Jasper Quotes

“I don't deserve you."
"You're not allowed to say that."
"Why not?"
"It's a breakup line. Unless you're breaking up-"
Jason leaned over and kissed her. The colors of the Roman afternoon suddenly seemed sharper, as it the world had switched to high definition.
"No breakups," he promised. "I may have busted my head a few times, but I'm not that stupid.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Besides, Reyna will do what she can to slow things down. She's still on our side. I know she is."
"You trust her." Piper's voice sounded hollow, even to herself.
"Look Pipes. I told you, you've got nothing to be jealous about."
"She's beautiful. She's powerful. Se's so...Roman."
Jason put down his hammer. He took her hand, which sent a tingle up her arm. Piper's dad had once taken her to the Aquarium of the Pacific and shown her an electric eel. He told her that the eel sent out pulses that shocked and paralyzed its prey. Each time Jason looked at her or touched her hand, Piper felt like that.
"You're beautiful and powerful," he said. "And I don't want you to be Roman. I want you to be Piper. Besides, we're a team, you and me.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Are you going to teach me about make-up sex?"
He shook his head. "I'm going to show you what it means to be mine, with nothing held back.”
― Kit Rocha, Beyond Shame

“You aligned yourself with the wron fella and there were consequences. Now you can wallow in it, or you can pull that thick head of yours out of your posterior and help us figure out how to fix things.”
― Kady Cross, The Girl in the Steel Corset

“...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“He smiled and kissed me.
It wasn't precisely a peck on the lips, and my wild vampiric reactions took me off guard yet again. Edward's lips were like a shot of some addictive chemical straight into my nervous system. I was instantly craving more. It took all my concentration to remember the baby in my arms.
Jasper felt my mood change. "Er, Edward, you might not want to distract her like that right now. She needs to be able to focus."
Edward pulled away. "Oops," he said.
I laughed. That had been my line from the very beginning, from the very first kiss.
"Later," I said, and anticipation curled my stomach into a ball.
"Focus, Bella," Jasper urged.
"Right." I pushed the trembly feelings away. Charlie, that was the main thing right now. Keep Charlie safe today. We would have all night...
"Bella."
"Sorry, Jasper.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“You want a torch or a candle, maybe? You've got your head so far up your own arse, it must be dark in there." -Sam”
― Kady Cross, The Girl in the Clockwork Collar

“our family is strong. our only fear is losing you. It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes that we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I watched you for years,” she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. “I watched you and you never saw me.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, To Seduce a Sinner

“...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“A Quarkbeast is a small hyena-shaped creature that is covered in leathery scales and often described as: 'One tenth Labrador, six-tenths velociraptor and three-tenths kitchen food blender.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

“Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“This isn't 'I do something for you, you do something for me'. This is hard-core friendship. Varsity level. This is me asking you to do something for me without getting anything in return. This is friendship, Howie.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Don’t you think it’s the people that make a place feel like home?”
― Kristin Cashore, Jane, Unlimited

“Oh dear, Pols. Jasper this, Jasper that. You've got Mentionitis.”
― Sophia Money-Coutts, The Plus One

“Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.”
― Barry Lyga

“Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.

~The Moon Master”
― Clara Diane Thompson, Five Glass Slippers

“Jasper would have been completely hidden if it weren't for Highway 17, the crumbling two-lane road that traced the coastline, splitting cypress swamps and tidal creeks edging right up to the 350,000-acre ACE Basin, where three rivers converged to form the largest, wildest estuarine preserve on the East Coast. Jasper bordered the northeast side of the basin where dolphins, gators, minks, otters, and every manner of waterfowl and shore bird prospered from the daily six-foot inflow and outflow of saltwater, freshwater, and brackish water that rose and fell on cue like the sun itself.”
― Beth Webb Hart, The Wedding Machine

“Haven’t you noticed yet, Bella, that Edward is just the
teeniest bit prone to overreaction?”
― Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

“Keep giving me your colours," he insisted. "I want to... I need to know. You're still weakened, so you need more, but it doesn't have to come to you this way. You could sleep on my bed and I'd hold you until you were better.”
― Sam Hall, Fighting Monsters: Part One