Jeri Smith-Ready Quotes & Sayings

Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that music can be a source of hope, a reason to live. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I thought I was long done with the Firsts. First Easter since his death, First Birthday, First Trip to IHOP, First Phillies Game. But everything we ever did together, that we'd never share again
like Longwood Gardens at Christmas
still waited before me. In that moment, I dreaded the rest of my life. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Jesus loves you."
"Then how come he never calls? — Jeri Smith-Ready

Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough! — Jeri Smith-Ready

As he stalked back toward the produce stand. If the Canton gang had stooped to harassing women, — Jeri Smith-Ready

If you follow love, you can't go wrong, even if it leads to disaster. Trust it.
Raphael to Lucifer — Jeri Smith-Ready

Even the second time around, the lyrics and melody reached through my ears, bypassed my brain, and went straight to my heart, where they wriggled around, causing a hundred different pains. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Dad handed me his empty glass and patted my shoulder. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." Then he picked up his work gloves, shook off the dirt, and headed for the garage.
"Wait!" I started to follow him but stopped when he didn't answer or even turn. "I guess that's a no."
From that day on, Dad spoke in nothing but Bible verses. It was like living inside a sermon. — Jeri Smith-Ready

We were linked, for the endless now that felt every bit like forever. — Jeri Smith-Ready

That reminds me." I dug into my book bag and pulled out a white cardboard box tied with a string. "I brought these back for you."
He looked at the box, then at me, before slowly reaching out. "What are they?"
"Poisonous snakes. Open it."
Zachary untied the string. "They seem like very quiet snakes."
"They're stealthy. Or maybe dead. — Jeri Smith-Ready

My pulse sped up at the thought of him and Becca wet and nearly naked.
"Nothing happened beyond a bit of soaking." He tilted his head. "Well, no' between us. Some of the others, I could tell you stories."
"Stories about who?"
"Ah no, you won't get that for free. You have to be nice to me for two minutes straight."
"I am nice to you."
"I mean, really nice." He nudged my knee with his foot."Father Christmas might call it naughty, but he's a filthy old bugger. — Jeri Smith-Ready

What do you want as your password?"
"How about iloveaura — Jeri Smith-Ready

Don't move, he breathed, softer than ever. Logan slowly wrapped his fingers around my hand. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Classy.' Mara shines the flashlight on my chest as she climbs into the beached boat and sits across from me.
'It was either this ["Bass Man" sweatshirt] or "Master Baiter". Or freezing to death. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual. — Jeri Smith-Ready

One of those times," he said, "I think I'd take a nap. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Black belt, and she'd earned the mother of all vendettas by leaving his bed without so much as a note. They'd been friends for almost ten years, since college, a world that lay just a few — Jeri Smith-Ready

Aura," he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'd
feel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light. — Jeri Smith-Ready

It's not easy being the Chosen One. Just ask Buffy Summers. Ask Harry Potter. And ask Zoey Redbird, the latest in this list of "lucky" candidates picked by fate to save the world from darkness- and oh yeah, find romance, keep their friends and maybe not flunk every class. In their spare time of course. — Jeri Smith-Ready

You can't help what you feel."
"I can try harder to feel something different. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I shook my head. She kissed my cheek, then on her way out patted Zachary's shoulder in a way that said, If you upset Aura in her weakened state, I will end you. — Jeri Smith-Ready

They examine me like I'm a cow at a 4-H auction. I try not to moo. — Jeri Smith-Ready

When I got tired, Logan would sing me to sleep, sometimes a painfully appropriate song like Flogging Molly's "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" or Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars." Sometimes he'd pick a lilting Irish lullaby, or even a song he'd written himself. — Jeri Smith-Ready

