Celestine > Celestine's Quotes

“And there’s no synthetic owners manual?” His lips twitched, smile threatening to break into a grin.

A joke. He wasn’t funny. “Do you come with an owners’ manual, Captain? Because I’d like to study your troubleshooting section.”

“Would you like to strip me down to my nuts and bolts, and figure out what makes me tick?”

“I knew what made you tick from the moment we first met. That’s why I punched you between the legs.”

~ #1001 & Caleb”
― Pippa DaCosta, Girl From Above: Trapped

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“It was difficult to explain the concept of a party pooper to somebody who didn’t really get the concept of a party”
― Delphine Dryden, The Theory of Attraction

“You’re awake.” I hold my breath when I hear Brantley’s scratchy just-waking-up voice. How is it that even that’s sexy? My morning voice sounds like an eighty year old woman who’s smoked a pack a day since she was two.”
― Ra'chael Ohara, Love Untamed

“You have done an unwise thing, Martise of Asher,” he said softly. “You’ve caught my interest.”
― Grace Draven, Master of Crows

“Don’t sing.”  He pointed a finger at her for emphasis.  “You’ve scared my dog, my birds and my servant with your yowling.”  He paused.  “You’ve even managed to scare me.”
― Grace Draven, Master of Crows

“We all have thoughts that we would never, ever vocalise. And people who say they don’t are liars.”
― L.H. Cosway, Six of Hearts

“Too often women are expected to be considerate and thoughtful when really fear and doubt would be a more reasonable response.”
― Charlotte Stein, Intrusion

“There's four things a real man has to be able to do for a woman."
"Exactly how many man-lists do you have?"
He let my wrist go and ticked the items off on his fingers. "Fix her car. Grill her a steak. Kick the ass of any guy who makes her cry. And fuck her so hard she wakes up half-crippled."
"Oh my God.”
― Cara McKenna, After Hours

“Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I'll never let you leave me?”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded

“Never, ever be afraid to be different. It is only when we distinguish ourselves from the expected that we make an impression.”
― Erin Knightley, The Baron Next Door