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I can wait. Honestly, Jay, I was planning on waiting forever for you." ~ JT
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Nicole Reed (Ruining Me (Ruining, #1))
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...if you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek (Journey Through Heartsongs)
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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
“
I don’t know what kind of women you’re used to, but my mother didn’t raise a worker bee. She raised a queen.” I stare at him without smiling. “And I don’t give away the honey for free.
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J.T. Geissinger (Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1))
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When a woman says no, she doesn’t mean yes. She doesn’t mean maybe. She doesn’t mean please try to talk me out of it because I really don’t mean it, but I just want you to work a little harder. She means no. N. O. Now get out of my way.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever.
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J.T. Geissinger
“
That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals.
Jacob to Ben describing JT
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Z.A. Maxfield (Jacob's Ladder (St. Nacho's #3))
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Being nice is the worst thing a woman can be. Nice means you have to swallow your own feelings and focus on everyone else's. Nice means you don't speak up when you're wronged. Nice means being a people pleaser and a conciliator and worrying yourself to death over others' opinions. Nice means never getting what you really want.... Authentic. Genuine. Live your truth. Let others live theirs. Don't kiss anyone's ass, but don't be an asshole, either.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
“
Loneliness and solitude are two totally different things. All the times I’ve been loneliest have been in a crowd.
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J.T. Geissinger (Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1))
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I remember when I saw Peter Pan when I was little. After all the other kids wanted to reenact the battles of the lost boys, pirates, and Indians, and all I could think about was the part where Peter Pan sits still while Wendy takes a sharp needle and, with concern and maybe love, sews his shadow onto his feet. And I wonder if the pain excited him as much as it excited me to watch. I hang here, the voices still bleeding in my ears. I watch my shadow, solid like a murdered body's outline, and I pray. Maybe one more slice, just one more, will sever it forever.
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J.T. LeRoy (The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things)
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Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. Joey
Fatone's last name was going to be “Fat One” no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at their
age that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise.
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Mindy Kaling (Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns))
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Funny thing, isn’t it, hindsight? It’s memory, but with new understanding tacked on, so that the past means something different than it did before.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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I might be an introvert, but I’ve got a temper, and I hold a grudge like nobody’s business.
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J.T. Geissinger (Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1))
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It’s not true love if you don’t want to kick his teeth in every once in a while.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Yeah. I put on JT. Bitches love JT.
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S.L. Jennings (Taint (Sexual Education, #1))
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when I took that first deep breath and saw the clear summer sky, and heard my sister and Little Jimmy and Nora and even Sally and JT cheering for me, I swear I heard the lions roar. Click
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Kristin Levine (The Lions of Little Rock)
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Dying isn’t the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. It’s just the only thing I won’t live through.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Fucking hell, you’re sweet. You’re so goddamn sweet, I just want to sink my teeth into every inch of you.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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One day I'm going to catch you in a full-blown grin, Mr.Tucker," she said, wagging a finger at him, "and when I do, watch out because I'm going to crow in victory." "We all need goals in life, Miss Richards." J.T. swung two boards up onto his shoulder and peered down at her. "Mine's to get this stuff delivered before the first snow falls. You think I got a chance at making that happen?
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Karen Witemeyer (A Tailor-Made Bride)
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You’re the chaos. You’re the storm. You’re the one creating the high winds and choppy seas you have to navigate. You’re the source of everything that’s happening. In other words, you’re the one with the power.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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Suddenly I'm filled with anger. "You know what? A wise woman once said, 'Fuck this shit' and lived happily ever after.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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a real friend is someone who stabs you in the front.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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Don’t let the worst things that happen to you be the benchmark for your self-respect.
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J.T. Geissinger (Rules of Engagement)
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The worst thing in life is to give yourself away in exchange for nothing.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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Kayla, be careful with me.” Surprised by that, I ask, “What do you mean?” “I know you think I’m strong. But the problem with strong things is that they’re brittle. They can’t bend under stress. They just break.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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Love? Hardly. If you were on a life support machine, I’d unplug it to charge my phone.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
“
Love is solid. Constant. If you’re not careful, you might mistake it for bein’ boring because it’s so reliable.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Love isn’t butterflies, boo. It isn’t weak knees. It’s a pride of lions. It’s a pack of wolves. It’s ‘I’ve got your back even if it costs me my own life,
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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I was giving you space. Didn’t think it would turn into distance.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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Just feel me. Just feel me and breathe.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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People say time heals all wounds, but those people are assholes. Wounds like mine don’t heal. I’ve just learned to control the bleeding.
