Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.
Lisa Kleypas
Related Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels." Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her moth... KAREN MARIE MONING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire an... TONI MORRISON Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who y... JOHN BRADSHAW So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chamber... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer... SUZY KASSEM Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with pa... SHANNON L. ALDER Not to be with the one you love, Laura, the one person you should be spending your life with--it’s... HARRIET EVANS The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for... ARMISTEAD MAUPIN And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you lik... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What if heaven or hell have nothing to do with circumstances bestowed upon you and everything with t... RENATE VULLINGS I'm not calling [William] Weld a skunk. But if you get into a certain kind of contest, you get your ... JESSE HELMS The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Hell is the place where nothing ever stops and nothing ever changes, a far more alarming conception ... ANTHONY GILBERT So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine. DOROTHY PARKER Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not suppose... J.M. REDMANN No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Aaron looked at Alex as they reached the bottom of the steps. "What? What is that? Jerkface? Is that... LISA MCMANN What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time... PAULO COELHO She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes. JOHN GREEN To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. RAY BRADBURY It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss. BRIMA LAMIN & CHANTALE WESLEY-LAMIN, THE WALK - MEMOIR OF A LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR SURVIVOR, 2016 Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that att... BILL O'REILLY A smart woman would have walked away then. She would have lit a match and set fire to the entire clu... A. ZAVARELLI It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, b... DAVE ARNOLD I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternit... FRANK MCCOURT Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ... ANNE RICE Yeah. (chuckles) And he was uh, man you know, I had never met the guy before. I've got like some pos... LONDON LEGRAND But then had come the voice that said, "Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, w... MICHAEL GRANT You liked me." I smiled. "You were smitten with me. You were speechless to behold my beau... JERRY SPINELLI You'll find yourself crawling around in the dark eating canned tuna on your living room floor and no... JOSH FREED That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into th... JULIE ANDREWS EDWARDS The problem with losing your anonymity is that you can never go back. MARLA MAPLES before he was all fire and brimstone. ZIG ZIGLAR The sun was down,
And all the west was paved with sullen fire.
I cried, "Behold! the barren b... ALEXANDER SMITH Find your pacifier and shut the hell up! RICHELLE MEAD To hell with your money,if your character is hell on earth. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Being your best friend does not mean I will stop you from crashing and burning. No, you'll never lea... TORI FANBERG Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you ... ARTHUR MILLER [Bush] has put Terri through a week of hell and our family through a week of hell by not acting. He ... BOB SCHINDLER Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends ELBERT HUBBARD Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends. ELBERT HUBBARD But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as ... J.R. WARD My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I... MAGGIE ROWE First, come to the point where you realize you are alone, completely and utterly alone in the vastne... CHRISTOPHER HAWKE When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to... JOSS WHEDON Don’t panic, you are never alone in building up your dreams. The storehouse of your success was bu... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life... C. JOYBELL C. Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you coul... T.H. WHITE My Lord and Savior Jesus, because of my wickedness and wretched ways I deserve hell. You saved me fr... NORM TOMLINSON Bill has operated in an environment with a high degree of difficulty and gotten the best out of what... HAROLD LEWIS Hell is repetition, you go over and over and over. That's hell, so I will eat your eyes in hell, I w... DEYTH BANGER My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of yo... KELLY SLATER Thought you were--' '--Raphael said--' 'I said, no way in hell--' 'Damn straight--' NALINI SINGH It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back. RANATA SUZUKI Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point the... SHANNON L. ALDER I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to ra... MOTHER JONES Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their ... JENNIFER SALAIZ I'd rather to be in your hell, than to be alone in a paradise. HAIFA SANAD It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would hav... JENNIFER DONNELLY When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell—even then thou callest to me across the unb... KAHLIL GIBRAN Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Give God your weakness and hell give you its Strength MEIR EZRA The apocalypse doesn’t have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you ... MARILYN MANSON I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN Baby, I love you more than life. I would live for you, I would kill for you. I would walk all the wa... JAIRO FERNáNDEZ The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your se... ROBERT COLLIER The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your s... ROBERT COLLIER The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your see... ROBERT COLLIER Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at a... JEAN GENET Missed Education is like malnutrition
Starve the brain you starve the soul
You stop understanding yo... ABDESSLEM KHALIL The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back... CRAIG FERGUSON He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like. COLIN S. SMITH I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a ... GISELE BUNDCHEN It wasn't a lot of fun, ... He was very demanding and hot tempered. He threatened to fire people. ..... GEORGE HARRIS The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh. KELSEY BRICKL I was very aware of shoes when I was running track. The American shoes were offshoots of tire compan... PHIL KNIGHT Hell, we never realized it would grow into this. I was just a kid that had a good work ethic, along ... DUNCAN TAYLOR If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hel... AUSTIN O'MALLEY Universe is inside you, and the burning sensation in your chest is hell. YAMIN RASHEED The kid had been to hell and back. JOSHUA KATCHER I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. HARRY TRUMAN I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. HARRY S TRUMAN I never gave anybody Hell! I just told everybody the truth and they thought it was Hell. HARRY S TRUMAN The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. LAURELL K. HAMILTON You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the... ERIK LARSON So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out ... STEPHEN KING This is of what your Lord has revealed to you of wisdom, and do not associate any other god with All... QURAN How the hell do you sum up your sister in three minutes? She's your twin and your polar opposite. Sh... M. MOLLY BACKES Knowing someone has your back like that, to be there and do the best for you, it was a great opportu... BRYCE CARTER My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted l... EMMY LAYBOURNE
