“If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe:
- Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible.
- Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Experience is something you get… after you need it.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Where did that flashlight come from?" Chloe asked.
"My purse."
Chloe looked at Tara. "She carries a flashlight in her purse."
"For emergencies," Maddie said, trying to see into the yard.
"You have any chocolate?" Chloe asked hopefully. "For emergencies?"
"Of course. Side Pocket, next to the fork.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-"
“No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.”
Again, he lifted her face, and he smiled. “The tool belt turns you on.”
“No.” She closed her eyes and thunked her forehead to his chest. “Little bit.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“I’m already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Looking at him, she saw her future and felt all the ragged tears in her heart heal themselves. "I fit," she whispered in marvel, stepping into him. "I fit with you."
He nodded and wrapped his arms around her.
"Perfectly”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“I chose the path less traveled but only because I was lost. Carry a map. - Phoebe Traeger”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“You came here a fighter, Maddie. Maybe you'd lost a round or two, but you were on your feet. You want to stay in Lucky Harbor? Fight for it. You want a relationship with your sisters? Fight for it."
"What about you? What about a relationship with you?"
He pulled back to look into her face as if memorizing her features. His voice, when he spoke, was low and gravelly with emotion. "I'm already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!"
"Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're getting laid regularly. No sympathy for you!”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“I'm going to shoot somebody," Maddie said.
"Sawyer hates when people do that. It's a whole bunch of paperwork.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“A new beginning done right," she said out loud, because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true. "You hear that, karma?" She glanced upward through her slightly leaky sunroof into a dark sky, where storm clouds tumbled together like a dryer full of gray wool blankets. "This time, I'm gong to be strong." Like Katharine Hepburn. Like Ingrid Bergman ."So go torture someone else and leave me alone."
A bolt of lightning blinded her, followed by a boom of thunder that nearly had her jerking out of her skin. "Okay, so I meant pretty please leave me alone."
-Maddie”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Together they crawled through the attic space, looking for the source of a roof leak they’d discovered in the last bathroom. Jax was out in front,
braving the spiderwebs. Maddie was behind him, working really hard at not looking at his butt.
And failing spectacularly.
So when he unexpectedly twisted around, holding out his hand for the clipboard she was now holding, he caught her staring at him.
“I, um—You have a streak of dirt,” she said.
“A streak of dirt.”
Yes.” She pointed to his left perfectly muscled butt cheek. “There.”
He was quiet for a single, stunned beat. She couldn’t blame him, given that they were both covered in dirt from the filthy attic. “Thanks,” he finally
said. “It’s important to know where the dirt streaks are.”
“It is,” she agreed, nodding like a bobble head. “Probably you should stain-stick it right away. I have some in my purse.”
“Are you offering to rub it on my ass?”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“There isn't any poison oak in the winter. It's hard to convince a girl you're sexy when you can't stop scratching your ass because of the rash. -Jax Cullen”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“It's the kissing! The stupid kissing! It's like he kissed all the vital brain cells right out of my head!”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“She closed her eyes. “Okay, here’s the thing. We have some chemistry,” she allowed.
“Some? Or supernova?”
“Supernova. But,” she said to his knowing grin. Good Lord, he needed to stop doing that. “I really did give up men.”
“Forever?”
“My gut says yes, but that might be PMS talking. Let’s just say I’m giving up men for a very long time.”
“You going to try out women?”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“And I specialize in fixing things up and restoring them to their former glory.”
She wondered if that talent extended to humans, maybe even humans who never really had a former glory.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel… which actress? Damn, she couldn’t think of an
actress to save her life! She was on her own.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are
taken, and those that aren’t are inaccessible.”
PHOEBE TRAEGER”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
“Tara moved into the kitchen and went still at the condition of it. "Formica countertops," she said as if she'd discovered asbestos.”
― Jill Shalvis, quote from Simply Irresistible
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“And Swedenborg himself saw birds during his sojourns in the Spirit World and it was revealed to him that — in the Grand Man — rational concepts are seen as birds. Because the head corresponds to the heavens and the air. He actually experienced in his body the fall of certain angels who had formed wrong opinions in their community about thoughts and influx — he felt a terrible tremor in his sinews and bones — and saw one dark and ugly bird and two fine and beautiful. And these solid birds were the thoughts of the angels, as he saw them in the world of his senses, beautiful reasonings and ugly falses. For at every level everything corresponds, from the most purely material to the most purely divine in the Divine Human.”
― A.S. Byatt, quote from Angels and Insects
“Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless. Or trying to, at least. Wanting to.”
― Hillary Frank, quote from I Can't Tell You
“Dr. Kübler-Ross expanded on this theme in her 1961 book, On Death and Dying,”
― quote from Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
“You don't take a traveler for a partner if you hope that the world will always stay the same. You do it because you can't quite break away, yourself, but you can't live without the promise of change hanging over you every day.
That's what the border means, for a lot of people. The promise of change they'd never be able to make any other way.”
― Greg Egan, quote from Schild's Ladder
“Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again. At least, she thought, fighting back tears, like this I am Cecil, with a place among friends, and a task to do. I am someone. I wonder if perhaps if I am no longer Cecil, I am no one at all.”
― Robin McKinley, quote from The Outlaws of Sherwood
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