Love Walked In Quotes

“Because before we'd met, we'd both thought in our own ways that our lives were over just as they'd begun, that we were stuck doing the same things forever. It had taken meeting each other, pushing each other, giving ourselves away to each other, to make us realize that our lives were what we made them. We were each other's spring, each other's new beginning.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“As he stroked between my thighs, he trailed his mouth up to my ear, told me with a voice like dark chocolate and smoke that I was everything he'd ever wished for, so perfectly soft and hot and slick on his fingers, how he'd tortured himself in his lonely bed thinking of my sexy little sounds, how hard he was going to fuck me once he made me scream.
"Oh God, Leo, please," I begged as I pushed my hips into his hand.
He groaned. "Yes, that's right. Let me make you feel good, love. Let me give this to you.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“How had Dorothy felt the day after she'd come back from Oz?
Sure, she'd woken up that first morning in Kansas and said with a big smile, "There's no place like home!" But what about the next morning, and the next? Had she felt disoriented? Like some unseen woodworker had carved away pieces of her, glued on new ones, so that she no longer fit in her old, worn groove?”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“I know you could be the man for Mari, if you wanted."
My dearest wish, which felt as impossible as the sky turning neon pink.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“You are my spring. You are soft green grass, all the flowers blooming and the sunshine on my face. If you leave me for good, it may as well be winter forever.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Now I brushed a quick kiss over her ruby-colored mouth that tempted me beyond belief. "You should wear lipstick more often."
She snorted. "Why, because you like getting it all over your face?" She rubbed her thumb over my bottom lip and showed me the crimson stain she'd left behind.
"You can get all over my face anytime, darling."
Her cheeks blushed a lovely complementary shade of pink. "Promises, promises."
I grinned at her. "You know I'll keep them.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“His mouth, my mouth, was firm. "I can't lose you again, Mari. I won't."
I paused. Something in his vow, the steadfastness, and I heard Leo's voice, gentle and sure.
I have you. You're safe with me.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“So after Lisa died, Greg looked after you?"
"Sure. I went to school, had a roof over my head, had enough to eat."
His eyes narrowed. "That's the bare minimum, Mari. Victorian orphans got that."
"No wonder I liked David Copperfield so much," I said coolly.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Last night flashed like an erotic flip book, our bodies rising and falling in lines and curves.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Oat milk and one sugar, just how I liked it, and the comfort of it made me sigh. "It's like I made it myself. Thank you."
He gave me the kind of look that would burn my clothes off. "I like knowing what you like, darling."
Jesus, I didn't know an old-fashioned endearment could be so suggestive.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“He didn't respond, just trailed his fingers over the branch of pale pink apricot blossoms on the front of my left thigh. then turned me around and studied the vermilion tulip tattoo on my right shoulder.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“I pressed up onto my arms and looked down at her, excitement and anticipation surging inside me like a burst of sunshine-yellow paint. She was effervescence, green spring and new life, flowers blooming on her skin.
I wanted to bask in her.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“What is it about you and my hair?" I asked, half laughing as I pulled out the first pins and put them in my pockets. "It's just wavy and brown."
"You see brown." He pulled the rubber band off the end of the braid when it fell and started to unravel it. "I see chocolate and nutmeg and cinnamon..."
I raised my eyebrows. "I think you might need some non edible adjectives. It's like you really want to eat me."
He raised his eyebrows back. "Don't I?"
A giggle bubbled up. "Touché.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“But Mari, I also need to be clear about something. If we do this, you won't be my friend with benefits."
I held very still. We clearly weren't going to be enemies with benefits, and I didn't like the other options. "What will I be?"
He held my gaze. "Mine.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Do that again, darling," he said into my ear. "That was the sexiest little sound."
Darling. No one had ever used that endearment for me before. But it turned out that that word, in Leo's crisp accent, was pure fire, affection, and protectiveness all mixed up together.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“You have princess hair," he said, pressing his lips against the strands.
The word "reverent" popped into my head, but I pushed it away. "I'm no princess." If I was anything, I was the scrappy orphan, making my way in the world with only my wits.
He gave me a slow, wicked smile. "Then why do I want to kneel for you?”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Bay leaves, spices, his watchful, quiet, they drew my attention even more than the cheerful woman holding up the latest Sarah J. Maas on the screen.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Her cheeks blushed a shade of cherry-blossom pink I wanted to capture in watercolors, a wash of spring on snowy paper. I wanted to see that blush on the rest of her skin too, wanted to follow its path with my hands and my mouth.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Mari's mouth, full and pink and just the tiniest bit open.
