Teresa Mummert Quotes & Sayings

When I have you bent over this couch, which one of your names should I moan? — Teresa Mummert

You were the light when my entire world was dark. You gave me a reason to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up. — Teresa Mummert

You scared, sweetheart? — Teresa Mummert

I thought about how my life had drastically changed after the last few days. I had been on a downward spiral, but after meeting Mr. Honor I felt like I had a reason to get up in the morning, a reason to show up to class. Here he was feeling as if he had ruined my life, but I felt like he had saved it. He had saved me. I was finally living. — Teresa Mummert

Do you want me to taste you, sweetheart? — Teresa Mummert

I'm not hiding. I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve. Everything anyone wants to know about me is right in front of their faces. Most just don't bother to look. — Teresa Mummert

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. — Teresa Mummert

All my brain could think about was pushing my lips against hers. I wanted to taste them, know how their softness felt against mine ... — Teresa Mummert

This isn't a joke. This is life or fucking death, Lily. I am trying to save you."
"Save me from who?"
"From me, darlin'. — Teresa Mummert

There is the easy way and there is my way. — Teresa Mummert

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. — Teresa Mummert

your mistakes don't define who you are. — Teresa Mummert

I've missed you."
"Let me show you what you've been missing. — Teresa Mummert

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself. — Teresa Mummert

Take the path that leads to nowhere. It's the most fun. — Teresa Mummert

Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return. — Teresa Mummert

If it's you or me I'd make yourself right with God, motherfucker. — Teresa Mummert

Sometimes bad things happened to good people. Life was nothing more than a series of events with no rhyme or reason. — Teresa Mummert

We all have our demons, but if we can get our demons to play nice with someone else's, well, that makes life worth living. — Teresa Mummert

Never give up. Things will get hard. No relationship is easy. You have to work through your problems as if tomorrow isn't guaranteed, because it's not. Never go to bed angry and always make sure you say I love you every chance you get. — Teresa Mummert

What's your name?" he asked, a boyish grin creeping across his face.
"Henley Brooks," I murmured, tucking my hair behind my ear.
"My name's Lucas."
"I know," I replied, regretting the words as soon as they left my mouth. His grin grew larger as he ran his fingers through his dark hair.
"No wonder you look so scared. — Teresa Mummert

I forced myself to keep my eyes open so I could memorize every curve of her face. I wanted the image burned so deeply in my memory that when I closed my eyes to sleep at night, she would be the last thing I saw and the first person on my mind when I woke. — Teresa Mummert

And who cares what anyone here thinks? Enjoy life. No one gets out alive. — Teresa Mummert

I didn't know when I began to care what Knox thought about me. In fact, we enjoyed having a mutual disdain for the other, it kept us honest. But somewhere along the way the waters got muddled and now the emptiness that had consumed me before was filled with an ache. — Teresa Mummert

You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away. — Teresa Mummert

It wasn't as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation still marked the presence of morality. Deep down we were all just selfish animals. We liked to take ... or be taken. — Teresa Mummert

Do you still think I'm the good guy? — Teresa Mummert

Perfection is an illusion that I have mastered. It is the weak who suffer in mediocrity. But my fears are very real and the story of my past is what nightmares are made of. The monsters no longer hide under my bed. I welcome them under the covers. Popularity is a contest after all and I was anything but a loser. — Teresa Mummert

She was gravity. She was the light in the darkest of my days, and her smile ignited a flame inside of me that had gone out a long time ago. — Teresa Mummert

IN CHAOS THEORY, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IS THE SENSITIVE DEPENDENCY ON INITIAL CONDITIONS IN WHICH A SMALL CHANGE AT ONE PLACE IN A DETERMINISTIC NONLINEAR SYSTEM CAN RESULT IN LARGE DIFFERENCES IN A LATER STATE. — Teresa Mummert

I love a good plot twist, — Teresa Mummert

You can't force love. You can't control how someone else feels. You just have to enjoy it while it lasts and hope the ride doesn't end. — Teresa Mummert

I made my mind up that this evening, after work, I would start taking applications for a new official sub. I — Teresa Mummert

You belong to me. — Teresa Mummert

A flower needs the rain to grow just as much as it needs the sunshine. — Teresa Mummert

If I was going to make her cry, I wanted it to be in person so I could watch. — Teresa Mummert

There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write. — Teresa Mummert

When I met her, I saw her as someone else who needed saving but she had saved me. She had given me hope when I had given up on everything in my life. — Teresa Mummert

That's because you're in here, sweetheart. I'd walk through hell for you. I placed a kiss on her forehead, letting my lips linger for a moment. There was no way she could fully understand how monumental this was for me. All of this. Her stepping back in my life had set in motion a huge change inside of me. It felt like my heart had remembered how to beat again. — Teresa Mummert

real monsters thrived in chaos, ruled by pain. — Teresa Mummert

...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world. — Teresa Mummert

I told you to do something, darlin'. I won't say it twice. — Teresa Mummert

I'm not naive. I know I don't get the happily ever after. My knight in shining armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole ... — Teresa Mummert

For the first time in a long while, I cared about something. I wanted to make you smile. — Teresa Mummert

Shh ... You need discipline, you have no self-control. — Teresa Mummert

I'm sorry."

"Not yet, but you will be. — Teresa Mummert

I know your type."
"Oh, yeah? What type is that?"
"You're all impulse and no consequences. Do you even think about how your actions make other people feel?"
"Like that guy I hit? I'm pretty sure he felt pain."
"And the girls you use and throw away?"
"Pleasure. Definitely pleasure." He fought against a smirk.
"Ugh. You're shameless," I scoffed. — Teresa Mummert

Road trips are fun. Come on. I'll let you control the music. I give you permission to put your hand on my knob." He laughed and I playfully hit him on the arm.
"There is no knob."
"Well, you are pretty good at pushing my buttons too. — Teresa Mummert

I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me. - White Trash Beautiful — Teresa Mummert

You can be a cocky asshole to me. I deal with little pricks like you all of the time. But you leave Jenn the hell alone or the next time you take a piss, it will be through a fucking tube. Do we understand each other? — Teresa Mummert

Part of me wanted to talk myself out of what I was doing. I knew there was no coming back from the feelings I was allowing back, but I didn't really care. It was a crippling addiction and I didn't want the cure. — Teresa Mummert

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak. — Teresa Mummert

Rose was unravelling my hard exterior and helping me realize the boy I use to be was still there. I walked around like I had a death wish, taking unnecessary risks because my reason for living had vanished, but now that she was back I had to do everything I possibly could to fight for us; to fight for her. — Teresa Mummert

I've never been good at sharing my toys. — Teresa Mummert

Loser," I groaned, as I rolled my eyes.
"I may be a loser, but I fuck like a champ. You should try it sometime. Maybe you wouldn't be so cranky. — Teresa Mummert

You have no idea how someone will react in a frightening situation until you're in it. Most would call me a monster, but even I get scared of the darkness that creeps inside of me. — Teresa Mummert

Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard. — Teresa Mummert

Kettle, you're not embracing my awesome. Embrace the awesome."
"So are you going to tell me how you knew?" I pulled back to look at him, and his gaze flicked to mine. "Well, I'd always had a feeling of awesome, even as a young boy."
"My God. You're infuriating."
"Kettle, I'm touched, but you don't need to call me 'God. — Teresa Mummert

You sure telling me this won't cause a problem with your bird?" "Stop calling chicks birds. It's fucking weird." He rolled his eyes. "Isn't a chick a baby chicken?" I asked as he shot me the finger. — Teresa Mummert

I didn't mean I don't want to do it again. I just can't give you what you want. I can't give you what you deserve. What happened back there is all I know. There will never be anything more than that with me. I do not get close to people. I don't care for people," he explained, and my head began to swim with all of this information. — Teresa Mummert

Always remember the secrets you were trusted to keep. Those become weapons, and I've developed an arsenal. — Teresa Mummert

This isn't a negotiation. I want to make you cum, Lily. I am being very nice to you. It would be in your best interest to take my gift as it is and not be greedy. — Teresa Mummert

I love you. That has never stopped from the very first moment I met you. — Teresa Mummert

I love you," he repeated. "I wasn't sure it was even possible for me to care about anyone else again, but I can't deny how I feel about you. — Teresa Mummert

Don't want to fix you, Bird. I want you to fix me. — Teresa Mummert

We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other. — Teresa Mummert

This has been fun, but I have a date. Don't give yourself a paper cut, Kettle." He turned to leave, and I groaned with frustration.
"It's a Kindle, you idiot. There is no paper. — Teresa Mummert

