The owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, Solène Marchand, 39, is hesitant to accompany her daughter, Isabelle, to see her favorite boy band in person. She wants to be close to Isabelle more than ever, though, since her divorce. Making a link with one of the members of the well-known August Moon is the last thing Solène anticipates. However, Hayes Campbell is witty, successful, self-assured, and sophisticated, so there is an instant attraction. The fact that he is only twenty years old adds to the difficulty.
A series of covert encounters quickly develop into a passionate, sincere relationship. Solène and Hayes travel across continents as they negotiate each other’s worlds, which range from stadium tours to international art fairs to private retreats in Paris and Miami. It represents a rediscovery of happiness and love for Solène as well as a regaining of one’s identity. Solène must consider how her love life has affected the people she cares about the most when her romance with Hayes goes public and she and her daughter are the targets of frenzied admirers and a ravenous media.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“And then one day, they stopped.
Long, long before I had stopped loving him.”
“It’s art. And it makes people happy. And that’s a very good thing. We have this problem in our culture. We take art that appeals to women—film, books, music—and we undervalue it. We assume it can’t be high art. Especially if it’s not dark and tortured and wailing. And it follows that much of that art is created by other women, and so we undervalue them as well. We wrap it up in a pretty pink package and resist calling it art.”
“Love, she said, was not always perfect, and not exactly how you expected it to be. But when it descended upon you, there was no controlling it.”
“It grated on me. That no one would question him moving on. Him marrying and impregnating someone more than ten years his junior. Because that’s what divorced men in their forties did. His stock was still rising. His power still intact. Daniel had become more desirable, and I somehow less so. As if time were paced differently for each of us.”
“Because I knew, in my heart, that we would not last. And because every moment of it was extraordinary.”
Simon Spier, a 16-year-old who isn’t really out about being gay, saves his drama for the school play. However, his secret could come to light if an email is intercepted by the wrong person. Now Simon is literally being blackmailed: if he doesn’t behave as Martin’s sidekick, his gay orientation will become public knowledge. Even worse, the boy he has been emailing under the alias Blue will have his privacy invaded.
Simon’s junior year has gotten a lot more challenging as some messy dynamics in his once close-knit circle of friends and his email exchanges with Blue have been increasingly flirty each day. Now that he’s being forced out, change-averse Simon needs to find a way to push himself outside of his comfort zone without alienating his friends, jeopardizing his integrity, or messing up his chance at finding happiness with the most perplexing, endearing individual he’s ever met.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I’m the tallest person onstage during those scenes. Which doesn’t happen all that often, to be honest.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“But the curtains start to open. And I keep moving forward.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Or why people should just wear glasses and stop touching their eyeballs.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“I’m not sure if Bram knows that handing me his iPod is like handing me the window to his soul.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“I honestly think I´d rather make out with Bieber. The dog. Or Justin.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
The most attractive guy in school is Clay Preston, and boy does understand it! Every girl’s dream guy, he has the looks of a movie star and the physique of a quarterback, but not me. He is simply my best friend to me because he has been there for me for as long as I can remember.
Our relationship has always been relaxed, fun, and loving, but after one bet that doesn’t go our way and one kiss to make up for it, everything changes.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If I had died right then, I would have been the happiest girl in the world.”
“I kissed him softly, savoring the feel of his lips, and I prayed that this wasn’t the last time I got to speak to him, that this wasn’t the last kiss we ever had.”
“Yep, then I get everything. Death by sex, I’m being kind though, it’s a pretty good way to go.”
Back in 2009, Vivienne Jones took care of her broken heart the way any young witch would: with vodka, somber music, bubble baths… along with a curse on the awful guy. Vivi is aware that she shouldn’t use her magic in this manner, but because she only has an “orchard hayride” fragrance candle available, she isn’t concerned that it will give him more than a few bad hair days.
That is, until Rhys Penhallow, a heartbreaker and annoyingly attractive as always, arrives at Graves Glen, Georgia, a descendant of the town’s progenitors. A brief journey to refuel the town’s ley lines and make a cameo appearance at the yearly fall festival goes horribly wrong.
As disaster after disaster befalls Rhys, Vivi comes to the conclusion that maybe her foolish little Ex Hex wasn’t so benign after all. Suddenly, lethal wind-up toys, an angry ghost, and a talking cat with some fascinating things to say are attacking Graves Glen. To preserve the village and discover a method to end the break-up curse before it’s too late, Vivi and Rhys must put aside their incredible chemistry and work together.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You almost ran your ex-boyfriend over with a car, and then left him lying in the literal dirt on the side of the road. It is such a big deal, you absolute queen.”
“the best cure for anything was candles and a bath,”
“I like how my job is the only one with any real threat of danger,” Gwyn said, but off Vivi’s look, she lifted her hands in defeat. “Okay, okay, Operation Soothe the Muggles, I’m on it.”
“The Full Potter,” he repeated. “Not finding out you’re a witch until you’re older, not growing up with it. ‘Yer a witch, Vivi,’ the sort of thing.”
“Gorgeous blue skies, rolling green hills, the kind of day that made one want to take up painting or maybe develop some kind of poetry habit.”
Hatred ate him up. Love destroyed me. That evening altered both of our lives, poisoning the beginning of our relationship. Together, we were poison, and there was no cure. Our tale started off just like every other fairy tale does with a lovely wedding, a single kiss, two bands, and triple vows, Killian Spencer and I were legally married, and I became his obedient wife.
