Ilsa Madden-Mills Quotes & Sayings

#1. The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~

#2. I'd like to pet that jungle cat, rub his silky fur and make him purr ... I slapped myself mentally. Jungle cat? Make him purr? What was wrong with me tonight?

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#3. Your scars are beautiful. It means you survived. It means you're here with me." He kissed my wrist, light as a feather - and changed everything about us. "It's my favorite part of you,

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#4. I'm the only one for you, just me. You're my bad girl. No one else's.

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#5. Being alone in a room full of people who never really looked at you didn't bother me. Or at least that's what I told myself.

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#6. Making something out of nothing made me feel like I was important, like I had value.

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#7. We think we're invincible, but we're not. One way or another, we're all placed six feet under.

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#8. Somedays will eat you alive. They're promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end.

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#9. I sat there, letting the idea of starting again soak in, finding beauty in the balance of life. We have ups and downs, and how we deal is up to us.

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#10. And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me.

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#11. I shrugged and took a page from the stupid girl book and flicked my hair over my shoulder.

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#12. His understanding of the theme of the book made me hot. Right then and there, I wanted to toss him down on the floor, crawl on top of him like the Jane Austen reader I was.

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#13. The truth is, trying not to want her made me want her more.

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#14. Italian food trumps ex-boyfriends every time,

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#15. You're beautiful," he said softly. Simple words. Heavy weight. "There's no reason for you to be jealous of her. You're everything she isn't, and I like it. A lot.

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#16. It felt good to be bad-nora

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#17. She licked her lips, and I ached to kiss her mouth. I wanted to lick it, nip it, suck on it; I wanted to own it. I wanted to give her a kiss she's never fucking forget.

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#18. Truth can be awful and even excruciating, but once it's released, it's like a bird that's been caged too long who finally flies to freedom. I felt a little like that. Free

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#19. Why did I want her so fucking much? Why couldn't I push her away like I did everyone else? Why couldn't I breathe when I saw her?

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#20. The sun may be gone, but the stars are still there, waiting, always giving you light.

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#21. Bad decisions can make some damn good memories!

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#22. We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done.

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#23. Fuck Briarcrest Academy, and fuck you all.

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#24. I can't forget the words you've never said.

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#25. As soon as forever is gone, I'll be over you.

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#26. If love is the answer, then I'm changing the question.

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#27. Some people think God puts difficult people in our lives for a reason, to make us better people as we sharpen ourselves on the knife of their shortcomings.

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#28. I'd like to sleep for a hundred years, wake up and try again.
-Nora Blakely

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#29. But this girl, she lived in a bubble, and seeing her out at a frat party was like spotting a unicorn.

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#30. This ... this means everything. We are everlasting. Fucking forever. I love you so much. Seeing my words for you on your body makes me insane for you.

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#31. Alright, the next pretty bird that walks through that door is up for grabs.

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#32. Why was he my Romeo, but I wasn't his Juliet?

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#33. Could you love me, love me, love me
Do it, please, fall for me.
Baby, give me one more moment,
Just one more moment with you.
~"Fly Away" by Leo Tate

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#34. Clarity happens to all of us when our heart jumps ship, and mine was no different.

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#35. A little saying I liked to live by: Keep your head, heels and standards high.

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#36. Behind every beautiful thing is a world of pain.

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#37. Love is a knife that cuts out your heart piece by piece, feeding it to the boy you love.

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#38. I came up for air. "It's you, always you, my Mr. Darcy." "I love you too, Elizabeth Bennett.

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#39. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.

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#40. favorite person. Whatever. I didn't care. Blake

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#41. You don't want me, Nora. I'll fuck you, and when I'm done, I'll leave you.

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#42. Trouble at two o'clock. Evil bitch and copycat cohort arriving in three, two, one ... annnd ... they're here.

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#43. If I want to fuck Cuba, then I'll enjoy every dirty moment. I'm not afraid of getting my heart broken Leo. There's not one there to break.

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#44. It hit me then, my epiphany. Death is a constant, but love? It is rare.

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#45. Big moments happen with the smallest actions, and sometimes it's not until later we connect the dots, but in that instant, I knew that somehow, someway Declan was going to own my heart.

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#46. She's stupid on a stick.

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#47. She was my queen and I wanted to be her king. I wanted to sit at the throne of her body and love her forever,

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#48. I didn't want to coast by anymore. I wanted some fucking happiness.

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#49. As if she sensed me, her eyes opened and when her green ones found mine, I swear, it felt like someone hit the pause button on the universe and she was all I could see.

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#50. Loving people hurt; losing them could destroy you.

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#51. Happiness is simply collecting and remembering all the good moments in your life ...

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#52. I fucking hated pity. It was a wasted emotion.

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#53. Happiness. I believed few people ever achieved it.

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#54. As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah.

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#55. LIFE IS CRAZY, and sometimes it totally veers off course. Seriously, sometimes it flows by nice and smooth and then wham! you get bitch-slapped out of nowhere by events and coincidences that seem nigh unbelievable. Is this what the poets call fate or destiny or karma? Maybe.

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#56. If love is the answer then I don't wanna ask the question

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#57. Is it true that soulmates always end up together? I didn't think so, but I hoped that if there was such a thing as reincarnation, we would meet again in a another life and try again. If it was possible, I'd find him, for another chance at love.

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