Betts > Betts's Quotes

“Happiness, independence, true solitude. Sweeter than oxygen. She breathed it in. This was, in a word, bliss”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“He was salty as fuck and secretly adorable and he didn't look at me like I was a shopping cart with a wonky wheel. He looked at me like I was magic.”
― Kate Canterbary, Boss in the Bedsheets

“I want it all. Consuming passion and camaraderie, laughter and strength, hope and comfort.”
― K.A. Tucker, Running Wild

“You’re more than just your job. We’re not going to sit here and act like you’re less-than ’cause your career isn’t going the way you thought it would.”
― Rebekah Weatherspoon, If the Boot Fits

“Miss Felicity, if my manhood could be threatened by learning something from a woman, then I wasn’t much of a man to begin with.”
― Kerrigan Byrne, Tempting Fate

“She didn’t know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent . . . or obsessed.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“And yes, feminists could enjoy acts of chivalry. I could open my own doors but I could also appreciate a man opening one for me when it was done out of deference rather than some old-fashioned concern over my skirts being too big for me to reach on my own.”
― Kate Canterbary, Before Girl

“I’ve missed being touched like this and yet I’ve never been touched like this.”
― Eve Dangerfield, Dysfunctional

“I’ve been starved for affection for far too long. Now that I’ve had a taste of it, I’m craving it”
― Karina Halle, One Hot Italian Summer

“You call her pumpkin?” My sister’s voice was filled with awe. “Does she actually answer?”

“Well, she pretends to hate it. But secretly, I know she loves it. Her face goes all soft and everything.”
― Kylie Scott, Play

“...Stop worrying about her."
"Women must worry about other women," she snapped. "God knows men won't do it."
- Annabelle.”
― Joanna Shupe, The Prince of Broadway

“This was the kind of chivalry I wanted: open my door, smack my ass.”
― Kate Canterbary, Before Girl

“Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“He’s not like any other guy I’ve dated or crushed on. And while he’s capable of making my blood boil like no one else, I feel a magnetic pull toward him that I can’t explain.”
― K.A. Tucker, The Simple Wild

“Being obsessively obedient and helpful was another. Everyone loved the kid who was so damn mature for her age. They never saw it as the outward manifestation of inner stress. They never stopped to ask how that kid got to be so mature. They never asked why she couldn't just be a kid. They only reaped the benefits.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Worst Guy

“I love you, Lucy Hutton. So much, you have no idea. Please be my best friend.”
― Sally Thorne

“Good little girls who grew up into people-pleasing women didn't get that way through any innate altruism or feminine urge to keep the peace. We got there because we learned, at some point, that our needs were a problem best kept to ourselves. We were most worthy when our existence didn't bother anyone.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Worst Guy

“But tonight, this is for you and me. It’s our moment.” He rests his chin on my head. “The first night of the rest of our lives.” I relax into him. “Does everyone know you’re such a romantic?” “Shut up.”
― K.A. Tucker, Wild at Heart

“God, this is … incredible! I need to get my camera—” “No.” His grip of me tightens, keeping me in place. “I’ll bring you up another time and you can sit out here all night, freezing your ass off and taking a million pictures. I promise. But tonight, this is for you and me. It’s our moment.” He rests his chin on my head. “The first night of the rest of our lives.”
― K.A. Tucker, Wild at Heart

“I'm now unmistakeably attracted to the yeti.”
― K.A. Tucker, The Simple Wild

“Books were, and always would be, something a little magic and something to respect.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“The trick is to find that one person who can give it back as good as they can take it.”
― Sally Thorne, The Hating Game

“In that moment she knew, with utter certainty and complete devastation, that whatever happened in the next few days, however they got through this—or didn’t—she’d met the best man she’d ever known. Too bad they’d probably die together.”
― Adriana Anders, Whiteout

“I’m healthy. I eat fruit.”
“In pie doesn’t count.”
― Kylie Scott, Lead

“No one can tell you your artwork is worthless but you. And no one can tell you it has value but you.”
― Juliette Cross, Wolf Gone Wild

“When I’m with you, I forget about everything else. You make me feel like myself again.”
― K.A. Tucker, Running Wild

“I want you to trust me enough to let me hold these pieces of you. I like looking after you."
Reflexively, I said, "I don't need looking after."
He rolled his head against the back of his chair to stare at me, his eyes as dark as night and his pout infinitely kissable. "Yes, you do.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Worst Guy

“Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn’t necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.”
― Beverly Jenkins, Winds of the Storm

“The part that makes me angriest,” she whispered into his chest, “is that I miss this. I miss being held. I miss the feel of lips on mine, of arms around me. I miss the feel of warmth.”
― Courtney Milan, A Kiss for Midwinter