He wasn’t, however, Prince Charming. He wasn’t here to help me… There would be no happily ever after, he vowed.
And me? I used to believe that I would be the princess in my fairy tale, much like the ones I used to read as a young girl. I suppose I was the bad guy in our love story.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You’ve dug yourself under my skin, into my bones. You fucking stabbed me in the chest, I’m bleeding for you, Princess. You kill me and I still fucking need you like I need my next breath. I need you as much as I want to destroy you. How is that possible?” “My love is toxic,” I said, my voice groggy and thick with emotion. “It’s fucking poison,” he agreed.”
“You’re pure chaos. Once upon a time, I would have gladly let myself be destroyed by you and counted it as a blessing, but now I want absolutely nothing to do with your martyrdom.”
“I plummeted into chaos because your love was everything beautiful and pure, but my love was everything deceitful and destructive. So, I didn’t just fall in love with you, Killian. I crawled, on my knees, bleeding for you. So, it was real. Every moment, every smile, every kiss… it was real and it hurt.”
“So many secrets. So much pain. Loneliness and fear… There was just something in them that screamed, don’t abandon me; keep me together.”
“Tragedy ran through our blood and our love story was just a mere wilted rose. Our beginning was tainted with lies. Our ending was stained by my deception.”
Stunningly portrays the happiness of a new family as it builds to a profoundly emotional conclusion. This is an unforgettable love story that is both hopeless and heartwarming. A love tale was created by James Patterson, a gripping and deeply touching book about family, loss, new love, and hope.
Finally, Katie Wilkinson has found the right man. He is everything she had envisioned she wanted in a partner: a writer, a home painter, and an unusual thinker. However, one day he abruptly vanishes from her life, leaving just a diary for her to peruse. A new mother named Suzanne wrote a love letter in her diary to her infant son, Nicholas.
She shares her heartfelt thoughts about how she and the boy’s father met, her aspirations for marriage and a family, and the immeasurable joy that becoming a mother has brought into her life. As she reads this poignant letter, Katie discovers that her ex-lover is the spouse and father of this new family. As she tries to comprehend what has happened and whether her new love has a chance of surviving, she reads on, torn between hope and dread.
Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas, written with James Patterson’s impeccable ear for emotion and tension, masterfully depicts the delights of a new family as it builds to an extraordinarily affecting finale. This is an unforgettable love story that is both hopeless and heartwarming.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls…are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
“Good memories are like charms…Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.”
“But what is life if you don’t live it?”
“There’s a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrow.”
“When it’s true when it’s right, love can give you the kind of joy you can’t get from any other experience.”
The experiences of a young woman in the American Old West. Laura travels west to discover other relatives after becoming dissatisfied with her guardian and his family. When she encounters Dalton, a gorgeous, hard-nosed cowboy, her future plans are transformed beyond her wildest dreams. This novel contains explicit sexual themes as well as corporal punishment.
Brooklyn native and best-selling author of erotica Eva Mercy is a single mother and feels under constant pressure. Award-winning, reclusive author Shane Hall unexpectedly appears in New York, shocking everyone.
Sparks ignite when Shane and Eva suddenly cross paths at a literary event, raising the literati of color in New York as well as their long-buried scars. Nobody is aware that twenty years prior, teenage Eva and Shane had one wild, passionate week together. Even though they may be acting as though everything is okay right now, they can’t ignore their chemistry or the fact that they have been secretly writing to one another ever since in their books.
Eva and Shane reconnect over the course of the following seven days in the sweltering Brooklyn summer, but Eva is unsure of how she can believe the man who shattered her heart, and she requires to get him out of New York so that her life can get back to normal. However, she needs some information before Shane vanishes once more. Seven Days in June is at once hilarious, tender, and intensely sensual with its astute observations on Black life, the state of modern motherhood, as well as the effects of motherlessness.
Best Quotes from this Book:
The hot and intensely romantic worldwide bestselling book served as the basis for the popular film. Laura Biel and her partner are having the time of their lives in stunning Sicily. She is abducted on the second day of their journey, which also happens to be her 29th birthday. The stunningly gorgeous, youthful Don Massimo Torricelli, leader of a major Sicilian crime family, is the person responsible for her kidnapping, and he is desperate to get his hands on her at any cost. Massimo has good intentions. An identical apparition to Laura appeared before his eyes during an initial attempt on his life. He makes the commitment to find the woman in his vision and claim her as his own after escaping the onslaught.
Massimo will imprison Laura in his opulent estate for a year in an attempt to earn her heart. He will let her go if she doesn’t become infatuated with him during this period. But he will find her and murder her entire family if she makes any attempt to flee.
Laura quickly grows fascinated with her strong and attractive captor. But when a tenuous, perilous friendship develops between them, outside forces pose a threat to separate them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You have to be careful. Beautiful women are heaven for the eyes and hell for the soul.”
“Legend says that Zeus used to hide Typhon there – a monster of 100 heads – and that it’s still trying to escape.”
“It doesn’t matter what we drive or what we eat, as long as we’re together.”
“A dark secret is the foundation of any successful relationship.”
“This is what you call a temper? How come you’re not Italian?”
Returning to Virgin River with the original book… In Virgin River, which has a population of 600, a midwife or nurse practitioner is needed. Against a backdrop of soaring California redwoods and beautiful rivers, make a difference. Includes a cabin without rent.
