Risk Quotes

“You’re so beautiful,” he said on a slow exhale. “It hurts to look at you.” She sighed helplessly, swaying into him as her eyes drifted closed and wishing—desperately wishing—she could ask him to come home and make love to her. She was positive he knew far more about making love than she did (she’d only had two lovers since losing her virginity at twenty, and she thought of them as Bad and Worse) and would be an exceptional teacher. A distant corner of her mind warned she’d gone”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“Vincent looked to Justus’s ears. “I see you wore those earrings.”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“Brian leaned against the other side of Justus’s pillar and tugged at his bow tie. “Your dad sure can spend some money,” he said, raising his voice over the string quartet ten feet away in an alcove.”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“No more sugar. I already brushed my teeth. See?” Opening her mouth in a wide grimace, she showed him what looked like ninety-six sparkling teeth.”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“my teeth. See?” Opening her mouth in a wide grimace, she showed him what looked like ninety-six sparkling teeth.”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“I need eleven hours of sleep so I won’t be cranky.”
― Ann Christopher, Risk

“Angela yelled. Realizing she was dangerously out of control—in the last couple of hours, she’d begun to understand why gerbil parents sometimes ate their young—she”
― Ann Christopher, Risk