“Sometimes people would rather accept a lie than know the truth. Life is a whole lot easier to swallow that way.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“He looked like he wanted to eat you."
With that, I throw my head back and laugh. "That man has no problem finding a meal. I highly doubt he's starving."
She scrunches her nose to show me she doesn't agree. "Well, maybe he just spotted something new on the menu. You know men and their food; they have to try a little bit of everything until they're completely satisfied.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Life isn't always predictable. But it's how we survive the bad weather that defines us.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“The moment romance got involved, everything changed … and I mean everything.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“I let it come to this, and I can only take responsibility for my own mistakes. Unfortunately, I've made a lot of them.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“I could always see him for all that he was—for all that he is. Perfect.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Gavin doesn't pull away and I'm grateful for his comfort, but I also know this thing between us—what's always been between us—is wrong.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“All I wanted was to follow my heart, but somehow along the way I lost my soul.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Our friendship was like glass, fragile and irreplaceable. One moment of weakness … one mistake … and it might have shattered completely. Our friendship was worth too much to me to risk even the slightest crack.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“It's hard to be around Gavin and not get little hot flashes every now and then. I'm having an episode now ...”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Chloe has always had a serious effect on my heart, but lately . . . she's stolen pieces of it, bit by bit. Or maybe she's had them all along.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“My world stops at the sight of her ... it's as if I've been looking at Chloe through a two-way mirror this entire time—aware of her, always feeling her presence, but never allowing myself to break through the barrier.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Chloe doesn't move right away even though I've stepped to the side to allow her to pass. When she finally does, it's as if she's stealing my air as she goes. She's so damn beautiful.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“You were staring out at the horizon, telling me it was the most beautiful thing you'd ever seen, and I was staring at you thinking the exact same thing.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Well"—I place my hands on my hips—"aren't you going to sketch me?" I twirl slowly, allowing him to take in the entire outfit. Before I'm even facing him again he's moving toward me, then grabbing me by the hips and pulling me against his hard body. My heart is trying to catch up to his eagerness as we fall onto the bed.
"I've done all the practice sketches I can handle.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“I don't think we're allowed to call this friendship spooning anymore”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“The liquid seeping through my system instantly turns to fire, and it burns like the flames of guilt that have consumed me for so long.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“When she left she took a piece of me with her—and it wasn't until she returned that I realized just how big that piece was.
I want it back.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“Her beauty radiated from her core and touched every morsel of her exterior … and it only seems to have gotten better with age.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“When someone has already made their choice, you just have to be smart enough to know they made it and have the strength to walk away.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“When a girl gives you her heart and tells you to trust it, you don't question it. You don't waste a second. You just do it.”
― K.K. Allen, quote from Up in the Treehouse
“The weather was crisp and had a bite to it, not like a grizzly bear mind you, more like a pissed off weasel.”
― Mark Tufo, quote from The End
“So I've been thinking. Do you believe there's a hell?"
"Sure. Doesn't everybody?"
"Well, what if this is hell, but we just don't know it?"
"That's crazy. Hell is like lakes of fire, and there are devils with horns and pitchforks. here's none of those around here."
"But what if hell's not really like that?" Grace asked.
"Everyone says it's that way," I said.
"I don't think Jesus every talked about fire and brimstone."
"Then why do they teach us that at church?"
"To scare us."
"Why would they want to scare us?"
"I don't know. I just don't think God wants us to do good things because we're scared. I think he wants us to do good things because we're good.”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Grace
“It had been off-hand and flattering, in exactly the proper proportions, and Louise had cleverly erected a thin shield of something that was less than and better than love to protect him from the comic, unending abuse of the Army. And, now, it was probably over. Women, Michael thought resentfully, can never learn the art of being transients. They are all permanent settlers at heart, making homes with dull, instinctive persistence in floods and wars, on the edges of invasions, at the moment of the crumbling of states. No, he thought, I will not have it. For my own protection I am going to get through this time alone …”
― Irwin Shaw, quote from The Young Lions
“Now I thought, surely I am possessed of the devil: at other times, again, I thought I should be bereft of my wits; for instead of lauding and magnifying God the Lord, with others, if I have but heard Him spoken of, presently some most horrible blasphemous thought or other would bolt out of my heart against Him; so that whether I did think that God was, or again did think there was no such thing, no love, nor peace, nor gracious disposition could I feel within me.”
― John Bunyan, quote from Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition.”
― Josh Hanagarne, quote from The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
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