#k.a.tucker

[anastasiaromnov]

books read in 2020 ♡ The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker And just like that, I sense a circle closing. Back to the beginning, and near to the end.

[luna-tyk]

[chasingpagesquotes]

We are simply two good people with equally flawed pasts, looking for perfect futures. And I think we've found it, in each other.

K.A. Tucker, Four Seconds to Lose

[chasingpagesquotes]

She's the woman who stole my heart right out from me before I even realized she had her hands on it.

K.A. Tucker, Four Seconds to Lose

[chasingpagesquotes]

I believe some people are inherently evil. I believe guilt is a powerful motivator. I believe redemption is something you can strive for but never fully achieve. I believe second chances exist only in dreams, never in reality. I believe you don't have years, or months, or weeks to impact a person's life. You have seconds. Seconds to win them over, And seconds to lose them.

K.A. Tucker, Four Seconds to Lose

[chasingpagesquotes]

Dr. Stayner once suggested that all people face a day in their life that defines who they are, that shapes who they will become, that sets them on their path. He said that one day will either guide or hunt them until they take their last breath. I told him he was being dramatic. I told him I didn't believe it. It makes it sound as if a person is a pliable hunk of clay up until that point-- just sitting around waiting to be fired, to solidify those curves and creases that hold their identity, their stability. Or their instability.

K.A. Tucker, One Tiny Lie

[chasingpagesquotes]

Everyone assumes I'm a genius and grades just fall onto my lap because I ace the hard classes like calculus and physics. It's true that those grades come easier to me than they do to most. The material is straightforward, black and white, right and wrong. I'm all about the clear-cut choices.Subjects like philosophy and history, and the English lit class that I'm about to begin, though... they just don't make sense to me. If there's a formula to find a right answer, I can nail it. But in classes like these, all I see are degrees of rightness and wrongness, and I've had to work hard to uncover those. In the end, I always get my A-- I've never received anything but an A in anything, including gym-- but those grades certainly never fell into my lap.

K.A. Tucker, One Tiny Lie

[chasingpagesquotes]

This must be what Cinderella felt like. If, instead of gliding gracefully around the dance floor of the royal ball, she was flattened against a wall at a college house party, getting jostled by drunks from all angles. And, instead of dazzling everyone in a glamorous ball gown, she was furtively tugging on her toga to ensure all vital body parts were covered. And, instead of a fairy godmother granting her every wish, she had an obnoxious older sister forcing Jell-O shots down her throat. I'm just like Cinderella.

K.A. Tucker, One Tiny Lie