“Everybody s crooked. The trick is to find out how they re bent.”
“That s a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you re intelligent. Sophie lowered her chin. If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you re falling miserably. I don t seduce woman. Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. They fall into my open arms. Clumsy of them.”
“Be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, In that case, you should always be a unicorn.”
“I want you. Am I supposed to walk away because you re a man? Maybe. They ll say yes for sure. But I m sick of all the questions running around in my head. Tate stopped and licked his lips. I want the man who sat down across from me and changed the way I look at the world. And if that s wrong, then I m confused because when I m near you, it feels so damn right.”
“We re enveloped in pitch black. Wait here, I whisper. Are you getting your ax? Handcuffs. Kinky. But, okay, I ll try it.”
“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
“I don t know what the future holds. I only know that I want to be with you. You and me. Everything else is negotiable.”
“You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.”
“By the time I m through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to fuck you, never wanting another man inside you again.”
“Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it...”
“Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as long as I was standing under it with Braden beside me when those clouds broke, I’d be alright.”
“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn t mean is isn t real, doesn t mean it doesn t hurt, doesn t mean it doesn t matter, but basically, we re talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”
“I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he d go crazy if he didn t and had nearly waited too long.”
“B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we re done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn t me. Good night Gideon.”
“Romance isn t in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.”
“I love you, Gideon.” “God.” He looked at me with something that resembled disgust. Whether it was directed at me or himself, I didn’t know. “How can you say that?” “Because it’s the truth.” “You just see this”—he gestured at himself with a wave of his hand. “You’re not seeing the fucked-up, broken mess inside.” I inhaled sharply. “You can say that to me? When you know I’m fucked up and broken, too?”
“You definitely have the voice for phone sex, but I ve got to go. I have a date with my vibrator. Oh, Eva. Cross spoke my name in a decadent purr. You re determined to drive me to my knees, aren t you? What will it take to talk you into a threesome with B.O.B.”