Melinda Monroe, who was just widowed, immediately determines that the isolated mountain village of Virgin River could be the ideal spot to get away from her grief and reignite her passion for nursing. Her lofty expectations are quickly dashed though; the cottage is a dump, the roads are dangerous, and the local doctor doesn’t want anything to do with her. The following morning, Mel makes the terrible decision to leave town. However, a little baby left on a doorstep forces her to rethink her plans. and ex-marine Jack Sheridan firmly establishes them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He reached out and lightly touched her hair. There’s no way, he thought. I’m sunk. And my heart hasn’t beat the same since she walked into town.”
“At some point, he realized that he knew how
she felt—once you know how much you love someone, no one else would do.”
“It’s up to you.” He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. “It’s always up to you.” He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.”
“People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons.”
“Thanks a lot. You could have cut the girl some slack. We haven’t had anything pretty to look at around here since Bradley’s old golden retriever died last fall.”
Tru Bennett hasn’t seen Jake Wethers in twelve years; he was once her boyfriend and was formerly her best friend. When Jake Wethers went from England to America with his family when they were both fourteen, he left Tru with a shattered heart. Jake Wethers is the brains behind The Mighty Storm, one of the biggest bands in the world. He is hot, tattooed, and wonderfully bad.
They are both unprepared for the sparks that fly the moment they reconnect when she is asked by the magazine she works for to interview Jake for her music piece. Will, Tru’s boyfriend of two years, complicates their immediate feelings for one another.
Then Jake offers Tru a job she can’t turn down: a trip across the globe with him and his band. But accepting the position would mean leaving Will behind, and traveling with the band would mean spending an excessive amount of time with Jake. Will Tru gladly put everything on the line for one night with the world’s most known womanizer, or is she strong enough to resist the delicious bad boy who once had her heart so completely?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I’ve only ever loved one girl, Tru – and that’s you. It’s always been you. I loved you from the moment I knew how to love.”
“I’ll never be good enough for you, I know that. But I’m no good without you, and if that makes me a selfish bastard for wanting you as badly as I do then so be it because I can’t live a life that doesn’t have you in it.”
“You’re not just any girl. You’re my girl.”
“I loved you from the moment I knew how to love.”
“i wear my scars, they don’t wear me.”
The dark scares her. He controls it. She wears too-tight clothes and excessively high heels. She uses the majority of the book’s proverbs incorrectly, eats impolitely, and laughs too loudly. Most people are unaware that it is really a glittering mask designed to conceal panic attacks one at a time.
Gianna’s façade is impenetrable to everyone, or it was until he showed up. Most people imagine a special agent enforcing the law who is a moral exemplar. Others in the New York underworld know him as a hustler and a killer, with a heart of ice for a soul. Christian Allister has always carried out the life plan that he had imagined in his youth, in the cold, wet confines of his cell. He’s never been tempted to stray from the path because of his preference for order and the number three. But perhaps it’s best to keep an open mind.
Their lives converge on a wintry night. She despises him for his ice-cold manner, his haughtiness, and his overly keen eye, but as the year’s pass, she starts to look forward to playing with him even if their games revolve around making fun of each other’s brains and appearance. Christian had never included Gianna in his plans. His eyes follow her wherever she goes despite the fact that she is married, not his type, and mayhem personified. She hasn’t even realized that she is his—his curiosity, his annoyance—all along. His most insane obsession.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“They always knocked three times,” I said. “Who?” “The men who made me.”
“All anyone has to do is look at him when you’re in the room to know he’s obsessed with you.”
“Haven’t you heard? Love is an obsession. Some would even say …the maddest obsession.”
“A sudden feeling that I’d met this man before overwhelmed me. Though, the thought soon faded. It would be impossible to forget his face, no matter how much I wanted to forget his presence.”
“I suddenly knew, this was a game I wanted to play with everything in me.”
Logan and Mason Kade, two brothers, each followed their own path. They anticipated to enroll in her school, Fallen Crest Academy, and they were wealthy. They choose a public school, therefore Samantha is now made to stay with them. She doesn’t give a damn about them, her friends, her unfaithful boyfriend, or even her parent’s divorce, which is the problem. But perhaps that’s for the best. Change might be a positive thing.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“In that moment, I realized that he always had that affect on me. The ice façade I reined over myself was plucked away whenever his attention was on me. He reached over and took it away like I was a baby with candy.”
“People are snakes, you just have to figure out their different colors, but they’re all the same. Everybody wants something.”
“Mason slid down beside me and Logan curled an arm around my shoulder. He drawled against my cheek, “It’ll throw them off. Their visionary senses will tell them we’re screwing and they’ll get confused.” His hand slid down towards my breast.”
“Logan shot to his feet. “I can’t keep quiet anymore. You all are stupid idiots if you think that. Don’t you know her? Don’t you know Mason? My god, I’m embarrassed to call you ass-dults!”
“He whistled. “Are you serious? I was sure I saw Mason showing you.”
My hand clamped down on his shoulder and he winced, howling under his breath. “Remove the claws, Sam. Seriously.”
A love story presented in two voices is Flipped. Juli Baker flipped when she first met Bryce Loski. Bryce fled when he first spotted Juli. That pretty much sums up the relationship between these two neighbors up until the ninth grade, when Bryce starts to realize Juli is fairly fantastic and Juli starts to realize Bryce isn’t as lovely as she believed. A humorous and moving relationship results from how these two teenagers are able to go past the obvious and find one another.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
“One’s character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can’t swim back.”
