Lead Me Not Quotes

“You’ll miss out on some amazing things in life if you can’t look past your nose to see the beauty that’s out there in the most unconventional places. And complexity isn’t ugliness. It’s the complication that makes it worth it,”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Love was insanity at its most beautiful—a madness of desperation and desire that made the most improbable choice possible.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“This girl did something to me that made me feel things I wished I didn’t.
Guilt, shame, the desperate fucking need to be with her all the time.
But I realized there was good stuff too. She made me feel like a little kid on Christmas morning every time I knew I was going to see her. She filled me with anticipation and something else entirely – a desire to be something better.
And that made me both want to run as fast as I could in the other direction and to hold on to her with everything I had.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Aubrey’s name flashed bright in the dimness. Like a beacon. Or my salvation.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“If bullshit were music, you’d be a big brass band,”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“My feelings for Maxx were causing me to make decisions I never would have made in the past. I was forgetting about everything that had mattered to me, potentially throwing it all away to save a boy I was pretty sure didn’t want to be saved.
Love made us stupid.
Love made us blind.
Love could incapacitate us and leave us powerless.
And love could also make everything better.
I couldn’t let myself think anything less.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Why can’t you just be Maxx Demelo? I kind of like that guy,” I said, cupping my hand behind his neck.
Maxx smirked, a ghost of the smile I was familiar with. “I can be so much more for you. I want to be everything you could ever want.”
… “I just want you, I told him, hoping he heard me.”
“And I wand you, Aubrey. All of you. Every tiny, perfect part. I want you to belong to me, only to me, so that you’ll never leave. Please don’t leave,” he whispered, a choking plea.
God, how could I deny him anything? He was practically shoving his heart into my hands, insisting that I take it. He wasn’t giving me a choice. And even if I had been given one, I knew the decision I would make. I would hold on to him – his heart, his soul – with everything I had.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Maxx, let me help you,” I begged, knowing I was slowly climbing over his wall.
His hands were around me in an instant, pulling me to his chest. I could hear the thudding of his heart beneath my ear. “You already are,” he said, his voice vibrating in my head.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“You need to know that if you decide to do this with me, I’ll never be able to let you go. Not ever.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“I knew I needed Aubrey. I needed her in the worst way possible. I was selfish and frantic, and I honestly didn’t care if I took her to hell with me because she would make the trip the sweetest thing I had ever experienced.
She was mine.
And I’d never let her go.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Don’t leave me,” he whispered, his words making me shiver.
I covered his hands, which held my face, with mine and stared up into eyes that pleaded with to me to stay. “You scare me,” I told him honestly.
He leaned down and rested his forehead against mine. He took deep, raspy breaths. “I scare myself,” he said.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“It’s like that club, just a delusional waste of time. Sure, it looks pretty, but it only hides a heart that’s rotten to the core,”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Love made us stupid. Love made us blind. Love could incapacitate us and leave us powerless.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“That boy was bad for the heart.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“I noticed then. When it didn’t matter anymore.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“I had an addictive personality, and I craved, I desired, I needed.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“He tasted like popcorn, cherry gummy bears, and every decadent, forbidden thing. He tasted like bad choices.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“I’ve found my way into hell, and wanting salvation is the only thing that keeps me going.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“What were you thinking, spending your evening at Hepatitis Central?”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“It was something else entirely to sit in a circle and hear their stories firsthand, to listen to strangers spill their guts as they shared how close they had come to losing it all. I knew that would make it all so very, very real.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“Guilt. Fear. Panic. Even love . . . it was all gone. All I had was . . . this. And for now, that was enough.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not

“she was my nirvana.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Lead Me Not