Nicole Williams Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the people we're supposed to love are the hardest ones to. And sometimes the people we're not supposed to love are the easiest. — Nicole Williams

It wasn't like a first kiss because we knew each other too intimately for that. And it wasn't like a last kiss because we'd only just begun. It was the kiss you spend your whole life waiting for. The kiss you wish would swallow you whole so you'd always be living it. This was the kiss of a lifetime, shared with a woman I'd spent a few lifetimes waiting for. — Nicole Williams

Look at him ... staring at me the way every person wants to be looked at by another person at least once in their lifetime. — Nicole Williams

and no, no, I didn't think it was a coincidence SS was short for sorority sister. — Nicole Williams

You rub his arm any longer, you're going to wear the skin right off. Go find yourself another cowboy to pet. I need to talk to this one. — Nicole Williams

I just wanted you to know I'd be chasing after you right now, naked if need required it. But because I'm respecting your need for time and space, I'll force myself to lie here in bed and pretend I'm asleep. — Nicole Williams

As long as you want me, I'll be here. Right at your side. — Nicole Williams

His eyes stayed trained on me, unblinking. "Fine." Convince me you don't want me like I want you. — Nicole Williams

I know we can make it through anything, Rowen. The past couple of months have proven that to me. I know we could make it if we were far away from each other, I trust that. I have faith in that. The thing is ... I don't want to do it. I want to be near you. Every day. Every night. Why should I settle for you from far away when I can have you near me every morning when I wake up? — Nicole Williams

God, have you got Batman in your blood or something? — Nicole Williams

When you open yourself up to people, you let the bad in with the good. I can't promise I won't ever hurt you, Rowen. But it won't be on purpose. I will never hurt you intentionally. I can promise you that. — Nicole Williams

I wasn't sure what was required for home schooling, but I'd take ten hours a day, seven days a week, with no bathroom or lunch breaks if it meant never returning to this cesspool of suck again. — Nicole Williams

Luce," Jude said, stopping me, "I get what a piece of shit I am, and it's not awful or unfair or incorrect for people to call me out on what I am. But I'd like to think a person can change, and I swear to you I'm going to try to leave me piece of shitedness behind. — Nicole Williams

Cocky much?" I muttered, hanging my arm out the window like Jesse was. I opened my hand and splayed my fingers to feel the wind rushing through them.
"Only when a pretty girl is sitting next to me and trying her hardest to pretend I'm the most irritating thing in the world," he replied, staring at the road and smiling. — Nicole Williams

I'd rather have one day with you than an eternity with anyone else. — Nicole Williams

Better make it a good one. — Nicole Williams

No one messes with my best friend."
"Best friend, eh?"
"You're my only friend, Jess. You win the best title by default. — Nicole Williams

Rain. Jude. Me. Kissing
Stick a fork in me because I was done. — Nicole Williams

So yeah. Jesse Walker was giving me the silent treatment. I was probably the only person who could claim that honor. — Nicole Williams

He had a temper, not a good thing. Because I had one too. — Nicole Williams

You the one that got jumped?
I didn't think my blood-matted hair and debris ridden clothes needed an answer, but he was waiting for one. Not the brightest crayon in the box. — Nicole Williams

My prior fondness for the dress turned to hate-you can take the girl out of the jeans ... but you shouldn't. — Nicole Williams

again. Fail again. Fail better. — Nicole Williams

Don't let a dying branch take you down with it. — Nicole Williams

Don't let another man, tight wearing fairy or not, help you out of your clothes again," he said, his eyes narrowing just enough to know some scalding emotions were firing through him right now. "If you need help out of so much as a sock, you call me, you got it? That's my job. — Nicole Williams

Damn straight I do," Jude said, grabbing my waist and lifting me into the cab. "Tell him my girl comes before football. Tell him my girl's breakfast comes before football. — Nicole Williams

Tell me what to do, Luce. Tell me what you want from me. Because I'll do it. I'd do anything," he said, putting his arms behind his neck and watching me like he was afraid I was going to disappear. "You want me to tell Adriana to go screw herself and never so much as look her way again? No problem. You want me to never talk to another woman for the rest of my life? I'll do it." Crossing the room, he stopped in front of me, grabbing the sides of my arms. "I'll do anything. Just tell me what to do. — Nicole Williams

I knew if there was ever a girl who could love me, warts and all, it would be the girl who went to the pound and adopted the ugliest, meanest piece of crap she could find." My heart swelled, my smile following. "All because she believed that under every rough exterior was a soul begging to be loved and accepted. — Nicole Williams

You're still you, and he's still him. People don't change, Clara Belle. Not because they don't want to, but because they can't. Boone is who he is, and you are who you are. I would have warned you not to make the same mistake twice if I'd known you were even considering letting Boone Cavanaugh into your life again. — Nicole Williams

What terrifies you?"
"That the person I thought I'd have to search the world and a lifetime for might be standing in front of me right now. — Nicole Williams

Nina was my sanctuary as much as she was my war zone. Peace and solace one moment, explosions and massacre the next. — Nicole Williams

