Jessica Hawkins Quotes & Sayings

Don't hide who you are. It'll come out somehow, some day, and you'll have struggled with it for nothing. Take chances and risks. Make mistakes. Especially now. — Jessica Hawkins

I can't tell if I'm feeling butterflies or barbed wire in my stomach. — Jessica Hawkins

Like I said this morning, — Jessica Hawkins

I never intended to flirt, but I liked to make girls smile. — Jessica Hawkins

Sometimes it's good to let people underestimate you, — Jessica Hawkins

Being madly, deeply in love is like allowing the sun to blind you just because it also keeps you warm. "Another? — Jessica Hawkins

I'd been with boys before; I'd been with boys I'd thought were men. But this was different. David kissed like a man. He tasted, he smelled and he fucked like a man. — Jessica Hawkins

So what does the color blue say about you?" He studies all the parts of my face - mouth, nose, ears, chin - as if he's memorizing it for an exam. Then his eyes return to mine. "It says I never had a favorite color until I met this girl in a coffee shop with eyes so blue, they're almost purple, like the absolute final moments before sunrise. This girl stayed on my mind. When I saw things like a cluster of irises or a peacock at the zoo, I would think of her and say to myself, that is my favorite color. — Jessica Hawkins

The thought of another man terrifies me. The reality, though, excites me. That he wants me this badly. That he can't keep his hands off what doesn't belong to him. — Jessica Hawkins

People stay in relationships for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with love - including not believing they deserve better. — Jessica Hawkins

a fresh start can be as alluring as a good memory. — Jessica Hawkins

I don't. But if I had your love, I wouldn't waste it like he does. He's playing a game with you. He'll regret pushing you away, though, when he realizes I'm here, waiting to catch you. — Jessica Hawkins

I'm not a religious or spiritual man. I am guided solely by my instincts, my gut. And they have led me to you. Without you, I have nothing to believe in. — Jessica Hawkins

Are any of us really awake? Are we making decisions about our lives, or just letting things happen to us? — Jessica Hawkins

I am afraid. I've never touched a married woman. You might not believe me, but this has been hard for me too because it goes against all of my beliefs. My parents, who are my world, have been happily married for thirty-seven years. I would kill anyone who tried to come between them. But it's nothing compared to keeping it inside. I can't hide it like you. And if I honestly thought he was the right person for you, I would walk away right now. — Jessica Hawkins

The way you're smiling a little makes me think maybe you wouldn't mind an older man. — Jessica Hawkins

If you ever think he's falling out of love with you, stop him. Before it's too late. — Jessica Hawkins

You make this decision, and we're in it together. I will be your shield. — Jessica Hawkins

Fate doesn't stick around for happy endings - it only gives you the opportunity to work for one. — Jessica Hawkins

I'm glad I stopped for my new neighbor, though. He's chasing off the dark clouds that've been hanging around lately. — Jessica Hawkins

Olivia, I'll put on a show in front of your friends, at your work, whenever we're in public. But I'm growing tired of pretending when we're alone. Don't tempt me. — Jessica Hawkins

Because the least painful part of an affair is the tumble and tangle of body parts. The agony is in the guts. In the reasons behind it. — Jessica Hawkins

Maybe we have to go through certain experiences in order to get where we're supposed to be. — Jessica Hawkins

But it's what's underneath it. Is it that you don't care enough to remember what I like? That's what's going on in my mind." "But — Jessica Hawkins

Foreplay with him is the space between us: the things we haven't said; the admissions we haven't made. If I'm scared, I can't feel it, and if I'm shaking, it's surpassed by my anticipation. — Jessica Hawkins

Of all the men, and ashamedly, that included Bill, David was the one who I felt in my core, as though I only existed as an extension of him. I wanted to fall just so he could catch me. — Jessica Hawkins

Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren't butterflies. They're bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They're dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies? — Jessica Hawkins

I'll make this decision for us. When you hurt tomorrow, physically or emotionally . . . when you question what we did . . . when you ache to do it again - I'll take the blame for all of it, Sadie. — Jessica Hawkins

So if you don't show, I'm going to come up and drag you downstairs." "I can almost assure you that that plan would backfire," he said. "Next time I get you alone in my apartment, I won't let you off so easy," he said levelly, staring ahead. — Jessica Hawkins

You know, when I looked into your eyes at the theater, I was stunned. Nothing like that has ever happened to me. And when I saw you in that gold dress, at the restaurant, I knew you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. You were glowing. But right now, in my bed, naked and undone," he paused, leaning forward to kiss me softly on the lips. "You are perfect. I never want you any other way. — Jessica Hawkins

Red roses lure you in with beauty and passion, which is why they suit Halston so well. Can they hurt you? Yes. If you don't know how to handle them. Beautiful things should be that way, difficult to get to, to touch. Otherwise it'd be too easy for people to destroy them. — Jessica Hawkins

The man puts you on a fucking pedestal. And you do the same to him. It's about time you knocked each other off, because now you're on the ground where you should be. And that's the foundation you need to build on, not some lofty idea that you can't be happy if you aren't perfect. — Jessica Hawkins

Finn was meant to find that journal. To find me. To be a salve, and perhaps even heal, a heart I'd worried was destined to ache forever. — Jessica Hawkins