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1 " I loved books. Loved reading. It not only gave me an escape from my own world, but opened a door into other worlds. It allowed me, at the beginning of my marriage, to suffer with some grace. As long as I had another world to go to, what did I care about how small and strange and terrifying my own life had gotten? "
― Molly O'Keefe , Everything I Left Unsaid (Everything I Left Unsaid, #1)
2 " We were editors of our own selves, revealing only what we wanted to show. Being only what served us best. Trust was an enormous act of faith.And faith…God, faith was hard. "
3 " I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could. "
4 " Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None. "
5 " She was scared, but she was trying; in order to get what she wanted she was pushing past her own bullshit fears and being brave. In her voice, he could hear every dark and forbidden thing she craved. And he wanted to give it to her. Everything she wanted and the things she didn’t know to want, yet.How far would she go?She wanted dark? He had all the dark. All of it. And he’d show her every midnight corner of it. "
6 " You’re wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?”“I want to be with you.”The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath.The brittle silence told me I’d done something I couldn’t ever undo. I’d changed everything. "
7 " It’s a seduction, Annie. It’s about want. Not need.”“You’ve already seduced me,” she whispered. “All I want is you. "
8 " That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman’s freedom all came down to money. "
9 " I’ve never been wild.” “You want to be, don’t you? That’s why you’re calling me.?”“Yeah, I guess…maybe…”“Yes or no. There’s no one else here to hear you and I ain’t judging.”“Yes. Yes, I’d like to be wild. "
10 " You think if we fuck each other hard enough it will go away? … We’ll get it out of our systems?”“That has to work,” she said. “It has to.”Dylan pushed back her hair, holding her face in his hard hands. He was worlds too rough. Worlds too wrong. But he was going to take what she was offering. “You really are innocent, aren’t you?”She shook her head and he could feel her staring in her skin. Her eyes were frantic on his.“If we do this right, it’s only going to get worse. "
11 " And it was like he couldn’t hold her close enough, or hard enough against him, and I’ve…I’ve never been held like that. Not once. Not ever. And I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could. "
12 " When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered. "