Status Updates From Heartbreaker (Long, Tall Te...

"'In between, Tippy may make a movie or two before we start our family.'

Tellie put her hand on her belly. 'J.B. and I already have started,' she said, smiling from ear to ear. 'The blood test came back positive'" (171). She is at MOST three weeks along and already telling the police chief? What.

"'I wish you'd let me pay for it,' he said as they drove home. 'I'd have taken you to Neiman Marcus'" (167). Instead of a one-of-a-kind dress from a boutique for a wedding dress??

"J.B. lifted Tellie's left hand and extended it, with the diamond solitaire winking on her ring finger.

'Oh, my goodness!' Nell exclaimed, and hugged both of them with tearful enthusiasm" (164). You quit your job for JB because you thought he was being emotionally abusive to Tellie but now are suddenly crying happy about their engagement?

"She was shivering, too, having experienced what the self-help articles referred to as 'multiple culminations of pleasure'" (161). SELF HELP bahahaha

"She felt some disturbance around her and looked up. In front of the car were three students with quickly printed squares of poster paper. One said '9,' and two said '10.' They were grading J.B. on his technique. He followed her amused gaze and burst out laughing.

He drew her closer. 'Don't protest,' he murmured as his head bent. 'I'm going for a perfect score...'" (159) what is this book

"Her yes were shocked, delighted, as she realized what had been going on. She hadn't dreamed that he might feel something this powerful for her, and for so long" (158). Nope nope nope nope nopenopenopenope

"'You loved being kissed. But when I started touching you, I felt you draw back. You liked kissing me, but you weren't comfortable with anything more intimate than that. You didn't feel anything approaching passion, Tellie. You were like a child ... So I drew back and waited. And waited. I got bitter from the waiting. It made me cruel.'" (158). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"'Do you remember when you were eighteen?' he asked huskily. 'And I made love to you on the couch in the living room?'
She flushed. 'Yes.'" (158) AHHHH AND HE WAS IN HIS THIRTIES AHHH

"He'd denigrated those tender feelings and made her look like a lovesick fool. That, too, had been frustration, because he wanted a woman's passion from Tellie and she hadn't been able to give it to him. Not until now. He was sorry he'd been cruel to her in his anguish. But he couldn't go back and do it over again" (144). AHHHHHHHHHH A WOMAN'S PASSION FROM A HIGH SCHOOLER AHHHH

"'I want her to be happy. She's never going to be able to cope with the future until you're out of her life. I know you're fond of her, J.B., but it would be kinder to let her go.'

He knew that. But he couldn't let her go, now that he knew what he wanted. He couldn't! His face reflected his inner struggle" (142). This still reads like a horror stort

"But now Tellie was a woman, and he felt differently. How was he going to explain that to Tellie if he couldn't get near her?" (141) directly follows on from previous quote and also still AHHHHHHH

"He sighed roughly. He couldn't explain ... But she hadn't been able to give him passion, and he was afraid to take a chance on her without it. For years, he'd given up passionate love, he was afraid of it. When Tellie left for college he didn't want her to be hurt, but he didn't want to be hurt himself. He loved too deeply, too intensely ..." (141) AHHHHHHH

"The sofa caught her attention again, as it had when she'd come home from the hospital. She moved to its back and ran her hand over the smooth cloth fabric, frowning. Why did this sofa make her uneasy? What had happened in this room in the past that upset her?" (128) AHHHHH

"She pushes the lightweight electric broom into the living room" (128). Had to look up what this was, because that's a term I'd never heard used. Regionalism, it seems