Contemporary Quotes
Abbi Glines
I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.
1877Abbi Glines
Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.
3286 Abbi Glines
You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.
1236 Daniel Amory
I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.
2851 Elizabeth Englewood
Now if only I could spread the love between you two like I can spread this butter.
2966 Liz Czukas
It's just...how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find.
1764 Zack Love
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.
3129 S. Elle Cameron
His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.
4743 S. Elle Cameron
She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?
1886 Kristen Tracy
Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level.
James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.
Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine.
James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume.
2393 Jenny Han
If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms
4445 Rebecca Serle
Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.
1252 Zack Love
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
4516 Deepak Chandra
Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.
1201 Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He shook his head. "The next time I hear a women going on about how neurotic men are, I'm going to remember this. You tell me you like my body, and what do I say? I say, thank you. Then I tell you I like yours and what do I hear? A long lists of grievances.
2377 Lora Leigh
I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.
3868 Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. "Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this." That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.
1883 Nyrae Dawn
A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me on edge. I suddenly want to do the same thing to her. Let her see how it feels to teeter on that cliff.
1887 Megan Hart
I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.
1623 Collette West
He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places.
2716 Francis Ray
There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.
But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?
4470 Vanessa Jaye
Looks to me like Felicity didn’t enjoy being mauled,” Daniel pointed out reasonably. When what he reasonably wanted to do, was shove Stuart’s head so far up his ass the next time he gargled he’d give himself a colonic. -Felicity Stripped Bare
1023 Sharon K. Garner
What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!
2799 Sharon K. Garner
Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams
1029 Airicka Phoenix
How have you always felt?” he wondered.
“Loved.” Her eyes opened and met his. “Wanted, happy, excited. A little sad.”
He felt himself stiffen. “Why sad?”
“Because it always feels like one lifetime with you just isn’t enough.
4486 Stephanie Witter
Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal.
"There's nothing to say."
He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me?
4723 Stephanie Witter
I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I'd be a fuck up, that I'd be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew it. I wasn't a good man, not well-adjusted. - Nolan
1306 Stephanie Witter
All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine.
2109 Stephanie Witter
I was falling back again and fast, or maybe I’d never stopped feeling something for him. And it was still hopeless, but at least, I could touch him a little bit.
1407 Stephanie Witter
He brought his forehead against mine and we breathed the same air, slowly to try and find our composure. But it was impossible for me as long as he’s so close to me. “You’re ruining me.’’
“You ruined me.
4304 Stephanie Witter
Quietly, under my breath, I mumbled a name and it wasn’t the name of the girl waiting in the other room.
In my mind I pictured Brooklyn’s sounds as she came and I jerked in my hand, coming and coming.
Something had to give.
1527 Stephanie Witter
Be myself. If only I remembered what it was like to be myself. I’m a fucking waitress in a crappy bar in a small town in the middle of nowhere. I was going nowhere. I had nothing to give him beside myself and my heart and he denied me.
4510 Stephanie Witter
I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn’s full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body…her smoking body bared only for me.
3378 Stephanie Witter
Will you have any regrets once she’s dead?
Brooklyn’s question and her voice echoed in my head as I watched her walking to her house, her hips swaying tantalizingly at every step. A heavy weight fell on my shoulders because I didn’t have to ponder that question to find the answer.
1253 Stephanie Witter
Take a table and I’ll join you in a second.’’
When he walked away I did something I couldn’t be scolded for doing.
I checked out his ass in his jeans and…that looked good.
2468 Rebecca Serle
How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?
1133 Rebecca Serle
They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.
3896 Zack Love
They truly embodied goodness and generosity – like angels sent to save me in my hour of greatest need. Mohammed had risked everything to keep a promise to my father. He and his family saved not only my life, but also my faith in others.
1272 Zack Love
I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.
3171 Finn Marlowe
Impressive," Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. "You should join the theater."
"Fuck you."
"I owed you that."
"Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that."
Really is a dirty fighter. Goddamn.
2015 Finn Marlowe
Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?"
"Why do I have to be the flaming gay one?
3478 Zack Love
Honest dishonesty. That’s quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you’ve brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer,” he added jokingly.
1800 Elizabeth Funderbirk
...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times...
...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on...
Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder
1714 Rebecca Berto
When I’d remember this night in weeks, months, or even years, it wouldn’t be the sex. Sex would fade and so would the need to be filled with him, but right now I felt him inscribe his soul around my chest, and the reminder would be there with every beat for as long as I lived.
