Jeri Smith-Ready > Quotes

“For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Sorry," she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong. ”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

“When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it.
Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out.
They'll come when you're look somewhere else.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I know you're worried," Logan said. "You think the second I sign a deal, I'll turn into some kind of man-slut." He put his hands over mine, pressing my palms against his chest. "You've always been the only one, and you always will be.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“What the fuck do you want?" After a pause, he said in a firm voice, "This is Dylan Keeley, the guy who would've killed to trade places with you until five minutes ago." He met my eyes. "She doesn't want to talk to you. Now why don't you go back to screwing your prom queen and let me do the same.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint. -Zachary”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Where's your kilt?"
"How about this," he said in a low voice. "You don't ask me about haggis and bagpipes, and I won't ask you about garlic and Goodfellas.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I promise I'll never tell."

"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?"

"No."

"Promise me."

"No!"

"I will possess your heart."

Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?"

"My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'"

"By Death Cab for Cutie?"

He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie."

... "Why? What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song."

"No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'"

A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?"

His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“How about, 'I just kissed a guy at Black Weeds because you've been ignoring me. P.S. I love you.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I can't forget you, any more than I can forget my own name." He kissed me then, and the world which no longer mattered, completely fell away.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“I shook my head. She kissed my cheek, then on her way out patted Zachary's shoulder in a way that said, If you upset Aura in her weakened state, I will end you.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Aura," he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'd
feel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“And then you two go and call attention to yourselves like this," Ian continued. "Holding hands in a pedalo, for Christ's sake. They must have been frothing at the mouth at the thought of you two reproducing, wondering if you'd give birth to some kind of metaphysically enhanced creature or a bottomless black hole.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“No wonder these people don’t believe in evolution. It obviously hasn’t worked in their favor.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

“I guess you gotta try the rest before you settle down with the best.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“Honestly?” Logan shrugged. “I didn’t know it could kill me. If I’d ever heard that, I forgot it a long time ago. But I knew it was dangerous.”

“Then why take the risk?” Stone asked.

Logan turned his head to look at me. “Because she was worth it.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Spider-Swear.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I love you all, so much more than you should ever love me.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“It's beautiful." Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“He leaned in. “Kiss me, one last time.”

I called up a distant memory of his lips against mine. But this time, I kept my eyes open.

When he pulled back, Logan passed his hand over my hair. “Don’t forget me, okay?”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Exactly," He tucked a lock of hair behind my ear. "Sometimes we help ourselves, and sometimes we get help from ghosts in the woods and bampots in BMWs.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“The phone in my hand buzzed. Logan had just texted I Love You - so cute how he never abbreviated it.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I love you, Aura," Logan whispered. "Body or not, as long as I'm in this world, I want to be with you.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“This was Bad with a capital Hell No.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I’ll always love you.”

“I’ll love you, too.” He touched my face. “Forever.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Wicked Game

“Jesus loves you.”
“Then how come he never calls?”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

“Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

“Don’t tell me no this time, Aura. Please. Don’t make me stop.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Maybe we should've stayed like that, just hanging out. Maybe we never should've kissed those Keeley boys.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“I hate when people act like music is nothing but wild creativity," Logan said. "That's bullshit. It's also about counting and measuring and calibrating. If you do it right." He passed his hand over my MP3 player sitting on the bed between us. It was playing Mozart to help my concentration. "And if you do it really right, no one can tell how hard it is for you. You can let them believe it's magic, because that means you must be magic. You're worth worshipping.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“He grabbed the microphone in both hands, his face exploding into a smile at the sensation.

“Hey. Do not. I repeat. Do. Not. Panic. There’s nothing to be scared of. This is just your average everyday fucking miracle.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“I’ve been writing more songs in my head,” he said, “about being a ghost and a shade.” His face turned smooth and solemn. “How I’d die all over again just to touch you.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“Hey, it’s not like I was saving myself for the day you had a body again, so don’t get excited.”

“Too late.” He curved his fingers around my jaw and kissed me, hard enough to turn my limbs to liquid fire.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“I suppressed another shiver - I did not want Zachary taking off any more clothes on my account.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“That reminds me." I dug into my book bag and pulled out a white cardboard box tied with a string. "I brought these back for you."

He looked at the box, then at me, before slowly reaching out. "What are they?"

"Poisonous snakes. Open it."

Zachary untied the string. "They seem like very quiet snakes."

"They're stealthy. Or maybe dead.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“You obviously haven’t lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

“I don't need to see you to know that you're beautiful.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shine

“He smiled at me. “Have a good time.”

“Thank you.” The music was definitely working, I thought as I started to shut the door.

“Don’t get laid,” he added.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“Aw, he’s shy. How loveable, huggable, stuff-in-a-bag-and-take-home-able.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Wicked Game

“I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil

“When I got tired, Logan would sing me to sleep, sometimes a painfully appropriate song like Flogging Molly’s “If I Ever Leave This World Alive” or Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars.” Sometimes he’d pick a lilting Irish lullaby, or even a song he’d written himself.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“He whispered against my mouth. “Wait for me, Aura.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“With my eyes closed and my memories open, I could almost feel his hands and mouth on my skin.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shade

“Don’t move,” he breathed, softer than ever. Logan slowly wrapped his fingers around my hand.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“You know what would be cool, next time?" said a voice behind me. "Black roses.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Shift

“Fun fact: The planet Venus- aka, the 'morning star' when it appears before sunrise, outshining all the stars in the heavens-was once known as Luciferin.
Funner fact: The chemical that makes fireflies' butts light up is called "luciferin”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore and Religion in the PC and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series

“Daytimers. Sunnysides. What do you call us behind our backs?"
"Dinner."
This shuts me up until we reach my door.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, Wicked Game