Nichole Henry-Ceballos > Nichole's Quotes

“And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I´m always sure of-
Blue eyes.
Bronze curls.
The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me.
That Simon Snow is alive.
And I´m hopelessly in love with him."
Baz (page 176)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I don’t want fine. Fine isn’t enough. Isn’t not about the open fire or whatever other clichés you can conjure up, but yes, I want a connection. I want you to care as much as I care. I want you to need it and want it and mean it. I want it to matter.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I knew how to make him angry and how to make him laugh, and I hoped I could make him happy.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I think it’s usually better to face the world as it is. The more we try to hide from something, the more power we give it.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“These weren’t just yeah whatever kisses. They weren’t take it or leave it, get your coat you’ve pulled kisses. They were everything I thought I could never have, everything I’d been pretending I never wanted, telling me that I was worth it, that he’d be there for me and put up with me and wouldn’t let me drive him away.
Oliver Blackwood was giving all that to me, and I was giving it right back. In the clutch of hands and the press of bodies and the urgent heat of his mouth on mine.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I miss you.
Sorry. Was that too much?
I know it’s only been a few days.
Maybe this is why people don’t want to go out with me.
Not that you’re really going out with me anyway.
I hope I didn’t sound presumptuous.
I’m probably sounding really weird now.
I’m assuming you’re not texting back because you’re still asleep. Not because you think I’m disgustingly clingy.
If you’re awake and think I’m disgustingly clingy, could you at least tell me.
Right. You’re probably asleep.
And now you’re going to wake up and read all this and I’m going to die of embarrassment.
Sorry.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“You’re more than a bonus, Lucien. You’re integral.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“In any case, I wasn’t prepared for the truth of you.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“Someone else’s actions may affect you. But what other people choose to do is about them.” We were both quiet for a moment.. “Will it…will it ever stop hurting?” “Non.” Mum shook her head. “But it will stop mattering.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“You really do own your illiteracy, don’t you?” “Yeah, I’m thinking about moving to America and running for public office.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“It's hard for me to understand why anyone wouldn't want you in their life.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“It is true. You should never let anyone tell you it is wrong to be how you are.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I’m conscious this could be rather burdensome to hear, but you remain the thing I have most chosen for myself. The thing that’s most exclusively mine. The one that brings me the deepest joy.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“This was why relationships sucked: they made you need shit you’d been perfectly happy not needing. And then they took them away.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“It will never stop hurting but it will stop mattering.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“Is this just a polite way of saying you need time to recover from my flat?

I won't lie. It was fairly terrible. But there were some compensations.

Like what?

You.

I stared at the word for a really long time. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“No, listen. There is actually a choice here. And the choice is, either you never trust anybody ever again, and pretend that stops people hurting you when clearly it doesn't. Or, um, don't do that. And maybe your house will burn down. But, at least you'll be warm. And probably the next place will be better. And come with an induction hob.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I don't know how to promise you that I won't overreact, or lash out, or say something I shouldn't. All I can promise, and I really think it's what I should be promising, is that I'll be honest with you about... about what's going on with me.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I'm in love with you, Lucien. But it hardly seems adequate.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“thought when you’re in love, it’s supposed to be safe, isn’t it? You’re supposed to be able to do things and try things and make mistakes, and it’ll be okay because you know who you are to each other.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“I sit down in front of Baz now, on the coffee table--which I carried up by myself. He hands me his cup, and I take a sip. "What is this?"
"Pumpkin mocha breve. I created it myself.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“No one ever calls me Tyrannus. My mother insisted on it because it’s a family name, but my father hates it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I'd cross every line for him.
I'm in love with him.
And he likes this better than fighting.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“He also says I tried to throw him down a flight of stairs that year. Really, we were fighting at the top of the staircase, and I got in a lucky punch that sent him flying. Then, when my aunt Fiona asked me if I’d pushed Simon Snow down a flight of stairs, I said, “Fuck yes I did.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The room around us is gone, and the stars feel close enough to touch.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I know I usually come here to tell you I'm sorry. But I think today I want to tell you that I'm going to be all right.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Aunt Fiona stomped out in her heavy black Doc Martens boots (clichéd) and opened my door. “Back seat,” she said. “Front seat’s for people who haven’t been kidnapped by fucking numpties.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“My dad loves marriage rites. Any sort of family magic, actually. He and my mother are bound together in five dimensions.’
‘That’s lovely,’ Baz says, and I’m terrified because I think he means it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“She looks over at his empty bed, and her sadness is so potent that in that moment, I'd do anything to get him back for her. (I'd do anything to bring him back.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“That breaks my heart, to think that you can't remember a world without the Humdrum. I worry that your generation will just acclimate to it. That you won't see the necessity of fighting back.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On