Nothing is born into this world without labor.

I don’t get where he gets off thinking he should be able to have his cake and eat it too because news flash, this cake store is fucking closed.–Lane

She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me the stars cast not judgments, but blessings, knowing full well the disastrous outcomes...

It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.

How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles’s weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside.

We fell in love with that little peep-show projection on the inside of an iris, pictures that amount to nothing more than the thirsty moon over a spot of bloody ground. Those weren’t the nothings...

There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together

I should ask if it was good for you,” Miles murmured, “but given that evidently you acquired the answer to life, the universe, and everything, it must have been-excuse the word-cosmic.

The best things in life are crazy.

You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.

When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul…

He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me.

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.

Does he know you’re with me? Does he know about me? Does he know we fuck each other in our dreams every night? ~ Ripp Collins

My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you…

I don’t want you to be my fan. I want you to be mine.

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

Love isn’t all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that.

Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my...

Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success.

I want to hear one more of your storiesTangle up in your dreams, give up the fight‘Pour one more glass of that wineAnd I might not go home tonight…

Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else...

Don’t ever perceive other people’s success as your own failure.

She really liked you, Noah,”Yeah, well, maybe I’m just an asshole.’I realize my hand is still in his hair and I retract it quickly. He grabs it, holds it against him. You’re not an asshole...

And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash

Listen to learn. Learn to earn!

Because’, she said, ‘your problems are not real problems. You’re dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That’s like…having rock-star problems.”Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an...

You know, Piggly Wiggly never could hang on to a night stock manager. Your math skills would be a plus, maybe even your Spanish, and you don’t mind staying up late.””Piggly Wiggly, wow. I hadn’t...

If it is to be, it’s up to thee. You are responsible for your success.

Just drive, rock star. Drive fast. Very fast. Because I’ve got a shopping list ten miles long of the things you’re going to be doing to me.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to...