Beautifully Cruel Quotes

“I don’t know what kind of women you’re used to, but my mother didn’t raise a worker bee. She raised a queen.” I stare at him without smiling. “And I don’t give away the honey for free.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Loneliness and solitude are two totally different things. All the times I’ve been loneliest have been in a crowd.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“I might be an introvert, but I’ve got a temper, and I hold a grudge like nobody’s business.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Life is unfairly hard for introverts. Something as common as interacting with another breathing human can knock us off kilter for days. In fact, I'm not sure socialising has even one tangible benefit. If I didn't have to work for a living, I'd never leave my apartment”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Let it be. Accept that you have warring factions inside you. If you’re living by your core values, all the second-guessing is just noise you can give yourself permission to ignore.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“my top five core values are non-conformity, self-reliance, kindness, honesty, and courage.” “Top five of how many total?” “Twelve.” I can’t see his smile, but I can feel it. “Let’s have the rest.” “Curiosity. Freedom. Persistence. Learning. Humor. Gratitude. Solitude.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Accept that you have warring factions inside you. If you’re living by your core values, all the second-guessing is just noise you can give yourself permission to ignore.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“I’m gonna fuck you now. It’s gonna be fast and hard because I’ve waited too long for this, but we’ll go again right after, and then I’ll take it slow.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Two things you should know about me: one, I always get what I want. And two, I always plan ten steps ahead to get it.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, do good.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Love isn’t a nightmare. It’s a miracle. A blessing. It’s knowing you’re finally home.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Goddamn bossy men. I should start a women’s group for survivors of alpha males. There are probably millions of us worldwide, nursing bruised hopes, hearts, and uteruses.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Marriage is an institution built on white lies and denial. If husbands and wives started telling each other the truth all the time, the whole system would implode.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“I’ve surprised him. I like that I’ve surprised him. He doesn’t seem like a man who’s taken aback by much of anything. “You don’t have a man, then.” Wow. How he managed to make that sound like, “Bend over the table and lift up your skirt,” I’ll never know. Carla was right: the man is fire.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Marriage is an institution built on white lies and denial.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“I’m not good for you.” “So you’ve said. Wine and cheeseburgers aren’t good for me either, but they’re literally two of my favorite things.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“She says, “My idea of a mob boss is that they put contracts out on their enemies, and run drug, weapons, and prostitution rings. Is that what you do?” Her gaze is unflinching. I feel a warm flicker of pride. She really will make an excellent attorney. “No.” She stares at me, weighing the truth of my answer. “I feel like this might be a semantics issue. Let me rephrase. Is that what you have other people do for you?”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“need and want have turned into something more powerful. Something darker and far more perilous, for us both. So now I have two options. Option one: claim her. Option two: give her up. I can’t bring myself to do either.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Just out of curiosity, what does pinche puto whatever-he-said mean?” “Fucking faggot pubic hair slugs.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“She was a lioness. Even without opening her mouth, I heard her roar.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“What do you do when you have to decide between two impossible choices?” Our eyes meet in the mirror. He says, “Create a third.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Several things dawn on me at once. The first is that I continue to underestimate her. The second is that Declan was right: she’s much tougher than she seems. The third is that I lied when I told her falling in love is a luxury I don’t allow myself”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“order, my top five core values are non-conformity, self-reliance, kindness, honesty, and courage.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“the harder he fights himself and denies himself what his body so obviously wants, the more intrigued I become.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“But my hands were made for things much more brutal than drawing pictures of a bashful, beautiful girl.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“I’ve never met a man who denied himself anything. From what I’ve seen, men walk around assuming the whole world is their candy jar. They delight in taking whatever they want. But even beyond that, they assume that candy is their birthright. Their due for being born with a dick between their legs. They think candy is what they’re owed.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“Don’t toy with me.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“So she’s a fighter. That doesn’t make it right.” “Aye,” he agrees, nodding. “But maybe it makes it a little less wrong.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“I’ve never met a man who denied himself anything. From what I’ve seen, men walk around assuming the whole world is their candy jar. They delight in taking whatever they want. But even beyond that, they assume that candy is their birthright. Their due for being born with a dick between their legs. They think candy is what they’re owed. Not Liam Black. He wants, but he doesn’t take.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel

“it might be nice if he lost some of that steely self-control and got just the tiniest bit… Rough.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Beautifully Cruel