Top 52 Lauren Gilley Quotes
#1. She didn't know if she cried for what she'd lost as a teenager, or for the confused tangle of emotions inside her now. Either way, Mike telling her that he was sorry against the top of her head was the only answer that made any sense.
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#2. I'm your last choice," she said. "You tried everything, tasted everyone in Knoxville. And when the princess told you off, you came to me, the last ditch effort.
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#3. Behind every strong man is a strong woman?" he guessed.
"Beside," Ghost corrected. "She's beside him.
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#4. You can add new parts, baby," she imagined Maggie saying. "But you can't lose the parts of you that were already there.
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#5. Ava wasn't the poor unsuspecting woman who'd let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing's mate, creeping indoors at his side ...
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#6. The world is full of terrible things. But there are beautiful things, too, and you're one of them.
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#8. Well aren't you just a ray of fucking sunshine.
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#9. I'm not worried about that. Aidan loves Sam, and a man can do great things when he's motivated by love. Maggie
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#10. Dude," Mercy said. "I will fold you up and stuff you in this beer pitcher." "But
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#11. It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her.
But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be something strong again. Just like her.
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#12. Ah, sweetheart, she's not the one I want to bend back over my bike right now. Jesus ... Christ.
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#13. How many times have you been slapped on dates?"
"Five," he said as he checked over his shoulder and eased back out into traffic. "So hit my left side if you're going to. The right's my pretty side."
"Which side is your modest side?"
"Don't have one.
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#14. Beautiful' isn't a feminine word. I don't even think it's a human word. It isn't what something looks like; it's what something is.
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#15. Mercy felt a wide, humorless spread across his face. She's my conscience. My soul. The only part of me that hasn't gone all the way dark. No one fucks with her and gets out alive.
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#16. You can't love anything properly from a distance.
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#17. For a wondrous golden second, they basked in the afterglow, not caring that it was four in the afternoon and they were naked in front of the windows. "I missed you," Ellie whispered right against his ear. "Don't ever think that I wasn't missing you like crazy all that time.
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#18. Do we have to have one of those woman conversations about it?" She felt her brows go up. "I'm sorry, what's that supposed to mean?" "Oh shit. We do." "Michael.
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#19. His voice was different in the small, intimate spaces that existed when they were pressed together like this; it was sweet with a familiar sort of sleepiness, a voice just for her that the rest of the world didn't get to hear.
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#20. They'd dueled in the lamplight of her kitchen that night, savaging each other with accusations that could never be recalled. Now, he couldn't remember half of what they'd said, only the colors and lights and seething tide of fear all around them. He could still taste the acrid burn of unfairness.
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#21. You know those lists that get put together? 'Top Ten Companies to Work For' and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.
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#22. Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary.
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#23. Aidan and Carter had shown up about fifteen minutes ago with a pressure washer, lots of detergent, and a bad case of being mentally twelve.
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#24. Nights like this," someone had told him, not so long ago, "feel like the world's waiting for something." He was sure, in hindsight, that on that night on a back step with a shared bottle of grocery store Pinot Noir, the girl beside him had wanted the two of them to be that something special.
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#25. She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.
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#26. His voice was friendly enough, but his gaze drilled into Mercy, an obvious challenge. Cute, Mercy thought. Not impressed, asshole.
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#27. He checked the impulse, and darted a glance over his shoulder to see Mercy and Colin marching four duct-taped cartel boys in at gunpoint. "Look, boss," Mercy said with a dark laugh. "We've been making friends." "I
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#28. she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.
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#29. But women were complicated, subtle, and so much stronger than men always wanted to give them credit. They could swallow hurt whole and let it eat them from the inside out in a way none of his brothers ever could. And when they fought, their claws were sharper.
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#31. I wanted to be special to you."
"Fillette, you were always that.
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#32. Tango tipped his head back against the bench, staring up at the denim-colored evening sky. This was the most dangerous, the most wonderful, the most daring addiction of all: life.
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#33. Tam felt his hands twitch, longing to curl into fists, longing to put those fists into that motherfucking GQ model wannabe's face.
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#34. Ben tasted like wine; felt animal beneath her hands; chased away the shadows until her room was only darkness, only them, nothing wicked.
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#35. Dad." He flicked a glance toward her, but his eyes returned to the paper. "I know Drew's kind of an idiot, and I know better than to put any trust in him yet.
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#36. Well, Mercy was a talker, friendly in his fury, and something about that strategy always got him results. That, or it was just because he was fucking huge and liked to use an ice pick. Either
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#37. You're suppressing my first amendment rights," she said, voice muffled. "You don't live in America; you live in the United States of Teague.
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#38. I was afraid," she said, "and I wanted to hear your voice.
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#39. Billingsly castle was holding its breath. Thunderheads rolled in from the hills, thick and white and folding over like biscuit dough, bubbling, boiling magenta along the edges where the skillet was the hottest.
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#40. Mercy was his ice breaker, his Jolly Cajun Giant, who could get away with saying whatever he damned wanted because no one wanted to climb up on a stepladder and stop him.
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#41. She was this lovely little girl setting his world on fire.
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#42. Tango, ever the gentleman, gave her a wink. I don't have anything in my blood but beer and poor white trash. Figure I gotta get in good with these leader types.
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#43. What must it be like to be all James Dean and Steve McQueen in your leather and denim? Not giving a damn about anything?
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#44. He was silent, and she finally gave him her full attention. "You're creepy, you know?"
A small grin plucked at one corner of his mouth. "I thought you liked strong silent types these days."
"There's silent, and then there's you.
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#45. Horny asshole? He's not the one leaving here with Truckstop Barbie. That would be you, sir, and you don't even know me, so I don't see why you should mind where I choose to direct my romantic affections. Her
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#46. The South did not bustle and plow and struggle against the snow; it slept beneath it, the silence broken only by the chatter of hungry birds and the exuberant shouts of children using trash can lids as makeshift sleds.
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#47. The night was a runny, watercolor black, rain sighing high in the tree tops, rustling on the pavement.
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#48. Mercy grinned. Do I smell a shotgun wedding? I've wanted to call you Daddy for so long now.
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#49. A little fear's healthy. The day we stop being afraid is probably the day we stop being human.
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#50. He felt her heartbeat against his shoulder, through his jacket, light as raindrops.
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#52. Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun. It
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