Annabel Blakely Quotes

Perfection is an illusion that I have mastered. It is the weak who suffer in mediocrity. But my fears are very real and the story of my past is what nightmares are made of. The monsters no longer hide under my bed. I welcome them under the covers. Popularity is a contest after all and I was anything but a loser. ~ Teresa Mummert

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. ~ Sara Blakely

Maybe we just need to find the daring in the every day, he says, ~ Lauren Blakely

She was the only one he saw, the only one he ever wanted to see. ~ Lauren Blakely

I'm here because of a letter.
Not the kind with hearts and lipstick marks, but the kind that takes your breath away. I wanted it to have that effect on him, and so it was the story of how we fell in love told through our kisses. Both kisses we'd had and kisses I wanted to have, and places I wanted to kiss. Places like Paris and Amsterdam, along the river or by the canal, or Kauai under waterfalls.
It was an epic love letter, and it was all I'd ever wanted in my life-to feel that kind of epic love. ~ Lauren Blakely

I've already gone through all the reasons to ignore her. I've already tried to fight this for far too long. I'm not winning any awards for resistance. I never did. I threw in the towel many moons ago. ~ Lauren Blakely

Just remember this, for what it's worth. I adore you. Absolutely, completely, with everything I have. I will give you everything, all my heart, all my love, anything you want. You mean more to me than I ever imagined. Being without you is hell. ~ Lauren Blakely

I have all the power.
And I need it terribly.
I need the power play. I need to make all the choices, to enter this deal with my eyes wide open.
Neither one of us believes in marriage, but we both believe in honesty, and in honest pleasure. Giving it, rather than giving away my heart. ~ Lauren Blakely

I get to marry the fairy queen. ~ Annabel Joseph

With some people, chemistry never fades. Perhaps for some, it intensifies. ~ Lauren Blakely

Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow ... When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!" it doesn't carry the same weight as when a mother yells those words to a child ... Even if you don't physically abuse young children, you can still drive them nuts with your words. ~ Mary Blakely

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.
From The Wife Drought ~ Annabel Crabb

He had probably made a mistake by requesting that Annabel read to them, but his intention was to behave as usual. Or, at least that was one intention. He also wanted to keep her as near to him as he could. He could see she was rattled, even more than he expected, and he hoped to be a calming influence on her. ~ Melanie Dickerson

I'd fight for you, Julia. I'd get you everything you wanted. I'd give you everything you wanted. ~ Lauren Blakely

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness. ~ Sara Blakely

Imagination Equals Inspiration (My own Inspirational Quote) ~ Annabel Sheila

I think it's fate," he says softly.
"You do? You believe in fate?"
Scooting closer to me, he rests his hand on my hipbone, his thumb stroking a lazy rhythm there. "I do, in the sense that I believe some things are inevitable. The sun rises, the moon travels round the earth, you were meant for me, and I was meant for you," he says. ~ Lauren Blakely

We've all made mistakes. We've all done things we wish we hadn't. The goal is to learn, and to move on and try to live a life of no regrets. ~ Lauren Blakely

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it. ~ Mary Blakely

I'm sorry I didn't go with you. I'm sorry I didn't talk to you. I'm sorry I gave you an ultimatum. I'm sorry I twisted words around because I was desperate to keep you. ~ Lauren Blakely

Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward. ~ Sara Blakely

it's a terrible feeling when you first fall in love. your mind gets completely taken over, you can't function properly anymore. the world turns into a dream place, nothing seems real. you forget your keys, no one seems to be talking English and even if they are you don't care as you can't hear what they're saying anyway, and it doesn't matter since your not really there. things you cared about before don't seem to matter anymore and things you didn't think you cared about suddenly do. I must become a brilliant cook, I don't want to waste time seeing my friends when I could be with him, I feel no sympathy for all those people in India killed by an earthquake last night; what is the matter with me? It's a kind of hell, but you feel like your in heaven.
even your body goes out of control, you can't eat, you don't sleep properly, your legs turn to jelly as your not sure where the floor is anymore. you have butterflies permanently, not only in your tummy but all over your body - your hands, your shoulders, your chest, your eyes everything's just a jangling mess of nerve endings tingling with fire. it makes you feel so alive. and yet its like being suffocated, you don't seem to be able to see or hear anything real anymore, its like people are speaking to you through treacle, and so you stay in your cosy place with him, the place that only you two understand. occasionally your forced to come up for air by your biggest enemy, Real Life, so you do the minimum then head back down ~ Annabel Giles

Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids. ~ Mary Blakely

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. ~ Mary Kay Blakely

Neither he nor Annabel did anything wrong. To see someone you love so horribly punished and tortured - to think they'd abandoned you only to find out that you abandoned them - " She shuddered. "I ~ Cassandra Clare

There's only one cure for weirdness."
"Anal? ~ Lauren Blakely

I want to mark you, and I want to own you. I want to fucking live inside you. ~ Annabel Joseph

You stood with me in the bleak, black house. Don't let the light fool you. Don't leave me. What if you leave? ~ Annabel Joseph

Do you know about it, Kelsey?" he asked after a while. "Dominance and submission? This thing we're doing? I don't know so good how to explain it. Only how to do it. ~ Annabel Joseph

How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant
children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries
as everyone imagined. ~ Mary Blakely

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go. ~ Steven Herrick

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb. ~ Annabel Pitcher

Because, let's be honest, if you're going to stick a needle in your skin, you want to make sure you're not going to a butcher. ~ Lauren Blakely

All I hope is that you can someday know that love doesn't have to be a brutal, bitter, power game. Love can be the ugly beautiful. ~ Lauren Blakely

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. ~ Sara Blakely

Also," Bunty adds cheerfully, "how many cats did you have when you left?"
"One," Annabel says, putting her hand over her face.
"You have three now." Bunty swings hrt bag over her shoulder. "See you at Christmas, lovelies!"
And my grandmother disappears as abruptly as she arrived. ~ Holly Smale

I don't even know if I have bones in my body anymore. I don't know how I'm standing. I could melt under the sweet heat of his lips that are now tracing a line down my chest to the very top of my breasts, as he tugs gently at my shirt, giving himself room to leave one more brush of his lips, before he stops. ~ Lauren Blakely

You'll marry the earl and carry on with the nephew on the side."
"Grandmother! ~ Julia Quinn

So long, Bird Girl,' he whispered, changing the emphasis to stress the first word. 'So long,' I agreed, because a life without him would be. ~ Annabel Pitcher

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable. ~ Sara Blakely

In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community. ~ Mary Blakely

Because you know how to enjoy things. Because you don't deny yourself. Because you let yourself feel pleasure and want. And that's the kind of person who likes gifts. The kind of person who knows how to enjoy life. ~ Lauren Blakely

It's terrifying, how much things have changed in the space of a few days. A week ago I was an ordinary girl with parents that I loved, a home where I belonged and a friend who I adored. But I was blooming under false pretences, and it was only a matter of time before everything fell apart.
Now I'm alone' - ppg 125+126 ~ Annabel Pitcher

I've fallen wildly, madly, relentlessly in love with my best friend's sister, and I can't imagine living without her. ~ Lauren Blakely

It was a good shot, but he didn't execute it very well. ~ Annabel Croft