Just a Taste Quotes

“If you were an orphan, and I was a billionaire, I wouldn’t adopt you,” I tell him. “I’d take every other kid off the streets. And then once that’s done, I’d drive past you in my orphan party bus and flip you off.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“With a heart that’s beating out of my chest from fear, I’m going to stay because I finally get what people mean when they say courage doesn’t mean the absence of fear. They’re right. Courage means staying in spite of fear.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“He fucks me like I’ve never been fucked before. My dick is inside his ass, but there’s no mistaking that I’m the one getting fucked here.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“What’s the protocol here? What’s a guy supposed to do when he’s sort of accidentally started dating his husband?”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“Good for you,” Rach nudges me with her shoulder. “You go and bang your brother.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“The looks he aims my way? Full of dirty thoughts. To the brim. His gaze is overflowing with them, and it’s terrifying because if there’s anything I want at all, it’s another taste. Not even a taste. I want a full meal. I want to fill up on Ryker James, and even that doesn’t feel like it would be enough. Yup. Terrifying. So I ignore it because”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“I don’t know, it’s just strangely liberating being your most authentic self because that’s the only thing the other person wants from you.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“He turns on the music and hums along, then sings along. Badly. Really, very badly. He’s goddamn awful, is what I’m saying, but somehow it’s also really charming. He keeps butchering Coldplay. I keep looking at him. And it hits me then—suddenly and loudly, in a way that is impossible to ignore—just how dangerous nice boys can be.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“I lick his lower lip, and he opens his mouth. I sink my tongue between his lips, eager for a real taste. Just a taste. Just the one.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“I don’t know what I’m doing. The only certainty right now is the blinding lust that wells up inside me when I look at Ryker. And the strange, strange desire to look beneath the surface. Behind all that polite, good-natured charm. I want to see the ugly parts. The ones he doesn’t show everybody else. His eyes stay on mine.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“I sigh. “Cheer up. It looks like a nice town, and they do confidential same-day marriage licenses here, so we don’t have to worry about anybody finding out about this. We’re in, we’re out, we’re done.” “Title of your sex tape,” Lake mutters without cracking a smile. “Quick and efficient,” I say sternly. “The sequel.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“I don’t hate the cold, but I thoroughly dislike being cold.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste

“Wow. You’re terrible under pressure,” I whisper. “Fuck you,” he replies loudly enough to draw more looks. “Is what we’re going to do later,” he adds and looks around. “Can’t wait to honeymoon the hell out of this one.”
― Briar Prescott, Just a Taste