J.B. Salsbury Quotes

She is the most fascinating person I've ever known, and for the first time in my existence, I've met someone who makes me want to give away everything.

What we have isn't conventional, it wouldn't be considered ideal, but it's perfect for us. Because love never discriminates. Even when you're split.

I was on my way home." Exhaling a long breath, he meets my eyes. "I had to see you.

I opened my fucking soul to you. I held my heart in my hands and offered it to you, broken and battered and so demolished, but I gave it all to you. And you…" he shakes his head. "You give me nothing. Your walls are firmly in place while I'm bleeding out at your feet.

What are we doing?
Staring at each other now, locked gazes, I can see the questions swirling behind his eyes match my own. What started as a one-night stand has turned into something more, something neither of us planned, and yet here we are at an impossible crossroads.

She tilts her head so slightly that I am pulled deeper into her gaze, as though she's trying to tell me something or maybe trying to pull something out of me, and in doing so, she's drawing me in. her glare probes deep, and I'm incapable of looking away. Her pale eyes search mine and hold me hostage.
Not until she changes her focus to my neck do I blow out a breath from the freedom of her release. "Holy shit," I whisper.

Twenty-seven years, I've gotten every single thing I've ever wanted. And now, I want you.

Because inside my shell I'm that boy
Who was never given a say
The real me I'll cover and destroy
To keep the worst of the pain away.

Am I worth it? Maybe not, but we're worth it.

If at any time what we have causes you too much stress, you walk away. Okay?"
A humorless laugh bursts from my lips.
"That's the problem, Shy. Don't you get it?"
I dare a touch, reach forward and run a strands of her silky black hair between my fingers.
"I can't. I've tried, and..." I lick my lips and force the words from my mouth no matter how pathetic they make me sound. "You're impossible to walk away from.

I don't want her to see me as a married man. I don't want her to see me as a pastor. I want her to know I'm a warm-blooded male who has his eyes set on her and I'm capable of being the kid of man she needs.

Nothing about us makes sense except for what I feel when I'm with you.

Hypothetically speaking…"
They all nod.
"When you ask a woman who is clearly upset 'what's wrong' and they say 'nothing, I'm fine' - "
They all groan and shake their heads.
"So not fine."
"They're pissed."
"Fine is the atom-bomb of female emotions." Jesse cringes. "That's a word you never want to hear when you ask if everything's okay.

They all nod.They all nod.

Raven, a little later we can play Titanic" he calls over his shoulder. "I'll yell iceberg and you can go down.

Even though we've only spent a handful of nights together, it somehow feels like I've always known him. He touches me with the surety of a man who knows exactly how I like to be touched. My heart swells every time our gazes lock together to the point where I feel as if I will burst.

I don't want this to be it." He cups the back of my head, tilting his chin up to give me more of his throat. "Tell, if we do this, this won't be it.

Tears born of laughter feel so much better than those born from pain.

If I've given you the impression that I'm fragile, let me make myself clear. I can take whatever you dish out."
He licks his lips and my stomach tumbles as if I'm on a rollercoaster. "Fragile or not, I will break you."
"I'd love to see you try.

You don't have it in you to be a full-time jerk. Part-time? Maybe. You're a good guy at heart.

This wasn't supposed to happen." I don't recognize my own voice once the words rake up my chest and from my throat in a low grumble. "You were not supposed to happen." … "Do you have any fucking idea what you've done to my head?" I don't give her a chance to answer. "You're all I can think about.

It was like I'd gone so long without the missing piece of my soul, I'd forgotten it was even missing. But after seeing you again, the emptiness I feel without you is unbearable.

When we're together it's as if I'm the air and he's begging for his next breath.

You're right. I'm safer without you…but the thought of living without you is worse than my fears.

I'm in love with you, Mason.
The head-over-heels kind,
the making-big-changes kind,
the forever-and-ever kind.

If I flip a coin, what are the chances I'll get head?

Okay.'
'My gorgeous girl and her 'okays.

Sadie is mine.
She always has been and she always will be.
Nothing will change that.
I won't let it.

I can't change who I am, no matter how much I want to. The guilt and the self-hatred is frustrating and I'm so lost in who I am and who I wish I could be that somewhere along the way, I've lost my way.

I thought I had my life mapped out, thought I had it together. Then you came along and flipped my world on its head. You make me want things I never knew I needed.

I almost lost you."
"No, never. I would've fought. However long it took. I'd never give up until I was free. You're my life, Jonah. My family, my love, my best friend. Nothing, not even destiny, could keep me from you."
He leans forward and brushes his lips against mine.
"Okay.

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I want you to hear me when I say that I can give you my future, but I'm terrified to give you my past."
His hands slip around to lock behind my lower back. He scoots me closer until we're hip to hip. My name said with such longing, rumbled from his lips, sends blood racing through my veins. "What can I do? To get you to trust me with everything, every single part?" he brushes his lips across mine. "I want to know all of you, even the parts you refuse to let see the light.

You're like that single wild flower that grows from the crack in the pavement: miraculous growth with no water source or fertile soil. A person walking by would step around that flower to avoid crushing it. It's not like the field of wild flowers you tromp through carelessly, crushing them under your feet, knowing that the next day will bring a hundred more.

you, Raven Moretti, are mine. Doesnt matter if your a virgin or an alien. What you've told me changes nothing. Not. One. Thing!
-Jonah Slade

I hope you're ready, Taylor Marsten, because I'm going to be the best fucking boyfriend you've ever had.

Fighting gave me my breath, but you brought me back to life.

I'm falling in love with you."
His body stills above me, as if he's holding his breath.
…
He props his weight on his elbows and kisses me - soft, sweet, and with so much feeling, my eyes heat with unshed tears. "Good." He kisses me again. "Because I've already fallen in love with you.

Life is beautiful and terrifying … And we deserve to feel it down to our bones.

Where you are will always be home to me.

Eve is gorgeous, and she gets plenty of attention from guys, but her taste is selective. She only dates complete jerks.

There is nothing you could tell me that I won't love you through."
… I continue to hold her eyes. "There is nothing you could say or do that I won't love you through.

Do you love me, Jack?"
That one's easy. "With every single part of my being, I am in love with you. There hasn't been a single second of my life that I can remember when I wasn't in love with you.

There's not a thing in the world
I wouldn't break my back to give you.
If it meant making you happy,
I'd give up everything I have,
everything I've worked for.
You name it; it's yours.

If only everything were like that. It's not easy to do: owning and accepting the pain of our past, the heartbreak, our misgivings, and using them for good. Make our lives better not in spite of it all...but because of it.

The best thing that ever happened to me shows up in coveralls and a pair of Chucks when I least expect it. I'll do whatever it takes to keep her.