“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family and the characters they created were all my friends. I counted on them. They were all I ever had. All I still have. Now that the store may go out of business I feel like I’m losing my family and friends. I love all my books. Being a book lover saved my life.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“You may not realize it yet, but you’re mine. Not because I am claiming you. You’re mine because that’s how it is.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“The only thing I want from you is you.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“If you’re looking for lollipops and rainbows while you shop for the latest best seller, you best not come to me. I won’t chat you up and tell you how cute your kid is. I won’t smile and flirt. I won’t stroke your ego about the jewelry you are wearing or the shirt you have on. I will help you find what you need. I will recommend books and hell I even talk about what I liked about one book over another but all that other shit is just not my thing.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“I live to make you smile, Josephine.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“I feel like my world is crumbling beneath my feet but Damon walks in and I have something to grab onto. It’s frightening and comforting all in the same.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“His warm eyes stay locked onto mine and I want to melt right on the spot. I know him but I don’t. I want him but I don’t. I need him but I don’t.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“His presence is the medicine that soothes my wounds.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“Watching him is intoxicating. I couldn’t dream up a more beautiful man.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“You may not realize it yet, but you’re mine. Not because I am claiming you. You’re mine because that’s how it is. I feel like I have waited my whole life to find you. Before we met in that store I dreamed of you every night. I wondered where you were and when I’d find you. Now that I have, you’d be crazy if you think I would just let you go. I don’t see a need for protection. I don’t want a damn thing between us.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've lost enough”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“I am ashamed to admit that I have contemplated living versus ending it all.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“I am tied up in nothing but stilettos and I feel hot.”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
“moving boxes full of my useless junk. I can think of someone”
― J.L. Mac, quote from Wreck Me
J.L. Mac
Born place: in Galveston, Texas, The United States
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“Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.”
― Markus Zusak, quote from I Am the Messenger
“Are you hurting anywhere else?" I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we'd had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. "Here." "So am I." He kissed my fingertips, then linked our hands and led me...”
― Sylvia Day, quote from Reflected in You
“What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“If it gets too bad, go. I’ll understand.”
I won’t.”
― Kelley Armstrong, quote from The Awakening
“..who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for an Eternity outside of Time, and alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade,
who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores where they thought they were growing old and cried,
who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue amid blasts of leaden verse and the tanked-up clatter of the iron regiments of fashion and the nitroglycerine shrieks of the fairies of advertising and the mustard gas of sinister intelligent editors, or were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality..”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Howl and Other Poems
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