Lisa Henry Quotes

Some guys were meant to be heroes. I was never one of them, but fuck it, I could learn. ~ Lisa Henry

It'll blow your mind, he'd said. Nothing about what it would do to his heart. ~ Lisa Henry

Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again. ~ Lisa Henry

Because Clare had never let the fact that Mark didn't have a father in his life get in the way of sex education. She'd been showing Mark how to roll condoms onto bananas long before he'd known it was other bananas he was interested in. ~ Lisa Henry

It was an accident?" Nick attempts. "An accident?" Chris huffs out. "An accident? You accidentally gave someone a blowjob?" If Nick never hears the word "blowjob" come out of his dad's mouth again, he'll die a happy man. ~ Lisa Henry

You're my heartbeat, Brady. ~ Lisa Henry

If we want to survive, we adapt. ~ Lisa Henry

I'm wearing a French maid's outfit because this bunch of misogynistic homophobes thinks that the most humiliating thing you can do to a guy is put him in a skirt and call him a woman. And instead of telling them to fuck off, that if I wanted to wear drag, I'd do it fucking proudly, I'm letting them win. ~ Lisa Henry

I was his heartbeat. I was his fucking universe.
Now I was, but soon I wouldn't be.
I would miss that, miss being important.
I would miss having someone. ~ Lisa Henry

Derek was in good shape, not just for a man his age but for any man. So maybe he wouldn't be able to get away with wearing skinny jeans, but that didn't matter. Those were for emo kids, hipsters, and twinks and should be outlawed for over thirties anyway ~ Lisa Henry

Sometimes he liked to think about leaving South Pass City and going west like he was meant to, like his dream-self had, except he suspected that the idea he had of what it would be like there was no more real than the version of himself that was whole. He would get there and it would be no different than here. Going west wouldn't heal him. Wouldn't transform him. Nothing would.
Even in a perfect world, Elijah would be flawed. ~ Lisa Henry

The men who killed your monsters weren't heroes. They were even more frightening. ~ Lisa Henry

Un-fucking-believable," Mark muttered. "In a country where they let embryos drive cars, I have to wait until I'm twenty-one to buy alcohol. What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" He glared at Deacon accusingly. "Well? ~ Lisa Henry

Cam shook his head. 'Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?'
'Nope.' I hooked my fingers into his waistband and pulled him closer. 'Nobody does. That's why I remain undiagnosed.' ~ Lisa Henry

(Erin) 'What do you think gave you this interest?' Yep. There it was. 'I'm not saying anything bad about it. I just wonder what makes one person want to hit another. Did I not give you enough contact when you were young? Should I have breast-fed?'
(Derek)'I'm pretty sure it started when you left me in the bread aisle when I was two. I started thinking the only way to get people to notice me was to tie them up and whip them. ~ Lisa Henry

What's the difference between a lie and a secret? ~ Lisa Henry

You dreamed about falling asleep?" Daniel asked him.
"Falling asleep together." Bel smile. "And it was weird. You know what I said to you?"
"What'd you say?"
"I said, 'Don't go too far without me.' ~ Lisa Henry

'You're like starlight,' Cam whispered, and his teeth scraped up my jaw. I shivered. 'I could lose myself in you.' ~ Lisa Henry

Nice to meet you," Blake said and seemed almost genuine about it. "You play?" "Play what?" Mark asked. Blake looked slightly offended. "Football, dude!" Right. As though he couldn't have possibly been referring to anything else. Although, going on his size alone, it made sense. "Do you mean soccer, or rugby, or league, or AFL, or that other shit?" Mark asked. ~ Lisa Henry

I love you," he said, and I wondered which one of us he was trying to convince. "You're like a secret nobody else has heard yet, and the selfish part of me is glad that other people don't know you the way I do, because if they saw how perfect you are, every one of them would try to steal you away from me. ~ Lisa Henry

Bel pointed. "Head. Tail. Pets go here." He pointed to the dog's head again. "Farts come out here." He pointed to the dog's back end. "That's all you need to know about Stump. ~ Lisa Henry

And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby. No point in panicking. No point in breaking. No point in anything at all. ~ Lisa Henry

