Elisabeth Naughton Quotes

#1. How can you think that? How can you believe God would let us go through this hell?" "Because you have to think of the alternative. If it hadn't happened the way it did, you'd have been on that plane. You'd really be gone now. There'd be no second chances. There'd be no Reed.

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#2. Hello, boys," he said, reaching for the parazonium strapped to the small of his back. "You look a little lost. Let me direct you back to hell.

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#3. I want you to kiss me like you did at my house, to make love to me like you did at yours. I want to wake up with you every morning and go to bed with you every night. I want our kids and our life together. I want it all, but mostly, I just want you.

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#4. He grasped a bag of zip ties from the shelf.

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#5. You know what, Julia?" Mitch asked. "I love you. I even like you, a lot, which is pretty important to me because love is a requisite in families, liking each other isn't. But you're acting like a spoiled brat right now.

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#6. You know the difference between a brownnoser and a shithead, right, Isa?" Isadora frowned. "Depth perception.

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#7. Ella. Look at me." Her head tossed. Her fingernails dug into his forearms. But he didn't care. Sliding the fingers of his other hand into her hair, he forced her to face him. "Only you," he whispered when their eyes met. "You're it for me."
~ Tate

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#8. Pain isn't freeing. It's just one more reminder of what you've lost. And

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#9. Joke in book:
You know the difference between a brownnoser and a shithead, right? Depth perception.

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#10. Sometimes we spend way too much time questioning the gifts we're given instead of being thankful for them.

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#11. That you gotta go after the things you want, because they might not be there when you finally pull your head out of your ass and realize they're important.

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#12. Never question your ability or what destiny has called you to do. This is your Star Wars moment, my son. Stand up and do what you were meant to do.

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#13. Not trust. There is none.
Not honesty. Honesty is a farce.
And definitely not love. Love was the greatest ruse of all. Designed to trap and enslave and ultimately destroy.

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#14. For every reader, like me, who scheduled his/her classes around their favorite soap opera.

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#15. Still hate the water, bitch?"
"Wh-What?

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#16. Nice to see you again, querido. Her flat palms connected with his solid chest. She pushed hard, catching him off guard, knocking him right off his feet.

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#17. Shane, listen, I need a favor."
"Sure, anything." She was the only woman in the world who could draw those words from his lips.

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#18. Some nights, a woman just wanted to bash her brain against a wall to keep from screaming.

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#19. Nothing in life is static. The course your life takes depends on the choices you make.

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#20. He was doing the right thing. No matter how painful, no matter how upset she thought she was now ... in the long run, ending it here, before she learned the truth about him, was the only thing he could do.

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#21. Alecto was the oldest, unceasing in anger. Magaera was next, retaliator of jealousy, and Tisiphone, the last, regarded as the avenger of murder.

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#22. Your penguin. You know, penguins. They mate for life. Penguins are one of the only animals on the planet that do that, like humans. It's sweet. You've got yourself a little penguin, Uncle Mitch.

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