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J.T. Geissinger (Ruthless Creatures (Queens & Monsters, #1))
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Men say they love a strong woman, right up until they meet one.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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He unlaced his arms and took a step forward. "You hurt?"
"Not badly." She tried to smile, but her lips only curved on one side. "My main problem is that I'm stuck to a cactus."
(...)
"How'd you manage to get tangled up with a cactus?" J.T. crouched beside her and started extricating her from the prickly plant.
"Well, believe it or not, I was on my way to apologize to you when a prairie-dog hole jumped up and grabbed my shoe heel.
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Karen Witemeyer (A Tailor-Made Bride)
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Dying for someone is easy." J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind."Living for yourself, that's hard.
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Lisa Gardner (Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6))
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Do not breathe simply to exist.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
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I learned that love means nothing unless it’s acted upon. Love isn’t real without intent. It’s a verb. It isn’t passive.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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I never lost you. Who do you think has been ringing the doorbell this whole time?
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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There exists a field, beyond all notions of right and wrong. I will meet you there.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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Hate will devour you. Anger, no matter how righteous it feels, is a straight, short path to hell.
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J.T. Geissinger (Wicked Beautiful (Wicked Games #1))
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Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
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That kiss was hotter than a housewife reading Fifty Shades of Grey at the Magic Mike premiere.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Hell is a state of mind, my dear. Reality is simply what we believe it to be. Each of us makes our own truths, even ghosts.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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Even small dragons can still breathe fire.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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What we call memory is the intersection between imagination and fact. Memories are the stories we tell ourselves about the important events in our lives. In the telling, some details get lost, others embellished, until truth is closer to fiction.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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How do you always know where to find me ? '
His voice achingly gentle, he says, 'The same way a compass knows how to find true north.
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J.T. Geissinger (Cruel Paradise (Beautifully Cruel, #2))
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Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
“
This casual summer fling has the potential to burn the whole city down and leave a path of smoking ruins in its wake.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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Let it be. Accept that you have warring factions inside you. If you’re living by your core values, all the second-guessing is just noise you can give yourself permission to ignore.
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J.T. Geissinger (Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1))
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love means nothing unless it’s acted upon. Love isn’t real without intent. It’s a verb. It isn’t passive. But most of all, love means sacrifice. Whatever love asks of you must be given, no matter the price.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
“
How can we choose to continue
Playing this deadly
And impersonal game of loss?
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek (Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait Through Heartsongs)
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Hey, bunny,” he says softly, his eyes shining with adoration. “Did you miss me?
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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I pause, examining his expression. “Why are you so quiet?” “I don’t plan murder out loud.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
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J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.
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Libba Bray (Beauty Queens)
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Life is unfairly hard for introverts. Something as common as interacting with another breathing human can knock us off kilter for days. In fact, I'm not sure socialising has even one tangible benefit. If I didn't have to work for a living, I'd never leave my apartment
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J.T. Geissinger (Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1))
“
I love you the way I love the smell of old books.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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Oh, chere," said Moma softly. "Dying isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to me. It's just the only thing I won't live through.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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I’m not weird. I’m limited edition.
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J.T. Geissinger (Wicked Sexy (Wicked Games #2))
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I’ll wait forever if I have to.” That’s it. There’s nothing else, except a signature scratched below the words. Dante.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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Wait. I forgot. She’s not a woman. She’s a raging banshee who eats men’s sanity for supper.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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Never gonna forget a single day, baby. Good and bad, they all add up to the story of us. I'm gonna take everyone one and cherish it, come what may.
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J.T. Geissinger (Sweet as Sin (Bad Habit, #1))
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There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
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Mattie J.T. Stepanek
“
Real romantics never go for the cliché because passion is so utterly individual.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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Ah, lassie. If it were anyone else but family who made you cry like this, they’d already be in an ambulance.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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It’s not inexplicable. I like you the way Newton liked gravity.” “I don’t know what you mean.” “Once he found it, everything else in the universe made sense.
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J.T. Geissinger (Cruel Paradise (Beautifully Cruel, #2))
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Take a deep breath and remember who the fuck you are.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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People make the mistake of thinking that experiencing an emotion means you have to do something about it. In fact, you don’t have to do anything with your emotions at all. You can simply acknowledge them as they arrive – oh, look, that old bitch Envy is back again – then go about your business.
It’s the clinging to emotion that causes suffering … A wiser choice is to let it go and breathe.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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The myth of true love is one of the greatest self-deceptions ever embraced by the female sex. It’s right up there with the ridiculous notion that money can’t buy happiness and size doesn’t matter.
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J.T. Geissinger (Shadow's Edge (Night Prowler, #1))
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Love involves a lot of forgiveness. People aren’t perfect. Falling in love is easy, but staying in love is a choice. You have to decide if the ups and downs are worth sticking out because there will be plenty of them. There will be pain.
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J.T. Geissinger (Ache for You (Slow Burn, #3))
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A true friendship isn’t based on what you think you can get out of it. It’s based on respecting someone enough to let him be who he really is. A true friend is someone who says “I’m here for you” and proves it.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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A woman worth her salt should be the hardest thing a man has to work for in his life, because then she’s a prize, not a gift,” she’d told me. “Anything you get for free is worth exactly what you paid for it: nothing.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Fate is just the sum of all our bad decisions
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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I make the best use of what’s in my power, and take the rest as it happens.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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It’s not that I hate people, I just feel better when they’re not around.
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J.T. Geissinger (Savage Hearts (Queens & Monsters, #3))
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Life is too short to miss out on anything, even if it's pain.
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J.T. Geissinger
“
a quote from Henry David Thoreau: “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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And exactly what is it you think I need, Aidan?” “To forget everything so you can remember who you are again.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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Let me in. Let me take care of you. Give me your trust, and I’ll give you the world. I’ll give you anything you ask for.
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J.T. Geissinger (Cruel Paradise (Beautifully Cruel, #2))
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Meeting you is a gift, and it will always be a gift, no matter how long we have together. So what I promised still stands: I’m yours until September. If you still want me.
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J.T. Geissinger (Perfect Strangers)
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How naïve we are when we’re young. How easily we trust that the sun will keep rising and setting, warming our days. And what a terrible blow it is to discover it isn’t the sun that makes things bright, but the people who love us, so that when they’re gone, everything is plunged into darkness.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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You own me, Sloane. Every corner of my worthless black soul. Every piece of my corrupt black heart. You own it all, and you always will. I’m your slave, not the other way around. Never forget it.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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She swallows and looks down at her hands clenched in her lap. “I don’t like this story.” “Should I jump to the ending? Spoiler alert: the hero saves her.” Tabby looks over at me, her eyes shining like gems in the dark. “A real hero would teach the princess how to save herself.
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J.T. Geissinger (Wicked Sexy (Wicked Games #2))
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I’m sorry I said that thing about burying the knife in your skull. I didn’t mean it.” “You did.” “Okay, that’s true. But I would’ve regretted it if I did. I would’ve cried really hard at your funeral.
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J.T. Geissinger (Carnal Urges (Queens & Monsters, #2))
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She’ll be OK,’ I say to the man behind me. ‘You sure?’ he asks, and I hear him take another step back. It’s always easy to convince people it’s OK because if it isn’t, they’d have to get involved. ‘Yeah.
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J.T. LeRoy (The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories)
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Rue not my death. Rejoice at my repose, It was no death to me but to my woes. The bud was opened to let out the rose. The chain was loosed to let the captive go.” —ROBERT SOUTHWELL ON MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
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J.T. Ellison (Where All the Dead Lie (Taylor Jackson, #7))
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People can be arseholes. Sometimes those arseholes are family. It sucks, but it doesn’t mean you have to take on their bullshit. Your mother’s BS is about her, not you. You’re perfect just the way you are, lass.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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It’s incredible how many different people one body can hold. We all walk around with a thousand strangers inside us, slumbering quietly until someone else wakes them up. Like the jolt of electricity that reanimated Frankenstein’s monster, all it takes for our sleeping giants to jump to life is a single spark.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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my top five core values are non-conformity, self-reliance, kindness, honesty, and courage.” “Top five of how many total?” “Twelve.” I can’t see his smile, but I can feel it. “Let’s have the rest.” “Curiosity. Freedom. Persistence. Learning. Humor. Gratitude. Solitude.
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J.T. Geissinger (Beautifully Cruel (Beautifully Cruel, #1))
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I really don’t understand men. Dealing with men is like dealing with a hostile alien species who crash-landed on the planet and decided our language and customs are too silly to be bothered with, and henceforth we should be treated with mild disdain and/or as objects of occasional sexual release before being ignored as inferior beings again.
