“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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“Ma mère s'occupait plutôt de l'épicerie, mon père du café. D'un coté la bousculade de midi, le temps minuté, les clientes n'aiment pas attendre, c'est un monde debout, aux volontés multiples, une bouteille de bière, un paquet d'épingles neige, méfiant, à rassurer constamment, vous verrez cette marque-là c'est bien meilleur. Du théâtre, du bagout. Ma mère sortait lessivée, rayonnante, de sa boutique. De l'autre côté, les petits verres pépères, la tranquillité assise, le temps sans horloge, des hommes installés là pour des heures. Inutile de se précipiter, pas besoin de faire l'article ni même la conversation, les clients causent pour deux. Ça tombe bien, mon père est lunatique, c'est ma mère qui le dit.”
― Annie Ernaux, quote from A Frozen Woman
“You won't know how lucky you are to be able to spend your life with the other half of your soul until you have to spend your life without them.”
― Anna Todd, quote from After Ever Happy
“So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. they err who would assert that invariable this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. An when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bides the soul be rid of it.”
― Herman Melville, quote from Bartleby el escribiente
“Sometimes t feels like I live in a circus and all the animals are loose.”
― quote from The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
“Hier war es wohl die Müdigkeit inmitten glücklicher Arbeit; etwas, was nach außen hin wie Müdigkeit aussah und eigentlich unzerstörbare Ruhe, unzerstörbarer Frieden war.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from Slottet
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