Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin Quotes

“Not liking you is like fighting gravity.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Because if I remember correctly, your text message said, ‘I just kicked the hottest guy I’ve probably ever seen in the ass.’ And I asked you what he looked like and you texted me back, ‘Like a double bacon cheeseburger I’d take a bite out of.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I wouldn’t trade you for a million dollars, Mase.”
His reply was to beam at me.
“But for ten million, I’d work out some kind of visitation schedule”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“He was the end to my beginning.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“My brother had pulled one of our mom’s largest crucifixes off the wall and held it in the air at me while he hissed, “I banish thee!”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I had a brief, blurry memory of being in kindergarten, watching Mason and Eli shove Play-Doh into their mouths while Gordo and I watched in both horror and fascination.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“If I kept on looking at his bare chest any longer, I’d officially earn my Hussy Merit Badge.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Do you have any idea how easy it is to love you?”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“This huge, blinding forest fire of happiness filled my chest when I was around him.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Look like a hooker or look like a hooker. I went with the latter.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I was in love with a man who maybe loved me according to others, but maybe didn't love me the way that I wanted.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I would much rather take someone being blunt and hurting my feelings in the process, than let me down”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“If I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I’d be a real adult with real adult obligations in no time.
That notion alone had me wanting to puke.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I fell in love with the voice in the dark. No joke, no exaggeration. It was a pure, raw love.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Eli flicked me off over his shoulder as he walked a little further inside. “I’m gonna fart on your pillow and hope you get stink eye,” he muttered.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I hugged him even tighter. It was in that moment, when I was hugging him as if my life depended on it, that I recognized the strange, gooey emotion that had been floating around in my belly the last portion of the night. I liked Sacha.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Sassy, that lady totally wanted to scramble your eggs.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“My birthday? Is he gay?” Eli asked me with a confused look on his face.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I fist-pumped in my brain because sane people don’t do that in real life.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“The idea that someone, specifically Ronalda, would ask Sacha to quit on his dream and his incredible talent to fight off her loneliness, made my heart churn. His gift didn't deserve to fade away, and those selfish reasons made me burn. "I think someone who really loves you wouldn't ask you to give up what you love, what you were meant to do,”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“I hated people telling me that they would do something and then not. Disappointment was bitter.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“It was a testament to my lack of shit-giving that I was able to get all my things together in less than half an hour.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“So what's going on with you and your boyfriend?" Eli asked me right before he shoved a forkful of eggs into his mouth during breakfast the next morning.

I made a face in the direction of my plate before shooting a glance upward to find Gordo’s eyes on me, a smirk on his face.

"Mason?" I asked, going back to my food.

Eli made a gagging noise, elbowing me hard in the ribs. "I'm not gonna go into details on how disturbing it is that I say ‘your boyfriend’ and you automatically think of fucking Mase."

"He's always calling me his wife, or telling people I don't know that we're getting married," I replied, elbowing him back as hard as he got me. It was partially the truth… but mostly, I didn’t want to talk about the man who had been kissing my shoulder hours ago.

"I love Mase, but it'll be a sunny day in my asshole before you and him get together," he mumbled.

I snorted, biting into my biscuit. "Who the heck else would you be talking about?" I asked, but I knew. Oh, I knew damn well he was referring to Sacha.

Freaking Gordo snickered from across the table before putting his hands up in surrender when I glared at him. "I didn’t say anything."

"Sacha, Flabby. Sacha. Your boyfriend. Your snuggle bug." Eliza finally answered.

Suddenly the half-eaten biscuit on my plate needed to be eaten immediately. I shoved the entire piece into my mouth to avoid the conversation my brother was trying to edge into. I'd had talks about boys with Eli in the past, and they never ended—or started—well. "There's nothing going on between us. We're just friends."

Because we were.

Eli made a noise that sounded like “hmmph” deep in his throat. It was incredulous and disbelieving. Then he asked the question to prove it, his attention back on his band mate. "Gordo, do you think I'm blind?"

Gordo shook his head.

"Gaby, do you think I'm blind?" he asked.

"Not blind, just dumb.” I smiled.

He shot me a frown. A moment later, he threw his arm over my shoulders and started shoving his plate away with his free hand. "Flabby Gaby, that kid is in love with you."

In love.

With me?

I leaned forward and tried to sniff his breath. “Are you still drunk?”

But my brother kept talking before I could keep going. "Anyone with eyes and ears knows that guy thinks you shit out Lucky Charms."

Gordo and I burst out laughing.

"Is that a good thing?" I asked him.

Eliza shoved my face away with his palm, ignoring my commentary again. "And I think that you love him, too."

The noise that came out of my mouth sounded like a hybrid “moo” and squawk at the same time. "I—,” I slammed my mouth shut before opening it again with a sputter. “What?”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Getting hit in the face was... not cool. At. All. I know for a fact I squealed, grabbed my chin with both hands and possibly wailed, 'Why would you to that to me?' before collapsing to my knees on the ground.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“It was undeniable, bright and massive. It was a rainbow, a unicorn, a million-dollar lottery ticket and happiness incarnate all rolled into one thing.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“It was a blinding kind of thing, this unbelievable friendship—this love—I had with and for him. It was mine and it made me happy, and I reveled in it.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“No eclipse could overshadow the fact that I was absolutely in love with this guy, and it was the easiest and simplest thing in the world.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Umm… I didn’t have anything better to do, but when someone else said it, it pissed me off.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin

“Hell, better than watching Robby Lingus porn.”
― Mariana Zapata, Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin