Lisa Renee Jones Quotes & Sayings

Ella - "I want the truth!"

Jayden - "Give me the gun Ella."

Ella - "Make me trust you and I will. — Lisa Renee Jones

My voice softens. "But you're right; I should have told you where I was going. I'm sorry to make you worry." "Damn it, Sara." He twines his fingers in my hair and lowers his mouth one hot breath from mine. "You are the reason I take my next breath," he whispers. "Why can't you see that?" His question steals the last of my anger. I soften against him, my fingers curving around his jaw. "Let's go home, baby." He kisses my forehead. "I have something to show you. — Lisa Renee Jones

You know, sweetheart, I know I'm fucked up. But if you think the guy trying to protect you instead of walk all over you is the one trying to run your life, you're just as fucked up as I am. — Lisa Renee Jones

Possession. Demand. Control. He wants it all. — Lisa Renee Jones

He pulls the door shut behind him and drags me against him, murmuring softly, "I understand why you left. I understand everything." I cling to him, holding on for what feels like dear life. "I should have told you." "You would have." He pulls back to look at me. "When you were ready. We all have to deal with our inner demons in our own way, in our own time. — Lisa Renee Jones

Greed is a stronger force than gravity. — Lisa Renee Jones

You do know Chris is thoroughly fucked-up, don't you?" My reply is instant, defensive. Protective. "Aren't we all?" "Not like Chris." I don't ask how he knows. It could be the club. Maybe a friendship that once was and is now lost. It doesn't matter. "It's his imperfections that make him perfect," I reply, and there is conviction in my voice. — Lisa Renee Jones

Our laughter dissolves into a crackling current that steals my breath away. Our eyes lock, and heat pools low in my belly. — Lisa Renee Jones

I love...being with you. — Lisa Renee Jones

My boss is dictating my preventive hangover care, and I just used the word swords in reference to his obvious cockfight with the man I just made out with in a public hallway. I am truly in an alternate universe. — Lisa Renee Jones

You know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You're playing with fire. — Lisa Renee Jones

Locking myself in a shell of an existence isn't healing. It's hiding. — Lisa Renee Jones

We attack the problems. They don't attack us. — Lisa Renee Jones

My favorite, and all macho alpha men like you have a secret softer side and a sweet tooth. It's part of the breed. — Lisa Renee Jones

Fear and a secret are two different things," I remind him, pointing out the difference in the two phrases. "Often they come together. A secret that leads to fear in one way, shape, or form. — Lisa Renee Jones

Who says I have rules?" She waves off my question.
"Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. — Lisa Renee Jones

She was turning Royce into her knight in shining armor, and she knew all too well that was a fairy tale that didn't exist. — Lisa Renee Jones

This is going to feel like a public flogging. — Lisa Renee Jones

Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope. — Lisa Renee Jones

True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's. — Lisa Renee Jones

What makes one person's dreams come true when another's don't? Determination. Action. Desire. — Lisa Renee Jones

Maybe he's right. Maybe I am playing with fire, but I cannot stop myself. Beyond reason, I will push him until he reveals everything. — Lisa Renee Jones

We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me. — Lisa Renee Jones

The end of starvation is quite delicious. — Lisa Renee Jones

I don't even like horror movies. The world has enough real monsters without creating fictional monsters. — Lisa Renee Jones

My fingers curl on his cheek, and all self-consciousness is gone, forgotten. "I'm not afraid of whatever you're talking about. I think you keep warning me away because you're the one who's afraid. — Lisa Renee Jones

I like to think I'm not stupid often, tonight proves that when I am, I do it in a big way. — Lisa Renee Jones

This is who I am, Sara. I will protect you from everything and everyone else, but I can't protect you from who I am or who we will be if you stay with me. — Lisa Renee Jones

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them. — Lisa Renee Jones

You don't drag someone you love into that kind of hell, and play the kinds of games he did with her mind and body. You climb out of hell to be with them. — Lisa Renee Jones

Husband," she said and her lips curved, before she grinned. "Since we can't wear wedding rings and still shift, do I get my fur lined cuffs instead? — Lisa Renee Jones

I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together." ~
Demand — Lisa Renee Jones

Ella -Shifting, I roll to my side to find myself staring into a pair of pale blue eyes... "Your beautiful."

