Starcrossed Quotes

“And I don't just WANT you, Helen. I LOVE you. Big difference.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“She had power over the most magnificent forces on Earth, but she still didn’t feel like she had power over the most important thing of all—her own heart.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Also, it'd be kinda hard to be together if I was in prison."

"What are you talking about?" Helen asked, suddenly alarmed. "Why would you go to prison?"

"For killing the guy that took your virginity," he replied. "You I would forgive. But the guy? Dead man.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Helen's modest. She wanted to dress herself," Ariadne said, drizzling honey over a bowl of oatmeal and putting it down in front of Helen.
"Modest? Sure she is," Hector said sarcastically as he passed Lucas the bacon.
"That was YOUR SISTER'S nightgown, wasn't it?" Lucas asked without skipping a beat as he served Helen and himself.
Hector wisely shut his mouth.
"Yeah," Ariadne replied for him, not getting it. "So comfortable! What? What are you all laughing at?”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Made dinner," Helen told him in a flat voice.

"Did I do something wrong?" he asked tentatively.

"Of course not. Why would you ask that when I just cooked you dinner?"

"Because usually when a woman spends hours cooking a complicated meal and then just sits at the table with a pissed off look on her face, that means some guy somewhere did something really stupid," he said, still on edge.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn’t know what it was like not to have what they need?”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“I think we can put this one on the 'he was definitely high' pile.”
― Josephine Angelini, Dreamless

“I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.”
― Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me

“No need to be embarassed. After seeing you in my cousin's nightgown, you've got nothing to hide. But why were you crying in the shower?" he murmured into her hair. She could feel his lips moving against her scalp, and feel the press of his hips through the covers, but his arms were an unyielding cage. She tried to turn over to face him, to welcome him under the covers with her, but he wouldn't let her.

"I was crying because I'm frustrated! Why are you doing this?" she whispered into her pillow.

"We can't, Helen," was all he said. He kissed her neck and said he was sorry over and over, but try as she might, he wouldn't let her face him. She began to feel like she was being used.

"Please be patient," he begged as he stopped her hand from reaching back to touch him. She tried to sit up, to push him out of her bed, anything but suffer lying next to someone who would play with her so terribly. They wrestled a bit, but he was much better at it than she was and felt even heavier than he looked. He easily blocked every attempt she made to wrap her arms or legs or lips around him.

"Do you want me at all, or do you just think it's fun to tease me like this?" she asked, feeling rejected and humiliated. "Won't you even kiss me?" She finally struggled onto her back where she could at least see his face.

"If I kiss you, I won't stop," he said in a desperate whisper as he propped himself up on his elbows to look her in the eye.

She looked back at him, really seeing him for the first time that night. His expression was vulnerable and uncertain. His mouth was swollen with want. His body was shaking and there was a fine layer of anxious sweat wilting his clothes. Helen relaxed back into the bed with a sigh. For some reason that obviously had nothing to do with desire, he wouldn't allow himself to be with her.

"You're not laughing at me, are you?" she asked warily, just as a precaution.

"No. There's nothing funny about this," he answered. He shifted himself off her and lay back down alongside her, still breathing hard.

"But for some reason, you and I will never happen," she said, feeling calm.

"Never say never," he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little-girl bed. "The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes."

Lucas ran his lips around her throat and let her put her arms around him, but that was all.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.”
― Andrea Hurst, Always With You

“Even though she was still so tired she felt glued to the matress, the yelling made Helen's eyes open. She saw Ariadne, Cassandra, and Noel standing over her bed. Correction, they were standing over Lucas's bed and Helen was in it. Her eyes snapped open and her head whipped around to look at Lucas. He was frowning himself awake and starting to make some gravelly noise in the back of his throat.

"Go argue someplace else," he groaned as he rolled over onto Helen. He tucked himself up against her, awkwardly fighting the drag of the casts on his legs as he tried to bury his face in Helen's neck. She nudged him and looked up at Noel, Ariadne, and a furious Cassandra.

"I came to see how he was and then I couldn't get back to my bed," Helen tried to explain, absolutely mortified.

She gasped involuntarily as one of Lucas's hands ran up the length of her thigh and latched on to the sloping dip from her hip to her waist. Then she felt him tense, as if he'd just realized that pillows weren't shaped like hourglasses. His head jerked up and he looked around, alert for a fight.

"Oh, yeah," he said to Helen as he remembered. His eyes relaxed back into a sleepy daze. He smiled up at his family and stretched until he winced, then rubbed at his sore chest, no longer in a good mood.

"Little privacy?" he asked. His mother, sister, and cousin all either crossed their arms or put their hands on their hips.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Lucas had no doubt Helen could erase his love for her, but he also knew he'd only fall in love with her again the next he laid eyes on her. There was no "moving on" for him. No matter what else Lucas did in his life, his love for Helen would always define him. He was the Lover.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“She was a woman of combined beauty and quiet strength. No wonder he had fallen in love with her so many years ago. No wonder he was in love with her now.
And she would never know it.”
― Christy English, Love on a Midsummer Night

“And in case I forget everything, including to come back, I want you to know that I still love you."
"I still love you too." A smile tugged at his lips.”
― Josephine Angelini, Dreamless

“Had enough?" he asked, smiling at Helen's brazen admiration of his looks.
"Not yet," she said, a matching smile breaking across her face.
"Good.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“Am I hurting you?" he asked, his voice breaking and his eyes vulnerable.
"The only time you ever hurt me is when you leave me," she replied, wrapping herself around him. "Don't ever leave me again.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Didn't I tell you I love you?"
"Yes."
"I meant all of you. Even the weird bits.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“She didn't need to be able to see through his chest to know how much he loved her. He was constantly proving it by how much of her crap he was willing to take.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Orion smiled and leaned back against the wall, letting his gaze drift down in thought. Helen stared at him for a few moments, just enjoying his company and the fact that he was there with her. No. Better than that. He was there for her.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Exactly. So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“We've been over this a dozen times. Nothing's ever going to change the way I feel about you.”
― Josephine Angelini, Goddess

“Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.”
― Molly Ringle, Immortal's Spring

“Love took prisoners no matter what the circumstances; it broke open the heart with no regard for consequences.”
― Andrea Hurst, Always With You

“Mentre l'ultimo velo le si alzava dagli occhi, decise che se Lucas era gay allora lei si sarebbe sottoposta a un'operazione per cambiare sesso. Ne valeva la pena.”
― Josephine Angelini

“There was a perfect partner for everyone, and the faces and bodies that went along with that perfection were as varied as the individuals who dreamed of them. Everyone was someone else's perfect.”
― Josephine Angelini, Timeless

“His whole face lit up. When Lucas was happy, he glowed.”
― Josephine Angelini, Timeless

“But with every breath I had left, I will use it to love you. Because, Eden, I want this...You; I want you more than life, more than anything. There was a time when I didn't Himm I was string enough to face you again, or what is between us. I was too afraid of the heartache, of being shattered again. But now, it doesn't matter, nothing matters except you. I will take an eternity of hardship, of war or fighting my father, or anything, just to hold your love again. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you.”
― Rachel Higginson, Endless Magic

“Our love became a casualty of my family tree”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, God-Shaped Hole

“All I have to do is survive until graduation. One day at a time, right? I know that’s a mantra from Alcoholics Anonymous, but as far as odious afflictions go, it’s my experience that high school should have a twelve-step recovery or its own. There’d probably be fewer alcoholics if it did.”
― Josephine Angelini, Scions

“That smile was my undoing I think. I jerk him up by his shit collar, pulling his face close.”
― Luna. J, God Bless You Devil Kiss You