Ember Miller Quotes

#1. His pain hurt me in a way I'd never felt before. It was worse than my own pain. My strength wavered. I felt completely powerless.

Kristen Simmons

#2. Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him.
"I should say the same to you," he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck.
"Promise me!" I demanded.
"I ... I promise."
"I can't lose you.

Kristen Simmons

#3. I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely.
"I'll wait for you," I told him.

Kristen Simmons

#4. I jerked instinctively. I couldn't stay here. I couldn't die in this closet.
"No one is going to touch you," Chase murmured into my hair.

Kristen Simmons

#5. You didn't lose everything."

"Neither did you.

Kristen Simmons

#6. I could not fall back in love with Chase Jennings. Doing so was like falling in love with a thunderstorm. Exciting and powerful, yes. Even beautiful. But violently tempered, unpredictable, and ultimately short-lived.

Kristen Simmons

#7. He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway.
You're home. To me.

Kristen Simmons

#8. [We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Tim Jackson

#9. A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Evan Esar

#10. I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

Bas Rutten

#11. I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running out of veins.

William S. Burroughs

#12. One real world is enough.

George Santayana

#13. It would be easier if reaching out to you, didn't mean reaching in.

Pleasefindthis

#14. Ember, you're the only piece of me I have left. Everything else-my family, my home, my soul- they're all gone. I don't know who the hell I am anymore. If it weren't for you ... I don't know.

Kristen Simmons

#15. We were safe and together, and that was all that mattered now.

Kristen Simmons

#16. She had me in every way there was to be had.

Adriane Leigh

#17. The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Harriet Ann Jacobs