“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind,” she said,”it’s like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”
“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”
“If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one’s universe, then I was well on my way.”
For her pals, Kristen Petersen will go to any length, and she has no place in her life for guys who just don’t get her. She also doesn’t do drama. She is also concealing the fact that she must have medical treatment that will prevent her from becoming a mother.
Kristen’s involvement in the wedding planning of her best friend is bittersweet, especially after she meets Josh Copeland, the best man. He’s humorous, hot, and never gets upset by her mile-wide sarcastic streak. He also always has one chicken enchilada in front of her when she gets hungry. Even Stuntman Mike, her dog, is smitten with him. Josh’s desire for a sizable family is a sole catch. Even while Kristen is aware that he would be happier with someone else, she finds it increasingly difficult to resist their growing connection. With humor, passion, and a lot of sass, The Friend Zone explores the reality of infertility and grief, leaving you smiling one minute and reaching for Kleenex the next.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I am not drunk. I’m just talking in cursive”
“Do you ever see yourself acting crazy, but you can’t stop because you’re not a quitter?”
“I’m a woman. I can go into a bar penniless wearing sweats and a questionable rash and come out with leftovers and a buzz.”
“It’s just that you’re perfect, and my heart hurts.”
“I’m cool buying tampons, but I’m not walking a tiny dog into a store in a purse.”
Karin Ahmed has a strategy. Even if it means giving up her goals, she must maintain her head down, get through high school without making a scene, and obey her parents’ instructions. Karina anticipates a period of calm before her parents’ four-week trip to Bangladesh. Instead, all is revealed to be a mere falsehood. My girlfriend is Karina.
Giving lessons to the school’s resident bad guy was already going too far. Saying you’re dating him? Not even a possibility. Ace Clyde, however, does everything right. He gives her coffee in the mornings, effortlessly wins over her friends, and even makes a weekly promise to purchase her a dozen books if she will put up with his pretended phony relationship. Karina concurs, but she can’t help but begin to count down the days till her parents return. There are only 28 days left before everything resumes as usual, but what if Karina changes her mind?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If I’m lightning, then what are you?”
Already I can imagine Ace teasing me but instead he smiles and says, “I’m thunder. I’ll follow you wherever you go.”
“Being seen is the most tender form of love, and I see you. I do”
“Don’t let the fear of disappointing them stop you from living your fullest life.”
“He’s somehow turned me into a song, into a series of notes.”
“My religion has never been a problem. It’s the ideals of the generations before me.”
Kidnapped, and escorted to a personal island. I never imagined that I could experience this. On the eve of turning eighteen, I had no idea that a fortuitous encounter would alter the course of my life so drastically. I will now be his property. Julian’s way. To a man whose touch makes me burn, a man who is as gorgeous and ruthless as he is. a man whose compassion strikes me as more striking than his brutality. My kidnapper is a mystery. I have no idea who he is or why he abducted me. There is a darkness inside of him that both frightens and attracts me. This is my story, and my name is Nora Leston.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He turns me inside out, take me apart, and puts me back together—all in the span of one night.”
“He stands in the doorway like a dark angel. His hair curls a little around his face, softening the hard perfection of his features. His eyes are trained on my face, and his lips are curved in a slight smile. He’s stunning. And utterly terrifying. My instincts had been right–this man is capable of anything.”
“The devil does indeed wear a beautiful mask.”
“We look at each other–predator and prey, the conqueror and the conquered–and in that moment, I feel an odd sort of connection to him. Like a part of myself is forever altered by what’s happening between us.”
“It’s not the sweet, tender kind of love I always dreamed of, but it’s love. Dark, twisted, and obsessive, it’s both a compulsion and an addiction.”
A crisis in a marriage is what portrays this piece of literature.
“I never meant to do it…she was just there when I needed someone…”
Rachel had always thought that she and Daniel had three gorgeous kids and a solid marriage. But when she learned that Daniel had been having an affair, her blissful existence was upended. Then she understood that their distance had been widening for a while. Rachel really wanted to keep her marriage together, but was it too late? Even if Daniel had committed the ultimate betrayal, could she ever forgive him?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Shock stung her into a quivering mass of pleasure when he captured one of her hands and fed it down to the velvet-smooth thickness of his penis, then urged her to stroke it between her legs.”
“In a second or two he would get up and join her in the shower he could hear running–consolidate his place with some very passionate seed-sowing and at the same time he would make Nell fall in love with him again.”
“Santo had the right to love them both equally, without feeling the pressure of having one parent’s dislike of the other to corrupt his view – a point brought home to them both by a stern grandmother, who had found herself flung into the role of referee between them at a time when their mutual hostility had been running at its highest.”
The melancholy Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman has spoken more powerfully to modern readers about the essence of love than any book in recent memory. When it was first released in 2007, Stacey D’Erasmo of The New York Times Book Review praised it as “a love letter, an invocation… an extremely beautiful book.” A popular, Academy Award-winning movie based on the best-selling book has about three-quarters of a million copies in circulation and stars Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student he falls in love with.
Aciman depicts Elio’s father, Samuel, traveling from Florence to Rome to see his son, a talented classical pianist, in Find Me. Sami’s plans are upset and his life is changed forever when he meets a stunning young woman by chance on the train. Elio soon relocates to Paris, where he also has a significant relationship, while Oliver, who is now a professor at a college in New England with a family, finds himself suddenly considering a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, personal details, and the subtle emotional undertones that makeup passion. The question of whether true love actually ever dies is raised by Find Me, which takes us back to the magical realm of one of our greatest modern romances.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“It’s just that the magic of someone new never lasts long enough. We only want those we can’t have. It’s those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo.”
