“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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“A man’s first taste of the poppy gives him something glorious and wonderful, something that he strives to recapture with each return to the resin, but in the end he needs to smoke it just to feel human. Life is the same for many of us—a few scant years of golden youth when everything tastes sweet, every experience new and sharp with meaning. Then a long slow grind to the grave, trying and failing to recapture that feeling you had when you were seventeen and the world rolled out before you.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from The Wheel of Osheim
“She is doing that on purpose, he thought as he tried to force his own smile away from his wide, damp jaws. She is being adorable as some sort of hideous ruse, to spite me. What a mean baby!
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Do not fall in love with that baby...”
― Kelly Barnhill, quote from The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.”
― Polly Horvath, quote from Everything on a Waffle
“She might not be as hard-hitting as Tzivia, but she had a depth of sincerity and gentleness that he appreciated. Needed. She cared about people. In the war of life, she was the medic and he the guy on the front lines fighting.”
― Ronie Kendig, quote from Crown of Souls
“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”
― quote from The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
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