Maya Banks Quotes

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.

You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness?

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Tell me what you need." "You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.

If you don’t stay away from her I’ll rearrange that pretty face of yours. - Simon

You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you mine." (Damon to Serena)

Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.

Caelen?” “Aye, lass?” “You were right.” “What was I right about?” “Kissing. ’Tis a most wondrous thing.” She could sense his smile.

Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.

Vulnerability, like he had the power to hurt her or pleasure her in a way no other man could. For the first time, he was uncomfortable with the idea of having complete power over her

Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.

I hope you find what you’re looking for,” Micah said. “I’ve already stopped looking,” Damon said quietly. “It’s kind of hard to look for something you’ve stopped believing in.

I’ll have your fathers make something special,” Holly said serenely. “If it turns out we don’t like him, I’ll cook the next meal for him.

He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.

I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

How do you maybe hit someone?” Michael drawled. “Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.

Never be afraid to tell me anything,” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.

Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.

Life was sweet. Even when it was bad, there was always the hope of better...the future.

I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.

He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.

I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.

Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash

Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.” “You’re not?

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - Toni

I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.