I needed to find a real sub. Someone who knew better than to talk back to me. Someone who took my word as law and didn't question what I did. — Teresa Mummert

If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else? — Teresa Mummert

As I opened the door, Abel turned toward the shower and zipped up his pants. "Jesus! Shit! I'm so sorry." I yanked the door to close it, but he grabbed hold and pulled it wide open.
"Wow. Was it that disappointing?" He laughed, and my face burned with embarrassment.
"I didn't see anything." I was mortified.
"You really know how to hurt a man's ego. — Teresa Mummert

You have no idea how much I love it when you beg, darlin'. — Teresa Mummert

Patience, little one. I want to take my time with you. — Teresa Mummert

Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower — Teresa Mummert

Humans by nature are pack animals. We take comfort in those around us, and value our worth by how many others deem us important. We struggle to fit in, be like the others. — Teresa Mummert

When she arrived, I was certain she would ruin Tatum. I never had imagined she'd be the person to try to save me. — Teresa Mummert

You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first. — Teresa Mummert

I'm going to punish you, he whispered into my ear. — Teresa Mummert

You're a tough girl and you have dealt with a lot worse than this. These next two weeks will be like a fucking vacation for you if you do what you're told. — Teresa Mummert

Fuck what they think. This is about doing what I love, following my dreams. If they like it, that's just icing on the cake. If I lived my life worried about everyone else, I would go insane. — Teresa Mummert

You can pretend none of this ever happened when you leave, or pretend you had no choice. I don't give a fuck what you have to tell yourself to sleep at night. For the next two weeks you belong to me. — Teresa Mummert

If anyone makes you cry, I will make them cry, okay? — Teresa Mummert

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally. — Teresa Mummert

Moth to a flame. Somehow we both got burnt. — Teresa Mummert

Money doesn't buy happiness, it buys power, and that is even better. — Teresa Mummert

I quickly scrawled my number and Colt across the paper and placed it in her palm. She looked down at my number and smiled.

"Colt. Like a horse?"

"Like the gun, sweetheart." I winked and her face brightened with a nervous smile. — Teresa Mummert

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want. — Teresa Mummert

When a woman shows confidence and another claims arrogance, she is usually suffering from jealousy. — Teresa Mummert

We all out our crazypants on one arm at a time. — Teresa Mummert

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys. — Teresa Mummert

What came first the chicken or the egg?
The chicken. That is how it got knocked up in the first place. — Teresa Mummert

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free. — Teresa Mummert

Worthless. It wasn't that I viewed my tears as a weakness; it was that I knew what they'd said was true. I was a nothing. No one looked forward to seeing me in the morning. No one laid his head on his pillow at night to dream of me. I existed by pure accident, and no one would let me forget how unwanted I was. — Teresa Mummert

Was that a tattoo I saw on your back?" He asked.
"None of your business."
"I just didn't peg you for the tramp stamp type."
"It's not a tramp stamp. It's my F-holes," I corrected. His eyes had widened before he let out a long, deep laugh.
"Jesus, Henley."
"For a violin, you A-hole."
I turned around, raising my shirt high enough on my lower back to reveal two curved lines on either side of my spine. I jumped when the pad of his finger ran over the design leaving a trail of goosebumps in its wake.
"Wow," he mumbled, and I turned back around to face him, letting the hem of my shirt fall from my hands.
"What? You think it's stupid."
"No ... no. I think that's the sexiest tattoo I've ever seen. How often does someone get to finger your strings? — Teresa Mummert

Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love. — Teresa Mummert

Are all people from California so rude?" He shrugged. "Not as bad as the bitches from Mississippi."
"Burn. — Teresa Mummert

Hold on to me, darlin'. — Teresa Mummert

I want to fuck you, Rose. I want to do it on my terms. It may hurt, but in a very good way. — Teresa Mummert

My tongue ran over my lower lip and I could taste the sin. It was thick and heavy in the air, and it made my head swim as I gazed into Abel's ocean-colored eyes. I wondered whether he tasted it too, whether his heart was pounding in his chest. I wondered most of all if it was artificial - a haze of adoration brought on by the pills. It had been so long since I'd wanted that; I didn't trust my own thoughts, but if felt too good to care. — Teresa Mummert

Emma is just a distraction. A shiny new toy that I can't have, so I want her. Fuck, do I ever want her. - William Honor (Honor Thy Teacher) — Teresa Mummert

Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat. — Teresa Mummert