“Life is like a boxing match. Defeat is declared not when you fall but when you refuse to stand again.”
“Babe.” “Babe?” “Babe.” “Is that your response?” I asked. “No, my response is, babe, shut up and sleep but I already said that so I condensed it to just babe ‘cause that’s easier to say and might not piss you off.” “I can’t read all that in babe, Jake.” “You’ll learn to read my babes.”
“You see, a woman who knows herself and her worth knows that her time is valuable and her heart is precious. She doesn’t give either to a man who can’t respect the gifts he’s being offered.”
“You are not a fool,” he whispered. “You can never be a fool. You’re total class from top to toe. You’re also a klutz. Own that, baby, because it’s cute and because it’s you. If you learn to accept yourself just as you are, learn to laugh at your quirks instead of hating them, show the world all that’s you without tryin’ to hide things that are not even a little unattractive, that makes you more attractive. What you got is a fuckuva lot. You own all of it and let it all hang out, you’ll go off-the-charts.”
“I’d give him anything. I’d give him everything. If I had the power, I’d give him the world.”
“Josie.” My name shook with his amusement and it was annoying because the way it did sounded lovely. “She gave me you.”
“You crack me right the fuck up, babe.”
“It’s never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it’s never too late to find it.”
“It hit him in that moment in a way he knew he’d never forget that he could take that hand and she could lead him anywhere. Just tip up her lips, turn those eyes to him and hold out her hand and he’d go straight to hell with her and do it smiling.”
“Unlatch, baby, and roll. Woke up with a taste for my woman’s pussy, now it’s ready for me, I’m hungry.”
“Now, I’ve got the taste for steak,” she changed the subject. “What do you have the taste for?” Straight up, he had the taste for cute, klutzy, classy pussy, eating her and listening to her moan.”
“How’d you get in there?” “She thinks I’m the shit,” Jake told him, grinning back. Coert kept handing him crap. “So you’ve brainwashed her.”
“I never wanted anything but you, Jake… And I wanted you before I even knew you… You’re everything I ever wanted, darling.”
“Finally, I turned my lips to his ear and whispered, "I love fight night.”
“Small-minded fools are everywhere and those with the courage to be who they are often have to suffer them.”
“...things that are normal are just normal. Thus it is my experience that most things that are weird are cool.”
“You keep getting more wonderful,” I whispered. “Baby, it’s not yet seven, got my girl who hates to get up early in my arm, a coffee from The Shack she got for me, and I’m gonna get me some in about two hours. I’m thinkin’ you keep gettin’ more wonderful too.” “Good answer,” I replied.”
“Just you wait until you get your turn, little man,” Amond advised. “I’m not kissin’ Josie,” Ethan returned, looking a little sick. “No, boy,” Amond replied. “When you get a woman of your own.” “She’s gonna cook like Josie. She’s gonna dress like Josie. She’s gonna talk like Josie. But we’re just holding hands,” Ethan informed Amond superiorly and my heart jumped as my belly melted.”
“Man's got the power to break a woman's heart. Women have their own power. Learn this in future, choose better.”
“My woman gets off on watchin' her man fight," he murmured in my ear. "Yes," I whispered.”
“His eyes narrowed on me. “Fuckin’ hell, you ever show Lydie how far that stick was shoved up your ass?”
“And what’s your eldest son doing this evening? Um…Conner,” I asked Jake. “Probably a threesome,” Amber muttered.”
“Grasp on to the beautiful part, Slick.” “I’ll make an effort to do that, Jake.”
“That anticipation spiked in a way I felt it in my nipples. My nipples. Oh dear.”
“I knew why I was there and I didn’t. I was scared and I wasn’t. I didn’t feel right and I did. I didn’t know what to do but I still knew what I had to do. I wasn’t me. Yet I was.”
“Every inch of you, outside and any way you can get inside, baby, physically or emotionally, is mine. You don't share that. Ever.”
“Think hard about your stomach, the fullness of it, the possibility if more was introduced that it may need to purge some to fit the rest and then tell me if you really want popcorn.”
“Then I just slotted you right up high on my Gotta Find a Sister to Bitch at List.”
“You’re worth fucking all that.” I stared at him as that warmth swept through me again but I replied, “It’s foolish.” “You’re worth bein’ that too.”
“She had chosen him; she had made him hers. She had done it out of love and duty. -Deming”
“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”
“Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in.”
“Mom's eyes blazed. "Are you sleeping with her?"
Oh, god. Did we have to do this here? Now? "Well, actually," I smirked, "we don't get a lot of sleep.”
“I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.”
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