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Heart Quotes by J.R. Ward

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J.R. Ward shows a character whose heart stops in shock, and another whose heart feels as empty as a stare. She writes that there is no quota on misery, meaning pain can keep building without a clear limit. She also reminds us that protecting powerful people sometimes requires a solid conviction beneath the skin.

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“His heart was as empty as her stare.”

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She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.

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“The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.”

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You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

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...but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.

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Love’em or hate’em, by blood or by heart, family was a kind of oxygen. Necessary for the living.

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Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.

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“She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. But no, she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.”

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And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

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It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once…

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In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way…

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“Maybe she just needed out. Out of Caldwell. Out of the CCJ. Out of the electronic family of her alarm clock and…

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It was hard to know what was worse: him being with her and all her sisters, or him being with none of…

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“As Jane stared at Vishous and felt his body against hers, she knew she was never letting him go. Ever. And she…

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Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he…

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When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had…

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Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable…

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The collision was impending and electric, but the moment was soft and sweet: She positively glowed as she looked up at him.…

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Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix…

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Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to,…

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When he pulled back, Blay frowned. "You're shaking." Was it possible he wasn't imagining this? "Am I?" "Yes." "I don't care. I…

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For no good reason, he thought of Xhex. Xhex was a thunderstorm made up of hues of black and iron gray, power…

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His cheeks were slick with tears that spilled over his diamond eyes, a ceaseless flow he neither noticed nor appeared to care…

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“Later, on the night that she and her beloved were slaughtered, when her eyes latched onto the crawl space where she had…

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She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left…

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Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.

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“She had everything to offer; he had nothing. And yet she wanted him anyway. It was at that moment that he fell…

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Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah,…

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I love her so damned much." Manny heard himself say. “That’s my heart right there. That’s my woman”.

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It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.

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“For the victim, she had to imagine death was an alone kind of thing, even if he or she were staring into…

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And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne,…

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All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have…

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“She closed her eyes so she couldn’t see him, so she could pretend it was some other male, any other male. The…

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Even when there were no more options for the body, the heart's wishes find a way out, and as with all warmth,…

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Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached…

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V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever…

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Oh my God..." Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread…

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Maybe I could do it." Darius shot him a dry look. "You want to try to get back into your house after…

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She silenced him with her mouth, then pulled back. "You can't change what I think of you." He reached up and brushed…

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“As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose. After all, there was…

Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he…

“Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very…

In his fantasy, he kissed his best friend again, pulled back, and… “I love you,” he said into the spray of the shower. “I……

And love … love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.

“He had a weakness, though. All of us do, and those of us who think they do not are not being honest.”

Because I was, and I remain, utterly and completely and totally…in love with you.