“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I was very aware that you were a girl, Ash. I was just scared because the one person in the world who knew every secret I'd ever had also happened to be the most beautiful girl I'd ever known. My feelings for you were scary as Hell.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Beau's gaze made my cheeks flush. A pleased grin touched his lips and I suddenly wanted to know how those lips would feel pressed against mine. I couldn't take my eyes off them. Even when his smile vanished I continued staring at his mouth.
"You're gonna have to stop doing that Ash," Beau whispered huskily and closed the space between us. His body was suddenly pressed against mine. I managed to shake my fascination with his lips and gaze up into his eyes. He was staring down at me with a hungry gleam I wasn't accustomed to seeing. But I liked it. I liked it a lot.
"Ash, I'm trying real hard to be good. Good isn't my thing but Sawyers important to me. Please remember I've got limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“no one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it,”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“ If I'd ever taken the time to wonder about my soul being as black as this town seemed to believe, I knew the moment Ashton stepped out of her little white Jetta looking like an angel from Heaven that my soul was damned to Hell. ”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Hold onto me baby. I'm going to take care of you." The raspy need in his voice only made me more desperate.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I needed, I needed...you." "Don't tell me you need me." "But I can't help it. I do”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I know I’m doing something wrong and I feel guilty but neither of those things matter enough to make me stop”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Sitting here and waiting on her to calm down enough to tell me who I needed to go beat the shit out of for making her cry wasn’t easy.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her.
- Beau”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Just hold me please,” she replied.
I’d hold her forever if I could.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Beau’s arms slipped around my waist. I knew I should step away but I couldn’t make myself. This was home. Being in his arms like this was where I found peace.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Good because I want you too. Now. Forever. Just you”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“But Ash, I can't continue to want you from a distance. To love you and not have you. I'd end up in jail if anyone tried to touch you and God forbid you tried to date someone.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I want to rip his damn arms off his body Ash. Sawyer, who I'd do anything for. I want to hurt him. If he touches you again in front of me I'm going to crack. I can't take this”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Why couldn't I have just made it home without seeing them? I wasn't in the mood to play good freaking Samaritan to Beau and his trashy girlfriend.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Don't be sorry. Just try not to let him touch you. When he touches you I see red. I can't take it. I don't want to see him or anyone else touch you”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Saying things like that to me makes this so damn hard. I'll always be here for you. But don't tell me you need me.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“Damn it Ash. I can't listen to that. I can't think about it. I can deal with denying myself what I need. What I want. But I can't deny you.”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“I won't leave you but you need to go on up and say your goodbyes. I'll stand right here behind you," Beau whispered from beside me”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
“One sidelong glance at his dad and Ish walked back home. ‘Where the hell are you going now?’ Ish’s dad said. ‘Match. Why? You want to curse me some more?’ Ish said. ‘When you’ve wasted your entire life, what’s another day?’ Ish’s father said and the neighbours half-nodded their heads in sympathy. We missed the final five overs of the match. Luckily, India won and Ish didn’t get that upset. ‘Yes, yes, yes,’ Ishaan jumped. ‘Gopi on me tonight.’ I love idiots. Actually, Ishaan is not an idiot. At least not as much as Omi. It”
― Chetan Bhagat, quote from Three Mistakes of My Life
“You humans drink our milk and eat the eggs of the chickens and the ducks. Isn't that enough for you? Isn't it enough that we give you our children and what's meant for our children? And if not, when is it enough? All you humans do is take, take, take from the earth and its beautiful creatures, and what do you give back? Nothing. I know humans consider it a grave insult to be called an animal. Well, I would never give a human the fine distinction of being called an animal, because an animal may kill to live but an animal never lives to kill. Humans have to earn the right to be called animals again.”
― quote from Holy Cow
“When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, quote from When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice
“Rosy’s mummy hands Franny a clear plastic bag full of reject biscuits, then Rosy holds her cheek out for Franny’s wet kiss. Rosy wipes the slime from her face and Franny cackles, then shows them both into the lounge.
There on Franny’s coffee table is a biscuit tin with a Christmas picture on the lid. Proper shop-bought biscuits, not factory rejects.
“Please, may I have a biscuit?” Rosy says.
“Oh, there are no biscuits in that my darling,” Franny says, and pulls the tin from Rosy’s prying fingers. Franny holds open the bag of crumb-speckled chocolate digestives. “Help yourself, my wee hen.”
Rosy settles for a reject.
Franny puts the Christmas tin up high, way up high, way out of reach.”
― R.G. Manse, quote from Screw Friendship
“she turned the page and scanned them again, committing them to memory.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, quote from The Paper Magician
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