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On the Island (On the Island, #1) QUOTES

On the Island (On the Island, #1) QUOTES

1 " The selfish part of me, however, couldn't fathom not falling asleep in his arms or being with him every day. I needed TJ, and the thought of being away from him bothered me more than I wanted to admit. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

2 " Is your life better with him, Anna, or without him? I decided right then, standing on that sidewalk, to stop worrying about things that might never go wrong. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

3 " What did you wrap my hand with?" he asked. "My thong." I looked up at him. "You were right ; it's totally uncomfortable. Awesome for first-aid though." The corners of T.J.'s mouth turned up slighty. He looked at me, his brown eyes showing a trance of the spark that had been missing the night before. "It'll make for a funny story someday," I said. "You know what, Anna? It's kinda funny now. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

4 " A couple times a week she went to the library and returned with stacks of books. She read faster than anyone I knew. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

5 " I stared at the palm trees, their green fronds rippling in the breeze. Sweat trickled slowly down the side of my face, and the constant smell of coconut on my hands reminded me of suntan lotion. It would always be summer on the island. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

6 " We’d come a long way since our days of sleeping on the ground. Just a couple castaways playing house. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

7 " Kicking frantically, my lungs on fire, I swam as hard I could. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

8 " What's it like being with her? Is it true what they say about older chicks?"

"She's not that much older."

"Uh, okay. So anyway, how is it?"

"It's incredible."

"What's she do"

"She does everything, Ben. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

9 " [T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she wasn't quite sure what I meant. I waited, and she leaned toward me and opened her mouth. I slid my fingers inside, wondering if my eyes were as big as hers. When she sucked the breadfruit off, my breathing got all messed up.

"More?"

She nodded, just barely, and her breathing didn't sound right either. I scooped up some breadfruit and this time, when I put my fingers in her mouth, she put her hand on my wrist.

I waited for her to swallow and then I lost my shit completely.

I grabbed her face with both hands, and I kissed her, hard. She opened her mouth and I slipped my tongue inside. I could have kissed her for days, and if she told me to stop I wasn't sure I'd be able to. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

10 " I don't fit in your world."
"Neither do I," he said, his expression tender yet resolute. "So let's make our own. We've done it before. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

11 " [T.J.] I pulled my arms out from underneath her body and tucked her hair behind her ears. “I love you, Anna.”
The surprised look on her face told me she hadn’t seen that coming.
“You weren’t supposed to fall in love,” she whispered.
“Well, I did,” I said, looking into her eyes. “I’ve been in love with you for months. I’m telling you now because I think you love me too, Anna. You just don’t think you’re supposed to. You’ll tell me when you’re ready. I can wait.” I pulled her mouth down to mine and kissed her and when it ended, I smiled and said, “Happy birthday. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

12 " You named the chicken, Chicken?"

She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

13 " [T.J.] I kissed her as soon as we were inside her apartment, and I wasn’t gentle about it, holding her face firmly in my hands and pressing my lips hard against hers. She wasn’t anyone’s to own – I knew that – but right then she was mine. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

14 " I want you to be my wife. There’s no one else I want to spend the rest of my life with. We can live out here, you, me, our kids, and Bo. But I get it now, Anna. My decisions affect you, too. So now you have one of your own to make. Will you marry me? "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

15 " [Anna] In February, I woke up from a nap. A bouquet of flowers gathered from the various bushes and shrubs scattered around the island lay on the blanket beside me, a small length of rope wound around their stems.
I found T.J. down at the shore. “Someone’s been checking the calendar.”
He grinned. “I didn’t want to miss Valentine’s Day.”
I kissed him. “You’re sweet to me.”
Pulling me closer, he said, “It’s not hard, Anna.”
I stared into T.J.’s eyes, and he started to sway. My arms went around his neck and we danced, moving in a circle, the sand soft and warm under our feet.
“You don’t need music, do you?”
“No,” T.J. said. “But I do need you. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

16 " I must cry more than anyone you know,” I said. He brushed the hair back from my face and smiled. “You puke a lot, too. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

17 " I never wanted anyone else, T.J. I just wanted what was best for you."

"You are what's best for me," he said, cradling my head in his arms, his legs intertwined with mine. "I'm not going anywhere, Anna. This is right where I want to be. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

18 " You’re not gonna name it Dog, are you? "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

19 " [T.J.] If she had gotten sick, the only thing I could have done was watch her suffer. Bury her next to Mick when she died. I didn’t know if I could make it without her. The sound of her voice, her smile, her– those were the things that made living on the island bearable. I held her a little tighter and thought if she woke up I might tell her that. She didn’t though. She sighed in her sleep, and eventually I drifted off. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)

20 " It would be like eating your favorite food. At first, it would be great but after a while you wouldn't want it anymore. It wouldn't taste as good. "

― Tracey Garvis Graves , On the Island (On the Island, #1)