R.J. Prescott Quotes

Life isn't about settling for what you have and making the best of it. It's about getting back up, when everyone else around you is counting you out, and fighting for what you want.

...he was my complete opposite in every way, but his soul was the other half of mine. he was the loud to my quiet, the confidence to my shyness, the rage to my pain. Separately, we were broken and alone. Together, we were blissfully happy and complete

That was the thing about love, I'd discovered. It wasn't about having a blissfully wonderful relationship where everything was always sunshine and roses. No matter how pure and beautiful your love was, life could be cruel and ugly. It would throw things at your relationship when you were tired and broke. It would be strained and tested through the worst of storms. Real love, though, the kind that saw couples live through sixty years of World Wars and recessions and still let them stare at each other on their death bed with the same devotion that they felt on their wedding day, love like that, well, it lasted forever.

Well, I'm only gonna have one life, so I might as well spend it with someone I love everything about.

You both make each other want to be better people, and that's a feckin' rare thing. Far too many couples drown each other in their own selfishness these days.

Seriously? Of all the cool names you could have picked when you registered me, 'The Storm' was the best you could come up with?" Kieran said to Con.
"What? You don't get it? A storm is a baby hurricane, you know, like you're the smaller, less-powerful version of me," Con answered, chuckling at his own cleverness

closed my door as he strode down the hall and banged my head back against it. So much for not falling for him

Son, fear lives in the dark. Drag it into the light and you'll see there was never anything to be afraid of in the first place. You tell Em how you're feeling?" he asked, frowning.

Kier, do friends kiss each other good luck?" "Hell, yes," he replied in mock seriousness. "I gave Con a good bit of lip loving this afternoon to cheer him on.

You're my best friend, my missing piece, and the only person who can make my world amazing just by being in it.

I'd been so caught up in surviving and staying free, that I'd forgotten that freedom was a state of mind.

m sorry about that," O'Connell apologised.

"No problem. She seemed nice," I replied.

Both boys burst out laughing

You know friends don't hold hands," I whispered, knowing that there was no way that I was letting go first.
"Huh," he grunted. "Me and Kier hold hands all the time

Come, my young padawan

You're a little bit geeky, aren't you?" "That I am, my friend. A little bit geeky, but mostly a kickarse, hardcore bitch.

Then don't marry me to change your name. Marry me because there will never be another man in this world who loves you as much as I do. You're my best friend, my missing piece, and the only person who can make my world amazing just by being in it. Marry me because I promise you a lifetime of love and laughter and happiness.

Yuk. Get a room," Nikki complained. "We did. You're in it!

true love ain't the passenger train that pulls up at the station so that you can board when it's time. It's the freight train that ploughs into you when you least expect it. That's how it was for me at any rate. There's just no getting over something like that, and if you find someone who makes you feel that way, you hold onto her forever.

Good stuff likes to take up a fair bit of space in your head and you heart. So, this is just your body's way of getting rid of all that poison to make room for the good stuff.

Bad shit happens all the time. You keep moving forward until you find some happiness that made you glad you kept moving,

This giant among giants had never used his strength to intimidate me. His power lay in making me fall in love with him, and to do that, he'd laid himself at my feet, offering all that he had and all of himself without asking for anything in return except my heart.