“Some people may be brokenhearted not because they’ve been hurt but because they’ve never found someone who mattered enough to hurt them.”
“As the French poet says, Le temps d’apprendre à vivre il est déjà trop tard, by the time we learn to live, it’s already too late.”
“Everything in my life was merely prologue until now, merely delay, merely pastime, merely waste of time until I came to know you.”
“Each of us is like a moon that shows only a few facets to earth, but never its full sphere. Most of us never meet those who’ll understand our full rounded self. I show people only that sliver of me I think they’ll grasp.”
My time to overcome my ugly duckling complex and develop my wings were meant to come in college. Instead, I ended up joining a sorority with a lot of nasty girls. I already struggle to fit in, so when my Kappa Chi sisters challenge me, I am unable to refuse. The challenge: woo the junior class’s hottest new hockey player.
Conor Edwards frequently attends Greek Row parties and sleeps in sorority dorms. He is the person you fall for before realizing that men like him don’t care about women like me. But Mr. Popular surprises me by letting me take him upstairs to make it look like we’re getting busy instead of laughing in my face.
He now wants to keep pretending, which is even insane. It turns out that Conor enjoys playing games and believes it’s amusing to deceive my opponents. But it’s nearly hard to ignore his effortless charisma and surfer-boy good looks. Though I’m coming to see that Conor’s narrative has much more to it than what his fan club could see. And the chance that this ridiculous charade may backfire on me increases the longer it continues.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes we make all the wrong decisions, end up in all the wrong places, and still find exactly where we’re supposed to be.”
“Assuming I’ve done something wrong, that I’m not good enough, is the first place my head always goes.”
“I truly believe that all body types are beautiful. It’s only when I look in the mirror that I forget.”
“I realize now that the damage is done, that no matter the grand gestures and sincere apologies, sometimes you hurt people too much and push them too far. There’s a limit to what you can ask someone to endure for your bullshit.”
“Smashing atoms and the patriarchy”
Damen, the legitimate heir to the throne of Akielos, is revered as a military hero by his people. But when his half-brother takes over, Damen is kidnapped, stripped of his identity, and brought to work as a pleasure slave for the prince of an adversary country.
His new lord, Prince Laurent, personifies all that was wrong with the court at Vere: he was gorgeous, cunning, and deadly. However, nothing is as it seems in the deadly political labyrinth of the Venetian court, and when Damen finds himself involved in a play for the throne, he must cooperate with Laurent to survive and save his nation. There is only one rule Damen must follow: he must never, ever divulge his true identity. The reason is that the only man Damen needs is the one who has more reasons than everyone else to despise him…
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Laurent could inspire homicidal tendencies simply by breathing.”
“A golden prince was easy to love if you did not have to watch him picking wings off flies.”
“Damen’s understanding of Laurent rearranged itself, in order that he might despise him more accurately.”
“Torveld favoured Laurent with another of those long, admiring looks that were starting to come with grating frequency. Damen frowned. Laurent was a nest of scorpions in the body of one person. Torveld looked at him and saw a buttercup.”
“It was like watching a man smile as he surrendered himself to drown in deep water.”
Rurik Wilder, a strong and attractive man, has the ability to change into a vicious bird of prey, a talent that has resulted in death and destruction. Finally, he is given the chance to make amends. Only one lady stands in his way: a stunning author who is desperate to exact revenge on the killers of her family. It’s been said that there are assassins with abilities that no human should ever have.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you’re close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to be unimportant unless it’s to me. Every sound you hear empty unless it’s my voice. I want you to remember that whatever pleasure you have from now on, you’ll have it from me.
Laurie is devastated when her partner of more than ten years abruptly calls it quits, and not just because they both work at the same law company and she is required to see him every day. Her formerly ideal life is in ruins, and the idea of dating once more in the era of Tinder is absolutely awful. When she learns that her ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend is expecting, she can no longer choose to take the humiliation lying down. Then a fresh potential arises after an accidental encounter with the workplace playboy in a malfunctioning elevator.
Jamie Carter doesn’t believe in love, but in order to satisfy their bosses, he wants a respectable, reliable girlfriend. In order to give the gossip mill something new to talk about, Laurie wants to meet a hot new man. The ideal scenario is a manufactured fauxmance played out on social media with a set end date and well-prepared photos. With the plan in place, Laurie and Jamie start to brag about their relationship, much to their friends’ and coworkers’ surprise and enviously. But the line between acting like you’re in love and truly falling for your pleasant, attractive fictional partner is thin.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limitless number of chances to hurt you.”
“keep a close eye on the worst things that happened to you, they could turn out to be a doorway, a route to someplace else entirely, a map you couldn’t yet read.”
“God, whenever I forget why I hate men, one of them reminds me.”
“At some point, you have to give up wishing for your parents to be who you wanted them to be and accept them as they are,”
“This was a category error that too many people made – thinking untruths that didn’t add up were better than a hard truth.”
Another brave novel about the value of women taking charge—this time, when it comes to discovering intimacy, joy, and love sometimes in the most unexpected places—comes from the celebrated author of The Assistants. Lawyer Katie Daniels, 28, is a perfectionist living the New York dream. She has a grip on apartments in Soho and the West Village, is engaged to the lovely art curator Paul Michael and has made headway in her career at a major law company. To put it simply, she has changed considerably since her upbringing in Kentucky.
