Ilsa Madden-Mills Quotes

Forget those stupid MasterCard commercials. Watching two chicks duke it out in high heels ... now, that's priceless.

Truth can be awful and even excruciating, but once it's released, it's like a bird that's been caged too long who finally flies to freedom. I felt a little like that. Free

He grunts. "Really? No one wanted them to be together. None of the gods approved. Who'd love the kind of the underworld?"
"The right person.

Why was he my Romeo, but I wasn't his Juliet?

I was just a simple, young girl whose love for a boy would last until the end of time.

I never met a girl I couldn't say goodbye to

Fuck Briarcrest Academy, and fuck you all.

I'm the guy who's going to take you up against this wall. I'm going to bury my cock in you and own your body and you're going to love it. But I'm not going to hurt you. Ever.

From the moment she'd taken the stage, my eyes had followed her. Probably because she was tall and blonde and wealthy, a prime example of an American princess-type. I bet she was popular and the quarterbacks girlfriend. I bet she had a pet Chihuahua she carried around in her purse. No doubt, her parents gave her anything her heart desired. She was spoiled rotten and didn't know shit about the real world. Nora Blakely was everything I avoided when it came to girls.

But this girl, she lived in a bubble, and seeing her out at a frat party was like spotting a unicorn.

Why did I want her so fucking much? Why couldn't I push her away like I did everyone else? Why couldn't I breathe when I saw her?

If I want to fuck Cuba, then I'll enjoy every dirty moment. I'm not afraid of getting my heart broken Leo. There's not one there to break.

I can't forget the words you've never said.

Your scars are beautiful. It means you survived. It means you're here with me." He kissed my wrist, light as a feather - and changed everything about us. "It's my favorite part of you,

Happiness. I believed few people ever achieved it.

Sometimes the loneliest place on earth is in the midst of a crowd

I sat there, letting the idea of starting again soak in, finding beauty in the balance of life. We have ups and downs, and how we deal is up to us.

Some people think God puts difficult people in our lives for a reason, to make us better people as we sharpen ourselves on the knife of their shortcomings.

It hit me then, my epiphany. Death is a constant, but love? It is rare.

Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.

Somedays will eat you alive. They're promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end.

Falling for someone can be a lot like playing roulette. You don't know what will happen when you place that bet, but you can take a deep breath anyway and put all the chips out there. And when the ball spins around and around, you pray it lands on your number. Probability says you'll likely lose, and in this game of love with Leo, odds were I would lose, too, but I had to try.

If love is the answer, then I'm changing the question.

It felt good to be bad-nora

I was putting my foot down with my new neighbor.

You don't want me, Nora. I'll fuck you, and when I'm done, I'll leave you.

We think we're invincible, but we're not. One way or another, we're all placed six feet under.

She's stupid on a stick.

Clarity happens to all of us when our heart jumps ship, and mine was no different.

The truth is, trying not to want her made me want her more.

The thing to remember about a kick is you go for his twigs and berries" ~Declan~

I didn't know jack, but I did know that even after the people you love are torn from you, time keeps beating away at the black metronome that's called life. It doesn't care that you've cracked wide open, that you're screaming for everyone to just stop. It doesn't hear you. You are nothing. People still go to dinner, planes take off and land, lions roar, violins play. And you are left in your corner, hanging on to memories, nothing more than a speck of dust on the metronome's base. - from the journal of Violet St. Lyons

Italian food trumps ex-boyfriends every time,

Trouble at two o'clock. Evil bitch and copycat cohort arriving in three, two, one ... annnd ... they're here.

Big moments happen with the smallest actions, and sometimes it's not until later we connect the dots, but in that instant, I knew that somehow, someway Declan was going to own my heart.

Could you love me, love me, love me
Do it, please, fall for me.
Baby, give me one more moment,
Just one more moment with you.
~"Fly Away" by Leo Tate

As soon as forever is gone, I'll be over you.

Loving people hurt; losing them could destroy you.

Here's the thing, Cuba. Somedays will eat you alive. They're promises you make to fool yourself into believing everything will turn out right in the end. Someday, your ship will come in. Someday, you'll tell me why you're an asshole. But that someday gets further and further away, until before you know it, it turns into never. Make your someday, now. That's my motto.

SOMETIMES, YOU JUST need a badass theme song to get you through the day.

We all travel life's highway, making good and bad choices based on upbringing and beliefs. And, in the end, we have to be able to live with what we've done.

Happiness is simply collecting and remembering all the good moments in your life ...

The sun may be gone, but the stars are still there, waiting, always giving you light.

As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah.

I didn't want to coast by anymore. I wanted some fucking happiness.

I'd like to sleep for a hundred years, wake up and try again.
-Nora Blakely

Sometimes in the middle of a normal day, a life-changing choice is thrown in front of you. Right then, you're one decision away from a completely different existence. You decide your future even though you aren't even aware you're doing it. Your choice might result in finding love or death or winning the fucking lottery - you don't know.

As if she sensed me, her eyes opened and when her green ones found mine, I swear, it felt like someone hit the pause button on the universe and she was all I could see.

Being alone in a room full of people who never really looked at you didn't bother me. Or at least that's what I told myself.

I'd like to pet that jungle cat, rub his silky fur and make him purr ... I slapped myself mentally. Jungle cat? Make him purr? What was wrong with me tonight?

And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me.

She was my queen and I wanted to be her king. I wanted to sit at the throne of her body and love her forever,