Dirty Headlines Quotes

“I don’t think I’m much of a father figure, but if you want kids, we’ll have kids,” he’d told me. “Hell, if you want rabies, we’ll catch it together. Make a day of it.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“And this is the part they don’t tell you about losing a loved one to cancer: They’re not the only people being eaten alive. When they get it, you get it. The cancer nibbles away at your time with them, feasts on the happy moments, feeds off every second of bliss. It devours your paycheck and savings. It nourishes itself on your misery and multiplies in your chest, even if you don’t have it.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“If Célian met chivalry in a dark alley, he would beat it to death, then find its sister, generosity, and kill her too. “I”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“But falling into the wrong hands is just as bad as crashing into nothing.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“in order to learn how to love, you first need to learn how to live”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“I wanted him to swallow me whole, like a Venus flytrap—clamp his jaw and absorb every inch of me. Touch me. Fill me. Drown me in your poisonous kisses. Let me die from your venom, buried under your sinful skin.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“We were both drowning, and when we were together, it felt like I was coming up for air.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“How had this guy not been assassinated yet? He was a walking, talking personal offense.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Hey, Jesus? Did you send me someone to get over my obsession with Célian Laurent? “Girl, I’m not even talking to you after the last few weeks.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“There was only one problem with the fact that my heart was so dreadfully, unexpectedly normal. Somewhere along the way, it had stopped being mine.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“I laughed bitterly. "I can't fall in love Celian. I'm broken.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“She’d kiss the tips of her fingers and press them against my heart "
"He scowled. “The fuck you doing, Brooklyn girl?”
“Kissing your pain away,” I whispered, not wondering,even for a second, how he knew where I lived, “Manhattan prince.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Célian, do you give a fuck? Not even a half. Not even a quarter. Minus three fucks, and still counting.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“All I’m saying is he’s like a half-priced facelift in an unregistered clinic in Eastern Europe. I would still do it, even knowing it’s deadly.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Organs, Jude, are like people. They need company, a backup to rely on. That’s why we have lungs, tonsils, hands, legs, fingers, toes, eyes, nostrils, teeth, and lips. Only the heart works alone. Like Atlas, it carries the weight of our existence on its shoulders quietly, only rebelling when disturbed by love.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Sometimes when I get off by myself, I think about Noah from IT.” I had no idea who Noah from IT was; I just knew he was newly unemployed. I slapped her ass again, and this time bit her earlobe—not gently—for good measure. “Give me his full name,” I growled. She laughed, throwing her head back. “There’s no Noah in IT. I mean, maybe there is. But I don’t know him.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Very little makes sense when Chucks is not around. This is the part where I should say something romantic and profound—that you're my beginning, middle, and end. But I don't even know what that shit means. All I know is the very idea of moving to the other side of the country was enough to make me kidnap your ass, and not in the sweet, joking way.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“I looked down and stared at a chocolate cube slowly melting in my hand, gluing my forefinger and thumb together. “I think I wanted to marry Milton just so I’d have someone to catch me in case I fall. You know?”

He stuck his hand in my hair and leaned down to kiss my forehead. “I do. But falling into the wrong hands is just as bad as crashing into nothing.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Happiness was something you were eager to share. It was pain you wanted to keep private.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Life was too short to deprive yourself of spending time with those you love, something I'd learned the hard way.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“No one is as deaf as the one who refuses to listen.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“This is going to end badly,” I murmured, not even sure if he could hear me.
We slid into the elevator, and he pushed the second floor button, smirking. “But we will have one hell of a ride.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“We sewed our oats, and now it’s time to come back. To us.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“This pussy is mine no less than it is yours.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“worrying about people who are malicious robs you of your power and purpose—”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Rischiavamo entrambi di annegare e, quando eravamo insieme, era un po’ come riemergere e riprendere fiato.”
― L.J. Shen, The lovepost

“«Gli organi, Jude, sono come le persone. Hanno bisogno di compagnia, di un appoggio su cui poter contare. Per questo abbiamo polmoni, tonsille, mani, gambe, dita delle mani e dei piedi, narici, denti e labbra. Il cuore è l’unico a lavorare da solo. Come Atlante, sorregge sulle sue spalle il peso della nostra esistenza senza far rumore e si ribella soltanto se l’amore lo disturba.»”
― L.J. Shen, The lovepost

“I can’t fall in love, Célian. I’m broken.” “Good. Let’s be broken together, then.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“My heart was a lonely hunter. Tonight, I’d let it feast.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Judith.'

The commanding tone found its way straight to my core, making my stomach swirl with delicious heat. Jesus Christ, what was he doing here?

Jesus: Didn’t you say something a while back about hitting Sunday Mass sometime in the next decade? Maybe you could take your foul-mouthed, engaged boss with you.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines