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“Forgetting a debt doesn’t mean it’s paid.”
“Some people are intellectually lazy.”
I can’t imagine loving somebody more than I love my own comfort and having my own way.
“Let me guess,” I say. “You’re calling me ‘cause Riona wants my number. It’s alright—I understand. The chemistry between us was palpable.”
I cackled at this! Raylan is perfection.
Honestly, if she liked me right off the bat, I’d think she had terrible taste.
Drown me in the pool, and my family will just hire someone else to do the paperwork.”
This broke my heart
“Do you usually stay friends with your clients after you get them acquitted of murder?”
“‘Course, if you fuck up at your job, the worst you’re gonna do is kill some granny on your table,” Raylan says casually. “You don’t have to worry about watching all your colleagues, the anesthesiologists and nurses and other doctors, get captured and tortured and have their heads cut off. Or get blown to pieces right next to you. You don’t have to worry about dying yourself.”
“I guess that’s why in the military, we start small with scrubbing toilets,” Raylan says. “Then we move up to making our beds. Then we proceed through drills and training and practice missions before we ever head out in the field. It’s incremental progress. You get to know your brothers, and they get to know you. And nobody is promoted to a leadership position when they’re too arrogant to follow instructions themselves. Because that’s how it works when the whole team’s life is on the line. Nobody’s gonna serve under some shithead they don’t even like, let alone respect.” Raylan is smiling
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I’m pretty sure I got the honest Riona to tell a fib.
He was like a huge blanket fresh out of the dryer.
“When have you ever seen a cowboy die of a heart attack?”
I hate doing anything that’s expected of me just because I’m a woman.
I can’t stand the thought of slipping into the water again.
“I only wish I spoke her language better.”
My whole heart broke
the fool tried to kill the only person who actually loved him.
“Riona pretends to be so serious. But she likes to laugh . . . you just kinda have to make her.”
“I wouldn’t dare say anything behind her back that I wouldn’t say right to her face.”
I didn’t think you shot him just for having bad taste in pocket squares.”
“I’d do anything to make you smile.”
Do I have to give up myself to have love?
“I know.’ “I had to do it twice. Because you hated Raylan the first time.”
“You better name your firstborn after me for all the work I put in.”
