S.L. Jennings Quotes

“Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful.”

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“In my mind, I am this awesome, adventurous bad ass. But in reality, I am just a bookworm that really likes wine.”

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“He was't just my exception. He was my reason.”

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“Everyone has superpowers. Apparently mine are fucking and fighting. I'm insanely good at both.
-Gabriella”

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“Funny thing about life is that it never turns out the way you want it to.”

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Your fears are not you. Do you hear me? They don't define who you are.

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[ ... ] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side.

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“Don't worry," he smiled, pulling me into the hard warmth of his chest. "I've got you. I'll always catch you when you fall.”

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“I know you said you don't feel anything," he whispered. "But can you honestly say that you don't feel this? That this heat, this attraction, is all in my head? Don't think about it; just answer. Tell me what your heart wants to say and not what your head keeps trying to make you believe.”

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“I know what this is. I know this is my truth. My past. My present. My future. It is what I knew all along and, like a freaking idiot, ignored because my beautiful illusion was so much better than my tragic reality.
For once, I had embraced happiness. Bliss. In spite of finding out what I was, finding out that I was a half Light, half Dark inbreed, I was happy. Even with a damn supernatural assassin out for my
blood, I was content. Because of him. He made me whole. A new and improved Gabs. A girl that wanted to be good enough. For him.
Fuck. Him.”

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“I blink rapidly, breaking our reverie and force myself to focus on something,anything, other than his beauty. Or his body. A body I want pressed against mine, limbs and tongues twisted and tangled, our flesh contortioned into X-rated abstract art ...”

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“I needed to touch her. In that moment, it had become as necessary to me as air.”

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“We'll be together. I'll make this right for us. For you. I love you, little girl. In life and in death.”

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“I'm afraid because, whenever he's around, I'm not scared anymore. I feel ... safe. Like being near him is the most natural thing in the world.”

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“But I am very persistent. I never give up on the things that I want. This ... you and me ... it's inevitable. Theren't no use in fighting, Kami. It's going to happen. And when you are madly in love with me, the only thing you'll regret is not falling sooner.”

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“What the ... ? "Holy S***! You're 250 years old!?"
He gives me a wink of his beautiful eye in response. "Surprised?"
"Um, hell yeah. Ok, that's pretty much disgusting. Chester the Molester. I've been screwing an ancient artefact!" Dorian & Gabriella”

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“Please don't leave me, angel," I whisper, somewhere on the edges of sleep and the most beautiful dream. "I don't want to be in the dark anymore.”

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Life hurts. Hell, it hurts like a motherfucker.

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“SUBJECT: Real original
Dear Dark Assholes,
I get the point. Showing me that you know how to log onto a computer and utilize Google must've taken some pretty keen strategizing on your part.
Really, really cool trick. Now leave me the hell alone.
-The DL”

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“If all we have is now, I know I'll never be whole again. And, God ... it's worth it. You're worth it. I'll gladly stay broken for you.”

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“I just want her to touch me, even if it is a lie.”

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“But, we fear what we don't understand, and I didn't understand the feelings I had for Blaine.”

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“I can't live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can't dream without the stars kissing me goodnight.”

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What kind of self-respecting man doesn't read? That's like saying he doesn't feel the need to eat or bathe either. Reading is nurturing of the mind ... a cleansing of the soul. It opens our eyes to unseen beauty, and our hearts to the untouched pieces of ourselves that we've hidden away from the world. A man without words is a man who has no real awareness of anything or anyone outside of himself.

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You are so beautiful, Kami. And so strong. If you only knew how amazing you are ... I'll make you see it. I'll make you fee it.

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“I kiss her again just to keep my mouth from admitting that it was. The beginning of the end. The very start of the saddest goodbye in history. Because after tonight, she'll walk away from me and go back to him, holding a piece of me in the palm of her hand. And whenever I look up at the sky at night, wondering where she is, if she's happy, if Evan laughs at her corny jokes or smiles whenever she does, that empty space left behind within me will ache with remembrance. Because her light once filled it. She filled me in a way that nobody on this Earth could. And I'll never feel whole again.”