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat. — Nicole Williams

I'm coming back for you, Camryn Blue Gardner, so you'd better be waiting for me, or I'll just have to come find you and remind you why you fell crazy in love with me. — Nicole Williams

Life's not going to slow down just because I can't tolerate the pace. "Does — Nicole Williams

We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up! — Nicole Williams

He can take a few pain relievers when he gets back to the ranch. You're not dealing with your wussy city boys, Rowen."
"That's right," I said, rolling my eyes even though he had his back to me. "I forgot you all are invincible gods."
Garth looked over his shoulder, "Nope, we're even better than that." I could see his smile gleam. "We're cowboys. — Nicole Williams

Love isn't easy. Especially the really good kind. It's difficult, and you'll want to rip your hair out just as many days as you'll feel the wind at your back. But it's worth it. It's worth fighting for. Don't let what isn't real blind you from what is. Life isn't perfect, we sure as shit aren't perfect, so why should we expect love to be? — Nicole Williams

That man made me feel things I never imagined could be felt. He made me want things I wasn't sure I could have. He made me need things I didn't know existed. — Nicole Williams

Silence didn't bother me, it was actually where I felt most comfortable - in the things that didn't need to be spoken - but this was a very pregnant silence that was starting to give me labor pains. — Nicole Williams

So Jude was still Jude, I was still me, and we were still us. About the only thing that had changed was our bank account, just like he'd promised. — Nicole Williams

If being in love made a person mad, then being away from the one you loved made you a lunatic. — Nicole Williams

Why did you leave me, Elle? Why did you sneak away from me in the middle of the night while I was asleep like you were ashamed of me and what we'd done?" He kept his voice controlled, but I could hear the edge in it. "Why were you so cruel? — Nicole Williams

school in Seattle I wanted to attend didn't cost a fortune and a half, I wouldn't have given a damn what Mom thought. She was on the road so much I was lucky to see her one day a week. Even on that one day, she was usually in and out so quickly you would — Nicole Williams

The kind of bad I have for you isn't the kind that goes away. — Nicole Williams

I'll just follow your bread crumb trail of ego and entitlement, — Nicole Williams

I'll try," he said, stretching his neck. "She's beautiful girl, Ryder. You're a lucky man."
"Don't tell me what I have like I don't know it," Jude said, his arms stiffening. — Nicole Williams

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey. — Nicole Williams

Professor Landry was a prime example of someone who marched to the beat of her own drum, as evidenced by her policy that no one precede her name with Professor. She firmly believed that titles had been created to distinguish the upper class from the lower class, and she wanted no part in perpetuating socio-economic stereotypes. So she either went by Landry, Neve, or Hey, you. She didn't really care, so long as the word "professor" never echoed off the walls she was within. She — Nicole Williams

I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by. — Nicole Williams

I wanted to curse the maker for not completing the female cast with a delete slash purge button when it came to men. — Nicole Williams

But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you. — Nicole Williams

Damn it all to hell," he muttered, banging his socket wrench on the metal cart behind him. "Because," he began, shifting his eyes over at me, "because you took his word over mine. — Nicole Williams

He inspected my shirt - Don't Make Me Get My Flying Monkeys. — Nicole Williams

What are you holding out for? A girl who loves you for you?" I fired back, wiping the shock from my face.
"God, no. Nothing as far-fetched as that." His head shook. "I'm waiting for a girl who wants me for my body. You know, something deep and genuine like that. — Nicole Williams

At least you died and went to heaven — Nicole Williams

If it wasn't already documented somewhere, it needed to be: hormones had to be the leading cause of teenage injury. — Nicole Williams

Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between. — Nicole Williams

You're right. So right. My heart is a god among mere mortals. A queen among peons. A rock star among the masses. There's nothing to worry about. Everything will be okay. — Nicole Williams

Trust is rarer than Love. — Nicole Williams

It doesn't seem to matter how far away I go or how many years go by. I'm starting to accept that there will always be some part of me that is going to hold on to some part of you. — Nicole Williams

I don't really care what it is," he said, "because after everything that's happened in my life, I get to crawl into bed with you every night. — Nicole Williams

To be strong, you have to know your weaknesses, confront them, and ultimately accept them. A person isn't strong because they lack weakness but because they don't let it guide them. — Nicole Williams

I'll be here, each day and every day on, as long as you want me to be — Nicole Williams

How do you feel?" I asked, trying to bring my heart rate down. It wasn't having any of it.
"How's your head?"
"My head's fine," he said, winding his arms around my back. "It's my goddamn heart that's about ready to bust something. — Nicole Williams

The woman I wanted to spend my life with was gone. I wasn't in the mood to find a backup. — Nicole Williams

I didn't just see a future when I looked at Luke - I saw the explanations of my past. — Nicole Williams

Let's get you to your wedding, princess."
"I'll make sure Rowen tosses the bouquet your way, sweetie," Jesse said, adjusting his tie before buttoning his jacket.
"Bite me, Walker."
He grinned at me. "Love you too, Black. — Nicole Williams

