R.K. Lilley > Quotes

“I knew trouble when I saw it, it being a very old friend of mine.  Trouble for me was this nasty little self-destructive streak that I’d never quite been able to shake.  A theme song even played in my head when I felt the big T getting close.  Four Kicks was that song, and it cranked up to full volume with my first glance at him.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“Why the hell did I like him so much?
He was uncivilized.
Churlish.
Uncouth.
And strangely, kind of Sweet”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."  ~Charles Bukowski”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“She was mine.
Inconceivable.
Undeniably.
Mine.
It was that devastating and that simple.”
― R.K. Lilley, Dair

“You think I’m a fool,” I noted.  “That I shouldn’t wait for him.” She shook her head, eyes widening like I’d misunderstood her.  “I didn’t say that.  Only you can say if it’s worth it to wait.  I’ll tell you one thing I learned the hard way, though.  You can’t unlove someone just because you want to.  Trust me on this.  So if you love him, really love him, then of course it’s worth waiting.” “Even years?” “Even your whole life.  What’s the other option?”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“Whether I was the love or hate of his life, nothing and no one would ever overshadow me.   I swallowed the memory of every woman he had ever known. Swallowed it whole.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I love the name of it.  Makes me feel hopeful.  I want it over my mantle.”   I paused in what I was doing, my eyes scanning over the photos title, Second Chances.   He was smiling, I could hear it in his voice, when he added, “And I could tell it was your favorite when you showed it to me.  I figure I have a better chance of getting you to come back to my house, if I fill it with the things you love.”   He’d hit his target with the opening salvo.  That second part was just overkill.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“okay, you're okay, we're okay.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“No, sweetheart.  I expect you to submit.  They’re only padded because I can’t bear the thought of so much as bruising you.  I take the gift of your trust very seriously.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“She opened for me, every part of her available and soft for me.  Except her heart, I thought.  That she had closed to me, if it had ever been open.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Wild Side

“The bastard had made my underwear disappear.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“I want you to let go.  I want you to submit.  I want to make you lose your mind.  I want you to be so far gone that the only word left in your vocabulary is my name.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“Marriage is the most valuable, treasured friendship of your life," the”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“I hadn’t been left on the doorstep of an orphanage or church. I wasn’t abandoned in some frilly basket by a tearful mother. Even that was too romantic of a story for me. I was left in a trashcan. Meant to die, I figured.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“Here's all you need to know about crazy: crazys favorite shape is a cicle.”
― R.K. Lilley

“This isn’t about letting you stay in control.  This is about making you lose your mind.  I say when you’re ready, and I plan to take my time getting you there.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“Saga of Tristan and Danika.   The battles and the victories.   The defeats and the triumphs.  The tragedies and the trials.     Somewhere in the middle, I had him tearing up,”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“The real romance in life didn’t come in that first sweet taste of love, as profound and life changing as it was. There was love then, yes. Obsession, passion, infatuation. All of that and more.
But the true romance came from the slow lapse of time, the inexorable passing of days, weeks, months, years decades.
I’d hold onto her with the last breath in my body. My final thought would be that I hadn’t gotten enough, I just knew it.
Because I would never have enough.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“We were both panting heavily as I came back to myself. He caught my gaze in the mirror as he shifted his fingers out of me. I watched, absolutely mesmerized, as he raised them to his mouth and licked them clean.

When he finished, he grabbed my chin and turned my head to his for a deep kiss. “You are the most perfect f**king thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he murmured against my mouth.”
― R.K. Lilley, In Flight

“I'd taken her virgin body, but just as surely, she'd taken my virgin heart”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“Lots of days, it just felt like like the world had lost its color, and the only things that defined my life were the things I’d lost.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“In love there’s no free will. That’s how I know it’s real. I couldn’t stop it and I can’t deny it. This is it for me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Arranged

“Sluts that bang old men age in dog years, didn’t you know?”
― R.K. Lilley, Rock Bottom

“A theme song even played in my head when I felt the big T getting close.  Four Kicks was that song, and it cranked up to full volume with my first glance at him.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“My hold on him became weaker and weaker, and eventually, every finger broken, my hands opened, and I let him go.”
― R.K. Lilley, Rock Bottom

“Do you still think that our age difference is too much of an obstacle for us?”
“I don’t care,” I grunted over her. “I want you, regardless. I’ll fight for you, for this. This is mine. You’re mine.”
― R.K. Lilley, Dair

“Remember that the next time you touch me in front of other people.  Having an audience or even being in public won’t stop me from touching you back.  This is my only warning.”
― R.K. Lilley, In Flight

“You like everything. You're a moody listener. Whatever strikes your fancy.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“Do you…love me?” I asked him, my chest
hurting.
“That’s a silly question,” he said, stroking my cheek. “An unnecessary question. I’ve never made a secret of my feelings, Bianca. I know you’re a skeptic, but you must have realized that I fell for you right away.”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded

“He smelled like family... and Javier, but I took that as a good sign.”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded