“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book, my imagination, and I am set free. I’m in literature heaven.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Can't help who you fall in love with, princess.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find ‘em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says “Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you. And I didn’t even know it.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“You remember what you said this morning? About it being totally stupid to fall in love with me?"
At that, my eyes open. He adds quietly, "Then you should start calling me a fuckin' moron.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“You know how when a guy and girl really like each other in a book, they talk about a spark between them? With Nox there is no spark. No. He bypassed the spark. When Nox touches me, there’s nothing less than the whistling, shrieking explosions of fireworks. Big ones. The ones they save till the end of the show.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Most content People don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything they've got.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Standing face to face with a still pissed Nox, I find myself getting pissed, too. Nox just has that effect on me. I swear this guy must’ve been conceived through back door action. There’s no way being that much of an asshole is natural.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Don’t push me, little girl. You don’t wanna see my bad side.”
I blink a second before my eyes widen and i lean back from him as I whisper hiss, “This is your good side?”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Owe ye everything, son. Ye need or want anything, ye just ask."
Nox earns a point in my dad's book when he utters, "I'm quite partial to your daughter, actually. I was kinda hoping I could keep her.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Well, that’s that. Goodbye cruel world. Be sure to fuck thyself on the way out, you mean-assed son of a whore.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Badass with a hint of lady.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“I never realized how much I hate my life. Not until he showed me beautiful.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Do you love me?”
Without hesitation, he answers, “More than anything in my life.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“I don’t utter a word of complaint, because let’s face it, Nox doesn’t seem like a giver of fucks.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Words hold power. They can bring you from the lowest low to an ultimate high in a matter of moments, and just the opposite, too”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“I swear this guy must've been conceived through backdoor action. There's no way being that much of an asshole is natural.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“His arms cinch around my waist and he buries his face into my neck. He says a muffled, “Don’t wanna let you go.”
My heart swells, I whisper back, “Then don’t.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“I know it’s highly unusual for people to get this excited over books. But if you’re a reader, you get me . I don’t need movies. I don’t need TV. But books I can’t live without books. To
me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book, my imagination, and I am set free. I’m in literature heaven. And thank God, this may be the only thing that keeps me sane while we’re here.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Wrapping her arm around my waist, she squeezes tightly and hisses out a breath. "Dammit, that hurts!"
And I can't help but chuckle.
I think she said the same thing the first time we made love.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“When he said he'd met a girl... I knew he'd met her. That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find'em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says 'Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you. And I didn't even know it.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“I read somewhere that if you’re going through Hell, keep going. It’s the only way past it.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Death ends a life. Not a relationship.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“He always has a joke to tell or is doing something so seriously ridiculous that you can’t help but laugh at him. Last night, he tried to dry his socks in the microwave.
Yeah.
Then Boo yelled at him. She told him the oven works better.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Now that I’m a little more awake, I realize someone is breathing into my neck and wriggling closer to me. Deeper into my butt.
When I near Nox whine in his sleep, my eyes widen. I ask my brain, “Is that what I think it is?”
My drooling brain replies, “It’s early, we have a hard-on pressed against our ass, and a delicious man in our bed. I’m out.” Then it disconnects.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“We've been chatting about our men and wedding stuff. Terah says, "God, sometimes I look at Jon and think 'how the Hell did I manage to get you?' We're so lucky."
Mom adds, "They are very handsome."
Terah and I scoff. Shaking my head, I say, "Handsome is something. And Nox is handsome most times. But, by God, he is hot. Hotter than Hell, Mom. I never thought I could love someone so much. I can hardly keep my hands off him."
Mom chastises on a gasp, "Lily! That's inappropriate! You're a lady and ladies do not speak that way."
Terah chuckles, "Screw being a lady. I love my special cuddle time with Jon."
Mom covers her ears, but barks out an embarrassed laugh, "I cannot hear this! You girls can clean the rest up while I powder my nose."
Terah and I chuckle, watching her leave.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Doesn’t matter where you are, baby. I’ll come for you.” She lifts her watery eyes to mine and I state confidently, “I’ll come for you.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“It takes everything I have not to karate chop him for asking such a dumb question.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“Body odor mixed with deodorant must make chloroform.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
“It’s been a long fucking day and I need that mouth.”
― Belle Aurora, quote from Willing Captive
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“Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.”
― John Katzenbach, quote from The Analyst
“Eddie saw great things and near misses. Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and not quite stepping on the cake of soap lying beside the pulled plug. A Nazi Oberleutnant burning a piece of paper with the date and place of the D-Day Invasion written on it. He saw a man who intended to poison the entire water supply of Denver die of a heart attack in a roadside rest-stop on I-80 in Iowa with a bag of McDonald’s French fries on his lap. He saw a terrorist wired up with explosives suddenly turn away from a crowded restaurant in a city that might have been Jerusalem. The terrorist had been transfixed by nothing more than the sky, and the thought that it arced above the just and unjust alike. He saw four men rescue a little boy from a monster whose entire head seemed to consist of a single eye.
But more important than any of these was the vast, accretive weight of small things, from planes which hadn’t crashed to men and women who had come to the correct place at the perfect time and thus founded generations. He saw kisses exchanged in doorways and wallets returned and men who had come to a splitting of the way and chosen the right fork. He saw a thousand random meetings that weren’t random, ten thousand right decisions, a hundred thousand right answers, a million acts of unacknowledged kindness. He saw the old people of River Crossing and Roland kneeling in the dust for Aunt Talitha’s blessing; again heard her giving it freely and gladly. Heard her telling him to lay the cross she had given him at the foot of the Dark Tower and speak the name of Talitha Unwin at the far end of the earth. He saw the Tower itself in the burning folds of the rose and for a moment understood its purpose: how it distributed its lines of force to all the worlds that were and held them steady in time’s great helix. For every brick that landed on the ground instead of some little kid’s head, for every tornado that missed the trailer park, for every missile that didn’t fly, for every hand stayed from violence, there was the Tower.
And the quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.”
― Stephen King, quote from Wolves of the Calla
“I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes”
― Robin Sloan, quote from Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
“His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from The Raven King
“A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.”
― Ann Aguirre, quote from Enclave
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