“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
“I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.”
― Roland Merullo, quote from A Little Love Story
“For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have it? But thoughts of this sort did go ticking on, useless or not.”
― Doris Lessing, quote from The Summer Before the Dark
“Ishmael was looking at him through narrowed eyes. “This is very important to you, this box.”
“It’s important to the world.”
Ishmael said: “The sun rises, and the sun sets. Sometimes it rains. We live, then we die.” He shrugged.
He would never understand, Wolff thought; but others would.”
― Ken Follett, quote from The Key to Rebecca
“Today," she told it, "death comes to all your circuits. Will it be slow and systematic or fast and brutal?" Considering, she circled it, "Tough decision. I've waited so long for this moment. Dreamed of it."
Showing her teeth, she began to roll up her sleeves.
"What," Roarke asked from the doorway that connected their work areas, "is that?"
"The former bane of my existence. The Antichrist of technology. Do we have a hammer?"
Studying the pile on the floor, he walked in. "Several, I imagine, of various types."
"I want all of them. Tiny little hammers, big, wallbangers, and everything in between."
"Might one ask why?"
"I'm going to beat this thing apart, byte by byte, until there's nothing left but dust from the last trembling chip."
"Hmmm." Roarke crouched down, examined the pitifully out-of-date system. "When did you haul this mess in here?"
"Just now. I had it in the car. Maybe I should use acid, just stand here and watch it hiss and dissolve. That could be good."
Saying nothing, Roarke took a small case out of his pocket, opened it, and chose a slim tool. With a few deft moves, he had the housing open.
"Hey! Hey! What're you doing?"
"I haven't seen anything like this in a decade. Fascinating. Look at this corrosion. Christ, this is a SOC chip system. And it's cross-wired."
When he began to fiddle, she rushed over and slapped at his hands. "Mine. I get to kill it."
"Get a grip on yourself," he said absently and delved deeper into the guts. "I'll take this into research."
"No. Uh-uh. I have to bust it apart. What if it breeds?”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Witness in Death
“J'ai tout donné au soleil.
Tout sauf mon ombre”
― Guillaume Apollinaire, quote from Alcools
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