Bethany Lopez > Bethany's Quotes

“What... Are you on strike from wearing deodorant now too? You smell like a boy's locker room after a wrestling match!”
― Bethany Lopez, Ta Ta for Now!

“When we got close to the door, I moved him to the side, so we couldn't be seen from the window, and I pulled him towards me by his shirt.”
― Bethany Lopez, Ta Ta for Now!

“Oh, hi, Ben," I tried to sound casual, but my head started pounding, my palms started sweating, and the butterflies were doing Zumba in my stomach.”
― Bethany Lopez, xoxoxo

“Meanwhile, Jess and I looked like we had rats burrowed in our hair and since we both fell asleep without taking off our makeup, we had racoon eyes to go with it - not exactly beauty queens.”
― Bethany Lopez, xoxoxo

“No one ever plans on hurting someone else, it just happens.”
― Bethany Lopez, Indelible

“The thought of getting pregnant again is terrific birth control.”
― Bethany Lopez, Indelible

“Women who were so skinny that their hip bones stuck out just pissed me off. If I wanted a bumpy ride I'd take my bike out to the train tracks.”
― Bethany Lopez, Indelible

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“When they're together, it's like putting a hurricane and a tornado in the same room - you can feel the tension. I didn't believe in the cliche of soul mates until I saw them together.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“She will be your destruction. She's not healthy."
"Then let her destroy me.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Please don't forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no set rules in life. You do what you have to do to survive. If that means running away from the love of your life to preserve your sanity, you do it. If it means breaking someone’s heart so yours doesn’t break; do it. Life is complicated — too much so for there to be absolutes. We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you’ll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves. Olivia has stopped rattling quite as much as she used to. Love is a God-given tool, she tells me. It screws things back in place that were loose, and it cleans out all the broken pieces that you don’t need anymore. I believe her. Our love has been fixing each other. I hope to only hear a tiny jingle when I shake her in a few years”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Leah: 'I thought you loved your husband.'
Olivia: 'I love yours too.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Let me carry you out. I'll never let you touch the ground. I was made to carry you, Olivia. You're fucking heavy with all of your guilt and self-loathing. But, I can do it. Because I love you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“I’m sorry, Olivia, for hurting you,” he said hoarsely and my heart heaved in my
chest. Why was his voice so gentle? Why wasn’t he screaming at me? I was the one
who did the hurting. It was me. My fault. My sin. My mess. “You will never see me again after today.” He paused and his next words struck me so deeply I would never recover from them. “I will love again, Olivia, you will hurt forever. What you’ve done is…You are worthless because you make yourself that way. You will remember me every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.” And then he left.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“What the fuck had I done, and how was I ever going to explain this to my wife?”
― Bethany Lopez, 8 Weeks

“The only man I'd ever loved, who I'd always trusted implicitly, had just made a mockery of everything I'd thought and felt over the last six years of our relationship.”
― Bethany Lopez, 8 Weeks

“No wonder you're so quick to give up... I thought we were in a partnership, Shel. I've never expected you to ask permission to do anything. I love you for who you are, and I want you to do what makes you happy.”
― Bethany Lopez, 8 Weeks

“Don’t pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out.”
― Dannika Dark, Twist

“There are few things in life that are worth waking up to: sex, the dark spices of freshly brewed coffee and bacon.”
― Dannika Dark, Sterling

“Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.”
― Dannika Dark, Impulse

“Fire should never be tempered in a female because that's what fuels her passion, causing it to ignite." He lifted my chin with his hand and stroked his thumb gently across my lips. "All a male can hope for is to be consumed by it until there is nothing left of him.”
― Dannika Dark, Impulse

“Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Tell me a truth, Senna."
"I don't know how."
"Then tell me a lie."
"I don't love you."
"The truth is for the mind," he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You’ve been silent your whole life. You were silent when we met, silent when you suffered. Silent when life kept hitting you. I was like that too, a little. But not like you. You are a stillness. And I tried to move you. It didn’t work. But that doesn’t mean you didn’t move me. I heard everything you didn’t say. I heard it so loudly that I couldn’t shut it off. Your silence, Senna, I hear it so loudly.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“We are all going to die, but I’m going to die first. In the very last second of my life, I will think of you.

Senna”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Senna: “Why are you here?”
Isaac: “Because you are.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You breathed life back into me. It was instinct for me to be there with you. I didn’t want to save you, I just didn’t know how to leave you.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein