JoDeen > JoDeen 's Quotes

“One of the Silent Brothers is here to see you. Hodge sent me to wake you up. Actually he offered to wake you himself, but since it's 5 a.m., I figured you'd be less cranky if you had something nice to look at."
"Meaning you?"
"What else?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Pulling the chair out for me, he invited me to sit.
I stood there wondering if I could sprint for the nearest exit. Stupid strappy shoes, I'd never make it.
He leaned in close and whispered in my ear, "I know what you're thinking, and I'm not going to let you escape again. You can either take a seat and have dinner with me like a normal date," he grinned at his word choice, "or," he paused thoughtfully then threatened, "you can sit on my lap while I force-feed you.”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“I want YOU to be the one wanting me first. Pushing me first. Kissing me first. Don't be careful with me," he said. "Because I won't be careful with you.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..." - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you."
He closed his eyes and pressed his head back into his pillow.
"I don't think I even breathe when we're not together," she whispered. "Which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?"
He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I have not yet elected to bestow the grace of my saliva upon another human being. I have never… kissed anyone.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
― Kelly Moran

“I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I’ll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I’m happy wasting every second of it on her.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.”
― Kelly Moran, Summer's Road

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.”
― Kelly Moran, The Drake House

“We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.”
― Kelly Moran, The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree

“I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“Sammy: "How do you comb your hair so the horns don't show?"
Cain: "Don't mind her. A house just fell on her sister.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of You

“He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn’t need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“He looks at you like you’re crème brûlée.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“New hair and clothes don't change ugly.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.”
― Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost

“Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did.”
― Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost

“I’ve seen this movie, you know. It always ends with them falling in love.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“Most of the time, life doesn't pass me by, it tries to run me over.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.”
― Kelly Moran, Give Up the Ghost