“You, Emily. You're worth fighting for. I fought all my life, but never for anything worthwhile. Now... Now I'm fighting for my heart. Bullshit ends here and now.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“I’m not chasing after some chick I want to fuck. I’m chasing after a woman I love who isn’t letting me in.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“You need to fear me, not hate me."
I did. I feared him. But I think I hated him more. No, I knew I hated him more. For what he'd done. For what he was doing. For the betrayal. Most of all, for tarnishing something so beautiful and making it ugly. I trusted him. I gave myself to him, and he took me, peeled back layers of my soul until he saw it all. Then he took me.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Please don’t ask me to let you go. I can’t do it. I’m not strong enough to do it again.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Trust is built. Ours just needs to be rebuilt and it takes time. But baby, we’ll do it together.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“But I'm liking staying here if it means I get to check out two hot chicks every morning." Crisis winked at me, but when he looked at Logan, he was backtracking. "From a distance. Like a mile. Maybe ten miles. Fuck, sorry sweet stuff, but not going to admire you at all. I'll just admire Kat.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“He looked so beautiful, and it pissed me off that he could look so beautiful when he was so ugly.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Maybe love couldn't be forgotten. But maybe, just maybe it could be smothered by hate.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Emily, you mean more to me than anything. I love you. I want to be with you … Help you get through this. Baby, I missed you so much.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Scuplt, I’m different now.”
He moved in close, arm snug around her waist. “Yeah. You’re stronger, sexier, and have an attitude. Makes me want you more.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Baby, you’re the one who gave me the strength to survive Raul. It has always been you. It will always be you. Emily ...you’re my trophy. And I lost you.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“The guy I tried to forget. No, damn it, I did forget him. I lived every single day for two years without him. I lived. I suffered, and I breathed. Then I fought my way back and won”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Oh look, trouble just walked in and is sucking the fun right out from between my legs.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“And I wanted him to carry me away ... and then ... then I wanted to kill him.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“She’s mine. You get that. You don’t get to touch her—ever.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“I'd never have fucked you if you didn't want it. Never. When we were together... Eme that was just me and you. No one else. I was scared there too and I needed you.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“I wanted the man I fell in love with to carry me away from this place. And I wanted him to carry me away.. and then.. then I wanted to kill him.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“I needed him to be cruel. It was easier to be disgusted by him.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“I walked into the bathroom and stared at myself for a long time in the mirror, unable to see who was looking back at me-the girl broken and lost to a man she fell in love with or a woman who learned to survive with a broken heart. Maybe I was a little of both.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Bullshit. You lied to me every single day. Were the nights a lie too? Am I just like all those other girls? Maybe I'd be better off with a new owner, at least I know when he fucks me I will hate him. Not like you. You made me love you then you wrecked me with it. Then you gave me back piece by piece every night only to take it all away over again in the morning.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Why’d you run, Mouse?” “I have horses to ride tomorrow ... today and—” “Stop biting the inside of your cheeks and tell me the truth. Why’d you run?” Fuck. I so wasn’t ready for this conversation. He didn’t deserve to know that his voice lit me up like a firecracker, that staring up at him on stage undid me, and I couldn’t control the want inside me. Then Logan did something I hadn’t been prepared for. He snagged my hand, jerked me up against him, and caressed my hair. “I like the bed look. And the pink boxers ...” He trapped my hand behind my back. “Liking those too.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Horses broke out last night, party must have scared them.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“Hay cosas que no se pueden reparar. Lo rompes bastante mal, que no se pueden arreglar.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“You know how I operate, and second chances don’t exist in this world. She belongs to me now.” Raul tapped his gun against my head. “Or would you rather I shoot her?”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
“No. You’re not staying here cleaning up. I’ll do it tomorrow.”
― Nashoda Rose, quote from Torn from You
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“Until 1604 the age of consent was twelve for a girl, fourteen for a boy.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from Shakespeare: The World as Stage
“I do, too! Just imagine, I’d have a private practice now, like Yenna. I wouldn’t have to sweat with novices. I wouldn’t have to wipe the noses of the blubbering ones or lock horns with the cheeky ones. Ciri, listen to me and learn. An enchantress always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn’t regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, quote from Time of Contempt
“1 WORLD RECORDS CHECK THIS OUT. This dude named Andrew Dahl holds the world record for blowing up the most balloons . . . with his nose. Yeah. That’s true. Not sure how he found out that was some kinda special talent, and I can’t even imagine how much snot be in those balloons, but hey, it’s a thing and Andrew’s the best at it. There’s also this lady named Charlotte Lee who holds the record for owning the most rubber ducks. No lie. Here’s what’s weird about that: Why would you even want one rubber duck, let alone 5,631? I mean, come on. And me, well, I probably hold the world record for knowing about the most world records. That, and for eating the most sunflower seeds.”
― Jason Reynolds, quote from Ghost
“Your mother and I had one conversation a little before she died. She was sitting in the garden one evening when I came home from work, and she said, “I have to confess something. When we played ‘chicken’ from KDA to Clifton and I said I made you run three red lights, I lied. I made you stop even when they were only just turning amber.” And I replied, “Samina, I didn’t love you because you were the girl who ran red lights. I loved you because when you covered my eyes with your hands, I knew I could trust you to get me home.” She was afraid of running red lights, Aasmaani. She wasn’t an unbreakable creature of myth. She was entirely human, entirely breakable, and entirely extraordinary.”
― Kamila Shamsie, quote from Broken Verses
“I know this - nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.”
― Jojo Moyes, quote from Still Me
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