Lauren Dane Quotes

Ben told me when I was in middle school that girls loved boys who liked to dance. I can't lie. I totally started dancing at the dances to get girls."
… "It seems to work for you"
He took her hand and kissed it…
"Does it? 'Cause I'm working it, beautiful Ella, I'm working it. ~ Lauren Dane

Friends will sit your ass down and give you the 'Come To Jesus' talk when you need it most. ~ Lauren Dane

You know, El, you're so much more than the time you were with Bill and the attack. You took something shitty and you made a new future. Most people don't do that. They hang on forever. It's easy to stay in that pit of despair. Or let it be your excuse for not moving on. ~ Lauren Dane

Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful. ~ Lauren Dane

Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act. ~ Lauren Dane

I hope you find a place in your life when you can let go and be happy. But I'm not a dirty secret. I'm not bad and wrong for being comfortable with myself, and I won't let you make me feel that way. ~ Lauren Dane

Does this mean you're going to marry me then?"
"I've only been pestering you to marry me since the day we met, Daniel. What clued you in that I'd be interested other than that? ~ Lauren Dane

Look, wolf boy, he's gone. He came by, borrowed money," she snorted, "took money - it's not like I'll ever see it again - and headed out. Told me that the Pack was looking for him, wanting to kill him.
Even if I knew where he ran to, which I
don't, I certainly wouldn't tell someone out to hurt him. ~ Lauren Dane

When people lie to me they're telling me I'm not worth the truth. ~ Lauren Dane

Sugar, I am not playing a game. This is serious. I mean to woo you, so shut up and let me do it. ~ Lauren Dane

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric. ~ Lauren Dane

You, little bird, are welcome to any and all of my cookies. I'd even share my cake with you. ~ Lauren Dane

He found himself surprised by how much he enjoyed that they were taking it slow. Liked watching her gentle to him. Each time she did something that showed him how much she trusted him, pride flushed through him. She deserved all his attention on her as he got to know her on this entirely new level. It was achingly sexy, this dance they moved through. Delicious with anticipation. He let himself luxuriate in the slow woo, the seduction of it rather than a quick f*ck with someone he didn't plan to see in a week. He'd never used his sexuality like this, hadn't turned it up full blast to enchant a woman this way. But by God, he wanted her, and why not show her just exactly what she did to him? ~ Lauren Dane

First of all, I was running scams when you were at keggers at Kappa Kappa Werewolf. You don't know much about me but I am way smarter than Gabriel was. I'm a consummate liar. I can street fight with the best of them and I can cheat at cards like nobody's business. This on top of my computer skills. I may not howl at the moon and have superhuman strength but I can hold my own. ~ Lauren Dane

All right. And if any of you get hurt I'm going to be really mad. I sleep with a Glock next to my bed so don't think I'm joking. I will shoot you if you don't make sure Gibson gets back here safely ~ Lauren Dane

Love isn't enough so you have to work your tail off to make up that last twenty percent. Don't rely on love, rely on your head and your heart and the knowledge that working and being in love is way better than slacking off and having it all fall apart later. ~ Lauren Dane

I love you, Levi."
"Thank God for it because I love you too."
Her laugh was back in his house again. Her scent on his sheets.
Her crap on his bathroom counter and her stuff in the drawers in his armoire.
She lived in him and he had no plans to ever let that change.
It didn't matter that she was younger than he was. All that mattered was that she loved him and he loved her. The rest they could work out as time passed. She'd keep him in line. Decorate their house and fill it with music and love. And one day with children.
They had time, he realized. Time to be in love and be engaged. Time for her art and his job, time for weddings and honeymoons and nesting. She was his, forever. As deeply as he was hers.
Made the groveling worth it.

~~Sway ~ Lauren Dane

You still smell like the best thing I've ever tasted. ~ Lauren Dane

Your precious dirty underpants and scores of blades are untouched by me. But I'm not thick. I can actually see something dangerous and not poke myself in the eye with it. ~ Lauren Dane

Eve of Darkness is, well, sigh, really damned good. I can't wait for the next installment. ~ Lauren Dane

Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts. ~ Lauren Dane

Look at you. How did you happen to me?"
Gods, shew as just going to cry if he kept this up.
"I just ... there's no one else. Ever. It's you until I no longer draw breath. ~ Lauren Dane

I don't have poetry like you do. I only know that I love how my sheets smell after you've been in my bed. ~ Lauren Dane

She didn't think in terms of "dom" being capitalized and "sub" being lowercase. To Erin, D/s wasn't about one person being worthy of a capital letter and the other not. It wasn't about unequal worth; it was about two equals sharing power, sharing sex and emotion. She didn't submit to him because she wanted to be debased or harmed, because she needed to be lesser than anyone. She was aware some people got off on that, and hey, whatever floats your boat. But when he dominated her, she felt cherished and adored, cosseted in those cherished moments between them-in a way she never achieved with anyone else. ~ Lauren Dane

