“The summer we spent on the beach was all the sex education anyone needed.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I was always the quiet one, the one who followed suit, doing what others told me to do.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I was in heaven, married to the devil.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“It had been as if she’d talked to God, praising the universe through twinkling stars.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Ten minutes before I would have drowned in his come. Now I just wanted it off me. I wanted him off me.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Even when he treated me like a slut, I wanted him.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Paxton Pierce was an impossible man. One that no woman could please. Not even me.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“No matter how much I wanted to be stronger than him, show him what I was really made of, I couldn’t do it. I melted to this man.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Taylor Swift. That’s cute. How is it you can remember the words to high school songs, but not who you are?”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I just sucked your dick at six o’clock in the morning. I feel like I at least deserve a good morning.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“It was physical, enhanced with complicated emotions and powerful poisons. I even felt like I wanted to crash, yet I was still feeling the high, the memory burning my chest every time I thought about it.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I just wanted to leave it all behind and move forward, and that’s exactly what I did. I stopped worrying about my past and who I was before. All I could do was be a better person now. From this point forward.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I knew without knowing that he was my husband. Not only was I broken, I was married to a dick. Trying”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Good Lord! I was broken and stupid. “Please tell me I’m not married to you,”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Don’t look down when someone’s talking to you. You look them straight in the eyes. You’re bigger than that.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Time didn’t seem to matter when you didn’t know who you were or where you belonged.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“The pit of my stomach balled and tightened. A gut feeling. That dreaded instinct when you know you’re doing something wrong, or you can sense something bad about to happen.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Well, I’ll be. Go to hell. You’re fighting your own demons. You like me this way, and you’re too damn bullheaded to admit it.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Go to bed with me,” I requested. I didn’t offer my hand, only my bed.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“Pfft, everybody should fall in love when they don’t remember anything.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I was a raging slut. No doubt about it.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“You’re driving me up the fucking wall,”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I bared all to this man. I gave him everything, and I wanted to. I wanted to make him happy for the rest of our long lives. If only it could be that easy.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“He kissed me, pulled me closer, explored every inch of my body with the tips of his fingers, and made love. That’s exactly what he had done. He knew it, and I knew it. We made love.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“People didn’t have this much gravitational pull toward one another without it being real.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“And… One fucked up marriage. I was a kept woman. Black and white. Red and Green. I was a glorified whore.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“I became more and more introverted, realizing all the lies my mother told. You couldn’t escape life with a vision of a better one. It always came back. As soon as your eyes opened. Real life was there. The cold hard truth.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“What else was I supposed to do? It wasn’t like I had anyone else coming to my rescue.”
― Jettie Woodruff, quote from Suit
“It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.”
― Jack Finney, quote from Time and Again
“Most helpful, Mr. Caelum," she said. "Very, very useful information. And now, shall we hear from Saint Augustine?"
I shrugged. "Why not?" I said
Dr. P read from a blood-red leather book. "My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?"
She closed the book, then reached across the table and took Maureen's hand in hers. "Does that passage speak to you?" she asked. Mo nodded and began to cry. "And so, Mr. Caelum, good-bye."
Because the passage had spoken to me, too, it took me a few seconds to react. "Oh," I said. "You want me to leave?"
"I do. Yes, yes.”
― Wally Lamb, quote from The Hour I First Believed
“Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.”
― John Irving, quote from A Widow for One Year
“And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, quote from Revelations
“What do you talk about to a murderer, and someone you loved, over a perfect dinner and cocktails? I wanted to know so many things, but I couldn't ask any of the real-questions pounding in my head. Instead, we talked of the coming vacation days, a "plan" for the
here and now in the islands.”
― James Patterson, quote from Along Came a Spider
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