Quotes from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“You're right, it was a bad phone," I said, lifting an eyebrow. "Look at it, lying there, all superior. The phone had it coming.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Well, now I felt horrible. I'd marred perfectly good ass cheeks for no reason. It was as if I'd sneezed on the Mona Lisa.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“She had a knack for relieving the tension in a room by pretending my rudeness away with cooking. Many, many chickens had given up their lives to cover my conversationalist shortcomings.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“I don't care what tomorrow brings, as long as I have you.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“I was shameless in my supermarket-shelf mass-market taste. I loved King, Evanovich, Grisham and Brown. I won't lie; the oficial-looking filing cabinet in the corner is actually stuffed full of my paperbacks.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“He ground into me. His denim covered OHMYGOD pressing into my hot uncovered.... lady business. I really had to start using grown up words.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Why would anyone on the crew put on a red shirt? Honestly, it’s like they’re standing in front of their closet, and they’re thinking, ‘Yellow? Blue? Nah, today’s a good day to die.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Go on, you've claimed your thirty pieces of silver, go do something crazy like put gas in that penis replacement you call transportation.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“How many family conversations are going to be interrupted by me telling you, no, you can't kill someone and make it look like an accident?”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“We should have never encouraged you to speak.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Yeah, but when has telling someone to do what makes them happy ever resulted in a good decision? Remember when we told cousin Todd to do what made him happy and he came home with recently augmented boobs?”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Nick: I love you. Who was wrong?
Maggie: I was wrong.
Nick: Who was right?
Maggie: Don't push it.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Nick: I'm not leaving you. I don't care what you try to do to push me away. I don't care what comes along. I'm here. If you think I'm going to back down now, you're crazy.
Maggie: So you're going to love me out of spite?
Nick: Yes.
Maggie: Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“You're pulling a Lassie on me, aren't you?”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“[Dad] once told Cooper that the trick to a happy life was to find the person you can't breathe without and marry her.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

“Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.”
― Molly Harper, quote from The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

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