J.B. Hartnett QUOTES

2 " Today, I saw a burst of color the same hues as the sunset: a bright orangey-pink, the train of a dress just floating there as that vision moved toward me … like a flower, when it opens, the petals begin in that deep rich color, then lighten, then darken again on the edges … it was like you’d been dipped into the horizon and given to me. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Bride in Bloom (The Beachy Bride, #1)

4 " Then let's be scared together, Anika. Let me love you the way you should be loved. We'll take each day as it comes, but we have to talk. You have to promise me that if you start to feel panicky at all, you'll tell me. Don't walk away. I want to help, I mean it. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Inky (The Leaves, #1)

6 " How're you holding up?" He slid down the wall next to me and handed me a beer.
"I've had better days." I took a long, satisfying drink and stared at the wall in front of me.
"Yeah," was his simple reply. "My dad is downstairs. He said this wake sucks." I could hear that he was smiling.
I took another swig. "Well, I didn't plan this shindig, but the next funeral I host, I'll make sure it's a rager. "

― J.B. Hartnett , The Morbid and Sultry Tales of Genevieve Clare

8 " It’s the beard,” I said to my friends matter-of-factly. “It makes me want to just climb up onto his face, hold onto his man-mane, and take a ride. Wait, did I just say that out loud? "

― J.B. Hartnett , Bride in Bloom (The Beachy Bride, #1)

10 " People change. It can happen quickly or it can happen slowly, but it will happen. Your job is to see it, recognize it. You gotta talk to each other. You might love blueberry pie and think it’s the best fuckin’ food on earth. Then one day, you decide you want to try lemon meringue. But your husband, he still thinks you like blueberry, so he keeps giving you blueberry every year for your birthday thinking he’s doing the right thing. Your job is to tell him you want to try something different, and his job is to ask if you still like it. It goes both ways. She stopped liking blueberry pie a long time ago, Inky. Maybe if I’d asked, maybe if I hadn’t worked long hours, I’d have noticed. So that’s my advice. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Inky (The Leaves, #1)

12 " I wanted to watch you bloom. I wanted to be the man who made you blossom and here I am, face to face with the most beautiful flower I’ve ever seen. And now it’s mine. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Bride in Bloom (The Beachy Bride, #1)

14 " But when you know, you know. And when you’ve lost everything you thought was real, you recognize real when you see it. You just have to trust it. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Bride in Bloom (The Beachy Bride, #1)

16 " You have always and will always be my first. My first love, the first girl I ever kissed, the first girl I ever touched. The mind is a powerful thing, and I know for a fact the fantasy of you will always be better than the reality of anyone else. You are my heart. You are my saviour. You are my sky. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Watching the Sky Cry

18 " I didn’t want a casual fuck, nor did I want a lover. I wanted him to take my soul as his own, fill my heart with his words, and love me with everything he was and ever would be. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Watching the Sky Cry

20 " I used to tell you everything,” I said, wistfully recalling all the letters and phone calls from years past.
“You did.”
No bullshit.
Honesty.
I lifted up to my tiptoes, so I could almost look him eye to eye, and said, “I’m really looking forward to having sex with you, Quentin.”
At my admission, he threw his head back and filled the entire first floor of his house with laughter. "

― J.B. Hartnett , Watching the Sky Cry