Bourbon & Secrets Quotes

“You show up for your family and the people you care about, and that’s always been what love looks like to me. You are what love looks like to me.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I never planned on loving you, Peach. But now, I never plan on stopping.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I love women who have no problem showing off the parts they’re proud of—clean skin or decorated in ink.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I started falling in love with Faye Calloway on the edge of a cornfield, on a stage, over a bottle of bourbon, and every time she’s been in my arms since.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“You call me Peach like I’m sweet, but Foxx, you know better. I’m the furthest thing from sweet.” “See, that’s where you’re wrong.” I yank her hips forward. The move jerks her closer and forces her chest to press into mine. “I’ve never tasted anything as sweet as what you dripped all over my fingers.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Loving someone again doesn’t mean one has to be better or stronger. If you’re smart, you’ll fall in love as many times as the world will allow—sometimes, it’s with the same person and all the new versions of each other that grow over the years. And for others, who experience loss or goodbyes, it’s when someone new shows up, shakes you up, and all of a sudden, things feel a whole lotta right.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Good. I don’t want you to change.” He pulls me closer and kisses the top of my head. “I just wanted some clarity so I didn’t end up killing a man for touching someone who’s starting to feel like mine.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“There may never be such a thing as a great bottle of bourbon for me ever again unless I have the taste of your pussy with it.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“What-ifs and maybes aren’t reality. They’re ideas. And if we’re not careful and focus too heavily on them, they’ll make us spiral.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“He squeezes the back of my neck, cutting me off. “When someone feels right, you lean into it. Loving someone again doesn’t mean one has to be better or stronger. If you’re smart, you’ll fall in love as many times as the world will allow—sometimes, it’s with the same person and all the new versions of each other that grow over the years. And for others, who experience loss or goodbyes, it’s when someone new shows up, shakes you up, and all of a sudden, things feel a whole lotta right. Don’t think for one second that loving Faye isn’t the bravest thing you’ve ever done. Don’t give up on her yet.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Do you know the first time I saw you, you were demolishing a peach?” he asks as he brushes his fingers across his face to show exactly what he means by demolish. I bark out a laugh and settle in next to him. “You either didn’t give a shit or it was just that good. And I remember thinking that I wanted to be like that. Messy and not giving a single shit about the cleanup . . . Don’t take that wrong. It was not dirty or sexual in any way. I was just impressed.” He reaches out and runs a finger along the knuckles of my hand. A simple touch in a place that shouldn’t matter, but the sweetness of it made me want him all over again. “It was the first farmers’ market of the summer and a few weeks before I ran into you in that cornfield.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“He smiles confidently. “You scared yet?” “Since the moment you called me Peach,”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I want a woman who has no agenda other than to help the people she loves. I want to be the kind of man who’s good enough for a woman like that.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Hadley doesn’t miss a beat. “You’re going to have to do a little more than roll your eyes and grind those teeth, if you want to call me your girl, Daddy.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“WELCOME TO HIDEAWAY, MONTANA. When I flip to the back, there’s a coffee ring stain in the upper left corner and is addressed to Griswald Foxx in a looping cursive handwriting that I’d recognize anywhere. It has my heart stuttering. Mom.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“That exhale of contentment that comes when you’ve made enough of the wrong decisions, but somehow find your way to one that feels right.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“My dancer. My fantasy.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“People always think that you get one great love of your life, but I think whatever asshat said that never considered all the different kinds of love that could show up over the course of a lifetime.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I can see them making sure she’s alright and the sight of her folded into my family makes my chest ache.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I’ve been trying to save other people for so long—” Her voice cracks, and she sits back. “I didn’t know what it felt like to have someone look out for me. Not like this.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“The moment I saw Waz holding my girl’s face like that, I knew I would do whatever was necessary. I won’t lose anyone else.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Sometimes you need to make a mess in order to make things right.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“what ends up in those barrels is called ‘the heart’ for a reason. It might be the Kentucky water, the thriving culture of bourbon, but I believe what makes Foxx Bourbon the best bourbon is the pride poured into those barrels and the respect the Foxx family has for it. As they celebrate 100 years of bourbon, one of the most distinguished brands keeps the heart while evolving as palates and audiences change.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I’m not sure how it’s possible to be this enchantingly sexy and also cute as fuck. But she pulls it off somehow.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“They told me you want Faye to be your girlfriend, and I quote, ‘our dad deserves to smile the way he’s been smilin’ at Faye.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“I don’t think I could love my girls much more than I already do, but then they go ahead and say shit like that . . .”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Well, I think she’s amazing. And I think you should kiss her as much as you want, Dad,” Lily says as she chews on something.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“Look at me.” I do as he asks. “You make me feel like I don’t need to pretend when I’m around you. That I can be exactly who I am without being anything other than a man infatuated with a beautiful woman.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“You’re the best person I know, Dad. I’m just trying to figure out how all this works.” I pull her in tighter to my side, trying to hold in the emotion of hearing her say that I’m the best person she knows. Jesus, sometimes they really can hit you in the chest. “How all of what works?” She sighs, “Life.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets

“But you never look at them. Not like you do when you see Faye.”
― Victoria Wilder, Bourbon & Secrets