“I’m the one with the dick and you’re the one that wants it,’ he gently said. ‘It’s not complicated.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I think I love you or everything about you which may or may not be love but close enough to be scary. You’ll forget me an hour after I’m gone and I’ll remember you for the rest of my life.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I know what you’re doing and you can just stop this ultimate control shit.’
‘Make me,’ he softly said.
‘It’s not a game, Dominic.’
‘Everything’s a game, babe . Business, life, fucking.’ He smiled. ‘But any game with you is extra special…”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“No, not at all.’ Her temper was intriguing. He rarely experienced opposition in his life, and it seemed Miss Hart scarcely uttered a compliant word – unless she was half asleep.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Innocence waiting to be fucked, he pleasantly thought. And his, he decided with the proprietary instincts of a modern princeling.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I want you to understand who’s in charge of your climax the next few days,’ he coolly said. ‘So there’s no misunderstandings.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“And what was left behind was an unblinking enigma of a man, ruthless, without borderlines, slippery as mist, beautiful, passionate, remote. And totally and irredeemably loveable.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I like Hollywood happy endings.’
‘I thought you might.’
‘You say it like there’s something wrong with happily ever after.’
‘On the contrary, if only it were true the world would be a better place.’
‘Cynic.’
‘Welcome to my reality.’
‘That’s what comes from making too much money.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I don’t mind, really. I’ll try to be better.’ If anyone in Knight Enterprises had heard Dominic’s response , they would have thought their CEO had finally gone over the edge into some neurotic psychosis due to overwork. I’ll try to be better. Mea culpas weren’t his style.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Dominic smiled. ‘Good. Then it might not be such an expensive piece of ass after all. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some apologizing to do. A helluva lot of apologizing. Give me a week at least before you reschedule. Katherine is agitated,’ he grimaced, ‘and with good reason. I’m going to need a few days to calm her down.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Dominic stared at her in stunned disbelief. Female resistance didn’t exist in his world.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Stop,’ he grumbled, ‘or you’ll get a spanking instead of an apology.’
‘Are you kidding me? Thanks to you I almost OD’d on orgasms.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“…a long-haired, younger, super-lean Dominic Knight with sleek, corded muscles and the loose-limbed grace of a large jungle cat. Even in the unprofessional video one could see the hint of menace in the spring-coiled twitch of his hand holding the crop.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“You’re the kind of man who might leave scars,’ she said a moment later, her voice deliberate as though clarifying her position not just to him but to herself.
‘But you’re also the kind of man who might end up leaving a tattoo on my sex life that I’ll enjoy looking at later.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“You’re lucky I like you,’ he said with a grin.
‘Do you really?’
He hesitated a fraction of a second.
But her eyes were huge with entreaty.
He knew what she wanted to hear.
‘Yes, really,’ he whispered.
He might have even meant it.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“He went absolutely still for a split second, an error message flashing wildly in his brain. Another second passed before he resumed breathing, then another before he concluded that the conversation about procreation at lunch was to blame for his bizarre thoughts.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Once she was resting on his thighs and thoroughly impaled, her impatience, momentarily assuaged with her drug of choice buried deep within her, she whispered…”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“A slow-motion kiss that took the place of the million things she wanted to say to him and couldn’t because he didn’t want to hear them. About pragmatism and the sad ache of regret. About love and longing, about the shadow of fear that was so strong it was making her ears buzz. About the rising panic of losing him.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Moments mattered in life; they zipped by too fast, or you were looking the other way when you should have been paying attention. Either way you missed them.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“If you need anything, ask your butler.’
‘Butler?’ There was a word that had never before entered her life.
‘They come with the suites.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“But he was a businessman first; there was time enough for other things once Miss Hart had done her job. Since he’d lost Julia, he was indifferent to women for anything other than sex and that was available anywhere. Miss Hart’s sexual function was immaterial.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“I hope we didn’t bruise anything.’
‘Yours or mine,’ she almost said, the imprint of his sizeable dick stamped on her thigh.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Before the driver came to a complete stop, Dominic had leaped from the car and was striding towards the private jet, his phone to his ear.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“He shouldn’t even be thinking about dragging her into his wayward world of carnal games. He should give her a free pass. Or maybe just give her the illusion of a free pass. Cold-blooded manipulation or decency? What would it be?”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“He shrugged . ‘That’s part of the game. Excess is an escape for me, a defence against old ghosts and what seems at times a soulless reality – present company excepted, of course,’ he said with a small smile.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Have you ever noticed that those who do the least complain the most and those who know the least talk the most?”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Moments mattered in life; you missed them or they zipped by too fast, or you were looking the other way when you should have been paying attention. Either way you missed them.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from Knight's Mistress
“Don’t think they have them in New York City.” She laughed. I didn’t mind. “We get lobsters, though. They can hurt you.” “Can you keep one? I mean, you can’t keep a lobster like a pet or anything, right?” She laughed again. “No. You eat them.” “You can’t keep a crayfish either. They die. One day or maybe two, tops. I hear people eat them too, though.” “Really?” “Yeah. Some do. In Louisiana or Florida or someplace.” We looked down into the can. “I don’t know,” she said, smiling. “There’s not a whole lot to eat down there.” “Let’s get some big ones.” We lay across the Rock side by side. I took the can and slipped both arms down into the brook. The trick was to turn the stones one at a time, slowly so as not to muddy the water, then have the can there”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from The Girl Next Door
“... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.”
― Kingsley Amis, quote from Lucky Jim
“Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from Revenge of the Witch
“The fire roared down upon us. It curled through our hair, then wrapped around our wrists and faces, trying to drag us apart. It seared across my skin, hotter than the Heart of Fire, and yet more painful was how it seared through my mind. The fire burned away my memories, taking back his name and mine, both of my pasts and all of my hopes, the sky and the sparrow and the world itself. I clung to somebody I did not know, could not imagine knowing, but I still knew beyond all doubt that he was mine.
We fell until we had been falling forever and always, and always would continue falling, because nothing existed outside this chaos of fire and shadow.
But I held on to him.
And he held on to me.”
― Rosamund Hodge, quote from Cruel Beauty
“with the complete lack of shame of the extremely deaf and the complete lack of grammar of the extremely inbred.”
― Lauren Willig, quote from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
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