Rebel North Quotes

“Death came for me once already.
I was lucky enough to outrun it.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“I’m serious. There’s nothing wrong with your face.”
Her sadness morphs into a brutal chill. “Says the guy with the perfect face.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“People stare at them like they forget there’s a whole human being attached to them who has feelings and a beating heart.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“I’m able to create an image that works like a smokescreen. Attractive enough that people befriend me at face value and have no interest in digging deeper.
And thank goodness for that.
Because if they look beyond my designer clothes and pretty face, they’d see me for the royal fuck-up that I am.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“I don’t get opportunities to dress up much anymore, so I like to take advantage.”
“Uh-huh,” he says absently, his attention fully on the game.
“I don’t usually wear skirts because…”
“Yeah…” He drinks his beer, still looking just over my head.
“…it’s much harder to hide my dick.”
“Totally,” he says.
I sigh long and hard and sip the cheap wine Evan ordered for me off the happy hour menu.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“I sigh long and hard and sip the cheap wine Evan ordered for me off the happy hour menu.

“You’re falling for me.”
“Oh, my God.” She laughs and avoids my eyes.
I rest my arm on the back of the bench and scoot closer to her, “Tell me I’m wrong, and I’ll back off.”
Her expression sobers, and she blinks while still staring ahead. She finally turns toward me, and I see my future play out in her blue eyes. Us, together. Forever. Fuck, I am so in love with her. I always have been.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“I’m not gay. I’m not bisexual. I’m a heterosexual man, and I have wanted you. I want you.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“I press a kiss to her head and run my fingers through her hair. “Take all the time you need.”
I mean it. Even if she needs forever.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“Where my world was once wrapped up in success, money, or living up to my family name, it now is condensed into one beating heart inside this woman.
She is my world now.
And I plan to make her mine forever.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North

“Our love is chaotic, riddled with old wounds and shared scars. Battle worn and tested. And most of all, enduring.”
― J.B. Salsbury, Rebel North