Effortless Quotes

“But, if for some reason we're not closer, if something has gotten between us, please, I'm begging you…don't give up on me. Stay. Stay with me. Work it out with me. Just don't leave me…please.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“..."you finally get it."...
... "get what?"...
"That I'm yours... that you can take me... anywhere, anytime, anyway. That you own every peice of me.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Loving you, Kellan, is so easy, it's effortless."

His smile matched mine, then I frowned and sighed "Trusting you...that's the hard part”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“but what it all boils down to is three words that don’t mean nearly enough… I love you.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“I love you more. I love you enough to let you go and live your dream." I tilted my head and shrugged. "Don't you see....? I love you more."

He smiled softly and I brushed some hair off his forehead. Running the backs of my fingers down his cheek, I whispered, "And, yes, I will miss you, more than you could possibly imagine, but I know that you have to do this Kellan. And you know it too."

Stubbornly he shook his head. "No, I know that I have to be with you. Everything else is just .... details.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Nothing in the world was as beautiful to me as that tattoo, except the man bearing it.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“I'll still be with you every night, Kiera. Every night, no matter where I am, crawling into bed with you. Our bed will be a lot bigger, miles wide, but it will just be you and me inside it.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“I know that I have to be with you. Everything else is just...details.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“I wanted...to own you. I wanted a part of me in you." He cringed. "I wanted to mark you, make you mine.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Are you about to have sex in my bathroom?"
Without missing a beat, Kellan responded with, "Yes," and started closing the door.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Don't leave me," I begged, when I found air to speak. Kellan wrapped his arms around me just as tight. Voice cracking he murmured, "I won't...I'm yours, Kiera, for as long as you want me." Pulling back I cupped his face. "Forever, I want you forever.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“And he was the reason I felt it. His gaze, his touch, his smile, his laugh, no one had ever made me feel... worshiped... quite like he did.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on...much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day.
Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life.

And that was the biggest load of crap that I’d ever been taught in school.

Truth was, time did fluctuate. It was easy to lose hours or even days in a blink of an eye. Other times, it was a struggle to get through a mere hour. It ebbed and flowed as relentlessly as the
tides, and just as powerfully too. The moments that you wanted to last forever were the ones that were washed away all too soon. The moments that you wanted to speed up, were slowed down to a snail’s pace.
That was the truth of the matter.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Not looking up at me, his smile widened. “I’m reading your porn.”

Smacking his foot as I walked by, I scoffed, “That’s not porn…it’s romance.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“His voice was melted sex. Yes, melted...sex.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“You have any…nicknames?”
Kellan gave me a charmingly crooked smile. “None that I’ve given myself, but from what I’ve heard said in the bedroom, it would probably be something like, ‘The Oh-God-yes-harder-faster-don’t-you-dare-stop-yes-fuck-me-now-you’re-freaking-amazing Machine.” He shrugged. “But that’s kind of a mouthful.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“You wouldn't think sex could actally be a workout, but if done right...”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Without the bitter the sweet aint as sweet”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“You’re not just a girl he’s seeing. You’re THE girl. You’re it for him. I see it in his eyes when he looks at you … He’s completely, madly, deeply in love with you, and he wants a lifetime with you.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“He nodded and leaned down to kiss me. I let him, Dad be damned.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“I didn't actally sleep naked. Not unless he was there to put me to bed that way.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Looking down at me, Kellan raised an eyebrow. “Did your dad buy you the squeakiest bed in the world on purpose?”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“I know that I’ve become one of those spouting, love-sick idiots, but what it all boils down to is three words that don’t mean enough…I love you.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“My day isn’t complete until I’m deep inside you. Your body wrapped around mine is the only way I feel whole. But don’t think it’s just sex and a physical response to you that I’m feeling. It’s not…it’s so much more. You’ve opened me in a way that leaves me bleeding, vulnerable. Being with you, making love to you, it only solidifies what I feel for you. I know that I’ve become one of those spouting, love-sick idiots, but what it all boils down to is three words that don’t mean nearly enough…I love you.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“Yeah, I’m having a girl.” She shook her head. “There’s just no way I’d put another Griffin on this earth.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“-You finally get it. -Get what? -That I'm yours. That you can take me anywhere, anytime, anyway. That you own every piece of me..”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless