Contemporary Quotes

Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.

~ Megan Duke

You have no idea how dirty I can play.” He laughed. “Bring. It. On.

~ Amy Andrews

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

~ Megan Duke

Hot. I’ve been upgraded to hot.No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn’t know short girls could even be hot. I thought I’d been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status.

~ Stephanie Perkins

No, this was Philly. Drunks here boo Santa and get in more trouble than a dog with an Easter basket, and like the dog, they usually end up either sick or dead. Ah yes, another lovely eve in the big city.

~ Kym Grosso

I used to think that distance makes the heart grow fonder, but I guess it’s more so of a case-by-case thing when I look at it now. It especially doesn’t help when most of the time, when forced to reckon with the realities of things, you have your illusions occupying you.

~ Lauren Lola

Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.

~ Lauren Lola

I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them.

~ Lauren Lola

It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it.

~ Lauren Lola

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.

~ Lauren Lola

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

~ Amy Harmon

Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.

~ Fabiola Francisco

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?

~ Simone Elkeles

I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form?

~ Donal Ryan

I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon.

~ Susan Lodge

When Grant Blue reaches me, he bends his head down close enough that I can smell the soap and promise on his skin. Clean living and popularity—It’s quite the aftershave, let me tell you. If I’m being honest, the fact that he even has to bend to talk to me is making me want to swoon a little. ...But just a little.

~ Isobel Irons

For God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she left her damn shoe, so she has to wait for some douchebag in tights to bring it to her? Give me a frigging break!

~ Hafiz

You're doing it wrong.Son, I've got a gun to your chest and you're telling me that I'm doing it wrong?YesHow?Closer isn't better. He disarmed her with a swift motion, then offered the weapon back to her. Further away you are, the less unpredictable I can be.Della's eyes had opened wide with surprise, but she recovered fast. Took the shotgun back and said, Okay. Knock again so we can start over.

~ S.e. Jakes

Everything was on television last night

~ Don Delillo

She looked up and their eyes locked. “Want to be my birthday present?” she asked in a breathy whisper.Chase’s mother didn’t raise any fools. He released her hips and trailed his hand down her arm until their fingers entwined.“Let’s get out of here.”He tugged her from the dance floor, trying not to rush like he was running from a fire. But, damn. There was a fire in his britches.

~ Tamara Hoffa

Most of my dates had consisted of some guy trying to sweet-talk me while I silently prayed for an asteroid to crash into whatever diner we were at.

~ Stephanie Nelson

The only people who need to fear me, are those that hurt you... - TDS, Seven Dirty Words

~ Charlotte V. Howard

When you kissed me…I felt special.I never really felt like I deserved it.That isn’t your fault. That was me.When I looked down the aisle on our wedding day and you weren’t there, my first thought, as awful as this sounds, wasn’t, “Where is he?” it was, “Oh, it figures.

~ Virginia Nelson

uh, yeah, I love...worms Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

What are friends for, but to help each other get through bad times and have multiple orgasms?

~ Elizabeth Morgan

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I want you both. I said quietly, not caring that my cheeks had grown warmer. I have for a while.If we try this— Tyler took a deep breath. And it doesn't feel right—We'll stop. Kacey promised as he slid his hand beneath my halter neck and began caressing my skin. You say it baby, and we'll stop and forget all about it.My stomach flipped at the feel of his fingers circling my navel. And if I don't want to stop?An unreadable look crossed Tyler’s face and my heart skipped as Kacey moved behind me. The warmth of his body seeped into my back, while his fingers painted trails of heat across my abdomen and along my ribs.Then what happens in Silver Creek, stays in Silver Creek. Unless you decide otherwise. Kacey pressed his lips to my ear. A shiver ran down my neck and spine. Does that sound fair?

~ Elizabeth Morgan

All women should feel as Sex Subjects if they want and choose so without fear of repressions, condemnations and put down and without the need to pay them for that.Being freely a sexy and seductive woman is allowed only for few privileged professions: actresses, dancers, models, singers, prostitutes. They all do it for work. You can pay for them being sexy.If a sexy woman is openly adored by a man, the woman remains as a woman, she is not turning into a table, a cup or a bill of money. She is still the Subject who knows her power.

~ Mai Loog

Right, I can't watch this shit. Kacey grunted as he got up. It's one thing getting a hard-on over you, baby girl. The fact that Tyler happens to be in the picture…I'm freaking slightly.

~ Elizabeth Morgan

We need to get you laid.Despite the fact she couldn't see my face, my brow furrowed. How is that going to help?Rebound sex is exactly what you need right now, sweaty, dirty, work-your-frustration-out sex. In fact, I have the perfect guy in mind—I jolted up quickly at the sound of a firm tapping. I looked over at the window to see Kacey's sun kissed face, his shades resting at the edge of his long nose, baby blue eyes fixed on me.I placed my hand over my thumping heart. You ass.Bitch?Not you, Jayne. I climbed off my bed. Kay and Ty are here.Speak of the devil, and his sexy ass will most definitely appear.

~ Elizabeth Morgan

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

~ D.m. Lee

I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear.

~ Amy Mcnamara

If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

~ Sarah Dessen

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

~ Mark Strand