Riley Hart > Quotes

“You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“It doesn’t matter who you love, brother, as long as you love them with your whole damn heart.”
― Riley Hart, Stay

“There aren’t laws for emotions, Tristan. There isn’t a magical timeframe where it’s okay to fall in love with someone or okay to fall out of it. Emotions don’t play by rules. That’s what makes them so incredible.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?” Nick finally repeated the lines from his dream. “Whichever way you are,” he replied. He’d do anything for his man. Go anywhere. Being with Nick was where he was supposed to be. “You lead and I’ll follow. I’m right here with you, Bryce. Always.” “Nah, I don’t need to lead, we’ll go together.” Together, the way they’d done everything since they met.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“Don’t let other people steal your joy. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s not to let other people take what you love.”
― Riley Hart, Depth of Field

“What do you want, Nick?” “Right now? Nothing, but you.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“You always make me get so fuckin’ emotional. I’d get my ass beat if anyone saw me the way I am with you.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“I’m going to make you get on your knees for me, Nick.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“This wasn’t ending, and he didn’t know if it would ever end, and Coop didn’t know if he wanted to celebrate, cry, or destroy the whole fucking world.”
― Riley Hart, Collide

“I’m trying to move on. My past isn’t who I am.”
― Riley Hart, Rock Solid

“You suck."
"Ha! You do, too, now!"
Bryce's mood lifted as he laughed at her. "You're an asshole, Chris.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“Emotions are a funny thing, but they’re yours and you have a right to feel all of them. What matters is how you react to them.” Justin”
― Riley Hart, Test Drive

“we’re all made of sunlight and stardust. So maybe, whenever you look at the sky, from morning till nightfall, you’re connecting with them in some small way.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“You’ve turned my whole fucking world upside down, you know that?” “Yeah,” Nick whispered. “Yeah, you’ve done the same with mine.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“You taste so fucking good. I could keep my tongue in you all night.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“I’m not sure it matters how old you are. If something affects you, it affects you. No one has the right to say how long or in what way other people are allowed to feel things. Our emotions are our own.”
― Riley Hart, Shifting Gears

“But that’s the thing.” Simon closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “You’re changing. You’re making amends. I’m not.”
― Riley Hart, Rock Solid

“Oh, I don’t need sausage,” Rod cut in. “Landon gave me his before we left home. I don’t have to wait for his. I just have to touch it and it’s ready.”
― Riley Hart, Test Drive

“Cassius?” Prince Merrick whispered, looking at him as though he could feel Cassius’s tension. “Are you well? You’re shaking.”
“I’m…I’m sorry, Your Highness. I am well.” He managed to get the words past his dry lips.
Though it was too dark to see the prince’s eyes, he could feel them upon him, his stare intense. He felt it like a caress, like soft yet urgent fingers against his skin.
Why could he not have this one thing for himself? A moment that went beyond satisfying his prick with a man he did not know, but with one he did. Someone he enjoyed, someone he desired beyond simple fucking.
Because he is a prince and you are his servant…
This was not a story, a fairy tale selling the lie of a happily-ever-after that couldn’t be a reality for someone like Cassius. That was not a reality for Merrick either.
He turned away, did not let himself gaze at the prince for the rest of the performance. He ignored Lady Penelope’s whispers to Prince Merrick, the jealousy that burned through his gut.
This was his reality, and he had better get used to it”
― Riley Hart, Ever After

“Sometimes you just had to force yourself to get over shit in your life, or it would rot away inside you until you couldn't be saved.”
― Riley Hart, Shifting Gears

“His hair was wet, messed up from the towel, and he obviously hadn’t taken the time to shave,”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“It’s weird, spending your life feeling different from everyone around you and not understanding why or how. You helped when you gave me those terms, but I still didn’t know who I was. Don’t know if I do now. Am I demisexual? I guess. But maybe I’m not, and I don’t know that it really matters. The only thing that does, for me at least, is how I feel.”
― Riley Hart, Griff's Place

“He looked up as Tristan reached him. No doubt he had tears mixed with the rain sliding down his face. “It’s my birthday,” he whispered. “That’s when he gave me the queen. He said it’s because I was the strongest person he knew.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“Nothing in this world was completely black or white. Wrong or right. Or if it was, what mattered was whose eyes it was being seen from.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“Cassius could not control his rapidly shaking hands. He wrung them together as though that would prevent it, but of course, it did no such thing.
Merrick had chosen him. He had approached Cassius with all of Evergreen’s aristocrats in attendance, and had asked Cas to dance.
And Cas had run.
That had been the right thing to do. He knew that to the depths of his soul. Merrick had too much at stake, too much to risk for Cassius. The kingdom was more important than Cassius, and Merrick was as well.
Merrick had chosen him…”
― Riley Hart, Ever After

“Emotions don't play by rules. That's what makes them so incredible.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“Will you tell me a story?” Merrick asked.
So Cassius did. He told a story of two men who were in love. How one courted the other, and their families shared dinners, and magic allowed them to fly. They laughed together, drew together, wrote together, and spent their days having snowball fights with children. They hung the moon together each night and helped the sun rise each morning.
And they lived happily ever after, in ways Merrick and Cassius could not”
― Riley Hart, Ever After

“When he gasped for cleansing breath, because he hadn’t felt clean when he was using. It took getting clean for him to realize it.”
― Riley Hart, Rock Solid

“There was something so powerful in sex. So demanding and owning that made Mason feel like he could conquer the world.”
― Riley Hart, Pretend