J.C. Reed Quotes

#1. Home isn't a place; it's a feeling; it's the people who make you feel that you belong.
I know that I belong here, with him, by his side.

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#2. assume they both took a road trip. The

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#3. Kenny just shook his head and pointed at the now closed envelope, his look devoid of emotion. "She's pretty." He had always been good at not saying what he thought. It was the reason why he stayed out of trouble - unlike Jett. "Yeah.

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#4. All heat drained from my face. Holy shit. I hadn't even started my new job and already I was insulting my new boss ... right after sleeping with him. I was worse than Sylvie. "So you're - "
My speech eluded me.
"Jett Mayfield, the stingy SOB who just hired you." He held out his palm.

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#5. They all did. "Then tell him you came to see me and I specifically told you I'm not available." Emma's eyes widened just a little bit more, if that was even possible. Her

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#6. I hope you don't mind spending so much time with me," Jett said. "I promise to be good, and I won't be too hard on you." His tone oozed amusement as he added, "Unless you want me to.

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#7. My pulse thuds in my ears, drowning out all the dirty things he'd like to do to me. But I don't need his account to help me get the picture.

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#8. The thing with love is, you cannot choose who you fall for. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there's no switch to turn off your heart.

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#9. Not to spoil the moment. It had been a big mistake because the next thing he knew they had a fight, and she was gone. Missing without

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#10. Maybe someday, I'd find someone who'd prove he really loved me. Someone who'd hold me rather than let me fall. Someone who'd never lie to me.

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#11. When did you last see her?" "Twenty-four hours ago." Kenny's pretend frown barely hid the beginning of a sarcastic grin. "That's a really long time." Jett knew

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#12. Affection's easy to gain, but trust is hard to get and yet so easy to crush and lose.

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#13. To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug.

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#14. I'm still thinking of you. Even though everything's messed up, I still want you by my side. I still want to be with you, within you, inside you, hearing you panting my name.

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#15. Judging from what I've seen so far
He's filthy rich
with a filthy mouth
And even filthier morals

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#16. I care enough for you to let you go," he whispered. "But I'll never stop protecting you

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#17. Sorry, I think I'll pass. You're not my type."
"I'm everybody's type, he says. You just have to realize it.

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#18. I hired you for your attitude, and so far I'm pretty happy with my decision. But I'm not sure I can work with you until I've fucked this attraction out of my system.

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#19. Faster's always better, but you have to mind those curves. They're wicked. They can kill a man in a heartbeat.

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#20. In life there might be rules. In love there are no exceptions to those rules. No one is spared from heartbreak. We all suffer it at some point or another. You simply can't control who you love and in particular, you can't control what kind of person they are.

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#21. He was dazzlingly gorgeous. Forget gorgeous. He was beautiful. Utterly, totally, mind-blowingly stunning. On a scale from one to ten, he was a hundred.

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#22. deep down love addicts just need a little fucking and the sex addicts just need a bit of love,

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#23. I fucking messed up. I fucked up. I wouldn't have called you if it wasn't important. Kenny leaned back. He didn't seem in the least bothered by Jett's outburst - they had remained friends through tougher shit than that.

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#24. Calling her mother who didn't seem particularly worried, but claimed she had no idea," Jett said. "The roommate's gone with her, so I can only

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#25. Was the secret boyfriend." Jett's hand shot through his dark hair as he tried to calm down the angry voice inside him. No good in lashing out at the people around him. They weren't to blame. "I tried

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#26. Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there's never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.

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#27. I don't do relationships because I don't want to love and lose myself.

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#28. You know the feeling you get when you think you hear music, and it makes you stop in your tracks, completely absorbed? Well, that's how I felt when I kissed you for the very first time. I knew right then that I could love you.

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#29. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person.

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#30. All beginnings are scary, like all endings are sad, but that's the journey and everything in between is worth experiencing.

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#31. It's never over. Not until every fight has been lost. And for you, I'd fight.

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#32. with that?" "Jesus. What happened to you, man?

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#33. I wish I could stop this one moment, capture it, because I know it won't last.
Because a guy like him doesn't stay in a woman's life. He breezes through and leaves only havoc behind.

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#34. Love is when you'd rather be hurt than hurt the one you love.

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#35. To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back - no hope to ever make my heart complete without him

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#36. Why can't they just mark it P for positive and a smiley for not pregnant?
-Sylvie

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#37. I feel like I'll have to peel back layers over layers, remove piece by piece of him, to get to know him.

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#38. Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we're hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely - at our own choice.

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#39. You drive like a maniac," I said through clenched teeth.
"That's not the only thing I do like a maniac, Brooke." His hand moved away from the steering wheel and settled on my thigh.

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#40. He's a man shrouded in mystery and contradiction.

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#41. I'd let him get under my skin, and now he had started to occupy my every thought.

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#42. He had destroyed and shattered my love only to conquer it again.

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#43. What he sounded like. Desperate. But it didn't matter. "I'm serious." His voice was cold. Menacing even. He didn't like it when people made fun of him. "I need to find her. You have a problem with that?

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#44. and cooled my head, my wits slowly returned.

