Bait Jade West Quotes

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins

I smile because someone found me in the darkness and didn’t try to switch the light on.

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it. Elizabeth Wurtzel

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain

I smile because a stranger asked a simple question, and then he heard me.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. Vincent Van Gogh

He’s tugging my soul from the depths and holding tight. He’s whispering in every dark corner of my mind.

Maybe a little darkness will turn us both back toward the light.

His eyes eat me up but I hold mine firm. The darkness there takes my breath. My demons wave at his, and I swear they wave back. I feel the ghost of a shiver up my spine. My whole body wants him to wrestle me into his truck and drive me away. “Goodbye, Cinderella,” he says and my heart stutters.

Even a monster can be a gentleman,” he says.

Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die. Marianne Williamson

You underestimate the savage seas of female emotion,

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

His eyes eat me up but I hold mine firm. The darkness there takes my breath. My demons wave at his, and I swear they wave back.

The other part has my palm straining around the monster I just sent her a picture of. The angle didn’t hold anything back – the ladder of barbells on the underside of my cock glinting in metallic horror. The ridges are thick. Threatening. I don’t need any special camera effects to big up the scale. It’s no illusion that sees this weapon of hard flesh and steel towering high above my bellybutton. My hands are big, but they don’t look it, not as my fingers stretch around the girth. Mariana said Christmas had come early when I first dropped my pants. Uittreksel van: Jade, West. 'Bait.' iBooks.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold

I think of all the people I’ve neglected in my own misery.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran

I pull my sister tight to my chest and kiss her head, because gestures are easier than words sometimes.

Sometimes you can know someone for years and know nothing at all,

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Elvis Presley

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Socrates

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. Jack London

realise that she’s inside me as deep as I’m inside her.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King

We get stronger at the broken places,

And I guess it’s true enough that a monster really can be a gentleman. After all, I already learned the hard way that a gentleman really can be a monster.

I guess sometimes it’s the confession itself that provides the most solace. It’s by letting our demons free that we’re able to see that they’re not really demons at all, just scared children hoping to be loved.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

Every man has a wild beast within him. Frederick the Great

I want to keep my dreams, even the bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. Joseph Heller

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino

I can tell you when the nightmares stopped being terrors and the monster became a man. I can even tell you when I started wanting them. Wanting the chase. Wanting him.

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, but life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Edgar Lee Masters

I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life. Conor Oberst

Tell me what your monster does to you when you think of him late at night. Tell me how you need to be broken. Tell me how you need to be used. Hurt. Taken. And then I’ll tell you what you’re going to be given.