“Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“I love you. I love you so damn much it consumes me. I don't deserve you, but I'm gonna become the man who does deserve you. I promise you. I'll make you proud of me.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“She loves you. Do you even know what to do with that?”
I kissed the top of her head. “Cherish it like it’s the most precious thing on the face of the earth.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“I didn't need taming. I needed saving.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Nothing about this thing we have is a bad thing. I’m not gonna lie about it: I don’t deserve you. I’m sure as hell not good enough for you, but as long as you want me, I’m all yours.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Fine. You don’t want to be good enough for me, then you will never be. I deserve someone who wants to be what I need.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Preston pulled me up against his chest and cupped my face in his hands. “I love you. I love you so damn much it consumes me. I don’t deserve you, but I’m gonna become the man who does deserve you. I promise you. I’ll make you proud of me.”I reached up and ran my thumb over his lips. “I am and will always be proud of you. I want the world to know you’re mine.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or maybe ‘irresistible’?”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Are you sure it wasn't my sexy-as-hell voice whispering in your ear that caused your momentary lack of oxygen?”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“I'll be good. I promise. I'll be the best damn friend you've ever had.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Hey, sexy. Why haven’t you called?” The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a familiar-looking brunette. “Because I’m the asshole who never calls,” I replied with a wink.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“I could never be what she wanted. She thought I was like Cage and the right girl could tame me. It wasn't about that. I didn't need taming. I needed fucking saving.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Just as I'd realize that I couldn't keep lying to her because I was in love with her, She'd realize that you can't love a lie."
Preston Drake - "Just for Now”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us . . . And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (Nelson Mandela)”
― John Eldredge, quote from Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
“My boobs are willing; the rest of me will come along. I’m not one hundred percent sold on you like they seem to be.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked
“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where he becomes lost and notes the passage of a woman dressed in the burkha in the street of the moneylenders) and then back past the secretariat, the Legislative Assembly and Government House, and on into the old cantonment in a search for points of present contact with the reality of twenty years ago, the repercussions, for example, of the affair in the Bibighar Gardens. What impresses him is something for which there is no memorial but which all these things collectively bear witness to: the fact that here in Ranpur, and in places like Ranpur, the British came to the end of themselves as they were.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Day of the Scorpion
“If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Comedy of Errors
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter “A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns....”
― Alice Munro, quote from Selected Stories
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