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LISA KLEYPAS Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam ... LISA KLEYPAS I know when something is too important to be decided by logic. LISA KLEYPAS I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence ... LISA KLEYPAS Amelia stopped before him, her skirts crowded between his parted knees. The clean, salty, evergreen ... LISA KLEYPAS A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I st... LISA KLEYPAS The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never k... LISA KLEYPAS I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention. LISA KLEYPAS She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope." "Never be afraid... LISA KLEYPAS Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the e... LISA KLEYPAS A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a g... LISA KLEYPAS Cam held her closer. "Marry me, Amelia. You're what I want. You're my fate." One hand slid to the ba... LISA KLEYPAS But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling. LISA KLEYPAS ...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite ... LISA KLEYPAS I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself. LISA KLEYPAS I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far mor... LISA KLEYPAS You've told a good story in a skillful manner. I like it that you haven't moralized about your heroi... LISA KLEYPAS Did you like my novel?" she couldn't resist asking. "Yes, I did. At first I thought it would be... LISA KLEYPAS Men are like dogs," Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they a... 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LISA KLEYPAS It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love w... LISA KLEYPAS The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi. LISA KLEYPAS There was a fascinating duality about Matthew that Daisy had never encountered in another man. At so... LISA KLEYPAS With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of ... LISA KLEYPAS I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. “I don’t even get chee... LISA KLEYPAS After watching—with a twinge of satisfaction—the letters burn to ashes in the fireplace, Evie fe... LISA KLEYPAS This club's no place for you, tibby," he had told her with gruff fondness. "You has to stay away fro... LISA KLEYPAS I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their ... LISA KLEYPAS The bargain…” she mumbled. “You said I could kiss you,” came his gentle, wicked ... LISA KLEYPAS Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a bac... LISA KLEYPAS Westcliff thinks that St. Vincent is in love with you.” Evie choked a little and didn�... LISA KLEYPAS My love is upon you. LISA KLEYPAS I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re... LISA KLEYPAS Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie. LISA KLEYPAS Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. LISA KLEYPAS My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you. LISA KLEYPAS Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them."<... LISA KLEYPAS I don't share my body heat indiscriminately. LISA KLEYPAS If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness…... LISA KLEYPAS I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.” “From all indicatio... LISA KLEYPAS A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie ... LISA KLEYPAS I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to disli... LISA KLEYPAS Ghost?” St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. “Christ. You’re not serious, are you?” LISA KLEYPAS What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to s... LISA KLEYPAS He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise. LISA KLEYPAS Lately I've become so damned distracted that I can't make a decision about anything. I can't think c... LISA KLEYPAS Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the ... LISA KLEYPAS Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders... LISA KLEYPAS It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comm... LISA KLEYPAS I’ll take your bet,” he said grimly. “I’m going to win it. And in three months, I’m going ... LISA KLEYPAS I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your so... LISA KLEYPAS It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lor... LISA KLEYPAS You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things... LISA KLEYPAS The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk. LISA KLEYPAS Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, o... LISA KLEYPAS Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was ... LISA KLEYPAS I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his. "How much?" He made a slig... LISA KLEYPAS Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like... LISA KLEYPAS It had been a long time since a woman had aroused his interest as Amelia Hathaway had. The moment he... LISA KLEYPAS The surprise and relief of being held so securely by a friend she had not expected to see overwhelme... LISA KLEYPAS Sebastian encountered Cam in the hallway outside the reading room. “Where is he?” he demanded wi... LISA KLEYPAS Lillian tells everyone about her flaws," Daisy said, her brown eyes twinkling. "She's proud of them.... LISA KLEYPAS When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Wel... LISA KLEYPAS You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lor... LISA KLEYPAS The thing you never want your sister to be," my brother informed me, "is an unidentified woman on th... LISA KLEYPAS Cat doesn’t have to work. She’s a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to a... LISA KLEYPAS I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet. LISA KLEYPAS I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn ... LISA KLEYPAS I’ve won his heart, but it’s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently lock... LISA KLEYPAS Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent’s heart... LISA KLEYPAS Take too much time, and time will take you. LISA KLEYPAS Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?” “They’re ravi... LISA KLEYPAS You don’t annoy me.” Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. “I thought you did, at ... LISA KLEYPAS You took advantage of me while I was sleeping," she said breathlessly. "That's not fair." Gent... LISA KLEYPAS To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned q... LISA KLEYPAS Let's dispense with the nonsense, Victoria. This isn't a question of suitability, yours or his. You'... LISA KLEYPAS He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to kn... LISA KLEYPAS Evie…” His whisper stirred the tiny wisps at her hairline. “I want to make love to you.” LISA KLEYPAS Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never ... LISA KLEYPAS In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westclif... LISA KLEYPAS ... But if I spend [all] my time *reading* about adventures, I won't actually be *having* them. LISA KLEYPAS I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y... LISA KLEYPAS I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they woul... LISA KLEYPAS All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in o... LISA KLEYPAS The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurk... LISA KLEYPAS Clinging to him desperately, Sara kept her mouth at his ear. "Listen to me." All she could do was pl... LISA KLEYPAS I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were g... LISA KLEYPAS Pausing with the teacup near her lips, Helen said, "I would rather marry you. It will be an adventur... LISA KLEYPAS Sturm und Drang?” “Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points o... LISA KLEYPAS Drat . Daisy pulled back with a frown. She felt guilty that she had enjoyed the kiss so little... LISA KLEYPAS