For a short time, we'd become each other,
a little. Maybe that's what people do
when they fall in love, mind, body, and
soul. Or maybe we were just weird. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Sorry," she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Maybe you should stay. You've found where you belong. Most people never get that lucky their whole lives. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too."
"Huh. Which kind of person are you?"
"Both. We all are, at different times. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Maybe we should've stayed like that, just hanging out. Maybe we never should've kissed those Keeley boys. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Dead people don't bleed for long. — Jeri Smith-Ready

No wonder these people don't believe in evolution. It obviously hasn't worked in their favor. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Snatched it up and shoved it into her sack without leaving her shelter. Score. What she couldn't eat right away she could slice and dry in the stifling summer heat. The scuffle continued, and Elysia — Jeri Smith-Ready

I love you, Aura," Logan whispered. "Body or not, as long as I'm in this world, I want to be with you. — Jeri Smith-Ready

My jaw drops to form a capital O, as in, O Holy Shit. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I sat forward and picked up a piece of the jet engine. I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Fun fact: The planet Venus- aka, the 'morning star' when it appears before sunrise, outshining all the stars in the heavens-was once known as Luciferin.
Funner fact: The chemical that makes fireflies' butts light up is called luciferin — Jeri Smith-Ready

I promise I'll never tell."
"Don't promise that," he said in an ultraserious voice. "If they try to hurt you and the only way to protect yourself is to tell them what you know about me, then you tell them. Straight off, okay?"
"No."
"Promise me."
"No!"
"I will possess your heart."
Heat flared along the back of my neck. "What did you say?"
"My favorite song. 'I Will Possess Your Heart.'"
"By Death Cab for Cutie?"
He snorted. "No, the little known T.I. Hip-hop remix. Yes, Death Cab for Cutie."
... "Why? What's wrong with it?"
"Nothing, but it doesn't seem to fit you. It's kind of a sad song."
"No it's pure confident. It's not 'I want' or 'I need', none of that crap." He slipped his hand over mine. "It's 'I will.'"
A nervous laugh bubbled up. "You will, huh?"
His fingers brushed my cheek, then slid into my hair. "I will. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Run was a song about grasping for happiness just out of reach, about endless, temporary good-byes. A song only a ghost should sing. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Where's your kilt?"
"How about this," he said in a low voice. "You don't ask me about haggis and bagpipes, and I won't ask you about garlic and Goodfellas. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Eve of Darkness is a sizzling, heart-pounding urban fantasy that thrilled and fascinated me from beginning to end. It's got smokin' hot angels, blood-chilling demons, and questions that go deeper than who's kicking whose butt. Eve is a smart, spirited heroine I won't soon forget! — Jeri Smith-Ready

With my eyes closed and my memories open, I could almost feel his hands and mouth on my skin. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Logan followed my gaze. "I wonder if there'll be stars where I'm going."
"If there aren't now, there will be once you show up. — Jeri Smith-Ready

It would suck if the world ended then. Sweeps week starts on the twelfth. I'd hate to miss the Amazing Race season finale because of an apocalypse — Jeri Smith-Ready

I'll always love you."
"I'll love you, too." He touched my face. "Forever. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Aw, he's shy. How loveable, huggable, stuff-in-a-bag-and-take-home-able. — Jeri Smith-Ready

But in the depth of Zachary's weary, determined eyes, I saw more than a desperate longing. I saw a future. — Jeri Smith-Ready

When you look at fainted stars, you'll notice that they often appear brighter from the corner of your eye. Averted vision, we call it.
Same with the answers you seek, you won't find them by staring until your eyes fall out.
They'll come when you're look somewhere else. — Jeri Smith-Ready

How about, 'I just kissed a guy at Black Weeds because you've been ignoring me. P.S. I love you. — Jeri Smith-Ready

You want me to flash you" I said
He nodded vigorously, like I'd asked if he wanted fries with that.
"And then you'll pass on?"
"That's all I want. So, yeah."
I could almost believe that a fourteen-year-old boy could find deep spiritual peace from a pair of boobs. — Jeri Smith-Ready

