Quotes from Tracking the Tempest

Nicole Peeler ·  350 pages

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“Because I think that sometimes, when you really love somebody, you don't ask them for the kind of compromise that is actually a sacrifice. The kind where one person gives up everything they have, everything they are, just so they can be with the other person. And you certainly don't expect that shit. You don't expect someone to prove their love. To love you that little bit more than you love them.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“Can I have this?" Iris asked in her honeydew voice, holding up one of the novels I'd brought her so that Amy could see the cover.
"Sorry, hot man is all out at the moment. We have some corpulent taxi driver and a slice of crazy cat-lady left, but we ran out of hot man hours ago.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“...But I don't want you to be afraid to take risks. If it's worth it...If the person in his eyes is the person you want to be, the person you know you could be...then don't be scared...”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“My fingers scrabbled at the smooth leather interior of Ryu’s BMW as he missed the exit we needed. Causing him to drop a few more F bombs and slam on the breaks. He then opened what I assume was a rift in the space time continuum in order to hurtle his German made steal cage of doom through said continuum.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“I don't know whether it's because I don't love him, or because I can't love him for demanding something like that from me. Or because he doesn't know me for squat. But I couldn't give him my whole life. And that's what he wanted from me. He wanted everything, and I wanted him to love me for what I had already offered.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest



“I was engineered for comfort, not speed.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“Why should a deal breaker for you be an acceptable compromise for me?”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“I shrieked incoherent, made up swear words as the pain stopped messing bent me over, and made me its bitch”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“I muscled through the moment with my usual delicacy.”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest


“So, like, Zeus was just some great big preternatural baby-daddy?”
― Nicole Peeler, quote from Tracking the Tempest



About the author

Nicole Peeler
Born place: in Aurora, Illinois, The United States
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