Where Loyalties Lie Quotes

“I love you so much it hurts.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“There was something about knowing the person you loved was near, but just out of your reach, that felt far more disturbing than had they been totally unreachable.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“You’re it for me,”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I think our paths were meant to cross. Denying that felt painful and unnatural,”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“It hit me today that I need to listen to my heart. Even though what you do scares me, I can’t imagine ever being with someone else. You’re it for me, Tamir. I love you, and every day without you was more painful than the day before.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“Once I gave in to my feelings and admitted there was only one man for me, I felt like everything else clicked into place, like a Rubik’s Cube that couldn’t be mastered until I’d completed the precise number of rotations.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“Tam was bolder than life itself. No dentist or salesperson or architect could ever compare to a man who tested the limits of life. No man could compare, and I was an idiot for even entertaining an alternative. I didn’t just love Tamir in spite of his job; I loved him because of it. I loved him because he ravaged an army to bring justice to his sister’s death. I loved him because he was the type of man who had lifelong friendships and the kind of heart that would go cross-country to help a woman in trouble. He would argue his actions were much more selfishly motivated, but I didn’t believe it. He was genuinely a good person, looking to make the world a better place, and I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to be a part of him.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“It wasn’t nearly as fun, but it was the responsible way to respond. Acting like an adult sure did suck sometimes.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“My life isn’t fairy tales and rainbows. I’ve lived in the shadows and seen my share of evil, but if it all had to happen for me to be right here at this moment with you, I wouldn’t change a thing.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“In my brand of justice, there is no judge or jury, but I accept that risk in the hope that I can help equal out the scales. It’s too easy for evil to prevail and for the world, as a whole, to look the other way. Someone has to get dirty to truly make a difference.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“Like a cracked glass that couldn’t hold water, he sealed those cracks and made me a stronger person.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“Your perseverance and strength are the fucking sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. You’re optimistic in the darkest of circumstances, and your passion for life is inspiring.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“Between that bitch, Fate, and her bestie, the Grim Reaper, I never stood a chance. Better to face the music. To turn and fight, rather than cower like a fucking dog. I was just glad I was able to take out some of the evil in the world while I had the chance.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“In such a short amount of time, my treacherous heart had latched onto him. He’d slipped into my bloodstream, like oxygen bonded with my own blood, until there was no eradicating him from my system.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“Emily’s face crumpled with agony, and I was glad. It was raw and pure and spurred on her anger. Like a living, breathing phoenix, she rose from the ashes. Her transformation from scared to broken to rebuilt lasted only a handful of seconds, but they were glorious to behold. Her ferocity was breathtaking.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“That was the saddest thing about betrayal. It never came from your enemies. It was the people you cared about the most who could cut you the deepest, and I felt that knife, jagged and sharp, pierce straight into my heart.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of seeing my heart break, but a person could take only so much pain without it bleeding onto the surface.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“How could I ever escape you? You’re everywhere. You’re in my head and under my skin.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“She peered up at me, so brave and uninhibited. There was fear there, but she was too strong to let it bend her to its will. A stubborn reed standing tall in a raging river.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“There had been so many lies between us, and she had every right to hate me.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I didn’t know what else I could do to redeem myself in his eyes but to lay my life in his hands. It was the ultimate sacrifice, and the one I made by allowing him to take me back to San Antonio. No more running. No more lies. Either Tamir would kill my uncle to keep me safe, and we’d have a chance at a life together, or my uncle would kill me and put an end to the ordeal. One way or another, it would be over.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I need you to trust me,” I whispered against her lips, well aware that I was lying to her just like she had lied to me. She nodded, her gaze hardening. “Promise me, if I do this, you’ll help me kill him.” I’d spent more than a decade perfecting my ability to deceive, so when I smiled and lied to her face, there wasn’t the faintest hint of uncertainty. “You have my word.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“grief wasn’t based on logic.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I respected her. And if I had any hope of her respecting me in return, I needed to tell her the truth. Tell her about the bounty. If I was walking away from her, she ought to know there was a price on her head so she could protect herself.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I was no Prince Charming. I didn’t know what I was to her, but regardless, I felt protective of her. It was excruciatingly fucked up. I had lied to her, led her away from her home on false pretenses, and now, I wanted to get in her pants? I could honestly say I was walking a very fine moral line—one I had been all too eager to judge others for crossing in the past. At the very least, I needed to admit that I had feelings for the woman and that I wasn’t going to be collecting her bounty. Nothing was deplorable enough about her to justify the price on her head.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I’d been involved with plenty of sexy women in my life, but no one compared to Emily. The way she ran her hands through my hair. The rub of her legs against mine. Even something as simple as a haircut had felt borderline pornographic.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“To build something with him under a false pretense. It felt wrong, dirty. Yet I couldn’t make the words form on my lips to admit the final truth.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“When our gazes would collide, it was a hit of heroin straight to my bloodstream. Exhilarating. Powerful and disorienting. Like the bindings that held me to the earth were stripped away, and I might float off into the sky forever. I wanted this man so badly that my muscles ached with need.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“the thing that ate at me the most was my suffocating guilt over lying to Tamir. I was falling for him more and more every day, allowing him to help me under false pretenses. It made me feel like I couldn’t breathe.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie

“I was turning twenty-seven in a shack in the woods, hiding out to stay alive.”
― Jill Ramsower, Where Loyalties Lie