Barbara > Barbara's Quotes

“I'm a mess," he said, halfway joking but halfway not. "I'm demanding and temperamental and I'm terribly high maintenance."

I laughed without even meaning to. "Do you honestly think I don't know all that by now?"

"Then how could you possibly love me?"

I held him tighter, kept kissing his neck. "How can I not?”
― Marie Sexton, Strawberries for Dessert

“Jared?” His fingers were playing gently in my curls.
“Yes?” I was more than halfway asleep, perfectly warm and content, back in my own bed. With him.
“Say it for me.”
“You’re heavy.”
“No.”
“You’re a manipulative bastard.”
“No.” He was laughing.
“You’re right.”
He gave one hard tug on my hair. “That’s not it either.”
“I love you?”
He sighed contentedly. “That’s the one.”
― Marie Sexton, Promises

“Wanna hang out for a bit?"
"You tryin' to get in my pants now that you know I'm queer?" he asked in an impudent tone.
"No!"
"Yeah."
"Yeah, what?"
"Yeah, I wanna hang out." He smiled over at me.”
― Marie Sexton, A to Z

“Hey, Angelo?"
"What?"
"You wanna hang out some time?"
"You Think I got nothin' better to do?"
"It was just a thought, never mind."
"Yeah"
"Yeah, what?"
"Yeah I wanna hang out some time, see you tomorrow Zach”
― Marie Sexton, A to Z

“First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does not necessarily mean the ability to think.”
― Marie Sexton, A to Z

“I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something so self-destructive, knowing that they’re hurting not only themselves, but the people they love? It seemed that it would be so incredibly easy for them to just not take that next drink. Just stop. It’s so simple, really. But as so often happens with me, my arrogance kept me from seeing the truth of the matter.
I see it now though.
Every day, I tell myself it will be the last. Every night, as I’m falling asleep in his bed, I tell myself that tomorrow I’ll book a flight to Paris, or Hawaii, or maybe New York. It doesn’t matter where I go, as long as it’s not here. I need to get away from Phoenix—away from him—before this goes even one step further.
And then he touches me again, and my convictions disappear like smoke in the wind.
This cannot end well. That’s the crux of the matter, Sweets. I’ve been down this road before—you know I have—and there’s only heartache at the end. There’s no happy ending waiting for me like there was for you and Matt. If I stay here with him, I will become restless and angry. It’s happening already, and I cannot stop it. I’m becoming bitter and terribly resentful. Before long, I will be intolerable, and eventually, he’ll leave me. But if I do what I have to do, what my very nature compels me to do, and move on, the end is no better. One way or another, he’ll be gone. Is it not wiser to end it now, Sweets, before it gets to that point? Is it not better to accept that this happiness I have is destined to self-destruct?
Tomorrow I will leave. Tomorrow I will stop delaying the inevitable. Tomorrow I will quit lying to myself, and to him.
Tomorrow.
What about today, you ask? Today it’s already too late. He’ll be home soon, and I have dinner on the stove, and wine chilling in the fridge. And he will smile at me when he comes through the door, and I will pretend like this fragile, dangerous thing we have created between us can last forever.
Just one last time, Sweets. Just one last fix. That’s all I need.
And that is why I now understand addiction.”
― Marie Sexton, Strawberries for Dessert

“Its a good thing I'm here, big guy, because you have shit taste in friends."

Okay, I said the last part intentionally, knowing how Aaron would react. And right on cue, Aaron said:

"He's not my friend!"

"Well, I guess that settles it, Nick. You're not going to be rebound guy because, despite your predictions of woe, Aaron and I aren't breaking up. I'd say that we'll see you around, but I doubt that'll happen since you don't even rate friend status.”
― Cardeno C., He Completes Me

“Hey you know what they say you should do when life gives you lemons?"

The sudden change in topic made my head spin, "Make lemonade?" I answered weakly.

"Lemonade? Who the fuck do you hang out with, Girl Scouts? No, when life gives you lemons, you add vodka and make a lemon drop.”
― Cardeno C., Just What the Truth Is

“Why," he panted into Danny's neck, "why's it so goddamn good?" He was surprised at how full his voice sounded, so close to overflowing its steady banks.
Danny stroked his hair, his lips warm against Miller's cheek. "Because it's us, Miller," he whispered. "Because it's us.”
― Brooke McKinley, Shades of Gray

“It’s too late for that. It’s too late to go back,” Danny said, gentle but firm. “Now you have to decide the man you want to be from here on out.”
― Brooke McKinley, Shades of Gray

“It’s always our mistakes, the things we aren’t proud of, that are the first ones to stand up, ready to be counted. That’s human nature and it’s not going to change, not for me or for you, either.”
― Brooke McKinley, Shades of Gray

“Arrogant, rude bastard had insulted me, creeped me out, pissed me off, and made me restless all weekend. Now he was fucking with my orgasms. ~Danny Marshal~”
― S.J.D. Peterson, Plan B

“Marriage is not about finding a person you can live with, it's about finding the person you can't live without.”
― S.J.D. Peterson, Plan B

“Se le sue ciglia avessero le manine, saresti nudo ora, sai?”
― Erin E. Keller, The Scar

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Io credo che nel mondo ci sia una storia, e una storia sola, che ci ha spaventato e ispirato tanto da farci vivere come in una serie di film di Pearl White, una storia fonte di infinita riflessione e meraviglia. Gli uomini sono presi – nelle loro vite, nei loro pensieri, nei loro appetiti e ambizioni, avarizie e crudeltà, e persino nei loro impulsi di bontà e generosità – in una rete di bene e di male. Io credo sia questa la sola storia che abbiamo e che si ripete a tutti i livelli del sentimento e dell’intelligenza. Vizio e virtù sono stati trama e ordito della nostra prima presa di coscienza, e saranno il tessuto dell’ultima, e questo malgrado tutti i cambiamenti che potremo imporre a campi, fiumi e montagne, all’economia e a usi e costumi. Non esiste un’altra storia. L’uomo, dopo che si è spazzolato via la polvere e la segatura della vita, resta solo con questa dura, cristallina domanda: era bene o male? Mi sono comportato nel modo giusto – o in quello sbagliato?”
― John Steinbeck, La valle dell'Eden: Volume II