To the Edge Quotes

“Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Go to bed," he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Nose to nose with her, he gave her his best bad dog snarl. "You've forgotten who and what you're dealing with here, princess. So let me jar your memory. I'm not on your father's short list of men you can bring home to dinner. I'm not a nice man. So if all you're looking for is sex...just keep this up and you're liable to get it. And don't expect some polite little in-and-out and 'oh darling, that was lovely.' You come to my bed, I'm going to fuck you, and there won't be anything polite about it.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Without illusions. I love you because you are
fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels
trying not to be. I love you because of all you are and because of all you're not. And because, no
matter what, you are all the man I'll ever need.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“White on rice. Green on grass. Sheets on a bed. Him on her.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Go away. I told you, I'm not interested."
She looked from his lap to his face.
"Your nose is growing too.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“What, no Power Rangers Band-Aids ?"
"Shut up, Garett."
"Yes, ma'am.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Let's go find someplace with a little less traffic."

She grinned up at him. "I like it here."

He narrowed his eyes. "Just once, could you pretend to agree with me on something? Or are you always going to be this obstinate?"

"Try me."

"Black," he said.

"White."

"Yes."

"No."

"Stay."

"Go."

"Great. Knew I could get you to see it my way.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“He didn't deserve her—wouldn't in a million years—and he damn well should have stayed the hell away. But she was the best thing that had ever happened to him and if it took the rest of his life, he was going to figure out a way to become the best thing that ever happened to her.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“She loved him. He loved her. And she wasn't going to let him mess this up for them.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“... she'd looked at him with love in her eyes and hope in her heart and made him feel like he might just deserve both.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Christ. How did it happen that in less than a week one small, stubborn redhead had managed to scrape away his insulating calluses, set his lifeblood flowing again, and force him to feel something other than numb?”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“What do you think, Jillian? Can I hit him? Just once?"

In spite of the tension, she caught on quick. He saw her first real smile in twenty-four hours.

"No, Thor." She patted his arm like he was a pet in need of persuasion and steered him toward the elevator. "You'll just get your hands dirty. Besides, he's not worth your energy."

"So you're saying that I can't hit him." A disappointed Rocky.

"No, darling. I'm sorry, but you can't hit him." She punched the elevator button, both of them aware of Fowler's and everyone else within earshot's stupefied gazes following them. "Come along. I'll buy you a present to make up for it."

He grinned—Forrest Gump on a chocolate high. "Something shiny, OK?”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“What's the matter, Garrett? Am I getting a little too close to the truth?"

"What you're getting a little too close to is a spanking.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“Once a Ranger, always a Ranger,
he thought in disgust. Life's basics were pretty much centered around war, beer, and sex—the order subject to change with the terrain. The terrain standing in front of him in nothing but thin silk and telling eyes shuffled sex to the top of the list. Which proved another Ranger axiom: The little head did most of the thinking.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“He checked the chamber of the .22, then held it out to her. "Tell me you know how to use this."

She was still catching her breath, but her mind and her mouth were in full working order. "Stand still for two seconds and I'll give you a demonstration.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“He didn't even like the woman.

We don't have to like her to fuck her
—this from Skippy, his one-eyed wonder snake, who in Nolan's misspent youth had done a lot of his thinking for him and still felt entitled to express an opinion from time to time.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge

“So sorry," she bit out with the sweetness of alum, "but you're going to have to translate that one for me. I'm not fluent in brooding male grunting.”
― Cindy Gerard, To the Edge