Alex Michaels > Alex's Quotes

“Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
”
― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy

“The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”
― Alessandra Torre

“A gentleman holds my hand.
A man pulls my hair.
A soulmate will do both.”
― Alessandra Torre

“When she’d stepped back into my life, I’d seized the moment. I’d carpe’d the fucking diem.”
― Meghan March, Beneath This Ink

“I refuse to be anyone's mistake. If anything, I'm a goddamned privilege.”
― Meghan March, Beneath the Truth

“Because guidelines are made to broken. Like rules. Like people.”
― Annika Martin, Prisoner

“Dear future wife…” He smirked in a way that made me want to beg for mercy. “If you think you’re going to give me trouble, think again. I invented trouble. I stir it, I mix it, I fucking fix it. Don’t try my patience, because you’ll discover I have absolutely none.”
― L.J. Shen, Sparrow

“You’re always on my nerves, Dex. You’re practically a medical condition at this point.”
― Emma Hart, Miss Mechanic

“In the words of a rap song my neighbor used to play on his boombox when I was a kid: Hold up, wait a minute.”
― Mariana Zapata, Under Locke

“True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”
― Wisława Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

“I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.”
― Stephen Dunn

“I’ll always deny that I kissed her.
I was just whispering into her mouth.”
― Stephen Dunn, Loosestrife

“I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.”
― Stephen Dunn, Different Hours

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

“This is the time and place
 to be alive:

when the daily furniture of our lives
 stirs,
when the improbable arrives.
Pots and pans bang together

in celebration, clang
 past the crowd of garlic, onions, spices,
fly by the ceiling fan.

No one is looking for the door.

In all this excitement
I'm wondering where

I've left my feet, and why


my hands are outside, clapping.
”
― Imtiaz Dharker

“When you’re obsessed with something for so long and finally obtain it? It feels like coming home to God. And nobody gives up their fucking spot in Heaven.”
― Danielle Lori, The Maddest Obsession

“He looked at the dessert in my hands as though he’d never tried sugar before. He nodded toward it. “Chocolate?” “Arsenic.” “My favorite.”
― Danielle Lori, The Maddest Obsession

“Handsome in the way rough palms muffle screams, the way people bow to kings, and most of all . . . the way an angel falls from grace.”
― Danielle Lori, The Darkest Temptation

“You're wearing the fuck-me look," he drawled.
"And that would be because you're so extremely fuckable," I shot back. "Waking up to you is like...presents on Christmas morning."
His mouth curved. "For your convenience, I'm already unwrapped. Batteries not required.”
― Sylvia Day Crossfire Trilogy, Entwined with You

“You’ve tempted me for the last time, brat.”
― Jessa Kane, Preacher Man

“Wars fought over a face like this,” he murmured like he was talking to himself, my heart stopped beating and his thumbs moved lightly across my cheeks. “A man would work himself into the ground for it, go down to his knees to beg to keep it, endure torture to protect it, take a bullet for it,” his eyes came to mine, “poison his brother to possess a face like this.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“Babe, your clothes. Shit. But you work ‘em and you do because you’ve got one serious fantastic body, your hair is even better and your face is a face that launches a thousand hard-ons.”
― Kristen Ashley, Knight

“He carried himself like a guy who lived in his whole body. Like every molecule was under his control. I lived in exactly 12% of my body. I wasn’t even sure what my hair was doing.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Bad Neighbor

“This is where I lived – she lived there, too. I could see it in her face. Her eyes. The way she carried herself.
In the place between what we wanted and what we had.
And this is where all the pain lived.”
― Molly O'Keefe, Bad Neighbor

“Woman, if you don’t already know that you’ve been on my mind every day for the last six years, I got no clue how to communicate that to you. Now that I’ve had you, that shit has not changed. It’s just got worse.” My back straightened and I started glaring. “Worse?” “Worse,” he confirmed on a downward jerk of his chin. “Now it’s not every day. It’s every hour. I don’t fight it, every minute. Fuck, every second, I don’t keep it in check. Every second, I’m thinkin’ of you, thinkin’ of gettin’ shit done, but only so I can get back to you.” That was very, very sweet. I was still pissed. And this was because I got nothing from him, not one thing for a month! “You didn’t tell me that, Deacon.” “I fuckin’ did, Cassidy.” “When?” I snapped. He leaned toward me and shot back, “Every moment I was with you.”
― Kristen Ashley, Deacon

“It's a beautiful war, baby." He dipped so close, the tips of our noses brushed but his eyes never left mine. "And I...just… won.”
― Kristen Ashley, Deacon

“I’m the king of the jungle. I’m the predator.”
“Does that make me your prey?”
“That makes you my queen.”
― J.M. Darhower, Monster in His Eyes