Lexi Ryan Quotes

#1. But Maggie, your aura does seem terribly dark. You should come to my office sometime this week and we can do a cleansing." "My aura can't help it, Gran. It feels fat in anything but black.

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#2. Single and independent are words women use to make themselves feel better about being lonely and overwhelmed.

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#3. A couple of years ago, I would have agreed that she did need to protect her heart from me, but now I don't want her to. I want her to let down her defenses and take a chance. I want her to hold my hand and fall with me.

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#4. Come back and break me, don't let this go unspoken. I'm numb when I'm whole and you left me unbroken.

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#5. Sure, I want to do a lot of things. But sweetheart, you don't know a damn thing about me.

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#6. The secret only harvests the hurt next to our hearts, blocking the sunlight from the spot where happiness is supposed to grow.

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#7. You are not your past. You are bigger than your past and you are better than your past. Let it be part of who you've become, but don't you dare let it define you.

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#8. You're not the only one who's made mistakes. I have too. But I believe we're more than the sum of our mistakes. I didn't used to. I thought I was a piece of shit. I thought I was nothing.

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#9. I was in such an ugly, dark place the night we met. I looked into your eyes, and you were right there with me - my angel in the darkness. You saved me." He buries his nose in my hair and inhales audibly. "You saved me and I love you.

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#10. Are there any apologies more difficult than the one we owe the most?

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#11. Maybe a good person would step away before things went too far, but when it comes to Samuel Bradshaw, I am neither good nor bad. I'm only his.

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#12. Do I want the man who holds me together or the man who gives me permission to break?

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#13. I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.
I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.
Don't be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.
I'll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me.

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#14. Why do you care so much?"


"Why are you still hiding from me?

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#15. I like you, Asher. But if we're going to keep this up, whatever this is, you need to know my life is a little fucked up. I'm fucked up." His eyes search mine. "Then we're a great match.

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#16. If you shatter, I'll find you.

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#17. Don't be affraid to break, Maggie. Stop holding on to the ugliness just to stay whole.

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#18. Is that a cell phone in your pocket," I whisper up at him, "or did I misplace my vibrator?

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#19. Would you ask me to leave her?" I whisper against her lips. "Would you tell me if you still needed me?"
She flinches as if I've struck her. "I can't do that to her.

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#20. For a woman who claims to be an open book, you hide so much." He runs his thumb down the side of my neck, over the hollow in my collarbone. "Next time you strip for me, you're taking off more than your clothes.

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#21. I love you," I whisper to this sleeping man. "Thank you for finding me." He surprises me by rolling to face me and drawing me against his chest. "I love you too.

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#22. Why me, Asher?"
"Sweetheart, when you know the answer to that question, we won't be talking anymore."
"You'll be gone?"
"I'll be inside you.

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#23. Is there a ladylike way to say, Hey, you seem a little down. Want me to ride you until you can't remember her name?

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#24. Maggie? Maggie's too busy hating herself to love anyone.

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#25. You're not the hot, burning fire, because you're there even after a long, hard rain. "You're not the sun, because you're there in the darkest night."
"You can't be the wind - beneath my wings or otherwise because you keep me warm during the deepest winter.

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#26. You can only swallow ugly words about yourself so many times before they become part of your DNA.

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#27. Don't be. Because then I got to the hospital and you were wearing the ring. You were confused and beat up and it was terrifying, but every time I saw that ring on your finger, I believed everything was going to be okay. It had to be.

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#28. Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone

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#29. I smile, and for a second, I'm just a girl looking at a boy she's kind of always loved.

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#30. But your beauty? It's the kind that radiates from your heart, and it's so damn bright it shines beyond these walls you've created to protect yourself

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#31. Asher, wake up and smell the third-wave feminism. Women have fantasies too. I happen to find a little frantic, half-clothed kitchen sex hot." That makes him smile. "Me too.

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#32. Maybe addictions don't have a beginning. They certainly don't have an end.

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#33. The thing you want so desperately that the idea of having it makes you as sick to your stomach as the idea of never having it?

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#34. What if no one can fix me?"
"You don't need fixing." He gives a sad smile and wipes a tear away with his thumb. "It's like your mosaics. The beauty is already there, you just find it. Let go, sweetheart.

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#35. You're like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That's how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.

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#36. I'm not trying to change you, Maggie. I'm trying to love you.

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