“For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“I promise I'll never tell."
"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?"
"No."
"Promise me."
"No!"
"I will possess your heart."
Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?"
"My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'"
"By Death Cab for Cutie?"
He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie."
... "Why? What's wrong with it?"
"Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song."
"No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'"
A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?"
His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Aura," he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'd
feel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“I know you're worried," Logan said. "You think the second I sign a deal, I'll turn into some kind of man-slut." He put his hands over mine, pressing my palms against his chest. "You've always been the only one, and you always will be.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it.
Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out.
They'll come when you're look somewhere else.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Where's your kilt?"
"How about this," he said in a low voice. "You don't ask me about haggis and bagpipes, and I won't ask you about garlic and Goodfellas.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“I shook my head. She kissed my cheek, then on her way out patted Zachary's shoulder in a way that said, If you upset Aura in her weakened state, I will end you.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“How about, 'I just kissed a guy at Black Weeds because you've been ignoring me. P.S. I love you.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“And then you two go and call attention to yourselves like this," Ian continued. "Holding hands in a pedalo, for Christ's sake. They must have been frothing at the mouth at the thought of you two reproducing, wondering if you'd give birth to some kind of metaphysically enhanced creature or a bottomless black hole.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“He leaned in. “Kiss me, one last time.”
I called up a distant memory of his lips against mine. But this time, I kept my eyes open.
When he pulled back, Logan passed his hand over my hair. “Don’t forget me, okay?”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Honestly?” Logan shrugged. “I didn’t know it could kill me. If I’d ever heard that, I forgot it a long time ago. But I knew it was dangerous.”
“Then why take the risk?” Stone asked.
Logan turned his head to look at me. “Because she was worth it.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“That reminds me." I dug into my book bag and pulled out a white cardboard box tied with a string. "I brought these back for you."
He looked at the box, then at me, before slowly reaching out. "What are they?"
"Poisonous snakes. Open it."
Zachary untied the string. "They seem like very quiet snakes."
"They're stealthy. Or maybe dead.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“It's beautiful." Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“This was Bad with a capital Hell No.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Don’t tell me no this time, Aura. Please. Don’t make me stop.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“The phone in my hand buzzed. Logan had just texted I Love You - so cute how he never abbreviated it.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Wherever you are," I whispered, "I hope you're smiling.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“So do you have a kilt?" Megan asked him. When I glared at her, she said, "What? He only said you couldn't ask." She looked at him. "So do you?"
Straightening up, Zachary rubbed the back of his neck and smirked. "I might, I might."
God, he was gorgeous. And Scottish. But maybe kind of an ass.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“He cut himself off and looked away, dragging a hand through his hair. "I just met her," he muttered to himself. "I'll no' say that."
"Cut the crap," Megan said. "Zachary Moore, this is Aura Salvatore, and yes, she's into science even though she's pretty. Shocker. Get over it." She turned to me. "Show him how you can walk and chew gum at the same time.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“When I got tired, Logan would sing me to sleep, sometimes a painfully appropriate song like Flogging Molly’s “If I Ever Leave This World Alive” or Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars.” Sometimes he’d pick a lilting Irish lullaby, or even a song he’d written himself.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“He whispered against my mouth. “Wait for me, Aura.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“I suppressed another shiver - I did not want Zachary taking off any more clothes on my account.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Logan’s voice switched from a growl to a scream to a seductive whisper from one song to the next.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“With my eyes closed and my memories open, I could almost feel his hands and mouth on my skin.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“My pulse sped up at the thought of him and Becca wet and nearly naked.
"Nothing happened beyond a bit of soaking." He tilted his head. "Well, no' between us. Some of the others, I could tell you stories."
"Stories about who?"
"Ah no, you won't get that for free. You have to be nice to me for two minutes straight."
"I am nice to you."
"I mean, really nice." He nudged my knee with his foot."Father Christmas might call it naughty, but he's a filthy old bugger.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
“Logan was close enough for me to touch, to smell, to feel his breath on my forehead. Close enough to kiss. If only he were alive.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
Jeri Smith-Ready
Born place: The United States
See more on GoodReads
“Time,” he said solemnly, “is comparable to a river flowing under a layer of ice. It stretches us out like water weeds, from root to tip, from birth to death, curled around whatever rocks or snags happen to lie in our path; and no one can get out of the river because of the ice roof, and no one can turn back against the current for an instant.”
― Tim Powers, quote from The Anubis Gates
“Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him.
The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.”
― Loretta Chase, quote from Lord of Scoundrels
“Will whistled quietly. 'She sounds fantastic. But I can't imagine why she'd be interested in your dick. With that tiny thing you'll never be half the man your Mother is.',”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Beautiful Stranger
“Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, quote from The House of the Seven Gables
“In fact, he was dressed for the character of ‘Jonas the Graveless, or the Corpse-Snatcher of Chertsey Barn,’ one of his most remarkable impersonations”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Canterville Ghost
Ashes
Being and Nothingnes...
Dewey: The Small-Tow...
Forgotten
Private Peaceful
PlainsongBookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
