J.L. Mac Quotes & Sayings

If you're looking for lollipops and rainbows while you shop for the latest best seller, you best not come to me. I won't chat you up and tell you how cute your kid is. I won't smile and flirt. I won't stroke your ego about the jewelry you are wearing or the shirt you have on. I will help you find what you need. I will recommend books and hell I even talk about what I liked about one book over another but all that other shit is just not my thing. — J.L. Mac

I didn't have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family and the characters they created were all my friends. I counted on them. They were all I ever had. All I still have. Now that the store may go out of business I feel like I'm losing my family and friends. I love all my books. Being a book lover saved my life. — J.L. Mac

I live to make you smile, Josephine. — J.L. Mac

Watching him is intoxicating. I couldn't dream up a more beautiful man. — J.L. Mac

I saw you on that beach and I knew that you had to be mine. I had to have you. I knew that you were who I was looking for. I would have waited for you forever if I had to. — J.L. Mac

I wondered who's world had just fallen apart as mine came together. I wondered who the person was that loved the donor most. I wondered who it was that had me feeling an insurmountable heap of guilt simply for needing the transplant and then living through it. I wondered who I owed my life to. — J.L. Mac

His warm eyes stay locked onto mine and I want to melt right on the spot. I know him but I don't. I want him but I don't. I need him but I don't. — J.L. Mac

I feel like my world is crumbling beneath my feet but Damon walks in and I have something to grab onto. It's frightening and comforting all in the same. — J.L. Mac

I am tied up in nothing but stilettos and I feel hot. — J.L. Mac

His presence is the medicine that soothes my wounds. — J.L. Mac

I know his name is Alexander McBride, he's twenty-nine years old, and he's the person that's walking around with Jake's heart in his chest. I dislike him already. — J.L. Mac

In spite of myself, you are my truth. you are my constant. You are my proof of life. You are my vital sign. With you, I more than breathe-I live. — J.L. Mac

I am ashamed to admit that I have contemplated living versus ending it all. — J.L. Mac

Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've lost enough — J.L. Mac

My heart resides with you. — J.L. Mac

The idea of having faith in anything to a homeless teenager is just asinine. — J.L. Mac

I just don't care for apologies. They're never sincere. I can vouch for this since I have the urge at this very moment to apologize for being so rude. But honestly, my impulse to apologize is only because I feel uncomfortable with the guilt I feel and my stupid human brain associates an apology with mollifying my own discomfort. Apologies are just a reminder of how selfish people are. — J.L. Mac

I had no way of knowing that resisting grief also meant resisting life. — J.L. Mac

I couldn't possibly love you any more than I already do. Josephine, my heart resides with you forevermore." He remembers the quote on the back of my mother's watch. The same quote my father said to my mother. My heart squeezes painfully and I swear I could die of contentment. — J.L. Mac

The only thing I want from you is you. — J.L. Mac

You may not realize it yet, but you're mine. Not because I am claiming you. You're mine because that's how it is. — J.L. Mac