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“You’re a Van der Berg here,” he shouts. “If you give that asshole a piece of ass, I swear to God I’ll make sure you don’t sit for a week.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“He presses his lips hard to my forehead, and I still for a moment. Kaleb…”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“But Kaleb just waves a hand, shooing me away as he lies down next to her and pulls her into his body. I watch as she immediately falls in, burying her head in his neck as the cries subside and her breathing starts to calm. He yawns, pulling her sheet and blanket up over them like this is normal.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“You want someone who can challenge you. Excite you. Keep you on your toes. And as for what you need…” His whiskey-scented breath gusted across my skin, peppering it with a thousand goosebumps. “You need someone to bend you over and fuck that attitude right out of you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“Because you’re mine,” I said against her mouth. “Let another man touch you, Jules, and you’ll find out just how easily I can take a man’s life as I can save one.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“But with Jules…fuck, I didn’t even know how it happened. I liked her, even when she pissed me off, which was half the time.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“I bet after our date, you won’t even be able to think about another man.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“Josh buried his face in my neck. Dampness touched my skin, and I realized I wasn’t the only one crying.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“But trust me, Jules. Any man would be an idiot to let you go if there was even a chance with you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“Ah, fuck. If I teared up over something Alex said, he’d never let me live it down.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“Although deep down, I still get the feeling there is something he is hiding from me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid is Watching

“The third in a series usually isn’t that great, so it’s not his fault.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid is Watching

“Those aren’t rocks rising out of the wet sand. They’re something else. A hand. A foot. A head. Humped beneath the sand is the corpse they’re attached to.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“Daisy: He didn’t even flip through it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“KAREN: That was a great song to record. I was really proud of it. Just Daisy singing and me on the keys. That’s it. Just two bitches playing rock ’n’ roll.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Daisy says you spent your first tour cheating on your wife and dealing with alcoholism and drug addiction, possibly a heroin addiction. She says you’re in recovery now but that you missed the birth of your first daughter because you were in rehab.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“So coming down really does start to feel like rediscovering sanity. And when you rediscover your sanity, it’s only a matter of time before you start to get an inkling of why you wanted to escape it in the first place.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“You know since we moved here I think I figured out the secret to why so many people move south.” Joshua raised a brow. “What? Lower taxes?” Preston laughed but waved a hand. “Nah, all the sweet Southern women. Find one, and marry her quick.” He pointed to both of them.”
― Synithia Williams, The Secret to a Southern Wedding: An African American Romance of Second Chances and Family Drama

“I don’t listen to gossip. I listen to what people tell me directly and pay attention to what they show me. I’m sorry about your dad.”
― Synithia Williams, The Secret to a Southern Wedding: An African American Romance of Second Chances and Family Drama

“Spit it out, Clementine,” I said, motioning for her to keep going.”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“Dusty Fucker: Dinner?”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“The woman Dusty was in love with was the mother of Gus’s child. Did they ever talk about that? Probably not. Men.”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“Yeah,” Riley said with a shrug. Little gossip—turns out Riley picked up a habit or two from Luke Brooks.”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“And Teddy—our lion—might be the only person I know who loves as fiercely as you do.”
― Lyla Sage, Lost and Lassoed

“He put his glass down very slowly. ‘And you do that often? Get drunk and fuck other men?”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“I think you’re losing your mind, Joanne. Just like your mother.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“He knows. He knows what she’s like, but he pretends he doesn’t. Or maybe he is so much in denial that he can’t bring himself to admit it. But one thing is suddenly very clear: he doesn’t want to provoke her.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“Joanne, please. It’s getting tedious, and frankly, it doesn't sound like Chloe at all. I just don’t believe it.”
― Nicola Sanders, Don't Let Her Stay

“That is, after all, what I’m being paid to do. Live there. Occupy the place. Breathe life into it, as Leslie put it during that surreal interview.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Instead of making a right, I go left, accidentally taking a few steps toward a door at the end of the hallway. It’s wider than the others, locked in place with a deadbolt.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door