Jessica Spotswood Quotes

#1. It's called Sunday school, but we are required to attend twice weekly: on Sunday before regular service and again on Wednesday evenings. There are two separate classes: one for children under ten, held in the classroom down the hall, to teach them basic prayers and the tenets of the Brotherhood's beliefs, and one for girls aged eleven to seventeen, to teach us about how wicked we are. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#2. Finn lowers his voice to a confidential whisper. 'Arabella was
my first literary infatuation. I had a mad crush on her. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#3. No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#4. Reading is the perfect escape from whatever ails you. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#5. He may not have said the words, but I know my son. I saw the way he looked at you."
"How?"
"Like he'd do murder for you. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#6. We must use magic only in the rose garden. We must speak of it only in hushed voices and behind closed doors. We must never forget how dangerous it can be - nor how wicked. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#7. History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks; it was tactile and ever present #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#8. You don't have to apologize for your feelings. You can't make yourself fall in love with somebody. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#9. He holds my gaze, and the look in his eyes is a love letter in itself. When he speaks, his voice is rough. "Will you marry me, Cate?"
I go still, the question hanging in the air. I have never felt more accepted 'for the girl I am, not the girl I want to be' never more loved and respected than I am in this moment. It's a choice, and it's mine to make.
"Yes," I breathe.
Finn slides the simple gold band onto my ring finger. I tilt it, and the ruby sparkles, catching the sunlight. He leans down and brushes his lips against mine, sealing the promise. 'I can't wait to make you my wife.'
'Cate Belastra.' I try it out and despite the solemnity of the moment, despite knowing what this will cost him, I can't help smiling. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#10. I am wicked in many ways. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#11. And that better be the only wiener you put in your mouth. We do not give blow jobs so that boys will like us! Claire roars, and Connor nearly chokes on his beer #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#12. Cate, I cant say what you want to hear. Not yet. I want you to know that
when I do, I'll mean it. Completely. Irrevocably."
"When?" I ask, voice small but hopeful. "Not if?"
"When." He takes my cold hand in his. "I'm falling in love with you more every day. I don't know if they were the same things I loved about you before, but now
the bit of red in your hair. The way you tilt your chin when you get angry, like you're charging into battle. How fiercely protective you are of the people you care about. How big your capacity for forgiveness is. You are an amazing woman, Cate Cahill. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#13. We'll tell the nurses she's a new student with an interest in nursing. They'll be charmed.'
Tess flips her braids over her should. 'I am particularly adorable today. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#14. Finns squares his shoulders - which have gotten a good deal sturdier since I last saw him. Or paid attention, at any rate. How long has it been since I actually looked? He's gotten awfully handsome; it can't have happened overnight. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#15. From my vantage point I can see the back of his neck flush pink beneath his collar. He's got freckles there, too. I wonder how many more freckle's he's got. Are they all over, or just where the sun's touched?
Good Lord, why am I thinking of Finn Belastra without his clothes on? #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#16. Get on with it," Mrs. O'Hare prompts, and I do, wrapping the bandage snugly over Finn's instep and up his calf― which is sinewy with muscle, covered in fine coppery hair and more freckles. I'm fascinated by the pattern they form over his skin. Do they go all the way up his leg?
I flush scarlet at the the thought. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#17. Brother Ralston smiles fondly, only too willing to believe in my womanly frailty. If it weren't to my advantage, I'd slap the smile from his face. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#18. You, in the moonlight, in this library, in this dress
" His eyes rove over me, from my frothy pink skirts embroidered with dark pink roses, past the swell of my breasts, up to the creamy skin of my neck. My breath comes fast as his gaze lingers on my lips. He's barely touching me, but it feels as though he's already undressed me with his eyes.
"Its the most beautiful thing. Like a dream." His voice is hoarse and full of wonder.
"Then its my dream, too," I confess as I claim his lips with mine, #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#19. We talk a bit, until Tess is sufficiently calm, and then I take her upstairs and see her snuggled back into bed with Cyclops and one of Maura's romance novels. Strange bedfellows, but both seem to comfort her, and it serves to remind me again that she is a strange mix of woman and child, carrying a burden far too heavy for her. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#20. Am I wrong about love? Is it founded on mutual respect, on like meeting like, not on heart-pounding, stomach-churning nervousness and petty compliments? #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#21. The universe has yet to take my wishes under consideration. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#22. Some things are worth the danger, aren't they? I don't believe anyone should be allowed to dictate what I read or who my friends are. It gives me pleasure t know that I can thwart the Brotherhood in some small way. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#23. Maura looks stunned, as though she's been slapped. "What about me? Don't you trust me?" She gives a hysterical little laugh. Tears are gathering in her blue eyes. "Let me guess: you think I'm reckless. 'Too easily ruled by my emotions,' Elena said. As though feeling things too deeply
wanting more for myself and girls like us
is so terrible! #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#24. We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#25. I just want to be me. Cate. Why isn't that ever enough? #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#26. Everybody breaks at some point. It's how you patch yourself up that counts" -Connor #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#27. I feel us tilting toward each other like trees in a strong breeze. I've been craving the sight of him for days, but now its not enough. I'm not sure who moves first. The inches between us are erased until I'm in his arms and my mouth finds his. #Quote by Jessica Spotswood

