Novel Quotes

There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?

It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.

It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.

Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did.

I have two rules I follow religiously:#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.#2. It's all small stuff.

Whoa... don't go freaking out on me yet, " he says with a smile, a smile I'm starting to have a real like and hate relationship with.

Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn’t turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong.

I was falling back again and fast, or maybe I’d never stopped feeling something for him. And it was still hopeless, but at least, I could touch him a little bit.

He brought his forehead against mine and we breathed the same air, slowly to try and find our composure. But it was impossible for me as long as he’s so close to me. “You’re ruining me.�

I closed my eyes and immediately I pictured Brooklyn’s full lips parted on a moan, her eyes glassy and her pupils dilated, her cheeks flushed and her body…her smoking body bared only for me.

Whatever it was that came over him that night pulled a cord—her laugh, or her surprise gasp slipping out to think he’d do something so bold.

You’re my true north. No compass would point me in any other direction but to you.

Mags, I don’t know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You’re amazing, you deserve the best, and I want nothing more than to be whatever you need me to be.

Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.--From Pull: A Seaside Novel

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

Regress towards progress - Dr Wannamaker

I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes

Maybe I'll really try to kiss her, even if I fall through her like a raindrop.

Read my book and you shall know thee

One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.

If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

‘There’s no time for right or wrong, ’ I said.

You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.

She played me with a bad hand, and I fell for it every time.

Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.

She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.

The people inside the gym didn’t stand a dead drunk’s chance.

The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.