R.K. Lilley > Quotes

“Not you. I love any touch from
you. It feels caring, and I want that. I want so much for you to care for me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mile High

“I knew I should have been more worried about her motives.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Wild Side

“Some promises are made before you ever say the words.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“I was trying to be there for him, but who was there for me?”
― R.K. Lilley, Rock Bottom

“He shrugged. “I’ll take it if that’s all I can get. I’ll do the same. I’ll start. My parents died when I was thirteen. I was left with an older cousin as a guardian. I detested him. He died a year and a half later, and it was one of the best days of my life. I disliked my next guardian, my Aunt Mildred, but she was a saint compared to the first one.”
― R.K. Lilley, In Flight

“Love changes you.
No matter how strong you are, it makes you stronger.
No matter how weak you are, it makes you weaker.
No matter how hard you are to conquer, it will bring you to your knees”
― R K Lilley

“Despite all of my better sense, I couldn’t keep away from you once I started.”
― R.K. Lilley, Dair

“I wouldn’t even know where to begin to be peaceful. I am not acclimated to the rules of normal society.”
“You’re the truth, Lourdes. So what if I couldn’t, shouldn’t have you? I craved you, and so I kept coming back.
I’m not dead inside. Not all of me. Something remains, something that doesn’t only live for vengeance.
“That’s what you taught me.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“like was not about getting what you wanted, it was about living with what you needed”
― R.K. Lilley, Rock Bottom

“Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.”

~Loretta Young”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I want to help you,” I rasped. “Please , I need to save you from whatever it is you’re running from.
Her voice was unsteady, but her arms weren’t. They were wrapped around me like she was holding on for dear life. “You’ve already saved me, Dair. More than you’ll ever know.”
― R.K. Lilley, Iris

“The drawings are stellar, now you just need the story. Need some help plotting it out?”
“Not just yet. I’m still bouncing the particulars around, but the gist of it is, I want to make something that makes lonely kids feel less alone.”
Well fuck me if that wasn’t endearing and adorable as hell.
I needed to get away from her. Fast.”
― R.K. Lilley, Tyrant

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

~Phyllis Diller”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Bianca, one of the quieter members of the group, shocked us all by butting in.  “That’s just not true.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“Stephan always looked like a model, but he never needed more than ten minutes to get ready. I found it both convenient and infuriating, depending on the time of the month.

Lilley, R.K. (2012-10-20). In Flight (Up in the Air Book 1) (Kindle Locations 2695-2696). R.K. Lilley. Kindle Edition.”
― R. K. Lilley

“oh this man is broken, let me fix him urge, because when I fix him, he’ll be mine.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“No matter how selfish it was, her death shouldn’t have more meaning than her life, so let’s remember her for the way that she loved, not the way that she died.”
― R.K. Lilley, Rock Bottom

“I was outclassed and outgunned, and I was only realizing it when it was too late to do a damn thing about it. A heart could only break so many times before the cause was lost.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“Having a love that was endangered made it all the more precious.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“Love is born into every human being: it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."   ~Plato”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“What? I’m an affectionate guy.”
“Affectionate like a horny puppy.”
“A horny puppy? Really? That the best you can come up with?”
Her soft, pouty mouth was twisted thoughtfully. “Ridiculous, perverted, narcissist,” she tried.
“Hey!” That one hit close enough to home to actually sting a bit. “I’m not ridiculous.”
She was walking away. “I’m too busy for this, you gorgeous asshole,” she muttered under her breath.
“That one was practically a compliment!”
― R.K. Lilley, Tyrant

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

~Oscar Wilde”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“My back stiffened as we approached our group again. James was standing near Stephan and Javier, and they were laughing at something. But he wasn’t alone. Melissa was practically plastered to his side, laughing along with them.

“You notice that bitch didn’t say boo until we left. Then she swooped in like a vulture,” Marnie was saying under her breath.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mile High

“It struck me at that moment how we were looking at each other, with near twin expressions, if you could discount his broken, lifeless eyes.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

~Lily Tomlin”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“That did not a love story make.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“Hell yeah,” Danika”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“I’ve been collecting art since I was a teenager. I have an eye for it, and I know she has a rare talent.” James continued when neither of us spoke.

Stephan looked shocked, then ecstatic. “Yes, she does. You have to do this, Buttercup. I will have an absolute conniption if you don’t.”
― R.K. Lilley, In Flight

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

~Friedrich Nietzsche”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“wasn’t the only one with an arsenal in this war of ours.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger