Riley Edwards > Quotes

“If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please purchase your own copy. So, live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. ~ Chief Tecumseh Blurb A woman who betrayed her county.”
― Riley Edwards, Redeeming Violet

“I’ll be right outside.” Before I could change my mind, I left the conference room and walked right into Joel. “Damn, boy, you’ve got it bad.” He chuckled. “What are you talking about?” On an exhale he shook his head as if he was irritated, but the smile told me he was anything but. “I’m changing your name. You’ve been upgraded from Boy Wonder to Glass. You’re in a room full of men that not only are trained to crawl into your head and extrapolate any and every emotion, but we are men. Dude, we see right through you. You’re not hiding shit. From the moment that woman entered the building, you’ve been hovering. Shit bro, I think we have some bubble wrap in the supply closet if you’d like to wrap her up.”
― Riley Edwards, Saving Meadow

“Kipling wrote, ‘Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies. He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild, wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.’.”
― Riley Edwards, Saving Meadow

“was a twenty-six-year-old woman. There was nothing wrong with what I was feeling toward him. And I’d also made up my mind to stop over-thinking everything.”
― Riley Edwards, Saving Meadow

“2”
― Riley Edwards, Nixon's Promise

“I started to understand why when someone dies, we call it loss. It’s more than the loss of their physical presence. It’s the loss of time, the loss of what was to come, the loss of all the tomorrows. We don’t lose the memories; we lose the future. That’s the tragedy, that’s the loss.”
― Riley Edwards, Cooper

“Damn,” Alec mumbled.
“What?” I hated that my voice sounded so weak but the way Alec was looking at me was freaking me out.
“Didn’t think it was possible for you to be any more beautiful, but woman, when you laugh, you light up the room.”
― Riley Edwards, Alec's Dream

“wasn’t big, but she wasn’t thin,”
― Riley Edwards, Jameson's Salvation

“should”
― Riley Edwards, Tarnished

“and”
― Riley Edwards, Jonny's Redemption

“I started to understand when someone dies, we call it loss. It's more than the loss of their physical presence. It's the loss of time, the loss of what was to come, the loss of all the tomorrows. We don't lose the memories; we lose the future. That's the tragedy, that's the loss.”
― Riley Edwards, Cooper

“stupid,”
― Riley Edwards, Chasing Honor

“I started to understand why when someone dies, we call it loss. It's more than the loss of their physical presence. It's the loss of time, the loss of what was to come, the loss of all the tomorrows. We don't lose the memories; we lose the future. That's the tragedy, that's the loss.”
― Riley Edwards, Cooper

“Exsanguination.” I listed”
― Riley Edwards, Saving Meadow

“Friends are not impositions. They are gifts. And when a friend is struggling and you are given the opportunity to lend a hand—whether that be by listening, advising, or offering financial help, that gift blossoms into something richer.”
― Riley Edwards, Dangerous Games

“Outside looking in is easy, isn´t it? It´s not so easy when you´re battling the thoughts and they´re taking over.”
― Riley Edwards, Conquered

“You’re more than Quinn’s man. You’re more than Jackson’s friend who hangs around. You’re family. You’re my son, you’re Levi, Clark, and Lenox’s nephew. Being one of us means you’ll never be left behind to sort yourself alone. We will always have your back. I’ll repeat that as many times as you need, as will they.”
― Riley Edwards, Keeping Quinn

“scrambled off his lap.”
― Riley Edwards, Jameson's Salvation

“FEAR had two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. I’d lived my life choosing the latter. I’d never allowed fear of the unknown to stop me.”
― Riley Edwards, Thaddeus

“And what made everything worse was he’d been semi-right. Not that I lacked experience, because I didn’t. I had more time on the water than every man on the team Weston had put together, including the members of the Coast Guard.”
― Riley Edwards, Weston's Treasure

“And [your scar] means you're alive.”
― Riley Edwards, Saving Meadow

“hoping”
― Riley Edwards, Finally Free

“Now she was being held hostage by a group of drug traffickers and as much as Weston wanted to say I told you so, he wouldn’t. At least not until Silver was safely back at his house, under his watch and protection. Something else she was going to pitch a fit about”
― Riley Edwards, Weston's Treasure

“Too many people think that when something doesn’t work it’s a failure, instead of realizing the experience was a lesson. The only failure is when you don’t do anything. When you sit on your ass and expect the world to hand you what you want. And I have a feeling you’ve never sat around a day in your life.”
― Riley Edwards, Jameson's Salvation

“He would always tell me, “Laura, I will give you everything you need, very little of what you want, and you will work for the rest.” I have never forgotten the lessons he taught me. God damn, I miss that man.”
― Riley Edwards, Nightstalker

“We have a future to plan and a present to live.”
― Riley Edwards, Free

“A child´s love is the most precious gift a mother can ever receive. A child's love is given unintentionally. It is pure and given without reason and is the most extraordinary honor, yet it is the most fragile love there is. It is the easiest to damage and the hardest to repair.”
― Riley Edwards, Conquered

“lived. “A friend’s house?”
― Riley Edwards, Chasing Honor

“Any man not reading these books was missing out—big time. And the part they were missing out on was the front row look into the way a woman’s mind worked. And if you read enough of these books, by enough authors, you gained important knowledge about the kind of intimacy women craved. And newsflash: most of the time it wasn’t sexual but emotional.”
― Riley Edwards, Dangerous Games

“didn’t”
― Riley Edwards, Holden's Resurrection