Sarah Nicolas > Sarah's Quotes

“He wore a threadbare white T-shirt that should’ve been as noteworthy as a bowl of oatmeal. Instead, it clung to his chest like it had aspirations of taking over for his skin. Hell, she’d have the same life goal.”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“An image of that sexy, soul-searching stare sent a bolt of heat through her. Sexy? It wasn’t sexy. It was…invasive. And annoying.

And sexy.”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“But he didn’t know the half of it. That it wasn’t just his refusal that had haunted her. It was him. Everything about him.”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“She may have mentally relegated him to the friend zone, but the rest of her hadn’t gotten the memo”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“Bring it."

Maybe not a declaration of love, but pure fucking Cat Thomas.”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“Hell, who was she kidding? The only thing that could clear her head today would be a lobotomy.”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“I like my freedom, and I sure as shit won’t ask your permission to cross stuff off my bucket list. I’m cranky in the morning until I’ve had my coffee, and I’m not sure I ever want kids... I’m not used to compromising or having someone to answer to or clear my schedule with. And to be honest? It scares the ever-loving shit out of me. But I want to try. If you do. Because being with you is an adventure.”
― Christine Bell, Down and Dirty

“Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, ‘Are you on the rag of something?’ And it’s like I want to say, ‘No. I’m just pissed off right now. Can’t I just be pissed off? How come that’s not okay for me?’ Like my dad will say, ‘I can’t talk to you when you’re hysterical.’ And I’m totally not being hysterical! I’m just mad. And he’s the one losing it. But then I feel embarrassed anyway. So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.

"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I’m not a slut or a nympho or someone who’s just asking for it. And if I talk too loud it’s just that I’m trying to be heard.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“On TV, talking heads wrung their hands over a lack of traditional feminine values and wondered if girls’ sports were to blame. Then they cut to a commercial featuring a sexy college coed vacuuming her dorm room in her underwear.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“What are you, Zombie Slayer Barbie?"
The big man in the back barked a laugh. "You'll pay for that one.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“But something about Clint tossed off sparks that set her nerves on fire.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“With an evil, tempting wink that threatened to undo him, she added, "I'm the one you have to watch out for.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“He was so much more than she had expected. More than a delicious body and a smile that came out of nowhere to light up the darkness of this hopeless place.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“I'm sorry, I really did want to talk to you." His free hand went to her face and cupped her cheek.
Something tightened pleasantly in her belly. "Just talk?" she breathed.
He nodded, but used their clasped hands to pull her closer to him.
She raised her head and met his eyes, a storm of blue and green. She smirked. "That's a shame.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“Gretchen," Clint said, his voice full of the same luscious agony Gretchen felt building inside of her. "I'm going to kiss you."
He was giving her one last chance to back out, to push him away. That was not going to happen.
Her mouth twisted with amusement. "Not if I kiss you first.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“Not a single person has ever escaped?"
"Only if you count death as an escape.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“Hank spoke. "I'm sorry."
"You said that."
A small laugh escaped his mouth. "Yeah, but I didn't mean it then.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“His voice was soft and demanding. "How could you think I was pretending?"
Damn if he didn't sound sincere.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“I told you I'd do anything for you. That's the truth. The best truth I know.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“Why are you so determined to hate me? Why, all of a sudden?"
Because it would be so much harder to love you, she wanted to say”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“How desperately she wanted to pretend they were waking up in just any ordinary bed, in an ordinary world.”
― Aria Kane, Once Upon a Darkness

“You're not mad at me?" she asked.
He leaned to the side and placed a lingering kiss on her neck. "If I pretended I was, would you make it up to me?"
Another kiss landed on the sensitive skin of her collarbone, testing the edges of the coveralls.
"Um," Jenna stammered. "No."
"No?" He leveled his eyes with hers. They sparkled with amusement.
She tried to think, but her body had apparently decided her brain was a nonessential system and shut it down. "Yes?”
― Aria Kane, A Titan for Christmas

“She bent down and reached around his trim waist to grab the handcuffs. A bit of a compromising position, given the state of her thoughts, but she had to help the poor guy out before his nose froze off. “There’s a saying here in Switzerland. To be a fool at the right time is an art.” She caught his eye before continuing with the knot. “You better hush, now.”
“Well, there’s a saying in the US, too. Imagination is worse than the truth. I have a real vivid imagination, and you bent over me like this is not helping.”
― Melinda Dozier