“Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“I was pretty damn sure there was a Twitter hashtag that said #NanHater.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Stop mentally fucking her while she’s holding my kid.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with you, I'm planning on us.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out."
"No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Really? You’ve started drinking whiskey before lunch?” Rush wasn’t giving in...
“He’s fucking your sister. Hell, anyone that stupid has to drink to stay sane,” Dean said in a bored tone.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Get your ass ready. She’s coming back.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“He was mine, and I'd be damned if I was going to let some other woman have him. I would shove the candlelight up her ass.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“This hand isn't over. It can't be. I went all in.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Sometimes what we think is perfect is royally fucked up.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Rush walked into the room with Nate in his arms and a baby bag over his shoulder. That was funny shit. Rush Finlay, badass rock star’s son, had a baby bag and a baby in his arms.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“he didn't like Nan. Neither did the rest of the world. I was pretty damn sure there was a Twitter hashtag that said #NanHater.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“It was the best chapter.I'll have more chapters though.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Ella es mi perfección. Tiene mi corazón en sus manos. Cuando sufre me pone de rodillas. No hay manera de explicar lo que siento por ella. Pierdo un pedazo de mi alma cuando la veo sufrir.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Me gustaba saber que yo podía defenderla de su miedo. Era una droga poderosa saber que yo era todo lo que necesitaba.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Él necesitaba ser capaz de vivir sin preocuparse por mí. Yo necesitaba ser capaz de vivir. Su naturaleza protectora comenzaba a ahogarme y lo amaba demasiado para herirlo diciéndole algo. Iba a tener malos momentos. Iba a dar un traspié con mi cabeza a veces y él no podría estar siempre ahí para mí. Solamente no sabía cómo hacerle entender y aceptar eso. ¿Cómo podríamos hacer que esto funcionara? No podría ser para siempre.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“Nuestro capítulo se terminó. Era el capítulo más lindo en mi vida. Sabía que tenía el final feliz mucho antes de que fuera tiempo y ahora necesitaba vivir el resto de la historia sin él. No era la forma en la que se suponía que la vida fuera, pero era mi vida.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
“I'm holding on by a damn thread. Your phone calls and the fact I know she's in nice hotels and eating good food is the only fucking thing keeping me sane.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from Simple Perfection
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“I don't know what you want, Haley. Just because you got me off doesn't mean I have to engage in post-fuck chat. So back off.”
― quote from Riding the Storm
“I am certain that to achieve what stands achieved to-day, you would willingly have foregone the gain of fifty times that paltry sum. To me it seems that to lose your present fortune were a more serious loss than never to have won it; since surely it is harder to be poor after being rich than never to have tasted wealth at all, and more painful to sink to the level of a subject, being a king, then never to have worn a crown.”
― Xenophon, quote from The Persian Expedition
“Non vedi laggiù la stretta via
Così angusta, circondata da spine e da rovi?
E' il sentiero della Virtù,
Sebbene così pochi lo ricerchino.
E non vedi laggiù quell'ampia, ampia strada,
Che si snoda attraverso il campo di gigli?
E' il sentiero della Malvagità,
Sebbene alcuni lo chiamino la Via del Paradiso.
E non vedi laggiù un grazioso viottolo
Che serpeggia sull'erta tra le felci?
E' il sentiero verso la magica Terra degli Elfi
Dove tu e io questa notte avremo riposo.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
“Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed."
"That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them."
"I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?"
"Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Welcome to Temptation
“I perceived then that my father had already known these things, but that by asking about them in front of us, he had given Spink the opportunity to share his family’s straitened circumstances without making it seem that he sought our pity.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Shaman's Crossing
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