The Vixen and the Vet Quotes

“The problem with hope was that you were required to acknowledge the possibility of not getting what you desperately hoped for.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You’re grateful for crumbs.
--Asher”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The first time you sit in comfortable silence;
The first time you realize you enjoy his company more than anyone else’s;
The first time you look like hell and he couldn't care less;
The first time you talk until dawn;
The first time you bring him home to meet the family;
The first time you're naked together and you don't feel a shred of insecurity;
The firt time you realize that you don't want anyone else but him;
The first time you see a future with him;
The first time you take a trip together;
The first big blowup fight;
The first time you realize he's your home;
The first time you realize taht he loves you as much as you love him.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“For someone with one hand, you’re strangely like Vishnu. Everywhere at once.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“And I’ll tell you something else. I’m not worried that you’ll find someone else, because there isn’t anyone else on the face of the earth who could ever love you as much as I do. It’s impossible because no man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. And I’m not worried about me finding someone else, because you brought me back from the dead and gave me a second chance at life. You’re my miracle, Savannah, and I will always belong to you.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“This isn’t the sort of love that ends,” he said softly. “It’s forever. It doesn’t matter if you go to Phoenix and I stay here for a while. We’ll find each other again. Do you know that, Savannah Carmichael?”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“A good orgasm could really mess with a girl.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You’re grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don’t trust it. You know it can’t possibly last.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“What are we doing?” she asked, locking her hands around his neck. “I’m ruining you,” he said unflinchingly, “for anyone else.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“I did. I stayed alive for you. For the dream of you.” “And now I’m here.” “And I’m never letting you go,” he said fiercely, his hand moving possessively to her hip, where it lay heavy and insistent.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“Asher,” she said, eyes closed, nuzzling his neck lovingly. “Yeah,” he finally managed, clearing his throat and taking a deep breath. “You stayed alive, Asher. I think maybe you stayed alive for me.” The impact of her words made him quake in her arms, and he exhaled like the wind had been knocked out of him.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“You walked out of my dreams fully formed. I wasn’t about to let you walk away.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“And I’ll tell you something else. I’m not worried that you’ll find someone else, because there isn’t anyone else on the face of the earth who could ever love you as much as I do. It’s impossible because no man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. And I’m not worried about me finding someone else, because you brought me back from the dead and gave me a second chance at life.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“You terrify me.” She smiled, wiggling beneath him before pushing her pelvis up against his. “I’m harmless.” “You’re lethal.” “I’m waiting.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“Were they dating? Sort of. Exclusive? Not as far as she knew... Discovering new feelings was one thing. Actually changing your Facebook status? That was real.
-- Savannah”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“I missed you,” she said softly, her breath against his cheek making his body harden everywhere.
“You too.”
“It’s terrible to be this infatuated.”
“I agree.”
“I haven’t felt this alive in years.”
“Me either.”
“Screw the interview,” she said breathlessly. “Let’s make out.”
He saw stars. Literally. Stars. How was this possibly his life? Beautiful women did not show up on the doorsteps of disabled vets and proposition them.
“Are you an alien?” he asked.
“Not that I know of.”
“Are we on Candid Camera?”
She took a quick look around the room. “You never know, but my guess is no.”
“Is someone paying you a vast sum of money to make me feel like this?”
She bit her lower lip, as if deep in thought. “Not that I recall, but if a million dollars suddenly hits my account, I’ll give you half.”
“You must be for real. Fine. You win. Let’s go make out.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“You’d been coming here for years for checkups, and we couldn’t get you to try a new hand or let us put you under again after what you’d been through at Brooke. Then suddenly you’re here. You want the new hand; you want to work on the face. That article? It was a mixed bag: part love story and, yes, part humiliation. But, see, she changed you Asher. For the good. She helped you move forward. And we only let certain people change us. We only want to change for certain people. If she was worth changing for, she’s probably worth talking to.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“And then she knew, she realized in startling, terrifying detail, that Asher Lee had had no one to come home to. After years away from Danvers, there was no one left to welcome him home. No loving parents. No friends. No one but an old friend of his grandmother’s, who agreed to come and keep house for him. He’d been utterly alone. He’d had no one left to live for, and yet he’d decided to live.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“For the first time in almost a decade, who he was and what he wanted took precedence over how he looked. The man inside, who’d hidden from the world in hurt and anger, was almost completely gone now, and in his place sat Asher Lee—confident and uncertain, fierce and tender, protective, wistful, loyal, vulnerable, attractive, and complicated—made whole again by the love of Savannah Carmichael.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“Your BMW’s a convertible?” she asked, raising her eyebrows. “Yes, ma’am.” “I like fast German cars.” “Riding or driving?” “Both.” “Is that a request?” “Mm-hm.” “I love my car, Savannah. I’m not a shallow man, but I love that vehicle. What’s your driving record look like?” “This question from the man who made me cry?” “I would love for you to drive my car as far and as fast as you like,” he amended. She leaned back and winked at him. “I thought so. Give me a minute to change?” “Must you?” “I’m afraid so.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“Savannah, darlin’?” “Yes, Mama. Come in.” Her mother opened the door a crack, then slipped into the room, carrying the largest, most extravagant bouquet of wildflowers Savannah had ever seen. Wildflowers that smelled of lilac and honeysuckle and the outdoors. She breathed deeply and sighed, looking at her mother in question. “Asher Lee,” she said, “is downstairs.” Savannah felt her mouth tilt up into an involuntary smile and her eyes flood with tears. Her mother set the bouquet on her vanity and put her arm around Savannah. “Whatever he did, he’s awful sorry, button.” “He yelled at me and made me cry.” “Guessing he didn’t mean whatever it is he said.” “He thinks I want him to change.” “Well, of course you do,” said her mother matter-of-factly, swiping at Savannah’s tears with the corner of her sunflower apron. “We all want to change the men we love. Leave our mark on them.” “Oh, I don’t lov—” “Of course you don’t. I was just makin’ conversation.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“Savannah,” he started in a softer voice, “Wait. Please. I—I didn’t mean … I just didn’t want you to …” “I’m going home,” she said, rushing from the room before he could say another word. “Savannah!” He shot out of bed, following her through his bedroom door and running down the gallery as fast as his bum leg would allow. While walking or jogging were good for him, he wasn’t supposed to sprint on it, and it ached and burned as he got to the top of stairs only to hear the front door slam in her wake. “GOD DAMN IT!” he bellowed, lowering himself to sit on the landing as his leg throbbed with pain. Miss Potts appeared out of nowhere to stand at the base of the stairs with her hands on her hips. She pursed her lips and tsked. “Somehow I don’t think peach cobbler is going to fix this one.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“She looked like a wreck. She also looked like herself. “This is me,” she said, with a sheepish smile, pushing some flyaway strands of her brown hair back into the knot. “Well, I did wonder when your sister was going to cut you off from her supply of florals and pink.” “Do you miss anything, Miss Potts?” “Very little, dear. I’ve been alive for a hundred years or so.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“You’re trying to provoke me.” “I wouldn’t dream of it,”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“With grateful thanks to all of the men and women who protect and serve The United States of America, and to Operation Mend, who serve the returning wounded among them. And for my father, who insisted that my brother and I stand up at parades whenever veterans walked by.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“The problem with hope was that you were required to acknowledge the possibility of not getting what you desperately hoped for. As”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“She loved him in a deep and singular way, almost as though God had crafted one heart in heaven, then split it between Holden’s body and hers, fating her to a never-ending longing to be with him, or a fractional life without him. She”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet / Never Let You Go