But when Katie’s fiance, Paul Michael, unexpectedly breaks things up with her, she is left shattered and totally bewildered. She decides on a whim to go out for a drink with Cassidy Price, a confident and promiscuous lady she meets at work. As their newfound connection develops, everything Katie believed she knew about sex—and love—becomes in doubt.
In the romantic comedy When Katie Met Cassidy, the idea that a woman has the right to sexual pleasure is still completely taboo, despite the fact that society has made great strides toward gender equality. This book addresses the issue of why so few female readers are able to identify their sexual preferences and then act on them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“in such a setting a female body in a tuxedo- a tuxedo without a plunging neckline or cropped bottoms paired with stiletto heels, but a proper men’s tux- confused the hell out of people”
“this larger than life space was in fact just a room like any other. It struck Katie then how much it was about the people who filled a space with drama and personality, with love and grudges and out-size emotion, that made a place what it was.”
“The time for pretending to be someone she wasn’t – someone supposedly better and more refined – was over.”
“Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families?”
Nesta Archeron has a history of being prickly-proud, easily enraged, and reluctant to show mercy. She has also tried to find a home for herself in the strange, dangerous world she now inhabits ever since being dragged into the Cauldron against her choice and transformed into High Fae. Even worse, she can’t seem to get over the atrocities of the conflict with Hybern or everything she lost in it.
Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose status in Rhysand and Feyre’s Night Court puts him continually in Nesta’s circle, is the one person who riles her up the most out of anybody else. Cassian can ignite other things besides only her rage. Unquestionably, there is a fire between them, and as they are confined together, the flames grow hotter.
The delicate peace that has descended upon the realms is now in jeopardy due to a perilous new alliance formed by the deceitful human queens who fled to the Continent during the previous battle. And Cassian and Nesta’s willingness to confront their dark pasts may be the key to stopping them. Nesta and Cassian fight monsters from within and without as they look for acceptance—and healing—in each other’s embraces against the vast backdrop of a civilization torn by conflict and racked by uncertainty.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Gwyn whispered, “I am the rock against which the surf crashes.” Nesta straightened at the words, as if they were a prayer and a summons. Gwyn lifted the blade. “Nothing can break me.”
“I cannot survive without reading.”
“Keep reaching out your hand.”
“For every Nesta out there- climb the mountain.”
“Cassian leaned to whisper in her ear, “The first time I saw that look on your face, you were still human. Still human, and I nearly went to my knees before you.”
In this story of first love and adolescent turmoil, Leah Burke—girl-band drummer, deadpan master, and Simon Spier’s best friend from the critically acclaimed Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage.
Leah Burke is generally on the beat when it comes to playing the drums, but life isn’t always so rhythmic. She stands out among her friends since she is the only child of a young, single mother and has a much less fortunate upbringing. She enjoys drawing but is too shy to admit it. Her mom is aware of her bisexuality, but she hasn’t had the guts to tell any of her friends—not even her openly homosexual best buddy, Simon—about it. Leah is therefore genuinely at a loss for what to do when her steadfast network of friends begins to diverge in unforeseen ways. Tensions are high since prom and college are coming up. Even more so when she realizes she could love one of them more than she ever planned, Leah finds it challenging to hit the appropriate chord while the people she loves are at odds.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.”
“I can’t fuck your life, I’m monogamously fucking my own life.”
“I hate when assholes have talent. I want to live in a world where good people rule at everything and shitty people suck at everything.”
“You can’t just like Harry Potter. You have to be balls-out obsessed with it.”
“I used to think boners literally pointed in the direction of the person you’re attracted to, like a compass. That would be helpful. Mortifying as fuck, but at least it would clarify things.”
Rainshadow Island is one of the wonders of the Harmony world. A frightening secret is hidden in a network of catacombs just below the surface of the area. Halloween is a dust bunny’s paradise with all of its pranks and goodies. Ask Lyle, Sedona Snow’s devoted companion. But for Sedona, it’s a nightmare. A mysterious catastrophe in the catacombs has led a raucous group of ghost hunters to her inn, despite the fact that her new job running a tiny hotel and pub on Rainshadow is assisting her to grow on from her tragic past.
And just when a newcomer seems to be really interested in Sedona, her ex-boyfriend shows up on the island and declares he needs to come back together. The city’s new Guild head is Cyrus Jones. Even though he has his own agenda when it comes to Sedona, Rainshadow’s passion is stronger than any of his schemes.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.”
“we humans have a penchant for complicating stuff that probably shouldn’t be all that complicated.”
“Who the hell do you think you are, Jones?
The man they sent to take care of the monsters on Rainshadow, Cyrus said.”
Elizabeth’s well-educated East Coast upbringing did not prepare her for a teaching job on the Canadian frontier. She cares for the youngsters under her care, despite the ongoing difficulties. Elizabeth is shocked to discover her heart-warming toward a specific member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She is battling to do the best job she can while trying to survive the hostile environment. The first volume in the popular Canadian West series.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But I refused to mope about for the evening. My little ritual with teacup, familiar chair, and a favorite Dickens story went a long way toward improving my outlook.”
“If anyone deserves the truth, Nanna, a child does. They can accept things, even hurtful things, if they are dealt with honestly, in love”
“Because the family still clung”
“sharing my cozy home with the mice.”
