Nicole Dykes > Nicole's Quotes

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain

“Because I love you Maddy. Hell, I’ve always loved you. Even when I wanted to hate you. Seeing you marry someone else would have killed me.”
― Nicole Dykes, Soulmates

“I’m saying I want to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.”
― Nicole Dykes, Soulmates

“Sometimes it takes making a lot of mistakes and being with the wrong person to lead you to the perfect one.”
― Nicole Dykes, Soulmates

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“You're mine to take care of. To make sure you feel safe and secure. To make sure you're happy, and I take it fucking seriously.”
― J.C. Grant, Playing for Keeps

“You light a fire in me, Evangeline, one I can’t put out, one I don’t want to. I wish I could show you how I feel.”
― Penelope Ward, Sins of Sevin

“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
― Walker Evans

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
― Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

“Can we just decide to be together? And deal with whatever comes our way? I know I'm possessive and jealous. And insecure as fuck with you. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm not enough for you. That I'm not good enough.”
― J.C. Grant, Playing for Keeps

“He looked like a prince, but if I were going to cast him in a fairy tale now, I'd cast him as The Dragon! A beastly, judgmental, fire-breathing dragon.”
― Mia Sheridan, Grayson's Vow

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“You were the best thing that ever happen to me. I hope that someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“A broken heart is still a beating one.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“The "one that got away" was supposed to stay away, not come back and leave you all over again.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.”
― Kate Betts, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine

“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
― Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

“Monsters don't always lurk in the shadows. Sometimes they hide in plain sight.”
― Belle Aurora, Raw

“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book, my imagination, and I am set free. I’m in literature heaven.”
― Belle Aurora, Willing Captive

“Can't help who you fall in love with, princess.”
― Belle Aurora, Willing Captive

“You can’t tell me
what to do anymore, Travis! I don’t belong to you!”
In the second it took him to turn and face me, his
expression had contorted into anger. He stomped toward
me, planting his hands on the bed and leaning into my face.
“WELL I BELONG TO YOU!” The veins in his neck
bulged as he shouted, and I met his glare, refusing to even
flinch. He looked at my lips, panting. “I belong to you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit.
Who cares what people think?
If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still be glossing over 'inappropriate' kissing scenes.
Break the fucking rules.
Push yourself to the edge.
Show the world what YOU can do.
This is YOUR book. YOUR blood and guts.
AND, don't you EVER, EVER, write one single line for SOMEONE ELSE.”
― Madeline Sheehan

“I was a small man in a big world I didn’t understand. A fool and a fraud. A gambler whose luck had run out. I was a meaningless ball of thoughts and fears with no control over the way my life unfurled.
But with her, I wasn’t afraid.”
― C.D. Reiss, HardBall

“That all you got?” “‘The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”
― C.D. Reiss, HardBall

“Love is an ever-fixed mark. Be my ever-fixed mark. Be my north star.”
― C.D. Reiss, HardBall