“I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Tell me what you need."
"You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“He’d never get over her. He knew that without hesitation or doubt. He loved her. As deeply as it was possible to love another person. And God, he wanted her. Every day. In hit life. As much a part of him as he would be of her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn’t selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he’d likely deny he did any such thing.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“If you ever wake up and see the light and decide you want me back? You're going to have to crawl.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“The only thing I’m sure of is that I’ve waited entirely too damn long to have you.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“She touched a part of him he’d thought was inaccessible. A part that had been jealously guarded for years. And she’d gotten there with no effort whatsoever. She’d walked into his life and heart like she belonged.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Her mind exploded with whoa and what the fuck and oh, yes please.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“She was tattooed on every part of his body. Deeper, in his heart, his very soul. A permanent brand that would never wear off.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Pero el corazón no siempre hacía caso y esta era una de las cosas sobre las que podría no tener control alguno.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“She wanted to rock his entire universe. Wanted to firmly implant in his mind that he’d never want to allow another man to touch her—anyone to touch her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“Her words spoke to the very heart of him. Said with utter sincerity. How simple she made it sound. She’d never asked anything of him. She was very undemanding. She didn’t give a shit about his money or what he could buy her. The only things she’d ever truly asked him for were so simple. Hold her. Touch her. Comfort her.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“It was so easy to lose herself in the fantasy of being with Gabe because he made it easy. He took absolute care of her. He saw to her every need. Was he demanding? Hell yes, but he wasn’t selfish. He took. He was ruthless in his demands. But he gave her back so much. Not just materially but emotionally, though he’d likely deny he did any such thing.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“En los negocios, el mayor poder que puedes tener es el de estar dispuesto a renunciar a un acuerdo.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
“I'll never be happy without her. I want her in my life. Every day. I want to take care of her, make sure she never has to worry for anything that I can give her. F me, but I'm even imagining children. At my age. All I can think of are daughters who look just like her. I picture her round with my child and it's the most mind-blowing feeling in the world. Eveything that I've sworn off in my life, she has me reevaluating. Because of her. It's all her. I've never felt this way about another woman. I never will.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Rush
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“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity”
― Julia Serano, quote from Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
“Er staan boterhammen voor je in het buffet,' zei zijn moeder. 'Dank je wel,' zei hij. Ze schakelde de radio in. 'Geen landbouw, geen veeteelt, geen slechte muziek, geen geoudehoer,' zei Frits. geen walsen van Strauss, geen illustratieve muziek. Laat alleen het allerbeste doorkomen. Toon, desnoods een gebrekkige, maar vooruitstrevende smaak.' 'Ik krijg er hoofdpijn bij,' dacht hij.
'Je bent niet aleen in huis,' zei ze. 'Je moet ook eens aan iemand anders denken. Het wordt tijd, dat je eens met anderen rekening houdt.' De radio was warm geworden en begon geluid te geven. 'Ik ben zo alleen en denk steeds aan jou,' zong een tenor. Zijn vader draaide de knop naar links, maar juist nog niet uit. Men kon horen, dat er gezongen werd, maar verder niets onderscheiden. 'Zo wordt het toestel gesmoord,' dacht Frits, kwam naderbij en zocht de schaal af. Tenslotte draaide hij de knop af.”
― Gerard Reve, quote from De avonden
“But how can one be warm alone?”
― Joseph Heller, quote from God Knows
“Over and over and with the least provocation, they pulled from their stock of stories tales about the old folks, their grands and great-grands; their fathers and mothers. Dangerous confrontations, clever manoeuvres. Testimonies to endurance, wit, skill and strength. Tales of luck and outrage. But why were there no stories to tell of themselves? About their own lives they shut up. Had nothing to say, pass on. As though past heroism was enough of a future to live by. As though, rather than children, they wanted duplicates.”
― Toni Morrison, quote from Paradise
“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”
― Julian Darius, quote from Nira/Sussa
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