With or Without Him Quotes

“While you let those scars affect what you do, you’re allowing your punishment to continue. It’s done. You need to move on. Shit, that was brilliant advice. I just wish I could follow it myself.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“ 'I've been privileged to occasionally hear you sing in the shower and thought--what a voice. With a reasonable amount of training, it might actually be a voice I could listen to for more than a few minutes without getting a migraine.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like the piece of trash he was. He’d never be loved. He didn’t deserve that either.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“He loved the raw strength of Haris, his edge of desperation, the need he couldn’t hide.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“ 'You came to mean more and more to me, and I could no sooner have turned away from you than stop the earth spinning. I thought, if this ends with me broken, so be it. But as every day passed, I thought: he won't break me, he loves me and one day, he'll tell me. But you didn't because you don't.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“ 'A hundred and seventy two multiplied by thirteen,' Tyler gasped.

'Two thousand two hundred and thirty six.'

'You're not supposed to bloody tell me. I'm trying to distract myself.' He opened one eye and glared at Haris. 'How come you can still think straight? How come you can work it out that fast?'

'Good at maths, good at multi-tasking, just good.'

Tyler groaned. 'Well, see if you can count to ten before I come. Anything over ten is a miracle.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“ 'Time to live dangerously. We're having pancakes.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“If there’s something wrong, tell me so I can try to put it right. You just gave me an amazing blowjob which should have kept me smiling for days and now you’ve made me feel like a fucking whore.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“But no one gets access to the parts of me I keep private. So don’t think you’re going to know me, to understand me. It won’t happen. You’re buying my body not my life.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“Tyler’s lips curved in a smile and Haris understood he couldn’t keep a guy like him. Tyler was wild and beautiful, and he’d get bored and want to leave, unless Haris made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“Words are cheap.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“Being honest might be painful but it's rarely the wrong thing to do.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“He'd learned early on in life the advantage in hiding the way he felt. It kept him safer and was often less painful.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“With me or without me?”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him