“He says that other men can run their lives in this order: God, wife, work; but his has to be God, work, wife, and he won’t ask a woman to take the lesser position.”
The universe of 19-year-old Violet Bates is gender-separated by a deadly river. East is ruled by women. In the West, men rule. Welcome to the Matrus and Patrus countries. Violet’s life has been consumed by irrational anger since the disappearance of her adored younger brother. She was already imprisoned by her own country, and now she faces execution for her crimes. But she could be saved by one choice. To join the Patrus realm, where men are in charge and women are subservient.
For a rebellious girl like Violet, everything about the patriarchy is deadly. If she wants to survive, she must abide by the rules. But Violet has never been particularly good at following the rules. Violet is forced to give up many pleasures in the forbidden realm, including forbidden love, when she is plunged into greater peril than she could have ever imagined. Only the fittest survive in a world where gender is segregated.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But this wasn’t a fairytale.
Viggo’s and my story was everything but.”
“I supposed we were more vulnerable to wondering. Grief did that to you. It made you wish for a life that wasn’t yours. It made you dream.”
“Better to remain always self-reliant. Self-reliance means you’re in control. Don’t ever think you need a man for happiness.”
“His confidence was something that I admired—he wasn’t cocky or arrogant, but pragmatic. He simply knew what he was capable of.”
“Catching the glint of malice in her eyes came as a wake-up call. I realized in this moment, she was as crazy as I was.”
Soon, a big-screen adaptation of the acclaimed, award-winning book will be released, starring Katherine Langford from 13 Reasons Why and Nick Robinson from Everything, Everything. Worthy of obsession on the Fault in Our Stars scale. Weekly Entertainment I cherish you, Simon. I HEART YOU! And I like this brand-new, hilarious, live-out-loud novel. All the Bright Places best-selling author Jennifer Niven
It should also be required of straight folks to come out. The better, actually, is the more awkward it is. Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is figuring out who he is and what he wants in life. However, things become extremely difficult when one of his emails to the very enticing Blue ends up in the wrong hands. Because Blue’s attraction to Simon is significant, It’s an absolutely amazing, holy friggin deal.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn’t be this big awkward thing whether you’re straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I’m just saying.”
“White shouldn’t be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn’t even be a default.”
“People really are like house with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”
“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat — soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
“He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.”
My brother threw a boy into the pool when I was fifteen, and I’ve always wondered what happened to him. He had the cutest dimple and brilliant green eyes. It turns out that the scrawny child with the glasses became Foster, a ravishing street fighter. He’s back and he’s out to make me fall in love with him. My family has made it clear that I am not allowed to date him. A bad boy from the Bronx cannot be seen with a Manhattan heiress. Although I ought to push him away, he might turn out to be the romantic interest of my dreams. I decide to take a chance and let him into my heart. However, breaching the law has repercussions. People who turn on my father die.
A scared Catherine Enderly was kidnapped on her way to boarding school and transported from England to the coast of Ireland as the prisoner of the enraged and strong young Sean Culhane—a man who vowed to revenge against her family.
The young countess faced her kidnapper with a determination that belied her frail beauty, fearful but defiant. But even though Sean intended to exact revenge on Catherine, he found himself growing more attracted to her with each encounter. Her flamboyant naivety was a temptation that ignited long-simmering resentment into a raging fire of need. While they were engaged in a love-hate struggle, he was unaware that the alluring beauty was striving valiantly to suppress her own newly discovered wants, and that his touch had changed her ferocious loathing for him into an all-consuming love.
She comes from an undesirable neighborhood. If Liberty Jones can control her wild heart from taking control of her thoughts, her aspirations and resolve will propel her far from Welcome, Texas. Liberty is entirely off-limits in Hardy Cates’ eyes. His own goals are greater than those of Welcome, and he doesn’t need Liberty Jones’ complications. However, a perilous attraction that is bigger and more powerful than both of them pulls them toward one another as a result of something powerful and magical.
The one man she cannot have is him. When Hardy departs from town to carry out his plans, Liberty is left to care for her infant sister alone. Soon after, Liberty finds herself enchanted by a wealthy businessman—a “Sugar Daddy,” perhaps. But the connection is deeper than first appears, as Liberty starts to learn things about her own family’s past.
Will they fulfill their dreams, or will sadness separate them for all time? Two males and one female. A decision that will either make or break her. A woman you’ll support at every turn. You won’t soon forget this love story.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
“Many times in life I’ve regretted the things I’ve said without thinking. But I’ve never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”
“Because it all led me here to you.”
It can’t be good if your body and inner wolf both react excitedly to a schizophrenic Alpha guy whose own wolf has a propensity to go feral, can it? It wouldn’t be wise to make a deal with him either. Unluckily, Taryn Warner, a latent wolf shifter, is now limited in her options. She has no other choices, okay? The key question is whether she will go to any lengths to avoid the prearranged mating with the ill SOB that her father set up. It appears that she will have to accept Trey Coleman’s offer to mate with him as the answer in this situation is yes.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just give me a second. Attempting to give a fuck…Attempting harder to give a fuck…Sorry, there was an error; fuck not given.”
“Wouldn’t you like to slip into something more comfortable though? Perhaps a coma?”
“Love is giving someone the power to completely destroy you, and hoping that they won’t”
“Hey, I have a suggestion, why not put a condom over your head – if you’re going to act like a complete dick then it makes sense to dress like one.”
