J. A. London Quotes
The way he looked at her made her heart beat fast. "I like you, Natalie." She could not let that mean anything to her. "That's natural. I'm likable.
He pointed past her shoulder. "We're surrounded by neighbors. Though once I have you inside, the walls are thick. You'll have to scream really loud for anyone to hear.
She kissed her teenage fantasy, the popular boy she used to dream would see something special in her and love her forever. The man kissed her back.
Hmmm, you like that, " he whispered, his breath hot and intoxicating. "I like ... everything.
First one of you to call me Yoko, ” Todd warned as he stepped up, “is a dead man.
Her arms slid around my back and I heard the softest moan in my ear as she snuggled into my chest. Her mouth pressed to my neck, not kissing, just…there. On me.Dammity-damn-damn-damn.
He wished he was doing much more than kissing the back of her silky hand, though throwing her on the bar and devouring her like a man-eater wasn't a wise option.But... he was only human.
I don't spill my drinks on just any man, you know." She touched his cheek. "only dashing shark lovers with pantydropping accents.
I want you alone, " he whispered, gliding a hand around her hip, "on a slow boat to China. Days together, nights... rocking on the waves.
Why was life so unfair that the one guy she felt uncontrollable chemistry with ---even when they weren't even touching ---was the only guy she had to keep her hands off?
Think of it this way, " he rubbed a fist under his square jaw, "If we hadn't been on the same flight or at the same hotel, you would've had no one to spill your drinks on.
If your heart loses the ability to trust, you'll never love again.
Slow-slow-quick-quick-slow went her heart.“Damn, I love the tango, ” he whispered, tickling her ear.
She ran her hand over the dash.“You’re petting my car, ” Hunter said, turning the key. “I usually charge for that.
Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.
Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.
I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.
The bubbly play of wit, the chesty laughs, the resonant voices of men when glass in hand they shut the grey world outside and prod their brains with the fun and folly of an accelerated pulse.
I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.
One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.
Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.
It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.
I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.(from Who's Who in Hell)
Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.
When I think of how many people in this world have it worse than I do, I realize just how blessed I really am...... and I have to give thanks ...
The way he said it, with a twinkle in his already too-twinkly blue eyes, made Aimee feel twinkly, too.
I like you, Dawn. I've seen a lot of humans, from far away and up close. I've never met one like you. I think you're the closest thing to a sunrise I'll ever see.
The vampires took everything from me, but I'm looking into the eyes of one who has the power to give me back a reason to live, who can heal my gaping hole of sorrow.
For most vampires, it's an automatic response - scent blood, fangs drop.
They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?
Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.
Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.
You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.
The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit... electric shock-y?
It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.
If the British had fought half as well as this one kissed, she thought, the Americas would still be a colony.
When I was done, his arms were spread wide above his head, secured by the black ties at his wrists. he looked like a dark god who was being punished.
I'm moving to fast. I just...I'm drawn to you. I want to make love to you. I can't help it.
Everyday she loses a bit more of herself, every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation
Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone.By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.