And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you. Maya Banks More Quotes by Maya Banks More Quotes From Maya Banks You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet. Maya Banks puppets want mean You have more power, more control than you could possibly imagine. My heart is in your hands. That's not bullshit. I'm not saying stuff I think you want to hear in order to manipulate you. I can't be any more honest than this. I'm yours, baby. I'm putting it out there. My heart, my soul, it all belongs to you. Maya Banks heart baby thinking Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react. Maya Banks breathless evidence When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man. Maya Banks safe-haven giving men Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go. Maya Banks your-side doubt letting-go Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road. Maya Banks hard-times bumps people Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you. Maya Banks missing knows Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming. Maya Banks obsessive consuming crush Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive. Maya Banks hardest sometimes giving She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasn’t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after Maya Banks forever believe book His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day. Maya Banks regret eye mother You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy Maya Banks worry-less focus thinking Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness. Maya Banks greatness beautiful men Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith Maya Banks pms might men Life was sweet. Even when it was bad, there was always the hope of better...the future. Maya Banks sweet Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that. Maya Banks fighting running promise God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word. Maya Banks beautiful believe jesus This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash Maya Banks ashes would-be easy I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows. Maya Banks shadow shining want Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff. Maya Banks plunge cliffs hops
