“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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“It must be useful to be smart," she said and then laughed weakly. She glanced down and suddenly looked very sad. "I'm like, constantly scared I'm going to be a homeless or something. I wish our whole lives didn't have to depend on our grades.”
― Alice Oseman, quote from Radio Silence
“My demons are lying in wait, they are grinning in the shadows, their polished fangs glinting, knowing today, it will be an easy kill. But tomorrow, tomorrow could be different, and that is what keeps me going today.”
― Lang Leav, quote from The Universe of Us
“But I don’t know what my side is, he thought, as he went back to his chair by the window. The Liberation, of course, yes, but what is the Liberation? Not an ideal, the freedom of the enslaved. Not now. Never again. Since the Uprising, the Liberation is an army, a political body, a great number of people and leaders and would-be leaders, ambitions and greed clogging hopes and strength, a clumsy amateur semi-government lurching from violence to compromise, ever more complicated, never again to know the beautiful simplicity of the ideal, the pure idea of liberty. And”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“New steps. That's what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God's plan for their lives.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Redemption
“Air and earth form an anthill traversed, level upon level, by roads live with traffic. Air trains, ground trains, underground trains, people mailed through tubes special-delivery, and chains of cars race along horizontally, while express elevators pump masses of people vertically from one traffic level to another; at the junctions, people leap from one vehicle to the next, instantly sucked in and snatched away by the rhythm of it, which makes a syncope, a pause, a little gap of twenty seconds during which a word might be hastily exchanged with someone else. Questions and answers synchronize like meshing gears; everyone has only certain fixed tasks.”
― Robert Musil, quote from The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
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