After girls we talked about the officers, and which ones hated us most that week, and how we never did anything to deserve it, and they were just assholes, and if they didn't have those stripes on their shoulders, they wouldn't be so tough. Man-to-man we could take them. That was all talk too, I guess. ~ Lisa Henry

Blake looked confused. So footballers were mostly the same the world over. "Football," Blake said. "Ya know ... football? ~ Lisa Henry

He'd thought there was no part of him that Ben hadn't laid bare, but there was his hope. There was his heart. ~ Lisa Henry

You saved my life. You're my whole world, and still I turn away. ~ Lisa Henry

But suddenly I was dreaming of cock. Fisting it, sucking it, riding it, in glorious fucking Technicolor. ~ Lisa Henry

Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen. ~ Lisa Henry

I had to be the worst backup plan in the history of the universe, but here I was anyway. ~ Lisa Henry

(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash? ~ Lisa Henry

I want my son back," his mom had said. Lee didn't know where to find him. ~ Lisa Henry

What sort of place lets you drive and vote and fuck before it lets you drink a beer?" ~Mark Cooper ~ Lisa Henry

If Nick were on a quest to return the One Ring to the fiery pits of Mount Doom, Jai Hazenbrook would totally be the hot-as-fuck elf in tight leather pants who could shoot the left testicle off an orc at a thousand paces. Whereas Nick, of course, would be the short hairy-footed guy who liked beer and fireworks and second breakfasts. Even in his fantasy worlds, Nick is a realist. ~ Lisa Henry

Ah," Mark said. "I see. Awkward silence."
"You don't say 'awkward silence'," Alex said. "You just let it happen."
"I said 'awkward silence' to fill the awkward silence. It's meta."
"I don't think it is. ~ Lisa Henry

It was fine to be mocked or disliked on his own terms. But his sexual orientation was such a naked target, unfortified by nonchalance and lacking the benefit of being a persona he'd constructed. Gay Mark wasn't sheddable like Smart-Ass Mark or Bitter-About-the-Move Mark. ~ Lisa Henry

He just . . . Nick just wanted to be special. He wanted to be Luke, with a destiny. He wanted to be Frodo, with a quest. He wanted to be an unlikely hero and do something that mattered, but there are no quests in the real world, where everything is much bigger and more tangled and complex than in the stories he loves. In the real world, small people don't get to be heroes, and Nick is the smallest person he knows. ~ Lisa Henry

Deacon flushed and smiled. "I guess you're right. I just want to feel, like ... used. I want you to fuck me like I'm ... like I'm
"
"A cheap whore?" Mark supplied. He was familiar with the feeling.
"Yes!" Deacon looked relieved. Then nervous again. "Only don't ... "
Mark wound an arm around him and kissed his cheek. "Spit it out. If I can clean my bowels out in front of you, you can tell me how you want to be fucked."
Deacon hesitated. "Just don't be mean about it, okay? I want you to be dirty but not mean. Does that make sense?"
"Completely. ~ Lisa Henry

I never wanted this," said Bastian, crouching over him. He brought the paperweight down again, into the center of Mason's face, feeling the bridge of his nose fracture under the blow. "I never said yes." He lifted his arm and brought it down again and again, and closed his eyes as the red liquid splattered over his face, dousing him in warmth. "You never gave me the chance." He didn't stop until Mason's twitching limbs fell still and his breath creased to froth through his ruined jaw. ~ Lisa Henry

For most people, blood is still thicker than water, but I guess all bets are off when you put money in the mix. ~ Lisa Henry

Are you mad?"
"Why would I be mad?"
"I'm covered in mud."
"Are you sure that's mud? I thought you were covered in the dreams you made in the dirt. ~ Lisa Henry

At what point in your life did you decide you were the sort of guy who wanted to be fisted? ~ Lisa Henry

You think you slayed your demon," Daniel murmured finally. "And it turns out he's built a whole wall of himself around your life. ~ Lisa Henry

So what are you guys doing?" Deacon sat beside them. He pulled his physics book from under Mark's bed.
"Having guy talk," Mark said.
Brandon snorted.
"No, really. I read an article in Time about how guys share their feelings and whatever now. As long as we mention the name of a sports team once in this conversation, we're totally manly. Also, erogenous zones are science. ~ Lisa Henry

