Tess Oliver Quotes

“Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.”

— Tess Oliver

“He looked down at my fingers wrapped around his coat then lifted his eyes to mine. 'My tiny huntress, do you know what you've done to me?”

— Tess Oliver

“My mind argued with itself about whether to adhere to proper etiquette or whether to fling aside all modesty and throw my arms around him. My feet chose the latter before my mind had a chance to settle it. I flew off the stool and landed in his embrace. Freezing rain drenched his coat and shirt. His arms wrapped around me tighter, and there was nothing so right as being pressed against Nathaniel Strider.”

— Tess Oliver

“I don't know how it happened. Through the din of the crowd, I heard this tiny scream. As small and distant as it was, it was like thunder in my head.' He looked up at me. Some of the blood had drained from his face making the dark circles under his eyes more pronounced. 'I knew it was you. I don't know how or why, but I knew it was you.”

— Tess Oliver

Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.

— Tess Oliver

I fell back into my favorite chair and tucked my hands between my knees to stop them from shaking. I sucked in a deep breath, held it, and marveled at my own transformation into a ridiculous ninny.

— Tess Oliver

His arms held me like a vice, and I wondered if he would crush the life from me, and it occurred to me that I didn't care as long as I died in his arms ...

— Tess Oliver

“Blasted grave marker. There sure are a bloody lot of them. They've got some nerve burying all these dead people here.”

— Tess Oliver

“I will take you from him, Scotlyn," he said with quiet confidence.
"I think about you every fucking minute of the day, and I will not let you slip out of my life. I will take you from him.”

— Tess Oliver

“Don't ever do that again, my intoxicating, wicked genius.”

— Tess Oliver

“Thank you," he said in that deep tone that was always laced with sadness.
"For what?" I asked.
This time he reached up and pushed a strand of hair from my face. "For seeing me. Most people I meet look right through me. But when you look at me, I feel real, I feel like flesh, bone and blood.”

— Tess Oliver

“He's rich. Rich boys are always handsome.”

— Tess Oliver

“A girl doesn't mind a little trouble in her life now and then.”

— Tess Oliver

“His gaze held mine so long it felt as if he would never release it. And something deep inside me did not want him to.”

— Tess Oliver

“It's like being tethered to an angel. Hell keeps calling me but I can't let go.”

— Tess Oliver

A paper man. How romantic. And when I tire of him, I can just crumple him into a huge ball.

— Tess Oliver

“His smile reappeared. It was not large or extraordinary, but it was one I would not soon forget.”

— Tess Oliver

“When I'm near you, the air around you vibrates with life, Beck Ryker.”

— Tess Oliver

“Do I still 'ave an eye?" I laughed. "Still there." He straightened with a sigh. "Too bad. I hear girls take a liking to a man with an eye patch." "Yes, when the eye was lost in some wildly romantic fashion like a sword fight or pistol duel. Not from smacking it on the eyepiece of a microscope. And you hardly need any more help with the ladies.”

— Tess Oliver

“I lowered my mouth to her ear. "That sound you make when I touch you, I want to hear it." My hand slid beneath her t-shirt, and my thumb trailed beneath her bra and across the bare skin of her breast.
A soft sigh fell from her lips.
My tongue traced her ear. "That's it.”

— Tess Oliver

“Rinkeni, you could be standing on the other side of the earth, and I would hear you if you needed me.”

— Tess Oliver

He would be gone soon, and with all that had happened in Blackpool Cove, I could not afford to send a piece of my heart with him.

— Tess Oliver

“Well, if she doesn't like pelicans she must be very disagreeable.”

— Tess Oliver

It was disgusting and terrific all at the same time.

— Tess Oliver

“I remember watching you from the back seat with those same big hands gripping the steering wheel, and all I could think was someday I want those massive arms to hold me. I knew nothing bad could happen to me wrapped in those unbelievable arms.”

— Tess Oliver

“Having you around is like having a piece of the North star break off and drop to earth.”

— Tess Oliver

“Strider hovered over the scope and slammed his eye on it before jumping back with a hand over the squinting eye. That bloody thing is dangerous.”

— Tess Oliver

“Cade grabbed my hand and pressed it against his chest. You are right here forever, and no magic tricks or sorcery can pry you from my heart.”

— Tess Oliver

Seeing that guy touch you was too much. I couldn't stop myself. Before I knew it, I was flying across that bar thinking, he touched you and I was going to have to pound him for it. No one fucking touches you except me." His mouth came down over mine again. He held me so tightly, I was sure he'd squeeze the breath from me. "Since I had you pressed up against the wall in that closet, I knew that you had to be mine," he whispered against my mouth.

— Tess Oliver

If everything were explained by science and logic, what a dull world it would be.

— Tess Oliver

You're not the kind of girl a guy wants to be friends with, you're the kind of girl he wants to give his heart to.

— Tess Oliver

“You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.”

— Tess Oliver

He puts up with a lot from me, and he never gets irritated."
"Yeah, cause you can be so darn irritating ... " He lowered his face and kissed my eyebrow tenderly, "with those irritating cinnamon-brown eyes ... " His kisses moved down to my nose. "And that irritating, tiny nose ... " He paused, his mouth a mere breath away from mine, and he kissed me softly. "And those irritating, luscious lips ... " The green of his eyes darkened as he gazed down at my mouth. "God, those lips ... " he sighed, and his warm breath drifted lightly across my mouth as his arms tightened around me more. He kissed me long and hard.

— Tess Oliver

“Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"
He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and then he nodded. He tapped his chest. "Yeah, my heart." He looked over at me. "But its feeling mighty vulnerable these days, so who knows.”

— Tess Oliver

I've got to take a pee. Remember, don't open for anyone. Even if Charlie friggin' Hunnam shows up on his Harley with his hot little white sneakers, don't open the damn door.

— Tess Oliver

“I was having one of my wading through molasses mornings where I could feel myself moving and thinking and doing, but it was all happening in slow motion.”

— Tess Oliver

“And I never wanted her to be scared of me, or scared of anything again. She'd already lived through the worst life had to offer. She'd earned that right, the right to never be terrified again. Let's”

— Tess Oliver

“What silence? I hear every word you write, every word you speak with your incredible face as if you'd spoken the words out a loud. You were meant to be with me, Scotlyn. Not him.”

— Tess Oliver

“It's one thing to love someone so completely that their loss causes you unfathomable grief, agony that rips at your very being. It's another thing to love someone so completely that you can no longer go on with your own life.”

— Tess Oliver