H.m Ward Quotes

#1. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

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#2. I pull away and all the magical qualities of his touch fade. It's the worst feeling in the world.

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#3. There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

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#4. Said I'd lose you if I wasn't careful, and then he took you away from me. I thought I'd lost you.

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#5. The future is always bright; it isn't until you get there that you realize it isn't.

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#6. You can't keep it no matter how much you beg. Dragons are not pets, Ivy. He laughed.

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#7. I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.

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#8. There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.

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#9. I lost you, but you're sitting right next to me!

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#10. The way I see it, we're all a little bit crazy, and that's what makes life interesting.

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#11. She's a bitch. Fake people deserve to be treated like they're made of tin-or plastic. I recycle, it's OK. Besides, you know how I feel about robots.

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#12. Can he tell that I'm fucked up? Can he tell that I've been torn to pieces and put back together again?

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#13. You're lost, broken, and completely fucked up. You're not like me, but you want to be. The difference between us is that I still have hope and you lost yours a long time ago.

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#14. You're not alone, unless you choose to be." As she left my room, she said over her shoulder, "It's time to stop running.

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#15. Oh, I know. He cares about controlling you, using you, and what else am I forgetting? Oh yeah, claiming you. You're an object to him, something to be won.

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#16. Everyone steps in shit. They keep walking and it comes off.

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#17. If I was a little lighter and you were a little darker, maybe we could meet in the middle and have a real chance, but you're the sun and I'm the moon. We chase each other in the sky, but never meet for long.

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#18. My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write ... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college student who likes to have sex in elevators.
Story of my life ...

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#19. Okay, this conversation just crossed into Uncomfortable Land.

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#20. We're seriously going to drive to Jersey with a bird wearing a bra in the backseat?

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#21. I'm not sure that it's something that can be fixed. There are things like that, ya know? they can get you and you can't be who you were before. It doesn't matter if it's fixed or not.

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#22. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life

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#23. I'm rewarded, uh, I mean punished, with a slap to my backside.

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#24. At the same time, the idea of losing myself in him - of completely giving myself over to him - scares me. Fear holds me back.

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#25. Maybe I'm too jumpy, too untrusting. The thing is, once something bad happens, there's no way to undo it. There's no erase button on life. I can't just click the delete key and start over.

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#26. You said cray cray."
"I'd say anything for you.

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#27. He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart.

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#28. The best decisions are the ones you can feel. They have no explanation - you just know.

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#29. No man won a woman's heart by running away.

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#30. No, I was just trying to burn a hole in the side of your face with my laser vision. It didn't work.

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#31. When you find the right person, yeah - this is what it feels like." He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before taking my hand and placing it over his heart. It's beating fast and hard. "Do you feel that? We haven't done anything yet and that's how I react to you.

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#32. I'll never leave if you keep feeding me bacon every day, Peter says to Aunt Beth.

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#33. It's stupid to rush things when you aren't ready.

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#34. Go fuck a monkey, Ferro. I don't have time for you or your fake sincerity.

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#35. I glance at him, wondering what kind of crazy sauce he ate to sit down next to me in here.

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#36. The darkness within her called to me. It's been my destruction and my savior, because it brought me to this woman and kept me coming back for more.

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#37. You don't know him the way I do. He's not like that. A broken heart manifests differently in different people. Don't pretend to know how he feels or what he thinks.

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#38. Sometimes those silent gestures mean the most. They're the glue that holds our fragile lives together.

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#39. No matter what you do, you are that girl. It's how you become that girl that matters.

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#40. Honesty is what makes a person. At the end of his life it's one of the things people remember. Your legacy isn't left by fame or fortune. It's left by the footprints of compassion and honesty.

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#41. I've run out of options. Stay with the lying psycho or work for the other lying psycho.

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#42. His shirt is covered in my sorrow and stained with my tears.

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#43. Just because he's not like that doesn't mean he doesn't care.

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#44. What kind of married couple uses a pole on their wedding night?

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#45. Yes this is Mr. Ferro and Mr. Ferro is sort of grumpy, one hundred percent of the time. Please excuse me, I need to go find my box.

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#46. That's exactly why I was so dangerous - I didn't give up.

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#47. That's why I love you. You transform my fucked-up mess into something wholesome. You're my light in the dark shit-storm of life. I adore you." He kisses my temple and rests his head on mine. "I always will.

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#48. Fuck, No I'll handle this, i'm going to kick her ass and throw her out of the window. Then, I'll climb into my box and let your people clean up the mess.

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#49. If you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, then make something different.

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#50. Those guards are going to be all sorts of pissed when they find out they've been following a bunny rabbit.

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#51. Bad days call for foods that are bad for your butt.

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#52. Everything I touch dies in my hand and the same thing's happening to you. You were vibrant when I met you, and now I've blanched the color from your cheeks and caused you nothing but pain.