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He whispered against my mouth. Wait for me, Aura. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He cut himself off and looked away, dragging a hand through his hair. "I just met her," he muttered to himself. "I'll no' say that."
"Cut the crap," Megan said. "Zachary Moore, this is Aura Salvatore, and yes, she's into science even though she's pretty. Shocker. Get over it." She turned to me. "Show him how you can walk and chew gum at the same time. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Logan began to sing, a lilting tune I didn't recognize. At first I wondered if we'd seen the band in concert together or had listened to it on one of our first dates.
Then he reached the chorus, and the words were us.
All my insecurities, all his excesses, all the ways we fought and pushed and pulled. And how it all didn't matter. Those things that tore us apart were no match for forever.
...
I'd been so wrong about us. If he'd lived, we would've been happy. Not every day, but over the span of time that made up forever.
But he hadn't lived.
...
We had lost forever. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I'm a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I'm a tired person. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I had a dog. Ex-wife took him, and the house."
Is that why you like country music?"
He eased himself our of the closet. "Huh?"
"Just a joke. Sorry about your dog. — Jeri Smith-Ready

For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I had to decide in the next few seconds: Would I let my past keep screwing up my present and my future? — Jeri Smith-Ready

I don't need to see you to know that you're beautiful. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Exactly," He tucked a lock of hair behind my ear. "Sometimes we help ourselves, and sometimes we get help from ghosts in the woods and bampots in BMWs. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I miss you, Logan." I touched my fingers to my lips, then to the forehead of the Keeley Brothers skull. "I miss you so much."
Missing Logan was an emptiness, an ache so dull and deep, it was a permanent part of me. I would never truly get over his death, but someday I would find peace.
Missing Zachary, on the other hand, was a searing knife in the gut. I burned to save him from the horrible fates I imagined, and the need to be in his arms again set my skin ablaze.
One boy was gone forever. The other was gone now. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Wherever you are," I whispered, "I hope you're smiling. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I've been writing more songs in my head," he said, "about being a ghost and a shade." His face turned smooth and solemn. "How I'd die all over again just to touch you. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He leaned in. "Kiss me, one last time."
I called up a distant memory of his lips against mine. But this time, I kept my eyes open.
When he pulled back, Logan passed his hand over my hair. "Don't forget me, okay? — Jeri Smith-Ready

I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little. — Jeri Smith-Ready

The truth isn't always beautiful, and it's almost never kind. The truth just is. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Son, hiding the truth is just the coward's way to lie. — Jeri Smith-Ready

One thing I've found that eases the pain, Cody said, 'is to remember that we are all connected, to those we know and those we don't know. — Jeri Smith-Ready

My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?"
"I don't care," he said, and kissed me. — Jeri Smith-Ready

This one's for Aura.
You all know who that is by now. The only girl I've ever loved. I wrote her a song, but she's the only one who's ever heard it, or ever will. — Jeri Smith-Ready

So if he'd been a plumber, _ _ would've been about toilets?
Left blank to avoid spoilers but this is just too funny — Jeri Smith-Ready

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Oh yeah, pain. I think it's the same when we lose someone we love. It never stops hurting. But maybe it shouldn't. That pain, after all, is a souvenir of love. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I'll never forget you. I'll never forget your voice or your face or your dumb jokes. And i'll never forget your love. — Jeri Smith-Ready

The future is as far from perfect and as full of errors as this baseball game, but at this moment, it's all mine.
And I guess that's something — Jeri Smith-Ready

This time of year," she said, "people's consciences gnaw at them. They give away truckloads of canned goods and quote Dickens and wring their hands over the 'less fortunate.'" We boarded the Metro and took seats perpendicular to each other. "But God forbid anyone should address why they're poor in the first place, or try to change the structures that keep them poor. Then the 'less fortunate' turn into 'welfare queens' and 'derelicts.' But if I were a lobbyist whoring on behalf of some transnational corporation, I'd never hear the word 'derelict.'"

