Love Notes Quotes

“You wanna know my secret now, for keeping anybody in my life? You have to treat me as well as I treat me. No exceptions.”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“lottery. What does she have that I don’t? She isn’t even that cute, Troy.” “See now you’re just lying,”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“Brother or not, I’ll beat his ass over you, don’t be starting no—”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“I pursed my lips, twisting them to the side in disbelief”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“I couldn't verbalize my feelings for Troy, no, but I certainly recognized that they ran deep, already. And that didn't scare me, it... fortified me. Maybe love and implicit trust for people who didn't deserve, hadn't earned it, was a scam. The idea that "family" gave toxic people unlimited access to you, that it was selfish not to engage, that you had no right to protect yourself from their energy... that stuff was the lie.

Not this.”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“If he wanted to, a man could see you in a hazmat suit and make you feel like you'd left the house in a string bikini for the sole purpose of his pleasure...”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“As soon as he decided he wanted to be with me on a serious level, he was ready to get me pregnant. No regard for what I wanted, how it affected my goals, my life. He wanted a baby, so that he could… course correct his own childhood.”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“Troy was a grown, single man, who could do what he wanted to do.

Sucked for her that I was what he wanted to do.”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“You wanna know my secret now, for keeping ”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“I don’t know… is it being stubborn, or is it being cautious?” “Why be either, when you could be happy? And I don’t mean temporary happiness. Not the kind where you know it’s not good for you, but you keep indulging anyway. I’m talking about deep happiness, where you’re blooming and blossoming and comfortable in your skin. And if there’s a certain someone who adds to that, instead of taking away, well, what the hell is wrong with that?”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes

“Then I would tell you that’s exactly how addictions work.”
― Christina C. Jones, Love Notes