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#53. You know that's why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It's because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells.

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#54. I've tired so hard to stay away from you, buy your soul is so powerful. It can't be ignored. It calls to me. It's like trying to resist every lust you've ever suffered - all at once. I feel that every time I see you.

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#55. Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.
- Jane

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#56. I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're reeling in ecstasy and dread. It's something you want, but can't ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow ... and standing in front of you.

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#57. You can. Trust me, baby. I'll take care of you. Let go, let everything else fade away. As Sean speaks, his voice becomes deeper and more unguarded.

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#58. Don't make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

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#59. Anything that's worth having is worth fighting for. Love is a strange thing. It shows up when you least expect it and defies expectation.

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#60. You are who you are. Deal with it.

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#61. Go fuck a cactus, classless cunt.

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#62. I had severe control freak tendencies, and when I had no control - I freaked out.

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#63. Avery: Yeah right, very funny, when are you going to shoot me and dump my body at captree? This is Getting old.

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#64. You can't jump in the box, you lunatic.
"I'm so playing with the box."
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"Kids never want the toy, only the box

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#65. Sometimes, the big picture is too big to see from up close.

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#66. Like calls to like, soul calls to soul,

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#67. I believe in white knights, but the only knight in this story is me. No one saved me. I've fallen so far that I can't even see the way out anymore. I'm at the bottom of Hell and I found you.

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#68. You trusted me to do things that terrify you because it's what I needed. I can do the same for you. I can hold you. I can let you in.

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#69. Col-lide: to come together with a solid or direct impact

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#70. If it was going to kill me or carry me off, I thought it would have done so already. But it just sat there, looking at me. Its tail swooshed suddenly, and it felt like I was looking at an overgrown cat in reptile form.

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#71. It's not like I invited you. Oh, and shotgun. I'm not sitting next to the turkey.

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#72. Light and dark ain't supposed to mix. They're like broccoli and chocolate - just nasty when you put them together - but that appears to be what's happening with you

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#73. What are you thinking in that beautiful head of yours?

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#74. What do I do now?
I didn't think my heart could break any more than it already has.
The pieces still inside of me feel like broken glass.
Every time I take a breath, they stab into me.
It never ends ...

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#75. There's a big empty box filled with packaging peanuts and it's totally calling my name.

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#76. Brie's expiration date on revenge was never.

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#77. Well, that's what I'm here for, to save the world from suckage.

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#78. I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you.

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#79. I want to get past this. I need to. It's been too long. My life is living me.

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#80. Tell me, where do I stand compared to Neil and the ankle biter over there? He's kind of hot, in a Howard the Duck kind of way

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#81. He smiles. it nearly breaks my heart. I know that smile. It's a memory that's tainted, something that should have been happy but didn't turn out that way.

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#82. No. I sliced my own shirt for fun. Everyone's going to be dressing like this tomorrow.

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#83. It's hard not to admire you when you're standing so perfectly.

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#84. I love him with every ounce of my being, and I know that I always will.

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#85. Room. "Glad to see you're awake," he said. "I was starting to think it was foolish to try and heal you without using blood - with wounds like that, anyway - but you proved me wrong." Will sat at a small table across from her. His silhouette was outlined by a roaring fire. The

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#86. Is that code for sex or are we really having coffee?" Peter laughs and feigns shock, putting his hand over his chest. "My God! Is that why all those women at Starbucks keep trying to have coffee with me?

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#87. Fear is like love. It has the same depths, the same intensity. Sean

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#88. Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade. Even if it is him.

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#89. He's grinning hard, showing a dimple on his cheek that I haven't seen in forever.

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#90. Most girls want the right guy. They aren't looking for a one-time thing.

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#91. He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.

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#92. I'd give up everything for him, but then what? He has no job, I have no money, and we both live in a box. Love sucks.

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#93. The client wants an innocent young girl and you will fulfill that role. He doesn't want to hear your life story or why you entered this line of business. You are forbidden to discuss weighty matters or your personal life. Do you understand?

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#94. It's a one of a kind, camel-toe couch. For when yoga pants aren't enough.

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#95. You don't know who you are anymore. That's all right. It happens from time to time. It happened to me.

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#96. Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

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#97. I can be anything and everything else for you, but I can't be the one who makes you fall.

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#98. Holy shit you're going to get killed by a rock star and two of the Ferro brothers, I can see the headlines now. Poor Little White Girl Never New What Hit Her.

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#99. That man has some seriously oversized ovaries. Can you say PMS? He barked at anyone and everyone before shoving his way outside.

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#100. When Peter lets go, he looks down at my arm. The scratches aren't deep. "Did it bite you?" I shake my head and wipe the tears away. Peter is trying so hard not to smile. "What happened? Were you guys fighting over a stall?

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