Quotes from Lisa Renee Jones

I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee. It is my one real vice, so I figure why not indulge with an Olympic-style commitment?

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

I look deep into his eyes and find myself wrapped in the familiar connection we share. It streams through me like moonlight on a bay, glistening through my soul.

What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb. —John Gotti CHAPTER

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don't let it be fear and guilt.

I'll go find us a private car and driver," Chris informs me. "You stay with the bags." I purse my lips. "Yes, Master." He arches a brow. "Why is it that I can only get you to say that sarcastically?" "Because according to you, " I remind him, "you don't want me to call you Master." "Are you saying you would if I wanted you to?" "Absolutely not.

The ability to become a person of our own making is the perfect lie. I concede that it might appear that some

After saying goodbye, he makes another call that is quick and in French before setting his phone on the counter, crossing his arms over his black Sons of Anarchy T-shirt.

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. —John Gotti CHAPTER

You can let go of me, Kayden." "That's not going to happen," he promises, his voice low, as seductive as everything else about this man is, and when I look at him, that wolf is back in his eyes as he adds, "In case I didn't make that point already." ~Surrender

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. —Al Capone CHAPTER

Ella - "I want the truth!" Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella." Ella - "Make me trust you and I will.

Memories are the enemies that never die," he says, turning away and shoving open his door, leaving me with the pain carved in those words that I am fairly certain he didn't want me to hear. But I did, and they speak to me, diving deep in my soul with the blood of my own loss, and taking root. I say I want my memories back, but I'm not so sure I really do. It's an idea I reject as I shove open my door and stand.

Anyone who wants to hurt you has to come through me first.

I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.

If you tell me you don't want to be with me. I will listen. I won't like it, but I'll listen. I need you to know that. But when you say you 'can't' be with me, like some obstacle out of your control is stopping you from seeing me, I'm not going to listen.

My favorite, and all macho alpha men like you have a secret softer side and a sweet tooth. It's part of the breed.

That is control. Whether you want it or understand it.

We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me.

I think it's the whole 'bad boy who's so good but destined to break your heart' fantasy. Which doesn't sound like much of a fantasy when you put the broken heart part in the picture, but it is. It so is.

Isn't that what we all want? To be with someone who consumes us? Who makes us want to give them all that we are, even though it's terrifying?

The soft rasp of her erratic breathing is erotic, enticing, and I can almost taste her desire.