, things I thought I’d never feel again—excitement, giddiness, lust, possibility. But the most important one—the one I want to cling to like a girl who’s been stumbling around for too long in the dark and has just spotted a sliver of light—is hope.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Hi,' Kay says all shy-like, as if she's suddenly not sure if she should be here. To me, she looks like she's belonged here all along.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I like this dirty Chase, this crude and irreverent man. I want to go where he's taking me. I need to be dragged down to where he is so we can build ourselves back up, together, stronger.”
― S.R. Grey, quote from I Stand Before You
“I took [Kate's] hand in mine, and felt her fingers squeeze back. And I thought: home. It took me completely by surprise. But I suppose that once you bid farewell to your first home, you're always looking for another—that place where you can feel happy and strong and at your best. For three years I'd called the Aurora home. But now that I lived in Paris, it was not the city itself that was home. It was Kate.”
― Kenneth Oppel, quote from Skybreaker
“Some people believe that if you don't open your eyes to sorrow and you don't talk about it, you can pretend it never happened.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from Blue Diary
“Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it’s good”
― Don Winslow, quote from Savages
“shuffled their way through the cattle shoots in front of each restaurant’s counter.”
― Rachel Vincent, quote from My Soul to Lose
“Markboen tapte ikke hodet. Han fandt ikke luften usund for sig, han hadde publikum nok til sine nye klær, han savnet ikke diamanter, vin kjendte han fra bryllupet i Kana. Markboen gjorde sig ikke ondt av de herligheter han ikke fik: kunst, aviser, luksus, politik var værd nøiagtig det som menneskene vilde betale for det, ikke mere; markens grøde derimot den måtte skaffes til hvilkensomhelst pris, den var altings ophav, den eneste kilde.”
― Knut Hamsun, quote from Growth of the Soil
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