Sometimes Blake was shockingly perceptive. And other times he got himself locked in Portaloos. ~ Lisa Henry

That's all he was doing. Mistaking that intensity for something that didn't translate outside of the bedroom. That couldn't, probably, because something that intense would burn itself out in a flash if you opened it up to the world, wouldn't it? ~ Lisa Henry

Whatever happens here, your soul's unbreakable.
He kept his eyes closed.
It's a shame the rest of me is made of fucking glass. ~ Lisa Henry

Brin tilted his head. 'For a moment I thought you were a dirty little tramp like the rest of us, but then you go and ruin it. For future reference, stories about anonymous hookups in alleys should not end up with you going to the library alone.'
'I had a paper due.'
Brin burst out laughing and hugged him. 'You're too adorable for words.' ~ Lisa Henry

How do you know you love someone?" he'd asked his dad when he was kid.
"Huh. That's a tricky one. I suppose you know you love someone when you want to make them happy."
It was as good an answer as any, Cole thought. The word didn't have to come laden with expectations. It didn't have to be difficult. It didn't mean forever, or a commitment. Love could be as ephemeral as a single breath. That didn't make it a lie. ~ Lisa Henry

One foot in front of the other,' Lee murmured.
'One sand dollar and then another. ~ Lisa Henry

Miss u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
Want u, he typed out, but didn't send it.
OK, he sent back, and wondered stupidly if Ben would try and discern any hidden meaning in those two tiny letters. ~ Lisa Henry

He'd never known it could be like that. Never before found that place where sex was something more, something larger than the act. Where it became about trust, and openness, and belonging. ~ Lisa Henry

Well, sometimes it's not about the birds and the bees, is it? Sometimes it's about the birds and the birds, or the bees and the bees. ~ Lisa Henry

Lee," Shaw said in a low voice.
Lee raised his gaze.
"Whatever you want," Shaw told him.
Lee swallowed. "What?"
"Whatever you want," Shaw repeated. "Whatever you came here for. Just tell me, and it's yours. ~ Lisa Henry

'Maybe you out to go back there.'
'Can't. Gotta stay where ... where I know what's what.'
Where I don't forget what I am, and that I don't deserve anything better. Would wreck anything better.
'I Reckon that's what most of us think. But there's more strangers where you're from than in some sandland halfway around the world. And more strangers in your head than any place on the map.' ~ Lisa Henry

I'm keeping you. You ain't figured it out yet, but I'm keeping you. ~ Lisa Henry

Nick's job is super dull. He mostly takes care of answering the phone and doing filing, and stapling things. Sometimes the things don't even need stapling, but Nick does it anyway. He makes shiny little railroad tracks along the tops of documents. His record is thirty-eight staples on one thing. Then he picked thirty-seven of them out again because he remembered he was supposed to be professional.
Adulting is hard.
The struggle is real. ~ Lisa Henry

How shall we go about becoming the greatest empire on earth? Say, I know. Let's have our manliest sport involve butt-slapping, shoulder pads, and prancing. ~ Lisa Henry

People ended up together for a lot of reasons, and very rarely was one of those reasons the kind of kissing-on-a-mountaintop-at-sunset bullshit you saw in movies. Mostly people were just too chickenshit to walk through the world alone. ~ Lisa Henry

People don't like when they can't figure you out. When you're too quiet. It scares them. ~ Lisa Henry

The way she lived and died waiting for every text message, the way she overthought every abbreviation and smiley face, and hunted for every nuance in a medium so brief there was nowhere for nuance to hide. ~ Lisa Henry

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord. ~ Henry Allen Ironside

When we wake, it's officially Christmas Eve."
"Good. Because I have something special to give you."
She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. "Thought you just did."
He chuckled, a deep and throaty sound. "Something else. ~ Lisa Carlisle

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity. ~ Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Consciously or not, greed and power are deadly partners. ~ Lisa Renee Jones