4346 Jill Wolfson
Fact: Cells are constantly dying and new ones are taking their place
Fact: After seven years have gone by, every cell in my body has died and a new one has taken its place.
Do the math. That means that every seven years, I'm a totally new me. not one of the old cells remains. Twice, I've had a total makeover
3900 Jerril Thomas Abraham
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.
3495 Jerril Thomas Abraham
Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…
2209 Jerril Thomas Abraham
Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.
3953 Jerril Thomas Abraham
In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.
4796 Sha Li
Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!
3631 Robyn Peterman
Is your name even David?' I asked as I yanked my panties back on.
'Is yours Melanie?' he inquired, buttoning his jeans.
'I asked first,' I countered, wondering for the umpteenth time why being an idiot came so easily to me.
3028 Carla H. Krueger
Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.
3922 Carla H. Krueger
Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
3917 Carla H. Krueger
It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
3842 Carla H. Krueger
He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.
1715 Carla H. Krueger
A black-haired bitch with man’s hands, widow Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch makes all the important decisions. She is a power-hungry dominatrix. Orwell is her slave. (No one ever sees him.)
1344 Carla H. Krueger
Do I need to fire the little prat yet?” Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch.
3347 Carla H. Krueger
I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.
3351 Carla H. Krueger
Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.
1209 Carla H. Krueger
You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
1147 Carla H. Krueger
Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?
1975 Carla H. Krueger
Kalist brings out his best for the clincher. “You’ve never really loved your wife, have you, Ridley?
3137 Carla H. Krueger
Obelmäker always suspected Kalist of being a driven man with a determined selfishness that verged on sociopathic, but he actually appears to be suffering for once, in a humane way, like one who has been driven and selfish previously, but has slowly started to see the gigantic error of his ways.
4382 Carla H. Krueger
Baumauer wants a life in which he cannot be belittled, judged or controlled by worse men.
3813 Carla H. Krueger
To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.
3881 Carla H. Krueger
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.
3018 Carla H. Krueger
Kalist is in his office with the door shut, secretly adding the final touches to his new Brichacek doll; she’s got rosy, plaster cheeks and his nose hairs for pubes, although he thinks he might die them blond to go with her hair.
2299 Carla H. Krueger
Kalist likes to listen to the collective voices swell as more individuals in his colony arrive.
4224 Carla H. Krueger
Obelmäker is a deeply fearful person and terribly indecisive. Even when he makes a choice, it’s usually bad.
3600 Carla H. Krueger
An overnight bag with the company logo – a white silhouette of a finch (which once perched on the curved back of a stallion representing cofounder, Orwell, but has now been ‘adjusted’) – sits motionless beside him on the carpet, sucking up bedbugs.
2673 Carla H. Krueger
You’re a fat cunt and you can’t add up to save your life.” Dimitri Pissec.
1906 Carla H. Krueger
Opposite Pissec sits ghoulish Gottfried Baumauer, a tall, skinny workaholic with dark-ringed eye sockets and long, yellowing smoker’s fingers. He’s thirty-eight. He doesn’t say much. He drinks a lot of tea – likes it strong as tar. He lines up the strained, dry bags on his desk like dead, tailless voles.
4663 Carla H. Krueger
Obelmäker is eating at his desk, a habit both Baumauer and Pissec find repulsive.
3572 Carla H. Krueger
As Baumauer hangs his shit-coloured coat up on a hook he takes clandestine pleasure in engulfing Obelmäker’s less impressive attire with his own. Privately, he warns the inferior coat, “Don’t suffocate in there.
3604 Carla H. Krueger
Pissec approaches Pamela Geiger’s cubicle, itching in rhythm with her. He wants to ask her a question while Kalist is out of earshot. She’s not a grass, he’s sure, but stupid people die first.
4166 Tara Ford
Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?
3530 Leslea Tash
Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.
3086 Jeff Hutchins
It’s okay to dress up like another person, but never try to be someone else. Just try to be yourself, because that’s what makes you special. Oh, and watch out if a dragon ever starts to dance ballet.
4046 Jeff Hutchins
Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe they
are big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be afraid of them just because of how they look. You may find they are nice to you if you are
nice to them.
2994 Karina Halle
Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.
3320 Zack Love
Don’t invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up,” she used to warn me.
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