Broken Juliet Quotes

“Everyone wears metaphorical masks during their lives. We all have different faces we show to work colleagues, or friends, or family. Sometimes we wear so many masks, we forget who we are underneath it all, but you have to find the courage to drop all the bullshit and revel your true self.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Despite all the things I would have changed about our journey, I’d never want a different destination. It’s always been you.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“let’s say people are books. Everyone who comes into our lives is given a glimpse of a few of our pages. If they like us, we show them more pages. If we like them, we want them to see the unedited parts. Some people may make notes in the margins. Leave their marks upon us and our story. But ultimately, the words that are printed—that represent us as a person—don’t change without our permission.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Yes, I love you. But you have no idea how many times I’ve wished I didn’t.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Hey, guys,” I say as we stop in front of them. “Have a good summer?”
“I had an awesome summer,” Jack says with his trademark smirk. “I got together with the ex-girlfriend I dumped more than a year ago because I’m a miserable fuck who never stopped pining for her. Oh, wait, that was you, Holt, wasn’t it?”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Loving you … is the stupidest, most selfish thing I’ve ever done, but I can’t stop. God knows, I’ve tried.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“When you love someone, they should appear beautiful to you, no matter what they look like.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“I did tell you to go fuck yourself”
“Yeah, but you didn’t mean it.”
“Yeah, I did.”
He frown. “Really? Wow. I totally misread that moment.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Humans are strange creatures. We lie every day, in a thousand different ways. The most common lie is, ‘I have read the terms and conditions.’ The second most common lie is, ‘I’m fine.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“There’s only so much you can watch someone sacrifice before you realize they’re changing who they are for you, and not in a good way.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“The thing about developing an addiction is that it happens so quietly, you don’t know how much trouble you’re in until it’s to late. It tiptoes through the rooms of your mind and body, gently inserting hooks and strings into every cell, until you don’t know where you end and it beginigs. And untangling that web is nearly impossible.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there’s a light from within.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“If our relationship was only based only on sex, do you think we’d have gone through all the shit we have? Sex is easy. It’s an itch that needs to be scratched, and as much as I love having sex with you, what I want from you isn’t easy. It’s messy and complicated, and it’s filled with so much fucking passion, I don’t have a clue how to cope with it all. But I find a way, because I love you. And love is hard, but it’s worth it. You’re worth it.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“He was my first true friend. My first love. First lover. The master of more pleasure than I knew existed, and the architect of more heartache than I thought I could endure …
I want him. Can’t want him. Need him. Hate needing him.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“It’s the subtle shudder when you hear the other’s person’s name. The times when you think about their smile and find it impossible to keep a straight face. It’s those small, precious moments you wish they were with you, because nothing means anything until you share it with them. More than a passion and love alone, it’s that internal alchemy that makes them part of you.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Scared people either shut down and avoid the thing they fear, or get angry at it and lash out.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Men are like vibrators. Just because they’re dicks, it doesn’t mean you can’t use them to have a good time.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“This is precious. This is love. This is something I’ll never take for granted, because I know how it feels to be without it.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“This is what makes us keep coming back, despite everything we’ve gone through. This is why I had to change, and why, despite how much I hurt you, you can’t walk away. The way we sink into each other. The way I can’t tell my heartbeat from yours. We have this perfect rhythm, whenever we’re together, and that’s the essence of us. It’s not just about sex. It’s about this.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“I invented chemistry with you. Everything else is just pretend.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Cassie, I want to be with you. Always. If that involves us being naked and making love in a hundred different ways, every day for the rest of our lives, that’s fantastic. If it involves us sitting and talking, wearing barbed wire and cast-iron body suits, that’s fantastic, too. I just want you. Now. A week from now. A year. A decade. Whenever you’re ready. What I want is never going to change. It’s you. Just you. Naked or clothed, doesn’t matter to me.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“He stops and turns to me. “Do you think people would stare if I threw you over my shoulder? Because I really want to do that. Then I can ogle your ass and just run.”
The look in his eye is a little manic. For a second, I think he’s going to do it. Then he spies the heavily armed security officer a few feet away.
“Excuse me, sir?” he says, and the guard looks at him. “Would it be acceptable to carry my girlfriend like a sack of potatoes in order to get out of here quicker and make sweet love to her?”
The guard’s mouth moves, but he resists smiling. “No, sir, that would not be acceptable.”
“Piggyback?”
“Nope.”
“Put her on a trolley?”
“No.”
“You’re no fun.”
“So my wife keeps telling me.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“The thing is, if people were books, Ethan would be a bestseller. A sexy, intelligent page-turner you’d find hard to put down, even after it reduced you to a sobbing mess.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“We just stand there for a while. Breathing each other in. Being. Still not fixed, but far less broken.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“She said people are too obsessed with conquering their fear when they should just learn to accept it and do stuff that scares them anyway.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Doesn’t the student council have anything better to do than decorate the shit out of everything? It looks like Jingly the Glitter Fairy jazzed all over the damn place.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Time is a fickle whore. Whenever you want it to pass slowly, it speeds up, and whenever you’re full of nervous impatience, it crawls like a sloth on sedatives.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Sometimes sex is the only thing that will bring a man to his knees. And sometimes, it does a girl good to know that after losing so much, she can occasionally win.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“I talk to God. A lot. I tell him Ethan’s name. A lot. Everything spins and flutters, and I alternate their names in tight whispers. “God … Ethan…”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet

“Just emotional? There’s no such thing. Emotions are nothing without a corresponding physical response. Adrenaline-fueled joy, heart-thumping fear, gut-churning loss.”
― Leisa Rayven, Broken Juliet