Empower Quotes

“Love is all the small moments. It is what fills the quiet.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“And as soon as he was gone, I saw beyond, to where Lincoln stood, exactly where I'd seen him last, when I'd begged him to trust me.
And my heart shuttered to life.
Because he had.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, this room and me not know about it?”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“You don’t get it – you never will! You want to run towards the fire to save me even when I’m the one carrying the bucket of water. You can’t help
yourself!’
Lincoln threw his hands wide. ‘Because I fucking love you!”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“I breathe you. I live you. I love you”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“His words were so...Phoenix. A complication”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Am I not allowed to want your happiness because it conflicts with my own?”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“This will be for life. For eternity, human and beyond. More than any commitment, than any marriage. Violet, are you ready to marry me?”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“I need you to live for me”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Goodbye, lover”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“But I flinched midturn when, from behind, a hand, blazing hot, wrapped tightly around my upper arm. A voice I knew better than my own spoke quietly into my ear from the other side of the silk hood. “Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, this room and me not know about it?” I swallowed, frozen. I couldn’t turn to face him. I couldn’t lift my head. Even my soul was stunned.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Somehow I managed to pull back enough to confess, “I’m not sure it will work. I don’t know if I can ever be okay again. You need to know what you might be signing up for. My soul…the coldness…it might be too late. It—” He put a finger over my lips, silencing me. “How about you let me worry about that? You might be able to do a lot of extraordinary things. But, baby”—he smiled knowingly—“I was made for you, and I’m about to find all the little pieces. I’m going to search your entire body. Every. Single. Inch.” His smile grew just as my heart started to seize. “And I’m going to build the world a queen.” And then he set about doing just that.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“I found my life in the quiet. And all I could see and hear and smell and feel was you. Us.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“started to sit up, but his hand snaked around my stomach and pulled me back to him. “You should try to get some more sleep,” he said. “I can’t,” I said. “Not until this is over.” He sat up beside me, taking my hand in his and quickly kissing the back of it before suggesting, “Run?” The man knows me. I glanced out the small window. The sun was yet to appear on the horizon and rain fell lightly, but the wind had eased for now. I beamed. “Coffee first.” He laughed as he stood up and tossed me a T-shirt. “Coffee first.” And it turns out, even when the world might be about to end, a girl can still swoon.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Love is never lost—only ever waiting to be found.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Humans strive for love - it is the one thing they give the most and yet fear they receive the least.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.” Matthew 7:14”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Would you think me such a fool that you could be here, in this city, this building, THIS ROOM and me not know about it??”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“His words were so…Phoenix. A complication.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Who’s this dick?” Carter bellowed,”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“Then I’ll be sure to do my best to not disappoint,” he growled.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“She was pretty in a traditional way—”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“But at the time, my choice had been a simple one.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“I’d rather live on the other side of the world, cold and in constant agony, and at least know that somewhere you still exist, because I know for certain that if you’re with me - you’re as good as gone.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower

“I couldn't trust myself to slip up even once. No matter how much I wished I could look into his clear green eyes - the only place I'd ever found myself - one more time. Because once will never be enough. A lifetime would fall short.”
― Jessica Shirvington, Empower