“Oh no, honey, I’m an angel, I swear. The horns are only there to hold up the halo.”
In this first installment of a stunning fantasy epic from the New York Times and the USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Assassin series—an engrossing tale that combines magic, murder, intrigue, adventure, and a hint of romance—a royal woman transforms into a skilled warrior to destroy her murderous cousin, avenge her family, and save her kingdom. Gladiator meets Game of Thrones: a royal woman has become a skilled warrior to decimate her murderous cousin, avenge her
Lady Everleigh’s lack of visible talent consigns her to the background of Bellona’s royal court, a nation steeped in the heritage of gladiators, in a world where magical prowess decides one’s value. Evie, who is seventeenth in line for the throne, serves only as a ceremonial fixture and is generally ignored. However, there are evil powers at work within the palace. Evie is attacked alongside the rest of the royal family when her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, kills her mother the queen, and usurps the throne. Fortunately for Evie, she is able to flee the massacre because of a hidden immunity to magic.
She joins a gladiator group after being forced into hiding in order to survive. The gladiators, especially Lucas Sullivan, a powerful magier with his own secrets, are truly highly trained fighters adept in the art of combat, despite the fact that they utilize their powers to entertain and amuse the general public. Evie joins the troupe to start training while she makes up her mind about her future—if she really has one.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Summer queens are fine and fair, with pretty ribbons and flowers in their hair. Winter queens are cold and hard, with frosted crowns made of icy shards.”
“You have to survive, no matter what you have to do, no matter who you have to cheat and hurt and kill, no matter what the cost is to your heart and soul. Do you hear me, Everleigh? You have to live.”
“Someone always wanted to kill the queen.”
“The day of the royal massacre started out like any other.
With me doing something completely, utterly useless.”
“Traitors always pay for their sins,” I hissed.”
The unhappy Sebastian and the lost and lonely Caroline become acquaintances, which sparks an illicit romance that puts their lives in danger. Caroline Wilson is stuck in an old man’s chilly, loveless marriage. Caroline thinks she has no option but to move in with her husband when he finally receives the long-desired promotion and buy a new house in San Diego. There she meets 17-year-old Sebastian. Their joy blossoms for a summer that is far too short. Sebastian’s parents start to worry that their son may be hiding something as external pressures mount, not least from the domineering David. Even Caroline’s new friend Donna is aware that beneath the placid exterior, there are dark passions.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What do you think I’ve got here that I wouldn’t give up in a heartbeat to be with you? There’s nothing to keep me here: I’ll go anywhere, do anything to be with you.”
“I chose love over law. And I didn’t care.”
“It’s always been you, Caro. The first time I saw you, I thought you were the most beautiful girl that I’d ever seen. I thought you must be a princess like Cinderella. It’s only ever been you.”
“I love you, too,” I whispered so softly I didn’t know if he’d heard me. “Ti amo tanto, Sebastian, sempre e per sempre.”
“There’s nothing to forgive … We fell in love: it’s not a crime.”
The prince of the Syrena, Galen, has been dispatched to Earth to locate a young woman who he has heard can communicate with fish. Emma is on a beach vacation. The moment she runs into Galen—ouch!—both teenagers feel a connection. Galen, however, will need to have multiple interactions, including a dangerous shark encounter, before he is persuaded of Emma’s abilities. If only he could persuade Emma that she is in possession of the key to his empire. This fish-out-of-water tale, which is told from both Emma and Galen’s perspectives, glistens with mystery, levity, and romantic waves.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Basically, everyone thinks–knows–how sweet I am.
Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.”
“It’s easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they’re almost the same […] So your mom thinks we’re ma– Uh, dating?”
“There’s nothing wrong with your daughter, Mrs. McIntosh. I said we’re not sleeping together. I didn’t say I didn’t want to.”
“He’s your problem, but what a great problem to have.”
“Oh, and I need to known where Jersey is and if I have enough money to buy it.”
He’s referred to as an angry god. He appears to me to be a callous prince. His parents are in charge of this town’s police, residents, and every shop on Main Street. All I have against him is a great, delicious grudge for the time he nearly killed me. Vaughn manages to bully little ole’ me in between coupling up with a different female every weekend, breaking noses, hearts, and rules. I fight back with everything I’ve got because I never expected him to pursue me across the world once we get out of high school. However, he is now residing with me in a foreboding, dark castle outside of London. A different intern, a wandering sculptor, and absolute brilliance. It is true that this location is haunted as said.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Every painful goodbye starts with a wonderful hello.”
“We will always be something. You might move on and marry someone else, have his children and get your happily ever after, but you will never be completely done with me.”
“The less you said, the more you were feared.”
“We all get old. We all get wrinkles. Life is short. Eat that pizza. Drink that wine. Shut down that bully eejit who tortures you.”
“Because my dad told me good girls like bad boys, and I’m bad. Really bad.”
David Nicholls’ book One Day was released in 2009. Two main characters’ lives are chronicled in each chapter for a period of 20 years on July 15, St. Swithin’s Day. The book received largely favorable reviews and was selected as the Galaxy Book of the Year for 2010.
On July 15, 1988, Emma and Dexter have their first encounter while celebrating their graduation. The next day, they must part ways. Where they’ll be on this specific day the next year? and the following year? And each year after that?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
“Just kidding’ was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.”
“You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”
“You can live your whole life not realizing that what you’re looking for is right in front of you.”
“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I’ll always remember it”