The more Henry though about the shabby old knickknacks, the forgotten treasures, the more he wondered if his own broken heart might be found in there, hidden among the unclaimed possessions of another time. Boarded up in the basement of a condemned hotel. Lost, but never forgotten. ~ Jamie Ford

They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone. ~ Henry Rollins

A positive MIND is a solid WEAPON. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. ~ Henry Blackaby

I warned you I'd overstep," he muttered. "I apologize."
"No," Phoebe said curtly, surprising him. "I wanted your opinion. You've made some points worth considering."
West's head lifted, and he looked at her with unconcealed surprise. He'd fully expected her to give him a sharp set-down, or simply turn on her heel and walk off. Instead, Phoebe had set aside her pride long enough to listen to him, which few women of her rank would have done.
"Although next time you might try a gentler manner," she said. "It usually helps criticism go down easier."
Staring into her silver eyes was like drowning in moonlight. West found himself at a complete loss for words.
They were within arms' reach of each other. How had that happened? Had he moved closer, or had she?
His voice was a husk of sound as he managed a reply. "Yes. I... I'll be gentle next time." That hadn't sounded right. "Gentler. With you. Or... anyone." None of that sounded right, either. "It wasn't criticism," he added. "Just helpful hints." Christ. His thoughts were in a heap.
She was breathtaking up close, her skin reflecting light like the silk of butterfly wings. The lines of her throat and jaw were a precise framework of a mouth as full and rich as flowers in deep summer. Her fragrance was subtle and dry and alluring. ~ Lisa Kleypas

It is better to have just one friend that adds value to your life than having a million friends that add no value to your life. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

And now, the bane of your existence, the killer of all joys, the Stage Manager- ~ Lisa Mantchev

I think about you all day and I dream about you all night. I want your days and I want your nights. I want all of you. ~ Lisa Desrochers

Lord Henry: to define is to limit. ~ Oscar Wilde

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,
nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon. ~ Henry David Thoreau

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them. ~ Lisa Bedrick

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. ~ Cornelia Funke

When Henry heard a word he didn't like, he had to lie facedown on the floor until the bad feeling stopped. Humming sometimes worked too. ~ Leslye Walton

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy ... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try. ~ Henry Bromell

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The great thing about literature is that it's subjective. No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences. ~ Lisa Wingate

We pretend to want things we don't want so nobody can see us not getting what we need. ~ Lisa Taddeo

But I was to be later on so much more overwhelmed that this mere dawn of alarm was a comparatively human chill. ~ Henry James

THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak! ~ Henry James

People think that they see, but they don't. ~ Henry Moore

A good plan is founded on a clear understanding of your goals for the long-term and the short-term. ~ Lisa Banks

I wish my conscience would come alive during the day, when the distractions of daytime life help obscure those sharp, prodding thoughts. ~ Sara J. Henry

Sebastian looked up and grinned evilly. " Hey, Prince Charming. Have you kissed your frog yet?"Quinn frowned and thought about what Sebastian just said. When it hit him, Quinn chuckled and shook his head. " You're an asshole."Sebastian laughed. " Henry told me about the French chick you're working with," he shrugged. Quinn hummed. He wasn't surprised that Henry told Sebastian. Those two told each other everything. " Did you seriously just refer to a French chick as a frog?" The blonde asked dryly, eyebrow raised. ~ Andria Large

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester. ~ Joel Henry Hildebrand

My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all. ~ Kristen Ashley

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Out with it, Bayning," he said coldly. "Did you come here merely to complain, or is there some point to all this?" "I'm taking her away from here. Away from you!" Harry gave a chilling smile. "I'll send you to hell first."
- Harry & Bayning ~ Lisa Kleypas

Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship. ~ John Henry Jowett

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word 'no.' Love respects 'no,' control does not. ~ Henry Cloud

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Money doesn't determine worth. ~ Lisa Renee Jones

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things. ~ Henry Rollins

Do you think Cabel knows?"
Have you thought about asking him?"
Janie glances up to read her face. Bites her quivering lip to still it. "We're not exactly on speaking terms right now."
Captain sighs. "I gathered that." Carefully she says, "Cabel has his own demons and if he doesn't get on with killing them soon, I'm going to kick his ass ... ~ Lisa McMann