In any case, in general, I prefer to avoid conflict when I can. Not because I'm afraid or because I'm too weak to fight back. But because conflict eats up your time. It is exhaustive in terms of energy you have to expend to be involved in it. More if you mean to win, and I'd never do it if I didn't mean to win. I'd rather spend my time on other things and in general, most people aren't worth that much of my time and energy. ~ Lauren Dane

Hi there! You're cute. Do you have any girlfriends? 'Cause Gran says Momma needs a man in her life. Then Pops says, 'Pfft, Martine, the last thing Elise needs is a man!' But I think my Gran is right."
"Rennie, for tonight, let's play the think-about-what-we-say-before-we-say-it-game. ~ Lauren Dane

Young? Yes. He probably had wrenches older than she was. ~ Lauren Dane

A laugh burst from Nina's lips. Not as awkward as it must be for you. Honey, please. If you bent around any harder trying to let me know you fucked Lex to try and make me feel bad, you'd be a pretzel. Although you're about as smart as one. ~ Lauren Dane

I want to hold you and shelter you, but I don't want to dim your light, angel. Do you understand the difference? ~ Lauren Dane

You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife.
- Marc to Olivia ~ Lauren Dane

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling. ~ Lauren Dane

Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up. ~ Lauren Dane

Holy shit." Daisy breathes it out as they headed back to where Jonah was now standing with Levi. "If you made semen, I'd totally have your babies. ~ Lauren Dane

Nina, before you i never spent the night with women. I had sex and left. I didn't bring them here. They served a purpose and it was a body-to-body thing. You are everything. Body, soul, heart to my body, soul and heart. You're it. We're it. ~ Lauren Dane

I definitely think there are times
setbacks
where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time. ~ Lauren Dane

I pay attention. Nothing more than that."
"You make it sound like it's no big deal to pay attention when the sad fact is, most people don't. It takes a lot of energy to listen. ~ Lauren Dane

And those blonde skeezoids you were a boy skeezoid with can fuck right off. ~ Lauren Dane

Bull. Look, sometimes certain kinds of pain bring important lessons. Those lessons harden you, prepare you for your life and the only way to learn them, the only way to be a better, stronger and yes, harder person to survive the world outside is to learn those lessons first hand. Pain forges strength. ~ Lauren Dane

Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I am. Flaws and all. Because I'm good in bed and I can carry heavy things and reach all the high shelves. ~ Lauren Dane

It wouldn't be easy with this man. He had trouble written all over him.
But there was something else too ... There was something in his eyes that gave her an absolute surety that he'd be worth the struggle.
She expected scientific proof of many things. But sometimes fate was just fate. And he was hers. ~ Lauren Dane

You're weird. I thought brothers were supposed to pretend their sisters were sexless."
...
"I'm your brother, not an idiot. If he hurts you, I'll crush him, but I want you to be happy. You want him and that's enough for me. ~ Lauren Dane

He knew he'd be back, because he had a bit of a like on for the very charming, blushing Elise. Like was a good thing between two single adults. Especially if it entailed naked and horizontal moments. ~ Lauren Dane

I know your game, you know. You get nasty when you're backed into a corner. ~ Lauren Dane

He growled a sigh and her insides got all warm and gooey. She really needed to date nice men who didn't growl.
-Lily Travis ~ Lauren Dane

Dude you say the best stuff. You're so getting lucky. ~ Lauren Dane

Erin, I'd like to know you again. Can we do that? He brushed the back of his knuckles down her cheek. ~ Lauren Dane

You don't always choose who you love, sometimes it just happens. ~ Lauren Dane

But first he was going to eat her until he made her come really,really hard.He leaned in close and breathed her in.Then he licked.So.Fucking.Good. ~ Lauren Dane

For all her talk of being or so progressive and free ... all she really is is full of shit! ~ Lauren Dane

I carry this thing between us, like a weight. A good weight, in my pocket. I reach out and hold it from time to time like a wonderful secret. I will always have that. I will never feel this way about another woman, ever. My heart will be yours forever, no matter who shares your bed, no matter whose children you bear. I'm here." He tapped her chest. "And you're here." He tapped his own. ~ Lauren Dane

We're your safe place, El. Me and Elise. The guys. We're your family. You don't need to pull lattes. You have your degree, you have a great job and you'll take the crappy part of your past and use that to help people get to the good part of their future. ~ Lauren Dane

Sleep. I'm here to catch you. ~ Lauren Dane

You're a pain in my ass."
"I was a pain in the ass long before I met you, Roman. Don't take it personally. ~ Lauren Dane

Music was alchemy.
Music was sex.
When it was right, when everything fit together just perfectly, it was better than any feeling he'd ever experienced. ~ Lauren Dane

Between the inked-up, rough-and-tumble Mick and Adam, the debonair dom, she was totally screwed. But like, in a good way. This sort of thing they made together was a sort of magic, and there was nothing she could do but love it as much as she loved them. ~ Lauren Dane

