“All I can see is you. Why can't you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I'm looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“That boy is sprung on you and he is a nice guy. A superhot, supersexy nice guy. Do you know how rare that is? He’s like a goddamn unicorn.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Easy is very forgettable, my friend, complicated and difficult stays with you forever. Believe me, I married it.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“It’s how we deal with the things that hurt us most that defines us.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. —Lucille Ball”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“your eyes could inspire men to go to war, to paint works of art, to rip their goddamn heart out of their chest and offer it to you without a second thought . ”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Trying to love yourself, to know your own value and worth, is something I think a lot of young girls struggle with and that can definitely flow into adulthood. We all have things that set us apart, make us special, make us who we are, and I would love to see those things celebrated and enjoyed across the board. Let that freak flag fly! (Or whatever equivalent you have.)”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Loving someone you want to make your own has a different feeling, a different power than the love you have for family. It’s different and the chains that bind it can be unbreakable.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“I think on the journey to finding the love we crave, the love we truly deserve, the first stop has to be the love we have for ourselves. That’s a love that can never be lost and can only grow and get stronger the more it is fostered and developed.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Dedicated to any of you who might just need a little reminder that you are awesome just the way you are!!!”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“People could only hurt you and disappoint you if you let them. They only had the power to hurt you if you thought they were special and above that.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest of their life. As long as you love it when you see it, that’s all that matters.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know what he was doing to me, but there was no doubt he made my day better by simply being.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize that their daughter died for no other reason than people can't figure out how to be nice to each other. It isn't that hard, just be nice and people might not have to suffer needlessly, but that isn't the world we live in, so young girls die. That isn't fair, Mom. People falling out of love is vicious and it sucks, but there are far worse things you could be going through. I know that sounds harsh but it's very true.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“You're too busy caring for everyone else to care for youself.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“People change. Time makes us grow. Life happens, good and bad, and it’s the person you love, the man inside you can’t live without, not the sum of what he did or didn’t do when he was younger and still figuring life out.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Love isn’t something you can negotiate, Nash. When it happens, it becomes everything.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“only a fool gets burned twice by the same fire.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“No one shines as bright as you in the sky I’m looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Saint, hurting is how you know it's real. If he didn't matter, if he was just some guy, even back then it wouldn’t have lasted with you the way it has. You can't run from feeling things, even if some of those things are awful, because love opens you up to experiencing emotions you haven't ever felt before.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“We are not interchangeable objects, LEGO pieces that click together just because the parts fit.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“I should’ve appreciated the wonderful child I had, not tried to make you into something else.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“All I can see is you. Why can’t you understand that? No one shines as bright as you in the sky I’m looking at. To me there is no sun, no moon, and no stars in the sky, just endless miles of storm clouds and pretty, pretty gray.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint." But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“I want you to know, this man—the man you are now—he is a man you can be proud of.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“A superhot, supersexy nice guy. Do you know how rare that is? He’s like a goddamn unicorn.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“I think on the journey to finding the love we crave, the love we truly deserve, the first stop has to be the love we have for ourselves. That’s a love that can never be lost and can only grow and get stronger the more it is fostered and developed. Appreciate who you are. Love what makes you different.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
“I see death and tragedy all the time and nothing makes it worse than when it’s totally senseless. All she needed was some niceness, some basic human kindness, and she wouldn’t be on her way to the morgue and her parents wouldn’t be devastated. It’s heartbreaking and so senseless.”
― Jay Crownover, quote from Nash
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“[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?”
― Steve Martin, quote from Shopgirl
“But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men.... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ.”
― John Dos Passos, quote from The Big Money
“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, quote from Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
“borrowed Shane’s four-wheel to make the hill. Parked it and came to the door in time to see your eyes roll back in your head.” He walked back to her, stripped off his coat and tucked it over her legs. “By the way, how’d you get in?” “I—” She stared at him, swallowed. “I opened the door.” “It was locked.” “No, it wasn’t.” Lifting a brow, he jingled the keys in his pocket. “That’s interesting.” “You’re not lying,” she said after a moment. “Not this time. Why don’t you tell me what you heard?” “Footsteps. But there was no one there.” To warm them, she tucked her hands”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Return of Rafe MacKade
“Stone arrived at the station house at one o’clock sharp. The squad room was abuzz with detectives on the phone. He raised his eyebrows at one, and the man gave a huge shrug. A moment later, he hung up.”
― Stuart Woods, quote from New York Dead
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