Crave Quotes

“But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Bottom line? As much as you
wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn’t going to be what you wanted.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Fucking lilacs. I'm the only immortal with allergies. I swear.' - Eddie, Crave”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?"
"Try a brick wall.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“You sure about this?" he asked in a guttural voice. "I get down on that mattress right now, I'm not stopping until I'm inside of you.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“He swiveled his head towards Eddie. "Tell me how to get over to the Four Lads. Do I have to die again?"

If he did, he had a Beretta on him and he knew what kicking the bucket from a gunshot was like. Snore.

"Don't bother." Adrian cracked his knuckles. "They're not going to tell you anything. They can't."

What the fuck? "I thought I worked for them."

"You work for both sides, and they've given you all the help they can."

Jim looked back and forth between the two angels. Each of them had the tight expression of a guy with a shoestring noosing up his balls.

"Help?" he said. "Where's my goddamned help?"

"They gave you us, asshole," Adrian snapped. "And that's all they can do--I've already gone over and asked them who's supposed to be next. I figured it would help you, you ungrateful bastard.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“One shot. That was all you got. - Isaac”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“The mind...the mind was the most powerful force for and against someone.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“You said you wanted to remember something.' His palms slid up to the top of her thighs and squeezed. 'So lie back and let me do my thing.'
-Issac Rothe, Crave”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“The bottom line is...if you were in the civilian population, you'd be a serial killer. Working for the government means you get to wave the American flag around when it suits you, but the truth is, you do what you do because you enjoy picking the wings off of flies. And everybody's an insect in your eyes.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Time to the face the music,”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“G'on now.' he murmured with that Southern drawl. 'Lie on back and let me take care of you. I promise to go slow...real slow.' - Issac Rothe, Crave”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Will you take me to the motherboard," he said, turning around to her. The and into your bed part he left off. What a gentleman. "Of course.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“A gust of wind went Nike across the flat landscape”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Closing his eyes, he made it about fifteen minutes before his tossing and turning rode those pj bottoms so far up his crotch he felt like he could cough flannel.

If he was doing the mattress and pillow thing, he usually slept naked and now he knew why.

This was f'in ridiculous.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“How do you like your eggs?" she said. "Hard or soft?"

"Hard," he bit out. "Why am I not surprised.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“the only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Isaac Rothe, Matthias”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“and Billy rolled in. “Thought you might like some wake-up.” Bingo,”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn’t going to be what you wanted.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“because crime, like illness and accidents, didn’t recognize any distinction between weekdays and weekends.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“It’s not about the things. It’s about your place in this world. It’s the space you declare as yours emotionally and spiritually.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“I’m not going to ask if you’re okay, because how could you be.” “Have you ever felt . . . like you don’t know your own life?”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“They had always been alike, in tune, of one mind. Tragedies, secrets, and lies, however, frayed even the closest of ties.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave

“Why did you come back?” she asked. “I never left.”
― J.R. Ward, Crave