“A stranger to compliments, she turned her face to this one, like a sunflower worshipping the sun. “Thanks.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet / Never Let You Go

“You’re mine. You belong to me, and your warm body presses up against mine at night, and what you do with that body makes me … makes me wonder how I ever lived without you.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet

“What’re you thinking about?” she asked, arching back against him and making shivers run down his spine. “You,” he said, leaning forward to kiss her neck. “How much better my life is with you in it.” A long moment passed when they simply lay together in the quiet of her bedroom, skin to skin, his heart pumping against her back and his lips resting lazily on her shoulder. “I’m falling in love with you too,” she finally said quietly with her back to him. Her words ricocheted in his brain like too much awesome to bear. He didn’t expect them, didn’t anticipate them, and his heart—which had quietly longed for the words for days—didn’t know how to believe it was possible that a creature as lovely as Savannah could fall for a creature as broken as him. “Say it again,” he whispered, closing his burning eyes so that all that existed was her voice in his ears. She rolled back, and he moved slightly so that she could lie on her back beside him. He opened his eyes to look at her, and with her messy hair and fat lip, she was the most beautiful girl he’d ever seen. “I’m falling in love with you, Asher.” Without breaking eye contact with her, he reached out to push her hair gently off her forehead. “You take my breath away.”
― Katy Regnery, The Vixen and the Vet