THERE ARE LOW points, and there are low points. This-rattling down an endless stretch of interstate in a Greyhound bus toward the middle of farm-country-nowhere a week after barely graduating high school-was my low point. — Nicole Williams

Don't worry about me babe. I've seen so many backs walking away from me that this is old hat," he said, shrugging like this wasn't killing him like it was me. "Say it," he said, his voice shaking. — Nicole Williams

The fable of us had been rewritten. With a spin that had exposed the truth. Instead of the happily never after we'd been dealt or with the happily ever after that was a lie, we were retelling the ending. Boone and Clara - happily even after. It was a great story. The greatest one I'd ever heard. — Nicole Williams

IF A BRAIN could shrivel up and die from too much contemplation, mine was dangerously close to living out the rest of its days as a pruney, gray raisin. — Nicole Williams

I love you, Bryn Dawson. I am yours, and yours alone, to the very end. — Nicole Williams

He kissed me like we'd been lovers in hundreds of lifetimes before this one, like he wouldn't rest until he found me in a hundred more lifetimes in the future. He kissed me like I was everything he needed, and I was clinging to the hope that I was. — Nicole Williams

Find an emotional tether. Someone you trusted before and someone you can trust now. A person who can connect you to your past but can pilot you into the future. Someone who can pull you back from the ledge when you find it and from the dark when it finds you. Find that person, hold on tight, and don't let go. — Nicole Williams

Mom told me that love is like a seed. You've got to plant it to grow. But that's not all. You need to water it. The sun needs to shine enough, but not too much. The roots have to take hold," he continued, narrowing his eyes in concentration. "And from there, if it pops its head above the surface, there are about a million things that could kill it, so it takes a whole lot of luck too. — Nicole Williams

I'd sacrifice this life and every life I have coming for you. — Nicole Williams

No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away. I — Nicole Williams

I can't," I whispered.
"Why? Because you can't or you won't? — Nicole Williams

My sense of teasing is completely lost on you.", Patrick said, hoisting himself back up. "It's a shame too. Most people tell me my sense of humor is my best quality, only outdone by my otherworldly good looks. — Nicole Williams

Everyone was going crazy, like they'd just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage. — Nicole Williams

We live our lives afraid of change and if we were to just embrace it instead, it wouldn't seem like such a big deal when it hits us. — Nicole Williams

Damn it, kiss me, Luce. — Nicole Williams

Holy shit. Rowen Sterling. Glowing. Married. I suppose now's the time to start packing our bags for the apocalypse."
Jesse slugged my arm. Rowen got the other. "Holy shit. Garth Black. Present. Accounted for. Sober. Quick, no time to pack your bags for the apocalypse because it's here. — Nicole Williams

I was on some sort of sick, self-destruction thought stream. — Nicole Williams

Hey, don't judge me. I was doing the best I could with the circumstance I'd been given. — Nicole Williams

You're the best man in the whole world."
"Nah." He shook his head, grinning. "I'm still a piece of shit. Just a piece of shit who loves the shit out of you. — Nicole Williams

Jude had promised me that the money and the fame wouldn't change him, and he'd been right. He still swaggered around in his Cons and Levi's and drank cheap beer, but, most important, he still looked at me like I was his whole world. — Nicole Williams

If you're waiting for everything to feel right and perfect, I'll save you the suspense and tell you that's never going to happen. But if you look at me and say you want to be with me and I look at you and I know I want to be with you, then that's as perfect as it will ever get. — Nicole Williams

It always amazes me how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us. — Nicole Williams

I know I'm one royal screw up, and god knows there's nothing I could ever do to deserve you," he began, taking my hand in his after sliding the ring free from the chain.
"But I want you, Lucy Larson. Bad. I want you forever. The kind of bad I have for you isn't the kind that goes away." His forehead lined, his eyes washing silver. "Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me? — Nicole Williams

I love you too much to lose you over something so little.

"Roommates With Benefits. — Nicole Williams

It was silent, but a silent that was so loud I wanted to cover my ears. — Nicole Williams

Still trying to save the world?"
"Always," I said, "and in case you haven't noticed, it's working. The world is still here. — Nicole Williams

When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them. — Nicole Williams

You've always been the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, Clara." The backs of his fingers ran down the length of my cheek. "That still hasn't changed. — Nicole Williams

You're not swimming in glory until you find someone to swim with you. Glory isn't glory if you don't have someone to share it with. It's just pride and bullshit on your own.
Unbelievable. Will Jones wasn't only one badass cowboy; he pretty much could have been the love child of John Wayne and Yoda. — Nicole Williams

You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it. — Nicole Williams

And I'm sorry I ruined everything we had before I could admit it to you. Before I could admit it to myself. You didn't make me a better person, because no one can do that. You made me want to be a better person. — Nicole Williams

Luce. We fight. I'm used to that. Sure, that fight was the scariest ass one we've ever had, but you're here now. That's all that matters. No matter how many fights we have, or how much they tip the Richter scale, none of it matters as long as at the end of the day, you're still with me. — Nicole Williams

When are you going to stop looking at all the reasons you shouldn't be together and start focusing on the reasons you should be? — Nicole Williams