I groaned. Oh God, I had wanted to kiss her more than I'd ever wanted chocolate. I'd have given up sugar in an instant if it meant I could touch her lips with mine.
Touch? More like devour. And not just her mouth, either.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“There was a side of salmon topped with frizzled onions and lots of capers and dill, a bowlful of rice pilaf glistening with butter, a huge plate of cut-up raw vegetables with what looked like a yogurt and herb dip, a golden loaf of challah dotted with black and white sesame seeds.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“You know what it's like when you see a rainbow?" I said carefully, like I was walking along a narrow, high wall, resisting the urge to put my arms out for balance.
"Yeah?" she answered just as slowly.
"Like everyone stops to look at it, to appreciate it, because you can't help but take in all those colors? That's what it's been like, having you at the shop. You walk into a room and everything gets more vivid, and people can't help but feel... joyful."
My unspoken words floated in the air between us.
You make me smile. You make me laugh. When you open your mouth and say something saucy, all I can think about is the curve of your lips.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Why are you using green in the petal? It's yellow, right? Like an orangey-yellow?"
He shook his head. "At first glance, of course. But nothing's all one color, if you look closely for a long time. It's got all these different shades. I just... see them all, and put them down on paper.
"Like your hair." He pivoted a little, his knee nudging against mine, and reached out, using his pencil as a pointer from the top of my head down to my shoulder. "It's definitely chestnut-colored, but under these lights, and with the green walls, the waves have got lilac and mauve in them.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Flowers! Dozens of bunches of flowers against black backgrounds. Walls full of spring, captured in the Netherlands almost four hundred years ago according to the explanation on the wall. Tulips, red and yellow, solid and striped. Peonies and roses and irises. I felt gleeful at the wealth of color compared to the gloom outside. If I could, I would have bathed in the richness. I took out my phone and carefully snapped a few of the paintings for future tattoo inspiration.
Finally I let myself look at the painting Leo was studying. The bouquet was mostly blowsy pink and white flowers, peonies and roses, but then suddenly I saw the daffodils tucked into the heart of the arrangement, their trumpets yolk orange and their petals sunshine yellow. I involuntarily glanced down at the matching blossom on my forearm. They had been my mom's favorite flowers--- to her they'd represented joy and energy, sunshine and optimism.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“It's the clever and bloody-minded ones that get you in the end. When they let you in, it's better than getting a Nobel Prize."
I enjoyed being called both smart and stubborn, but the rest of Tommy's words left me feeling like I'd been blinded by a spotlight. "We're not..."
"We're not like that." Leo talked over me in a rush. "We're just colleagues."
I nodded, ignoring the feeling that a link was forming between us, something stronger than just saving the store.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“I smiled at the sight of a complete collection of Georgette Heyer novels, the spines thoroughly broken. The author may have been dubious in her personal views, but I couldn't deny that she wrote a good romance.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“See, you find it very easy to just accost someone and ask for things, but you need to remember that I'm British."
She raised her eyebrows. "So what, you're just going to hang around politely drowning because you're scared of inconveniencing people?"
It was a very tidy summary, and I could hear how silly she found the whole concept. "Well, yes."
She snorted. "Someone needs to explain to me how you all conquered and pillaged a quarter of the world's surface, because I'm not seeing it right now.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“But now I saw a battered hardback on the nightstand next to Mari, the cover a yellow like summer sunshine. I picked it up like I was a burglar and it was a ruby in a bank vault, then found myself smiling at the familiar wide-eyed bear in his floppy hat.
I sat back down and opened A Bear Called Paddington, looking for the beginning as familiar and sweet as marmalade sandwiches, Mr. and Mrs. Brown meeting the stowaway bear on the railway platform.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“I'd had this outline of Leo in my head, harsh lines and sharp edges, but why couldn't I try to fill it in with some color? It didn't have to mean we'd be close, or that we'd go nuts and end up in bed together.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing extraordinary things." A sigh. "Made me miss being young, I suppose. That kind of energy, that sense that I could just do anything. But being old doesn't mean I can't enjoy things. Try to get the most out of life.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In

“Oh, just fuck off, Mari," Leo said, his voice a frozen knife in my chest.
The dismissiveness, the contempt. It hurt. My throat contracted, my sinuses suddenly felt hot and tight. But I couldn't let him win. The last word had to be mine. "Sounds fun," I said cheerfully, my voice only shaking a little. "Maybe later.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In