“I want to love all of my life as much as I love this night.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Life is built of these little horrible moments and the giant expanses of awesome in between.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“He’s the guy who’ll do a ridiculous robot dance to make you laugh, who’ll lick the tip of your nose, make a fool out of himself for a smile. I’m sure if I tried to wrestle him to the ground, he’d let me win. And enjoy every minute.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“You should see him with his shirt off."
Ansel rocks on his heels, sipping his drink. "Please continue as if I"m not here. This is fantastic.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I don't want you to leave without me. A wife belongs with her husband, and he belongs with her. I'm always selfish with you, asking you to move here, asking you to wait until it's good for my career before you leave, but there it is.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“The problem with being in the eye of the storm is you have no sense of how big it really is.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Yes. I just want to fall asleep inside you. Maybe our bodies will make love again while our brains sleep.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Which was your favorite? Living room, or bed, or floor, or bed, or wall, or mirror, or bar, or floor?”
“Shhh,” I whisper, lifting my cup to take another, more careful sip of coffee. I smile into my mug. “You’re weird.”
“I think I need a cast for my penis.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“What you feel, Cerise? I feel it, too. Fuck, Mia, I feel everything for you.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I love to taste you, do you notice?”
I curl my hands into fists around the pillowcase.
“I think this sweetness is just for me. I pretend your desire has never been like this.” He dips a finger inside and brings it up to my lips. “For everyone else it was never so silky and sweet. Tell me it’s true.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“It’s weird, maybe, that I love your scar as much as I do.”
I have to remind myself to breathe.
“You thought it was the first thing I noticed, but it wasn’t. I didn’t even pay attention to it until the middle of the night, when you finally lay down on the bed and I kissed from your toe to your hip. Maybe you hate it, but I don’t. You earned it. I’m in awe of you.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Mmpf. You’re so heavy. Do you have bricks in your pocket? Get off me.”
“But you’re so warm,” he whines. “And soft. And you smell so good. Like woman and sex and me.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I find myself wanting to congratulate past-me for doing or saying whatever it was that caught Ansel's attention in the first place and-by some act of God or alcohol I still don't understand-held it. Sometimes, I think, past-me is a genius.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I’m not sure I ever made a woman come with my mouth before I met you,” he admits. “I love kissing you there. And I love your ass, it’s perfect.” With this, I feel his length stir against my stomach as his hands squeeze me. “I like any kind of sex with you, but I prefer being on top of you . . . You make missionary feel dirty the way you grab and move under me.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I want to watch you come,” he whispers, eyes moving across my face. He pulls his thumb back and paints a wet line across my lower lip. “I want to feel you squeezing me and I want to eat your greedy little noises.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I reach for my bag, pulling out gum, but he quickly moves to me, sliding his hands up my neck to cup my face. “Don’t.” He leans close, sucking on my mouth the way he seems to like so much. “You taste like me. I taste like you.” He bends, licking my tongue, my lips, my teeth. “I like this so much. Let it stay, just for a bit.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I catch only when he says my name, but otherwise have to trust that he's relaying everything accurately. I imagine it goes something like, "The sex was great and then we got married and now she's here! Help me! She won't stop throwing up, it's incredibly awkward. Her name is MIA HOLLAND. Is there a service by which we ship wayward American girls back to the states?”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Mia, you're going to need to really up your game in order to bring sexy back.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I like any kind of sex with you, but I prefer being on top of you... You make missionary feel dirty the way you grab and move under me.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“You just implied you’re banging me tonight.” His grin gets bigger as his hands snake around my waist.
“Play your cards right.”
“I forgot my cards … But I did bring my penis.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Well, I need to stay in France for another six months or so. You'll need to live there with me for a bit before we can buy a house Stateside.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“It's possible I mentally calculate the danger of being relatively drunk for the entirety of the next few weeks.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“We're married for the summer. Summer marriages don't get dragged down in heavy stuff.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I wonder if he thinks he married a girl with two personalities: vixen and wallflower.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“And this is when I know we’re only about an hour and a half from Harlow riding Finn reverse-cowgirl on the floor somewhere.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“What is it?" I follow the path of his eyes to the pan on the stove where I've tossed the prawns with the pasta and vegetables. He winces. "It looks unbelievable. It's just..." He swipes a palm across the back of his neck. "I'm allergic to shellfish.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“He closes the door with a determined click, and I hear him call to a flight attendant, and I sink down onto the toilet seat, resting my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands as I listen to him through the door.
"I'm sorry to bother you but my wife," he says, and then pauses. With the last word he says, my heart begins to hammer. "The one who now got sick? She's started her... cycle? And I'm wondering if you keep any, or rather if you have... something? You see this all happened a bit fast and she packed in a hurry, and before that we were in Vegas. I have no idea why she came with me but I really really don't want to screw this up. And now she needs something. Can she, uh," he stutters, finally saying simply, "borrow quelque chose?" I cover my mouth as he continues to ramble, and I would given anything in this moment to see the expression of the flight attendant on the other side of this door. "I meant use," he continues. "Not to borrow because I don't think they work that way."
I hear a woman's voice ask, "Do you know if she needs tampons or pads?"
Oh God. Oh God. This can't be happening.
"Um..." I hear him sigh and then say, "I have no idea but I'll give you a hundred dollars to end this conversation and give me both.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“We’re all supposed to be mildly horrified and then start constructing the funny details about that-one-time-we-all-got-married-in-Vegas that we’ll share for the next thirty years. There’s no sweetness or kissing, Mia. Only hangovers and regret.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“I can sense he needs distance and it pushes a small ache between two of my ribs.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“The problem with being in the eye of the storm is you have no sense of hwo big it really is.”
― Christina Lauren, quote from Sweet Filthy Boy
“Talik said, 'His contract with Lord Berenger ends soon. Ancel will seek a new contract, a high bidder. He wants money, status. He is foolish. Lord Berenger may offer less money, but he is kind, and never puts pets in the ring. Ancel has made many enemies. In the ring, someone will scratch his green eyes out, an "accident."'
Damen was drawn in against his will. 'That's why he's chasing royal attention? He wants the Prince to--' He tried out the unfamiliar vocabulary. '--offer for his contract?'
'The Prince?' said Talik, scornfully. 'Everyone knows the Prince does not keep pets.'
'None at all?' said Damen.
She said, 'You.' She looked him up and down. 'Perhaps the Prince has a taste for men, not these painted Veretian boys who squeal if you pinch them.' Her tone suggested that she approved of this on general principle.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Captive Prince
“To flee was more than I could find courage for; but I registered a vow of unsleeping circumspection.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
“the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Changes
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from The System of the World
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