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J.T. Geissinger (Pen Pal)
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In a voice like velvet, he says, “I want to taste every inch of you. I want to hear you scream my name. I want to make you come so hard, you forget your own. I don’t have time to fuck around—excuse the pun—with the kind of wooing I’d usually do to win you, so that’s why I’m being so blunt.
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J.T. Geissinger (Ruthless Creatures (Queens & Monsters, #1))
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Jackson turned his left hand up and gazed down at the simple black tattoo on the inside of his wrist. He was silent for a long time, then looked up and met my eyes.
He said, "You're an avid reader. You know the meaning of semicolon."
I frowned. "It's when the author could have ended a sentence but chose not to."
"Exactly."
"I don't understand."
Jackson looked deep into my eyes. His smile might have been the saddest thing I'd ever seen. He said softly, "I'm the author, and the sentence is my life.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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I’m shit with good-byes and we’re not talking anyway, so I’m skipping that part and staying at a hotel tonight. My offer was serious. It still is. My door will always be open for you. Yours until the sun flames out and all life on earth is extinguished, Prancer Included with the note is a first-class ticket to Scotland.
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J.T. Geissinger (Melt for You (Slow Burn, #2))
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Life is short. You don’t get a do-over. Kiss who you need to kiss, love who you need to love, tell anyone who disrespects you to go fuck themselves. Let your heart lead you where it wants to. Don’t ever make a decision based on fear. In fact, if it scares you, that’s the thing you should run fastest toward, because that’s where real life is. In the scary parts. In the messy parts. In the parts that aren’t so pretty. Dive in and take a swim in all the pain and beauty that life has to offer, so that at the end of it, you don’t have any regrets. “We only come this way once. Our obligation for receiving the miraculous gift of life is to truly, fully live it.
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J.T. Geissinger (Cruel Paradise (Beautifully Cruel, #2))
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I hear some rustling on the other end of the line, like he’s moving around. Then he exhales. “I’m sorry you’ve had such a rough time.” “Oh god. Please don’t feel sorry for me. I hate pity more than anything else in the world.” “It’s not pity. It’s empathy.” “I’m not sure they’re so different.” “They are. One is condescending. The other is understanding what someone’s going through because you’ve been there. And you wouldn’t wish that kind of suffering on anyone else. And you wish you could make it better.
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J.T. Geissinger (Ruthless Creatures (Queens & Monsters, #1))
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I thought love was supposed to be weak knees and butterflies in your stomach and a terrible longing that could never be quenched."
Eeny shook her head, chuckled, came over and embraced me. "No, child", she said gently, patting my back. "That's romance. Romance is build on doubt. Love is solid. Constant. If you're not careful, you might mistake it for bein' boring because it's so reliable. Love is warm and deep and comfortable, just right, so you float in peacefully without ever being scalded or frozen, like a perfect, relaxing bubble bath.
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J.T. Geissinger (Burn for You (Slow Burn, #1))
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Charley looked over at him. "About how much you and Jesse have in common."
Jesse said, "Why don't you tell it, Bob; if you remember."
Bob inched forward in his chair. "Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, it is interesting, the many ways you and I overlap and whatnot. You begin with my daddy, J.T. Ford. J stands for James! And T is Thomas, meaning 'twin.' Your daddy was a pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church; my daddy was part-time pastor of a church at Excelsior Springs. You're the youngest of the three James boys; I'm the youngest of the five Ford boys. You had twins as sons, I had twins as sisters. Frank is four and a half years older than you, which incidentally is the difference between Charley and me, the two outlaws in the Ford clan. Between us is another brother, Wilbur here (with six letters in his name); between Frank and you was a brother, Robert, also with six letters. Robert died in infancy, as most everyone knows, and he was named after your father, Robert, who was remembered by your brother's first-born, another Robert. Robert, of course, is my Christian name. My uncle, Robert Austin Ford, has a son named Jesse James Ford. You have blue eyes; I have blue eyes. You're five feet eight inches tall; I'm five feet eight inches tall. We're both hot-tempered and impulsive and devil-may-care. Smith and Wesson is our preferred make of revolver. There's the same number of letters and syllables in our names; I mean, Jesse James and Robert Ford. Oh me, I must've had a list as long as your nightshirt when I was twelve, but I lost some curiosities over the years.
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Ron Hansen (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)