R.K. Lilley > Quotes

“I feel like real love should take time, or at least, more time than this. I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over, but I feel how I feel, and I know it's not going away.”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded

“Either my water just broke or I wet myself.”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded

“He was the someone, so he could never be the else.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“I’m in trouble with this one, I thought. For the first time in my life, I had the thought that I was in over my head with a woman.”
― R.K. Lilley

“I’d always known it, but having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“Where Bianca was I had a right to be. This was the order of the universe.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“Even when I won with Dante, I was defeated
Because, to this day, I had a hard time walking away from him.
Something inside of me – some insidious thing, deep down in the dregs of my soul raged against every step that took me in the opposite direction of him.
Even after all this time, it raged.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“She was lying on the bed, side by side with Stephan and Javier, Stephan in the middle, looking at his phone. Javier’s head was on his shoulder. Bianca and Stephan were holding hands.
… She gripped my hair in both hands, stroking through the strands.
I started kissing her skin, and quickly got carried away.
“Seriously, man?” Stephan asked as I used my nose to push her shorts lower, mouth following.
“Just so you know, these sheets haven’t been changed today.” I waited a beat. “And we had a busy morning.”
“Oh God!” Javier said, jumping up.
“That’s messed up, man,” Stephan said with a laugh, getting up more slowly.
It worked. They gave us a moment of privacy. Well, more like an hour.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“If the smooth lines of her face had been made of karma, she'd look like a withered old hag by now.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I want to be with you. I’ve made it way more fucking complicated than it needs to be, and I want to un-complicate it. I’ve no right to ask it, but will you give me the chance to prove that I can be better than I’ve been?”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“Lo amaba tanto que me dormía a su lado y todavía soñaba con él, como si estar separados, incluso durmiendo, simplemente no fuera una opción para mi cerebro enfermo de amor.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“What are you doing?” I asked him.  He’d shown no sign of letting up, like he was just going to go down on me indefinitely, with no signs of stopping for the foreseeable future. He smiled.  Yes, it was a cold smile, but I was starting to like that just fine.  “Showing manners.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“She was soothing chaos. Like that first taste of anesthesia, before you lost your senses.  Or the venom that numbed you before it killed you. I really couldn’t decide which.   The verdict was definitely still out on that.”
― R.K. Lilley, Iris

“Neither of us have a choice in this. You and I being together is not a question, Scarlett, it’s a fact of life.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“I have tormented some sweet men. Broken hearts and shattered dreams.

Men are punching bags, and I have a hell of a right hook.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“We put these things through their paces.”   He tensed suddenly.  “Have you been using these the whole time we’ve been apart?” I knew what he was asking.  “Only when I was by myself.”   I’d kept the sheets faithful to Tristan.  Bully for me. We were so freaking screwed up.   So freaking screwed.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“Both of my trembling hands went up to cup her perfect, oh so beloved face. My voice was somehow steadier than my hands as I asked her my question. “Do you love me at least as much as you hate me?”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“Dante.
He loved me so deep and so hard that I was blinded by it.
I thought it was a miracle. I was so young, so impressionable, so infatuated.
So stupid. For years and years, all I had the sense to do was bask in it.
I let our love rule my life. It was everything to me.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Him

“He hated me on principle, and he fascinated me in spite of myself.”
― R.K. Lilley, Arranged

“I give you my drunk permission to ignore whatever the sober me tells you. You should like the drunk me better, anyway, because I like you more than the sober me does.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“You've never been soft for anyone else.   You've never been vulnerable.  Those things belong to me."  He launched each jab at me without pity, hesitation, or remorse.  The bastard.  "They always have.  They always will.  You've never given the you that's mine to anyone else, and you never will.  Even your lying lips can't convince me otherwise.”
― R.K. Lilley, Breaking Her

“He reached for my hand, looking sad. “Don’t get hurt, Buttercup.”
I shrugged. “Life hurts. As long as it doesn’t kill us, we weather it.”
― R.K. Lilley

“True love was a language, so many looks, touches and one word references that told the other more than full sentences of paragraphs, more than full outpourings of speech.
Our language was extensive and beautiful, and over a joyful lifetime together, we stayed fluent in it.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“I, James Cavendish, unrepentant dominant, sexual deviant, and prolific slut for more years than I cared to count, was in love. I'd taken her virgin body, but just as surely, she'd taken my virgin heart.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“How rough can you take it, Lourdes?'' he asked, bringing his mouth very close to mine.
I was trying nor to pant. ''I don't know,'' I replied honestly. ''Why don't you show me what you got?''
He smiled, and this time, it very nearly reached his eyes. ''You asked for it.”
― R.K. Lilley, The Other Man

“His shorts hung low and his sweaty, cut to within an inch of its life, pelvic V muscle, was giving a silent but clear invitation to my tongue.”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger

“I’d called it love, and looked for love, because that’s what I’d wanted, but love was not a thing you could force yourself to feel, or, more importantly, it was not a thing you could keep yourself from feeling.”
― R.K. Lilley, Bad Things

“Crazy's favorite shape is a circle.”
― R. K. Lilley

“To believe in that perfect love, and your whole life know that it isn’t for you, that what you’ve been shaped into makes it fundamentally impossible, then one day you blink, and there it is, someone so perfectly formed to complement your own complicated needs.
It was heady, a rush like nothing else.”
― R.K. Lilley, Mr. Beautiful

“Tristan being the someone else was just off.  It felt wrong to even think it.    
I knew why, too.  
He was the someone, so he could never be the else.    ”
― R.K. Lilley, Lovely Trigger