#28. Food - like art, like music - brings people together, it's true. It begins, though, with a private experience, a single person stirred, moved, and wanting company in that altered stated. So we say, "You have to taste this." We say, "Please, take a bite. #Quote by Jessica Fechtor

#29. Are any of us really awake? Are we making decisions about our lives, or just letting things happen to us? #Quote by Jessica Hawkins

#30. The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius. #Quote by Jessica Valenti

#31. Now that I know what it's like to be with someone like you, I don't want anything else. Just you. You make me mad, and for better or worse, I refuse to live without that madness. #Quote by Jessica Hawkins

#32. There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen #Quote by Jessica-Lynn Barbour

#33. Maybe we have to go through certain experiences in order to get where we're supposed to be. #Quote by Jessica Hawkins

#34. I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good. #Quote by Jessica Ennis

#35. He leaned over and gently kissed her cheek. Jessica smacked her lips, snorted a time or two, then dropped back off to sleep. "I love you," Richard whispered. "Sweet Jessie, I do." Only soft snores answered him. Richard smiled. He wished Jessica had been awake to see it, for he was certain it was a smile that would have pleased even her. More than just the corners of his mouth had joined in. He laid his head down next to hers and stared at her. He would sleep later. Now he would look his fill and see if he couldn't identify that expanding feeling in his chest that brought tears to his eyes. Could it be joy? He'd ask Jessica when she woke. After all, she knew all about it. #Quote by Lynn Kurland

#36. Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for. #Quote by Jessica Biel

#37. The studies about differences between the sexes that you see kind of get propped up in the media are more often than not denigrating women in some way, saying that women really don't have any spatial understanding, and that's why they can't park. #Quote by Jessica Valenti

#38. If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant. #Quote by Jessica Zafra

#39. If you want what's best for your kids, one surefire way to provide them with a healthy, happy home is to make sure they have lesbian parents. In the longest-running study of lesbian families to date,2 zero percent of children reported physical or sexual abuse - not a one. In the general population, 26 percent of children report physical abuse and 8.3 percent report sexual abuse. #Quote by Jessica Valenti

#40. I do think that more people are feminists than they realize. #Quote by Jessica Valenti

#41. If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again. #Quote by Jessica Chastain

#42. Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date. #Quote by Jessica Szohr

#43. You're mine, Regan Porter. You don't get to decide if you die or not. Because if you do, you're destroying me, too. #Quote by Jessica Clare

#44. Isn't everyone hiding something? #Quote by Jessica Sorensen

#45. I have a class in Hermosa Beach that starts at eight, but ...
I wanted to offer to pick up her car, drive her back to Hermosa Beach, take her to the moon. #Quote by Carolee Dean

#46. Clinginess seriously clashes with my current desire to be unattached. #Quote by Jessica N. Watkins

#47. The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy. #Quote by Jessica Lynch

#48. Rosemary died when I was six, and when my parents told me, I cried. I wasn't sure if I had a right to, but I think now of something the British chef Nigel Slater once wrote, that it is "impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you." I think the same can be said of the person who scoops your ice cream into a dish and stands, smiling, as you eat. #Quote by Jessica Fechtor

#49. She was pure indulgence. Hot, liquid sin. That last piece of delectable chocolate cake you knew you should walk away from, but if you didn't have at least one more taste, life wouldn't be worth living. #Quote by Jessica Lee

#50. One product that you can never go wrong with is sunglasses because they are easy to misplace. I always get a couple of pairs every year. #Quote by Jessica Szohr

#51. That's what I need right now; something to save me from being pulled under by hope again. #Quote by Jessica Pennington

#52. I'm always going to have a soft spot for this city in my life. This is where I sort of grew up. So many romantic mistakes. #Quote by Jessica Pan

#53. Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much. #Quote by Jessica Zafra

#54. As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing. #Quote by Jessica Capshaw

#55. To see the man that I love pursue another woman was heartbreaking. Usually men do this shit behind your back. However, since we were in the lifestyle, I guess he thought it was okay to do it in my face. "I told you that there were #Quote by Jessica N. Watkins

#56. What are you thinking?" he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone.
"That the city looks different depending on whom I'm seeing it with."
He nodded easily, as if this same thought had occurred to him.
"I notice different things," I continued. "Like with you, I pay more attention to the details of the buildings – the textures, the colors, the people standing in front of them. The reflections are different."
"Reflections?" he asked quietly.
"They are." I watched our bodies morph and distort in the window of an empty bank. "You're there," I said. "That's how they're different. #Quote by Jessica Hawkins

#57. I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. #Quote by Jessica Savitch

#58. Death. It's around more than people realize. Because no one wants to talk about it or hear about it. It's too sad. Too painful. Too hard. The list of reasons is endless. #Quote by Jessica Sorensen

#59. Food has powers. It picks us up from our lonely corners and sits us back down, together. It pulls us out of ourselves, to the kitchen, to the table, to the diner down the block. At the same time, it draws us inward. Food is the keeper of our memories, connecting us with our pasts and with our people. #Quote by Jessica Fechtor

#60. Reese, she didn't do anything - " Her hands brushed his aside.

"I'm going to turn this f**king plane around and then I'm going to go choke her by her scrawny neck for making you cry again. Goddamn, I - #Quote by Jessica Clare

#61. I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. #Quote by Jessica Lynch

#62. As cute as baby clothes are ... I try to buy less. #Quote by Jessica Capshaw