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“You might not realize it now, kid, but everyone is some shade of fucked-up.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“It doesn’t matter who you love, brother, as long as you love them with your whole damn heart.”
― Riley Hart, Stay

“There aren’t laws for emotions, Tristan. There isn’t a magical timeframe where it’s okay to fall in love with someone or okay to fall out of it. Emotions don’t play by rules. That’s what makes them so incredible.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?â€� Nick finally repeated the lines from his dream. “Whichever way you are,â€� he replied. He’d do anything for his man. Go anywhere. Being with Nick was where he was supposed to be. “You lead and I’ll follow. I’m right here with you, Bryce. Always.â€� “Nah, I don’t need to lead, we’ll go together.â€� Together, the way they’d done everything since they met.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“Don’t let other people steal your joy. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s not to let other people take what you love.”
― Riley Hart, Depth of Field

“You always make me get so fuckinâ€� emotional. I’d get my ass beat if anyone saw me the way I am with you.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“What do you want, Nick?â€� “Right now? Nothing, but you.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“I’m going to make you get on your knees for me, Nick.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“I’m trying to move on. My past isn’t who I am.”
― Riley Hart, Rock Solid

“This wasn’t ending, and he didn’t know if it would ever end, and Coop didn’t know if he wanted to celebrate, cry, or destroy the whole fucking world.”
― Riley Hart, Collide

“You suck."
"Ha! You do, too, now!"
Bryce's mood lifted as he laughed at her. "You're an asshole, Chris.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“Emotions are a funny thing, but they’re yours and you have a right to feel all of them. What matters is how you react to them.â€� Justin”
― Riley Hart, Test Drive

“You taste so fucking good. I could keep my tongue in you all night.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“we’re all made of sunlight and stardust. So maybe, whenever you look at the sky, from morning till nightfall, you’re connecting with them in some small way.”
― Riley Hart, Of Sunlight and Stardust

“It’s a crossroads, Bryce. Which way are you going to go?”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“You’ve turned my whole fucking world upside down, you know that?â€� “Yeah,â€� Nick whispered. “Yeah, you’ve done the same with mine.”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“I’m not sure it matters how old you are. If something affects you, it affects you. No one has the right to say how long or in what way other people are allowed to feel things. Our emotions are our own.”
― Riley Hart, Shifting Gears

“Nothing in this world was completely black or white. Wrong or right. Or if it was, what mattered was whose eyes it was being seen from.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“Sometimes you just had to force yourself to get over shit in your life, or it would rot away inside you until you couldn't be saved.”
― Riley Hart, Shifting Gears

“Oh, I don’t need sausage,â€� Rod cut in. “Landon gave me his before we left home. I don’t have to wait for his. I just have to touch it and it’s ready.”
― Riley Hart, Test Drive

“But that’s the thing.â€� Simon closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “You’re changing. You’re making amends. I’m not.”
― Riley Hart, Rock Solid

“Cassius?â€� Prince Merrick whispered, looking at him as though he could feel Cassius’s tension. “Are you well? You’re shaking.â€�
“I’m…I’m sorry, Your Highness. I am well.� He managed to get the words past his dry lips.
Though it was too dark to see the prince’s eyes, he could feel them upon him, his stare intense. He felt it like a caress, like soft yet urgent fingers against his skin.
Why could he not have this one thing for himself? A moment that went beyond satisfying his prick with a man he did not know, but with one he did. Someone he enjoyed, someone he desired beyond simple fucking.
Because he is a prince and you are his servant�
This was not a story, a fairy tale selling the lie of a happily-ever-after that couldn’t be a reality for someone like Cassius. That was not a reality for Merrick either.
He turned away, did not let himself gaze at the prince for the rest of the performance. He ignored Lady Penelope’s whispers to Prince Merrick, the jealousy that burned through his gut.
This was his reality, and he had better get used to it”
― Riley Hart, Ever After

“It’s weird, spending your life feeling different from everyone around you and not understanding why or how. You helped when you gave me those terms, but I still didn’t know who I was. Don’t know if I do now. Am I demisexual? I guess. But maybe I’m not, and I don’t know that it really matters. The only thing that does, for me at least, is how I feel.”
― Riley Hart, Griff's Place

“He looked up as Tristan reached him. No doubt he had tears mixed with the rain sliding down his face. “It’s my birthday,â€� he whispered. “That’s when he gave me the queen. He said it’s because I was the strongest person he knew.”
― Riley Hart, Broken Pieces

“His hair was wet, messed up from the towel, and he obviously hadn’t taken the time to shave,”
― Riley Hart, Crossroads

“Will you tell me a story?â€� Merrick asked.
So Cassius did. He told a story of two men who were in love. How one courted the other, and their families shared dinners, and magic allowed them to fly. They laughed together, drew together, wrote together, and spent their days having snowball fights with children. They hung the moon together each night and helped the sun rise each morning.
And they lived happily ever after, in ways Merrick and Cassius could not”
― Riley Hart, Ever After

“Sometimes it’s easier to talk to total strangers about the things going on in your life than the people you know.”
― Riley Hart, Weight of the World

“She is someone to be admired. She will produce a worthy heir.â€�
“I know it is not how you envisioned it, Father,� Marjorie muttered into her teacup. “I could always keep the Davendall name. It would be a very modern thing to do. Or perhaps someday Merrick might consider adopti—�
“That will be enough for one day, my dear,� their father said, grasping for his chest. “But no matter what we decide for our future, we are a family, and we must stick together.�
His mother nodded. “The monarchy will survive whatever comes our way”
― Riley Hart, Ever After

“Cooper had told him so many things in their lives had been out of their control—their families, losing people, being torn apart—and now that they had each other, they already had everything they needed.”
― Riley Hart, Return to Blackcreek

“You have lain with men before, Cassius?â€�
The valet’s cheeks darkened further. “I…yes.�
Merrick swallowed roughly, his chest tightening like a screw. “I am jealous of those men.�
“Your High—� Cassius paused, his eyes wide.
“Please, no titles, not when it is just us…� Merrick brushed his wrist over his eyes. “I am just a man who longs to touch your skin and breathe in your scent.�
“Merrick,â€� Cassius whispered. “I long for that as well”
― Riley Hart, Ever After