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#45. Do you have any idea where she could be? Friends? Family? An ex or a secret boyfriend?" Kenny asked. If I did I wouldn't be here wasting my time with you, would I? "I

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#46. Don't ever trust a guy with a Southern accent, a lazy smile, and a casual stance, because he's about to sneak his way into your panties without even trying.

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#47. It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts.

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#48. Beauty fades. But love? Love is a fire that needs sex to be burning strong. What good is a man who doesn't own a match to light your fire?" I

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#49. better. Because soon I'd have to pry

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#50. Spandex bodysuits, huh?" His eyes twinkled. "If that's what turns you on - I'm all for giving it a try.

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#51. Don't choose someone who's no good for you," Kade says slowly. "You deserve someone who looks at you like he's just won a galaxy with all its stars." "That's

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#52. Trail. And he never had the opportunity to explain things. "Hey, you still with me?" Kenny said, observing Jett, assessing him. "Why did she leave?" "I dunno. Ask me something

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#53. Life is unpredictable, and the circumstances of today might not be the circumstances of tomorrow.

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#54. His eyes sparkled again, and in that instant I felt a strong urge to get up and leave him behind. I had been wrong to think what Sean and I had was special. He wasn't 'the one'. He couldn't be. 'The one' would never leave me behind.

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#55. The way he looked at me, I felt as though he saw through my body and directly into my soul. No one had ever made me feel like that before. Then again, I had never met someone so electrically good-looking, but there's a first time for everything.

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#56. I'm falling with no safety net.
I don't know what's worse. Falling in love with a beautiful cowboy I'll never see again or falling in love with a jerk I know will break my heart.
In the end, it doesn't matter. Both outcomes suck big time.

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#57. Whether to spill his secret because she had opened up to him a few days previously, telling him about her painful past and why she didn't want a relationship. He felt he owed her the truth, but in the end he decided

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#58. was the state he was aiming for.

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#59. This isn't working, Brooke. Don't get me wrong, the sex is amazing. But it's turning into something else, and I need to know where I'm standing. I need to know whether we'll ever be together.

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#60. Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?

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#61. Every scar tells a story. Every change is proof of something that you've overcome. It's evidence of our past together.

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#62. four-poster bed, torn

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#63. I've never begged a man to take me. That I'm doing it now is a sure sign that I'm losing my morals in Montana.

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#64. Every story has an ending. You can't stop after one chapter just because you don't know how it ends

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#65. The trials of our lives make us strong, determined to succeed, to be different, both in body and in spirit.

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#66. He's insufferable. Excruciatingly unbearable. Plain obnoxious

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#67. You're one in a million, Ava, and it was important that you know the real me.

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#68. This time. The whiskey burned down Jett's throat and probably messed with his brain. The beauty of oblivion. If he couldn't find her, then that

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#69. The guy was a piece of sin. If he were the devil holding a contract, this would be the moment I might just give in to temptation and sign over my soul.

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#70. He stands at six foot two
oozes confidence and money
and something else sex
Hot, steamy, wild, rough sex.
The kind of sex that has you gripping at the sheets
as wave after wave of orgasm rolls over you.

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#71. Even the best of us have bad days. We fall, we climb. That's life. I can promise you, your worst day is never your worst. Your worst day's the day you realize you gave us too soon and you can no longer rectify your mistake.

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#72. I say that I hate you, but deep inside I love you. Love is in my mind, in my soul, and deep in my heart. As it always has been. As it always might be.

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#73. Cellphone in his luxurious Manhattan apartment, on the last day they spent together. Jett had been sitting in the chair opposite from the

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#74. I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself - of how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.

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#75. You can forget what people said and did, but you never forget how they made you feel. You can forgive the people who hurt you, but you will remember what they taught you.

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#76. I had never seen eyes like his. Dark green. Smoldering. Ready to undress a woman with a single glance.

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#77. I Don't want someone who's perfect because I'm not perfect. I want someone who's real; someone who complements me rather than completes me.

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#78. He was the bad boy type all right. The type my mother warned me about. the type you have a good time with, then forget about as you go home to live your boring life, while he moves on to the next skirt ready to give him the time of day.

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#79. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.

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#80. Trust me, if I did something, you wouldn't be asking. You'd definitely be feeling it for days to come." His green gaze shimmers, challenging me. "I might be a jerk, but I'm the kind of jerk who always lets the woman come first. And not just once.

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#81. Love is fragile. Love can easily be broken. Love is not always perfect. And sometimes love makes mistakes. When everything's broken, everything seems lost. The only way to get your love back and repair it ... is to conquer it. - CONQUER YOUR LOVE

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#82. Wine?" I asked, ready to order.
"I'd rather have Sex on the Beach." He winked at me with a devilish grin.

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#83. I had sex with Jett because I was attracted to him. Jett hired me because he wanted me. It was lust at first sight.

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#84. Else! Jett grimaced and refilled their glasses. He swigged down the golden liquid in one gulp while Kenny stared at his, leaving it untouched

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#85. He dominated everything: my thoughts, my space, even the air I breathed.

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#86. Loss is a strange thing. It comes without a warning. It rips your heart to shreds and lets you learn to live with the pieces. It never lets you heal, but eventually, the memories you carry will help you learn to live with the pain of knowing that you will never see your loved one again.

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