Jayden - "I've been called a lot of things, sweetheart, but beautiful isn't one of them. — Lisa Renee Jones

I keep telling you, when you can't control the action, control the emotion. — Lisa Renee Jones

looking at him. But she knew he was — Lisa Renee Jones

I told you I do not do anything because I have to. And I don't. But to be inside you right now, baby, I have to. I need to. And, yes - right here in the kitchen. — Lisa Renee Jones

I don't know. What if I don't want to and you do?"
" I just want you and us, baby. And when the time is right, and this hospital room isn't that time, I'll ask you to marry me properly and then take you pyramid hunting all over the world. You and me, baby. That's what I want. — Lisa Renee Jones

The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it. — Lisa Renee Jones

I do high heels better post-caffeine. — Lisa Renee Jones

Escape, baby. The lack of control is control. When you're hanging on each moment, anticipating what comes next, it leaves room for nothing else. That's what I want to do for you.
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"And who helps you escape, Liam?"
"We're going to the same place, Amy. I'm not standing outside, watching." His lips find my neck and then my ear. "I'm right here with you. — Lisa Renee Jones

We are two messed-up people destined to destroy each other, but I can't walk away. No. Can't isn't the issue. I simply don't want to. — Lisa Renee Jones

No more. There is no in between. — Lisa Renee Jones

Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet. — Lisa Renee Jones

I blink and Kayden is squatting in front of me, and I'm somehow on my knees, his hands under my hair, warm on the skin of my neck. His jacket is gone, his tie loose, his hair is a sexy rumpled mess, and he is beautiful. He is right in ways that other man is wrong, and a calmness fills me that wasn't there moments before. I reach up and grab his wrists. "I'm glad you're here, and I'm glad I'm here. Even if it meant I had to go through him to get to you. — Lisa Renee Jones

Other people's perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves — Lisa Renee Jones

You make me feel alive. — Lisa Renee Jones

submission would be, because I'd really earned it." "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up. — Lisa Renee Jones

I'm angry at Chris. I'm hurt. Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out
and I'm alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you. — Lisa Renee Jones

You told me I was making you crazy last night," he reminds me, drawing me out of my thoughts, back to a present I'm uncertain of.
"You are, Chris."
"Well, you are making me crazy, too."
"Is this supposed to be making me feel better? — Lisa Renee Jones

But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason. — Lisa Renee Jones

Do you know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You're playing with fire. I've played with fire tonight with Chris, pushed him to be that dragon, and the way he's looking at me now, the way he sees what I do not want him to see, is burning me alive. I know in that moment that I cannot keep asking Chris to show me who he is and not be willing to show him all that I am. — Lisa Renee Jones

I'd already decided you were mine, You just didn't know it yet — Lisa Renee Jones

Isn't that what we all want? To be with someone who consumes us? Who makes us want to give them all that we are, even though it's terrifying? — Lisa Renee Jones

There's a price for not taking care of yourself as you claim you do so well." His eyes lift to mine and there is mischief in their depths. "I'll have to punish you."
I glower at his reference to how well I take care of myself.
"Don't be a smart-ass. I can take care of myself."
"So you say." His lips quirk, his eyes twinkle, and his dark mood has lightened in a flash as it often does. "I'm just looking out for us both. I need you alive and well if I'm going to fuck you until you can't forget my name."
I feel myself heat from the inside out and I seize the opportunity to say what I had not earlier. "You've already done that, but if you want to be an overachiever, feel free."
"Your wish is my command," he assures me.
"I somehow doubt that."
"Don't doubt, baby," he says, and the laughter between us fades as we stare at each other with the promise of dark, erotic pleasure between us and so much more. — Lisa Renee Jones

I never lie to any man because I don't fear anyone. The only time you lie is when you are afraid. - John Gotti CHAPTER — Lisa Renee Jones

It's our scars that define us. — Lisa Renee Jones

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together. My gut clenches at the reference to the way my — Lisa Renee Jones

If the person didn't deserve your love in life... they don't deserve your tears in death. — Lisa Renee Jones

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface — Lisa Renee Jones

Dirty?" I supply. "Yes. It was. And I am. And so are you or you wouldn't know what a hard limit is. — Lisa Renee Jones

I have that sense of connection with her. — Lisa Renee Jones

Darkness surrounded me, a complete absence of light that left me shaking inside. No. It wasn't the darkness that had me shaking. It was him. I could feel him, even if I could not see him. Oh yes, I could feel him. In every pore of my body, every nerve ending I owned, I could feel him. — Lisa Renee Jones

...live life to appreciate life. — Lisa Renee Jones

Another great start to a new fantastic series — Lisa Renee Jones

Taking you to the shower. Me Tarzan, You Jane. Do as I say. — Lisa Renee Jones

Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me. — Lisa Renee Jones

I'm going to lick you all over before this night is over, Sara, ... Suck your nipples until you are crazy with need, then spread you wide and lick you until you come and then, I'm going to do it all over again. I'm going to make sure you are so thoroughly fucked that being fucked has a new meaning. — Lisa Renee Jones

