Falling for My Enemy (Dirty Martini Running Club, #2)

by Claire Kingsley

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ C.G. Jung

There were three things I knew with absolute certainty: The scientific method was humanity’s greatest invention, a vodka martini was best served dirty, and Corban Nash was an impostor posing as a scientist.

“Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Did he say this before Antoine de St. Exupery in Le Petit Prince?

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~ Albert Einstein

Sorry Elliott, but can you assign me to work on something else? Every time I’m in the same room with Hazel, I can’t decide if I want to pick a fight with her or push her up against a wall and kiss the fuck out of her. Nope. I couldn’t say that to my boss.

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.” ~ Richard P. Feynman

“I still don’t like you,” I said, my voice breathy. “Me neither,” he growled. Fisting his hand in the back of my hair, he tilted my head to the side. Scraped his teeth down my neck. “But I’m going to make you come anyway.”

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite.” ~ Roberto Bolaño

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He backed out of the parking spot and I had the fleeting thought that it was inexplicably sexy the way he put his arm over the back of my seat and looked behind us as he drove in reverse.

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The narrator doesn't seem to know that macarons are not the same thing as macaroons.

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein

There were three things I knew with absolute certainty. The scientific method was still humanity’s greatest invention, vodka martinis were best served dirty, and Corban Nash was a remarkable scientist, the most amazing man I’d ever known, and the one true love of my life.