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“As long as a woman is mentally open, so are her legs.”

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“Do you want me, baby? Tell me you want me. Tell me you feel this too.”

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“Hell no. Absolutely not. I am a Skotos. We are to be feared. We never back down or run away from anything. Ever.”

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It reminded me that pain was necessary. Pain was life's curveball. Without it, we would never appreciate what it felt like to be loved.

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“My name is Kami and I am constantly afraid. And the thing that scares me the most is the very thing I want.”

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“Reading is nurturing of the mind ... a cleansing of the soul. It opens our eyes to unseen beauty, and our hearts to the untouched pieces of ourselves that we've hidden away from the world.”

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No one wants to fuck Chewbacca.

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“Please, Ally. Just stay," I whisper urgently, kissing the shell of her ear. "Stay, or tell me you don't want this. That I'm a fool for wanting you like I do.”

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I want you to keep this on, always. And think of me. i want to always be on your mind," he says tenderly. "As you are always on mine.

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It's just another notch in the good ol' fucked up, modern America belt.

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“She'd stutter all the reasons why she shouldn't, shaking her head adamantly. But her body..her body would grow hot with excitement. She'd get wet at the thrill of it. So fucking wet that i'd smell her, telling me she's not even wearing panties to smother her spicy scent.
When my hand touched hers, still clutched to her chest, she'd flinch but she wouldn't pull away. She'd let me guide it between her swollen breasts and down to her flat belly, brushing the bit of exposed skin where the hem of her shirt rides up. Then I'd let her fingers play with the jewel in her navel, manipulating each digit as if that diamond-studded barbell was her clit. Demonstrating how I would stroke it for her.”

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“So many years of being lonely and discounted, no one ever truly seeing me, the person that I really am. The Gabriella I so desperately wanted to be. Yet somehow he broke through the walls and barriers and penetrated my frail, dejected heart. He loves me for all that I am and what I will become, even though it scares us both to death. He accepts the darkest parts of me and doesn't try to change me, in all my shattered complexity. Meeting him has given this facade of my life new meaning. He's given me purpose, strength. He's given me love. Dorian has given me everything and, in turn, is everything to me. Designed by the Divine Power especially for me.”

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“The wife drives the ship. She is the puppet master. But in order to maintain a happy home, you must let the man believe that he calls the shots.”

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“Loving you is and will always be my greatest honor. You've done the impossible; you've opened me,
Gabriella. And despite what the future may hold for us, I will carry that with me forever. My heart will
always be yours, in life and in death.”

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“You don't have to define your feelings for me, Ally. Let me do it for you.”

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Hello, mouth. This is foot. Now choke on that shit.

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“She continued her study of the lines and colors embedded in my skin.”

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“Dorian Skotos became my savior in that moment, more so than he already was. And part of me-the Dark, ugly, abhorrent side-began to resent him for it.”

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“You love the lifestyle you live, and instead of licking your wounds and moving on, you'd rather fix your broken marriage. And I'm here to help you." "But how?" A slow, sardonic smile unfurls across my face. "I'm going to teach you how to fuck your husband.”

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“I was a vegan once. Then Dom made bacon at breakfast an hour later and I said fuck it ... Y.O.L.O!”

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“I'm saying that I can't live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can't dream without the stars kissing me goodnight. I can't be without you”

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“What kind of savior could I be when I was turning into a bona fide peen fiend?”

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“Would you really give all this up for me? Could you honestly be complacent with a normal life, and be a somewhat normal guy? He steps inside the room, holding the door for me to pass. Yet, he doesn't answer. He doesn't have to. His silence says enough. No. It won't be enough. Dorian was born and raised a prince.”

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“The angel tumbles down to Earth into my own personal realm of lust, hedonism and shame. With eyes the color of the ocean and her halo of fire burning as bright as the desert sun, she speaks to me. And while she is raw and sullied, tainted by this beautiful hell, her words breathe life into the darkest, loneliest parts of me.”

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