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“I want you. So much, I can’t think. Can’t breathe. I can’t do anything but want you.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“Just make sure you don’t go falling in love with me.” I scoff. “A little hard when I’m already in hate with you.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“Well, in the words of the great Olaf? Some people are worth melting for.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“Someone want to enlighten me, so I don’t get fucking lost in the middle of the mountains if I decide to take a nice stroll…and don’t end up throwing myself over a cliff?”
Sounds pretty fucking good right now. Actually scratch that and point me to the nearest death drop, thanks.”
― Follow the River
Sounds pretty fucking good right now. Actually scratch that and point me to the nearest death drop, thanks.”
― Follow the River
“There are far worse things in the world than falling in love, Aspen. No matter who it’s with.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“At the risk of sounding completely fucking corny or like a total sap, I’m happiest when you’re happy, Kee. It’s always been that way, always will be.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“Superstitions are pretty much the only thing I take as seriously as hockey. And this could be my last season. Yours too. I just wanna come out on top.” Or bottom. If he’d prefer it that way.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“If you put half as much effort in trying to make us work as you are in trying to rip us apart right now, we could be fucking unstoppable", he mutters softly. “We’d be everything.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“I dare you to let me love you the way you deserve to be loved. Wholly. Completely. And out in the open, where the world can see.” My throat constricts around the words, but I continue to push them out anyway. “I love you. I’m so stupidly in love with you. And I dare you to love me too.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“My entire body feels shredded and torn to pieces, the slab of muscle that used to be my heart most of all. But it still stumbles in my chest, trying to find a rhythm to beat to in this new existence I’ve found myself in.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water
“You’re a dream,” I whisper, my nose brushing his. “You’re a dream in the midst of my worst nightmare.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water
“How in the ever-loving fuck this guy gets me worked up with his presence alone is so far outside my IQ range, it’s laughable.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“during that infamous birds and bees talk—saying if you can’t talk about it, you shouldn’t be having it.”
― Don't You Dare
― Don't You Dare
“But hey, what doesn’t kill you just gives you seriously fucked-up coping mechanisms and one massive self-destruct button.”
― Caught Stealing
― Caught Stealing
“Seeing him like this, knowing I can’t do shit to ease his pain, take the burden of his sorrow and put it on my shoulders instead. It’s what you do when you care about someone. When they mean the world to you and you would do just about anything for them.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“I literally think I hate you sometimes.” Rather than allowing me to deny him, he grabs the back of my neck and hauls me in and takes what he wants. He kisses me hard, the kind that curls my toes, before whispering against my lips. “I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“Oh, suck my dick. Fucking douche.” I smirk and lean into him, allowing our proximity to work in my favor. “Whip it out. I’ll drop to my knees right here and now. Best head you’ll ever get, guaranteed.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“He’s every deadly sin wrapped in a single heartbreaking package.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“I’m trapped, completely at his mercy. And he knows it. “Fight me, baby. There’s nothing I want more.”
― Iced Out
― Iced Out
“Homicide is illegal, and the only person who’d help me hide the body now lives in New Jersey.”
― Fair Catch
― Fair Catch
“I’ve always been yours. I was yours even when I shouldn’t have been, Auden. I’m yours now, the moment we fucking met, and every single day in between.”
― Want You Still
― Want You Still
“But I was wrong, baby. I think I prefer the taste of your tears.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“So you need to take it or leave it, because I’m not changing for anyone. Not even you.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“Nothing pulls me from this nightmare. Nothing lets me escape from this reality.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water
“I didn’t want to fix you, only save you from your nightmares. Too bad I didn’t realize the real nightmare is you.”
― Follow the River
― Follow the River
“Until you, no one has managed to silence Shame’s screams. Even momentarily.”
― Never Will I Ever
― Never Will I Ever
“I pray I’m the only one who has to walk out of this hospital heartbroken.”
― After Rain Falls
― After Rain Falls
“I’m just glad it’s died down now. No more scandalous stepbrothers screwing each other in the midst of grieving their dead parents.”
― Head Above Water
― Head Above Water