Cam pitied them. They had no idea of the particular joy of a Friday afternoon at four o'clock, or the hedonistic thrill of a Saturday-midnight joyride that took all of Sunday to recover from ~ Lauren Kate

I don't want you to walk away from me after I tell you I love you. ~ Christina Lauren

Grief can choke you. It's dangerous, something else you have to beat. ~ Lauren Kate

My face is burning and I want to kick her, I want to kick her, I want to kick her. ~ Lauren DeStefano

She always pretended to herself that she didn't let Lauren help because she was trying to be the perfect mother-in-law, but really, when you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen. Lauren reappeared ~ Liane Moriarty

Judah knew Noa hadn't said it was good-bye. She'd done it as he would have done it, if he'd had the chance: with just an ordinary moment. Unremarkable moments were the ones you missed the most- the ones you didn't realize were precious at the time, and so later could not remember. The moments you lost, when you lost a sister. ~ Lauren Bird Horowitz

As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other. ~ Lauren Kate

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren't. ~ Lauren Lola

Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart. ~ Lauren Oliver

Like her mother Lauren used to say, books were solid proof that ordinary people were capable of creating magic. ~ Melissa Hill

No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time. ~ Lauren Oliver

Life - standing under the high heat of the desert sun, without a cloud in the bright ~ Lauren Blakely

Audrey, I need you to say it." "Say what?" she asks slowly. "Say what's written all over your face. Say what's on your fingers every time you touch me. Say what's in your eyes every morning that we wake up together. Say what your body feels every time I'm inside of you. Please ... just say it. ~ Kimberly Lauren

He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.
It's time to jump. ~ Lauren Oliver

Alex, please."
He balls his fists. "Stop saying my name. You don't know me anymore."
"I do know you." I'm still crying, swallowing back spasms in my throat, struggling to breathe. This is a nightmare and I will wake up. This is a monster-story, and he has come back to me a terror-creation, patched together, broken and hateful, and I will wake up and he will be here, and whole, and mine again. I find his hands, lace my fingers through his even as he tries to pull away. "It's me, Alex. Lena. Your Lena. Remember? Remember 37 Brooks, and the blanket we used to keep in the backyard - "
"Don't," he says. His voice breaks on the word.
"And I always beat you in Scrabble," I say. I have to keep talking, and keep him here, and make him remember. "Because you always let me win. And remember how we had a picnic one time, and the only thing we could find from the store was canned spaghetti and some green beans? And you said to mix them - "
"Don't."
"And we did, and it wasn't bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me." I'm gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I'm reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.
"Stop." He grabs my shoulders. His face is an inch from mine but unrecognizable: a gross, contorted mask. "Just stop. No more. It's done, okay? That's all done now."
"Alex, please - "
"Stop!" His v ~ Lauren Oliver

I don't hate Dane Cook, but I am trying to go after people I think are capable of more. ~ Andy Kindler

I want you to watch. And tomorrow when you're sore, I want you to remember who did it to you. ~ Christina Lauren

And I might propose to you soon. I stared at my phone, reading this line again, and again. "Okay," I whispered. So give me a heads-up if you won't say yes, because I'm mildly terrified. ~ Christina Lauren

A feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can. ~ Lauren Groff

He turned Adam around and tilted his
face up. Confidence, ease, and damn it, love, shone in Rhone's silver eyes. "But even if they hadn't" --
he pressed a gentle, lingering kiss to Adam's lips -- "you're mine now, and I would not have given you
up. You can either accept it, and we'll get started on this thing right away" -- Rhone slid his hand around
Adam's waist and then went lower -- "or I can pursue you. While that would be a lot of fun… Christ,
think about the time we'd miss out on sharing a bed until I caught you." His fingers traced Adam's
crease through his pants. "So, what do you think? ~ Cameron Dane

You aren't crazy,' he says. 'What?' 'I've known you all your life, and you've always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you.' Those may be the best words he's ever said to me. ~ Lauren DeStefano

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love. ~ Ralph Lauren

I dream of where I am, and what lies before me. I do not dream of where I've been or what I've left behind. I tell myself that this is what I've wanted from the moment I was captured, and that I should be happy. ~ Lauren DeStefano

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined. ~ Frank Dane

This lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him ~ Lauren Kate

Funny how people could be around you for so many years, and be so off the mark. ~ Lauren Oliver

This fresh-cut-grass smell was the olfactory scream of the plants. ~ Lauren Groff

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.' ~ Lauren Conrad

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen. ~ Ralph Lauren

I don't think your dad is ever going to forget that the first time I met him I was holding ropes and a paddle he thought I was going to use on his daughter. ~ Rebecca Julia Lauren

Like everybody and trust no one. ~ Lauren Conrad

My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it. ~ Dane DeHaan

What I'm always afraid of is going off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material ... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it. ~ Lauren Shuler Donner

I cautiously approach him on the bed, thinking about all the times I've been taught what to do when approaching a wounded animal. ~ Kimberly Lauren

I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it. ~ Lauren Oliver