All the Missing Pieces Quotes

“Gratitude is a choice. Just like looking for the sun.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Who. The. Hell. Did. This. To. You?”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“The only thing that can cast out darkness is light.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“It’s a bad idea,” I rasped. “We’d be playing with fire.” Those ocean eyes sparked. “Then let’s watch it burn.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Because the moment you woke up and realized that you'd changed was the same one when you realized nothing would ever be the same”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Feel the same way about your smile. It twists more to one side than the other, but it just makes me want to memorize the shape.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“I’ll help, Chaos. But you are going to stay safe. No more putting your ass on the line.” I opened my mouth to argue, but Colt shut me down with a single look. “We aren’t taking chances. Not with you. Not ever.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“More tears fell. “Colt, you helped me find all the missing pieces. Even the ones I didn’t realize I needed.” He brushed his lips against mine, taking my tears with him. “Love you, Chaos.” “Love you, Law Man.” He searched my eyes. “Want to go make that permanent?” “Never been more ready for anything.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Colt met me in the shallows, as he always did, my feet sinking into the sandy floor, the earth closing over the tops of my toes. But I felt no panic. Only peace. Because I knew Colt would always lead me out of the shallows and into that bit of starlight we’d stolen for ourselves.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Haven’t you figured it out yet, Chaos? You’ve had me breaking all the rules since the day I met you.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Should’ve told you before now. You look beautiful. A kind of beauty that would make any man stop in his tracks. But it’s only matched by your fierceness.” Those brown eyes sparked gold. “Show no mercy, Chaos.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Ridley. The last woman in the world that should’ve been my comfort in all this. The one who was ripping all the wounds open again. But I was starting to see it was so she could heal the infection that had taken root there—one that had spread. One it felt like she’d gotten to just in time.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Being a rule breaker wasn’t anything new for me. So I ignored that we were in Colt’s place of work. That his subordinates were behind me. I slid my fingers through his, linking us together. I squeezed with everything I had. Because I wanted to tell him one thing. The only thing I’d never truly had but wanted so damn badly. That he wasn’t alone.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“As I stared at him, all I saw was weakness. The fear quaking through him. I couldn’t imagine someone like this doing the terrible things I’d linked together. But wasn’t that monster weak too? It was the ultimate weakness to dominate those less powerful than you. To sneak and drug and wound, to do so much worse. So maybe this was the exact face of the monster who’d been masked for so long.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“If I stay, will you help?” It was a barter, and I knew it. But I wasn’t above striking a deal. Those dark eyes of his swirled with different shades of shadow. “I’ll help, Chaos. But you are going to stay safe. No more putting your ass on the line.” I opened my mouth to argue, but Colt shut me down with a single look. “We aren’t taking chances. Not with you. Not ever.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“She bent and went fishing in the bag, pulling out a carton and handing it to me. As I took it, our fingers brushed, and a zing of something shot through me. Not electricity, nothing as simple as that for a woman as unique as Ridley. This was more. Like sparks detonating in a chain reaction through my bloodstream. Or a million and one nerve endings waking up after a century of sleep.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Be safe, Chaos. It’s going to piss me the hell off if you end up dead.” She grinned up at me. “You say the sweetest things, Law Man.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“hated the softness in her tone, the lack of fire. It made me want to wrap her in my arms and tell her everything would be okay, which was goddamned ridiculous. So instead, I strode out of the room and toward my own.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“And thanks to the full moon, I could see that the whole structure almost hovered over the lake it was set on. If I could’ve built the house of my dreams, it would’ve been this one.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“He was close. So close that scent of bergamot and cloves swirled around me, teasing and tempting. I found myself wanting to lean in, to close that distance between us and finally know what it felt like to have his lips pressed to mine. To know what he tasted like.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“As if Ridley had a radar for my emotions, her gaze cut to me. “Law Man,” she started cautiously. “You okay?” “Who. The. Hell. Did. This. To. You?”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“There wasn’t a damned thing I could’ve done to hold back from the pull of it. Like a siren’s song, it had me rounding the van in search of the source. If I’d been at sea, I would’ve easily crashed my ship on the rocks to get to it.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Parking my SUV, I shut off the engine and climbed out. And that’s when I heard the singing. The notes hit me square in the chest. It wasn’t that her voice was perfect; in fact, part of the charm was that it wasn’t. Those imperfections didn’t stop Ridley from singing full-out.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“I gave those people a voice. Making sure the world didn’t have any choice but to hear their stories.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“More than six hundred thousand people went missing every year in the United States, and while many were found, there were others who stayed gone. Ones who became forgotten by all but their nearest and dearest.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“That was the thing these monsters didn’t realize. They thought they were only ending one life, but it was so many more. The ripple effect of cruel violence that would live on for generations to come, all of us still breathing branded by it.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“Law Man,” Ridley greeted. “Chaos,” I returned. Those eyes sparked. “Chaos?” “Can’t say you don’t bring that in your wake.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“That was the thing about moving around; it was like hanging a new painting in your living room every couple of months, sometimes even more frequently than that.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“For all those who have lost someone they loved beyond measure. Don’t let the pain harden you. Let it become your reminder that you experienced the most beautiful thing this world has to offer.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces

“His words might not always be the best, but his actions always were. And I’d take actions over pretty lies any day.”
― Catherine Cowles, All the Missing Pieces