"So when it comes to taking care of poor people," I said, "if Mother Teresa is the Hallmark card, then you're the electric bill. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I have a boyfriend who's a ghost, I thought. Of course I'm living in a dreamworld. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Okay, stud, just one more question." She formed an L with her thumb and index finger. 'Why are some people in the audience holding the sign for "loser"?'
It was my turn to laugh at her. 'That's not for loser.' I set down my soda, mirrored her gesture with my hand, then straightened our pinkies to form the sign-language letter. 'The L stands for "love". — Jeri Smith-Ready

Zachary leaned in, and I thought he was going to kiss me.
Instead he pressed his cheek to mine and held it there. It felt more intimate than a kiss. — Jeri Smith-Ready

As he presses me against the car and his fingers tangle in my hair, I find myself hoping-and fearing-that I'll never be the object of such a love, one that could bring a man to his knees and never let him stand again. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Instead I crawled next to him, snuggling close. "Zach, wake up."
"Can't. Sleeping."
I pressed my mouth to his in a full, deep kiss.
"Second thought, not sleeping. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He grabbed the microphone in both hands, his face exploding into a smile at the sensation.
Hey. Do not. I repeat. Do. Not. Panic. There's nothing to be scared of. This is just your average everyday fucking miracle. — Jeri Smith-Ready

This was Bad with a capital Hell No. — Jeri Smith-Ready

And then you two go and call attention to yourselves like this," Ian continued. "Holding hands in a pedalo, for Christ's sake. They must have been frothing at the mouth at the thought of you two reproducing, wondering if you'd give birth to some kind of metaphysically enhanced creature or a bottomless black hole. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I open my eyes. Yech, boyfriend thoughts, the kind I haven't had since I was a teenager. It's one thing to imagine Shane naked and slathered in olive oil, but another animal entirely to picture us cuddling. — Jeri Smith-Ready

He smiled at me. "Have a good time."
"Thank you." The music was definitely working, I thought as I started to shut the door.
"Don't get laid," he added. — Jeri Smith-Ready

You can give your life meaning.' She stroked my forehead from the center to the temples, with just her fingertips. 'We all can. — Jeri Smith-Ready

It's beautiful. Not a lie. But tornados were beautiful too. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Logan's voice switched from a growl to a scream to a seductive whisper from one song to the next. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I can't forget you, any more than I can forget my own name. He kissed me then, and the world which no longer mattered, completely fell away. — Jeri Smith-Ready

I wish I could believe in Druids' otherworld, where other people go when they die here, where they can live another life."
"And then come back to this world when they die there, over and over again. It does sound comforting"
"Except for one thing" Zachary's finger wound in my hair. "This is the only life I ever want. — Jeri Smith-Ready

His soul's fabric was weaving itself with mine. I loved the frayed ends where it came unraveled, and I loved the strength at its firm, solid center.
I loved every thread. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Somehow you always stayed quiet." He laid his hands beside each of mine, so that if he'd been solid, I would've been pinned between his body and the dresser. "Remember? — Jeri Smith-Ready

The phone in my hand buzzed. Logan had just texted I Love You - so cute how he never abbreviated it. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Hey, it's not like I was saving myself for the day you had a body again, so don't get excited."
"Too late." He curved his fingers around my jaw and kissed me, hard enough to turn my limbs to liquid fire. — Jeri Smith-Ready

You can't fight memories. They come whether you look for them or not. — Jeri Smith-Ready

They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them - the oil to make anything - was long gone, or at least so expensive it might as well not exist. She wanted — Jeri Smith-Ready

You know what would be cool, next time?" said a voice behind me. "Black roses. — Jeri Smith-Ready

My fellow Americans, good evening. My name is Becca Goldman and I weep with all of you.
I texted one word to Megan, 'Gag'
She wrote back: 'My name is Becca Goldman, and I sleep with all of you — Jeri Smith-Ready