“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."
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― Abbi Glines, quote from Just for Now
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“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
― Gustave Flaubert, quote from Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour
“In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces.
Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, quote from Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
“I kept driving straight on toward what we called home and could not say aloud the words that were thrashing me, as if somehow by remaining silent I could keep the terrible thing from having occurred.”
― Russell Banks, quote from The Sweet Hereafter
“Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.”
― Gao Xingjian, quote from One Man's Bible
“I thought I loved her. But there was fear between us, truly.”
― Will Christopher Baer, quote from Hell's Half Acre
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