“Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“We attack the problems. They don't attack us.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while he does delicious things to my body.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“They don’t get to tell you who I am.” His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. “I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it.” A muscle in his jaw flexes. “Understand?”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I look deep into his eyes and find myself wrapped in the familiar connection we share. It streams through me like moonlight on a bay, glistening through my soul.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I'll go find us a private car and driver," Chris informs me. "You stay with the bags."
I purse my lips. "Yes, Master."
He arches a brow. "Why is it that I can only get you to say that sarcastically?"
"Because according to you, " I remind him, "you don't want me to call you Master."
"Are you saying you would if I wanted you to?"
"Absolutely not.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I’m angry at Chris. I’m hurt. “Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out
and I’m alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.” My gut clenches at the reference to the way my”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“Know what you can bend to your will, and don’t waste energy on what you can’t. It’ll suck you dry, like it is right now.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“I think it’s the whole ‘bad boy who’s so good but destined to break your heart’ fantasy. Which doesn’t sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from Revealing Us
“No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Mirror Mirror
“Siempre que hablaba de ti, en realidad, no describía nada. Como si nunca te viera realmente. Como si nadie fuera real de verdad para mí.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Confessions of a Crap Artist
“I awoke only to find that the rest of the world was still asleep.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, quote from Leonardo's Notebooks
“The price was physical toll. Money does little good back here. It could not buy the fit feeling that surged through my arms and shoulders. It could not buy the feeling of accomplishment. I had been my own tour guide, and my own power had been my transportation. This great big country was my playground, and I could afford the price it demanded.”
― quote from One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and go blind and deaf and see each other not as human animals with comic noses and bandy legs and voices like frogs, but as angels so full of shining goodness that like hollow turnips with candles put into them, they seem miracles of beauty. And the next minute the candles shoot out sparks and burn their eyes. And they seem to each other like devils, full of spite and cruelty. And they will drive each other mad unless they have grown some imagination. Even enough to laugh.”
― Joyce Cary, quote from The Horse's Mouth
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