The Smart One and the Pretty One Quotes

“He smiled down into her eyes and she looked right at him and she knew him. When hadn’t she known him? With a little sigh of acceptance, she moved into his arms, meeting his eager kiss with a mouth that was just as greedy as him”
― Claire LaZebnik, The Smart One and the Pretty One

“[Ava] had always thought the main relationship in the family was the one between Nancy and her daughters. To have a family, you needed a father, of course, and Jimmy had played that role perfectly well, if you were okay with an old-fashioned interpretation of the job. But the Nickerson family was all about the women and their noisy, bickering, gossiping, interfering relationships with one another.

And now it seemed that maybe she ahd been looking at it all wrong. Maybe she and Lauren were just the icing, and the basic, underlying cake of the family was the couple in front of her who had a shared history she knew very little about.”
― Claire LaZebnik, The Smart One and the Pretty One

“Thank you,” she said. “That wasn’t meant as a compliment,” he said. “I was criticizing you.” “That made the compliment all the more sincere,” Lauren said. “You weren’t trying to make one.”
― Claire LaZebnik, The Smart One and the Pretty One