I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other. — Lisa Renee Jones

The rush of fear is far better than the defeat of boredom. — Lisa Renee Jones

All I know is he's letting me see it, and him, and he is exactly what he preaches. Raw and honest, and intense and I believe in this moment that we are a rainbow of the same colors, none of them bright or beautiful. We are the many shades of gray and black, hoping to find a glimmer of light in each other, not more darkness. — Lisa Renee Jones

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn really do go back in the same box. In death they are indeed equal. But in life, we are not. In life we are a product of more than our decisions. We are the consequence of how we cope with those decisions, and too often that is fear and guilt. Don't let it be fear and guilt. — Lisa Renee Jones

I trust this woman more than I trust myself right now. And that scares me in a way I haven't been scared in a very long time. — Lisa Renee Jones

want the lies to end. I pull my gun from my purse and point it at him. "Who are you to me, Kayden? Who am I?" from Denial — Lisa Renee Jones

I hear cavemen lose their alpha if they go without food for too long. — Lisa Renee Jones

Unreadable. I've always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden. — Lisa Renee Jones

We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost. — Lisa Renee Jones

That is control. Whether you want it or understand it. — Lisa Renee Jones

Consciously or not, greed and power are deadly partners. — Lisa Renee Jones

Memories are the enemies that never die," he says, turning away and shoving open his door, leaving me with the pain carved in those words that I am fairly certain he didn't want me to hear. But I did, and they speak to me, diving deep in my soul with the blood of my own loss, and taking root. I say I want my memories back, but I'm not so sure I really do. It's an idea I reject as I shove open my door and stand. — Lisa Renee Jones

Your staying or leaving doesn't impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That's wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton. — Lisa Renee Jones

She's right, and yet my blood pumps faster, just thinking about having her naked and willingly at my mercy. I can't help but think she's exactly what I need: a challenge. And how sweet her submission would be, because I'd really earned it. — Lisa Renee Jones

I can feel this man in every part of my body and he has not even touched me. — Lisa Renee Jones

I just gave you permission to fuck me, but be clear: I'm not another notch on your belt. You're a notch on mine. — Lisa Renee Jones

His hand slides to my face. "Look at me when I enter you."
His voice is rough, intense. "See me, Sara."
"I do."
He presses inside me and thrusts, burying himself deeply, completely. "Feel me."
"Yes."
He lowers his mouth a breath from mine. "But do you feel us?"
My hands slide around him, holding on to him. "Yes."
"I'm not sure you do." He brushes his mouth over mine.
"But before tonight is over, you will. — Lisa Renee Jones

What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren't my property. You're the woman who changed me in ways I don't even fully understand. — Lisa Renee Jones

What we deny owns us. You can't control what you don't first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you. — Lisa Renee Jones

Never say never, baby," Chris replies, and then turns the key, bringing the soft purr of an expensive engine to life. — Lisa Renee Jones

Tell me I helped," I say, and it's a demand. I need to know I can be what he needs, that we can get through the darkness together. "You do more than help. You're the reason I take my next breath." The hoarse declaration whispers against my lips a moment before he kisses me, the tenderness in the touch of his tongue caressing mine telling me more than his words. — Lisa Renee Jones

His eyes hold mine and the depth of power and heat I find there are as limitless as what he makes me feel. — Lisa Renee Jones

I will tease you, bite you, and spank you. — Lisa Renee Jones

You have this deer-in-headlights look sometimes that I'm sure means you're going to run. Run to me, Amy, not from me. — Lisa Renee Jones

It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life." "Yes." A knot forms in my stomach at the idea that I still don't know how deeply Chris's scars define him. — Lisa Renee Jones

The two men's gazes lock and I am suddenly swimming in a pool of testosterone, in need of a life raft. — Lisa Renee Jones

All I want is the here and now, this piece of time. And please save the pillow talk for someone who wants it. Contrary to what you seem to think, I'm no delicate rose — Lisa Renee Jones

How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be? — Lisa Renee Jones

her, she's become such a part of my life that no matter how I fight it, or her, she's in my blood - a part of why I exist. Yet so is Rebecca. I don't understand it, and I do not like things that I don't understand. — Lisa Renee Jones

The soft rasp of her erratic breathing is erotic, enticing, and I can almost taste her desire. — Lisa Renee Jones

Losing control and you taking it from me are two different things, Sara. You won't ever take it from me. — Lisa Renee Jones

You are my other half, Amy. I have to protect you. — Lisa Renee Jones

He is an addiction, and addictions are never good for you. He's taking me deeper into his world, deeper into his dark desires, but I'm never able to get behind the physical aspect of our relationship. I just lose more of who I am. — Lisa Renee Jones