Quotes from Lead

“I’m healthy. I eat fruit.”
“In pie doesn’t count.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“The truth is, I’m all about you, Lena. You’re my best friend. You’re my girl.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Then Mal let out a loud wailing noise. “I hate it when mommy and daddy fight!”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“I need you to come back with me, please.” His breath warmed my ear. The heat of his body beckoned against my back. “I can’t stand not having you there, not knowing what you’re thinking, what you’re doing, not being able to tell you things and share them with you. It’s just … nothing’s the same. I hate waking up without you and I worry constantly that you’re okay, that you’ve got everything you need. Look, the truth is, I’m all about you, Lena. You’re my best friend. You’re my girl.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Even with the head start, he was gaining fast. Given he liked jogging and I liked pie, this was to be expected.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Sometimes, when you’re not being a jerk, I like you so much it hurts. I like the way your true self comes out when you think no one else is looking.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“I think I’m going to start charging you extra for lies. Someone needs to pay for the stain on my soul.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Don’t hate me, Lena,” he whispered. “You want to be mad at me when I do dumb things, that’s fine. But don’t ever hate me. I couldn’t take that, not from you.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“I like to embarrass myself horribly now and then," I said. "It keeps life interesting.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Who ever said the heart was smart or that it followed directions?”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“People fucking love their own opinions and are all too happy to throw ’em at you, whether you ask or not. You have to be happy with yourself.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“So, Lena, darling, tell me, for curiosity’s sake. When do you put out?”
…
“Jimmy, my love," I said, my voice soft and sweet, "I don’t fuck a guy until he has the balls to actually man up and talk to me about his feelings.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“I stared at his cock, mesmerized. Even encased in rubber it remained a thing of true beauty. Had I any talent with a pen, I’d have written it poems. A haiku perhaps … I was hypnotized, helpless. Cock-struck.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Sometimes things that make the least sense are the most true. Such is the mystery of life.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“You’re not for me.”
“No?”
“Sadly not.” He shook his head.
“Damn.”
“Yeah, I know. You’re really missing out.” He sighed.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“What people do at tables.” Strong hands held my legs apart. “Eating.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Whatever else he might be, Jimmy Ferris was special and complicated, beautiful and beastly, all rolled into one.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“your dark parts don’t scare me, Jimmy. They never did.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Wait, was that Mal Ericson from Stage Dive?
Fuck a duck, it was.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Feeling a little emotional, huh? I petted his hair. That's okay. It was an emotional blow job.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“I'm pretty damn sure Dante meant to make weddings one of the levels of hell and just forgot.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“If she means something to you, you gotta do the woo, son. You can’t just be trying to stick it in.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Two-thirty in the morning was kind of a bitch as times went. It fell into the in-between, nowhere land. Too late to get a really good night's sleep, but much too early to start the day.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Fuck he was beautiful, inside and out, and he would never be mine. That information sat sure and safe inside of me, turning me to stone because it was utterly undeniable. But I was still expected to stay here, be with him, and support him, the job I both did and didn’t want with all of my heart.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“I was only twenty-five, much to young to die. Probably about the right age to become a complete hypochondriac, however.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“life was too short to take shit. Let people walk all over you and you got what you deserved.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Stupid Jimmy Ferris and his amazing mouth and penis. Who needed him? Not me, I could look after myself.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

“Interesting. I’m going to tell you what I told Killer at puppy training today when he tried to mount a teacup poodle he’d only just met. If she means something to you, you gotta do the woo, son. You can’t just be trying to stick it in.”
― Kylie Scott, quote from Lead

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