“Hearts don’t realize they’ve been lied to. They still love anyway.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I didn't need taming. I needed saving.”
“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.”
“Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.”
“Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong.”
“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.”
“When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.”
“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.”
“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’?”
“Are you sure it wasn't my sexy-as-hell voice whispering in your ear that caused your momentary lack of oxygen?”
“The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.”
“I'll be good. I promise. I'll be the best damn friend you've ever had.”
“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.”
“In the screwed-up life I’d been dealt, she was my only source of comfort.”
“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.”
“Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.”
“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”
“[From Old Mortality]
The woman in the picture. . . was only a ghost in a frame, and a sad, pretty story from old times.”
“Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but a robot could not weep.”
“For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.”
“Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it or leave it. And, invariably, they take it. Or at least try to. They love the fact that she doesn’t wear makeup. That her clothes, on her tiny, petite frame, are a mishmash of whatever she happens to pull out of the wardrobe that morning. That her laugh is huge and infectious, and, most of all, that she listens. She loves life, and people, and makes time for them, and even before Jamie came along men were forever falling in love with her.”
“I can't even tell you how good it felt to see him. It felt even better when he reached through the metal grate, wrapped his fingers around the front of my shirt, dragged me forward, and kissed me through the bars.
"Sorry" he said-only not looking to sorry, if you know what I mean.”
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