Teresa Mummert

“...but numbers didn't lie. That was the reason I loved math. It was the only pure form of honesty left in this world.”

“I know i don't get the happily ever after. My knight and shinning armor took the highway detour around this godforsaken shit hole. I've made peace with that. That doesn't mean i'm going to lie down like a doormat and let every cocky prick in the trailer have his way with me." - White Trash Beautiful”

“Road trips are fun. Come on. I'll let you control the music. I give you permission to put your hand on my knob." He laughed and I playfully hit him on the arm. "There is no knob.""Well, you are pretty good at pushing my buttons too.”

“I had never been scared of deployments or of war, but now I was scared to leave. I didn’t want to leave her. When I met her, I saw her as someone else who needed saving but she had saved me. She had given me hope when I had given up on everything in my life.”

“You never truly understand what you are missing until you have it in your grasp and push it away.”

“You can’t force love. You can’t control how someone else feels. You just have to enjoy it while it lasts and hope the ride doesn’t end.”

“Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.”

“your mistakes don't define who you are.”

“When I met her, I saw her as someone else who needed saving but she had saved me. She had given me hope when I had given up on everything in my life.”

“Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.”

“I got your six.”

“Tears, happy tears, fell from my eyes as I held on to the only person in the world that could take away all of my hurting with a simple smile.”

“India Lima Yankee”

“...all my brain could think about was pushing my lips against hers. I wanted to taste them, know how their softness felt against mine...”

“I tried. I hope Jenn understands that I tried. But I couldn’t listen to him talk that way about her. I spun around with my fist cocked back and connected with the left side of Thomas’s face. He was out before his head hit the floor.”

“I forced myself to keep my eyes open so I could memorize every curve of her face. I wanted the image burned so deeply in my memory that when I closed my eyes to sleep at night, she would be the last thing I saw and the first person on my mind when I woke.”

“You can be a cocky asshole to me. I deal with little pricks like you all of the time. But you leave Jenn the hell alone or the next time you take a piss, it will be through a fucking tube. Do we understand each other?”

“If anyone makes you cry, I will make them cry, okay?”

“You were the light when my entire world was dark. You gave me a reason to keep going when all I wanted to do was give up.”

“She was gravity. She was the light in the darkest of my days, and her smile ignited a flame inside of me that had gone out a long time ago.”

“If I was going to make her cry, I wanted it to be in person so I could watch.”

“We need to boost each other to get to the top. It is much more effective than stepping on each other.”

“If you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?”

“I thought about how my life had drastically changed after the last few days. I had been on a downward spiral, but after meeting Mr. Honor I felt like I had a reason to get up in the morning, a reason to show up to class. Here he was feeling as if he had ruined my life, but I felt like he had saved it. He had saved me. I was finally living.”

“what came first the chicken or the egg?The chicken. That is how it got knocked up in the first place.”

“Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.”

“Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.”

“You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.”

“Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.”

“Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower”

“Emma is just a distraction. A shiny new toy that I can’t have, so I want her. Fuck, do I ever want her." - William Honor (Honor Thy Teacher)”

“Never outgrow your imagination.”

“Take the path that leads to nowhere. It's the most fun.”

“Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.”

“The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.”

“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.”

“Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.”

“Give a man an inch he will try to give you six in return.”

“Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.”

“There is no greater feeling of accomplishment than to create a world that solely exists in your imagination and be able to pull someone into this hidden place inside of my thoughts. To make someone care for a person that has manifested from my dreams, to make them hate me for putting them in danger, and for them to ask to be taken on another journey with me when it is all said and done is why I write.”