Second Chance Summer Quotes

“Gotta be a full moon bringing out the crazy,” Mitch said. “Maybe the crazy just follows you,” Aidan suggested. In turn, Mitch suggested Aidan was number one. With his middle finger.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Mitch, who was six foot four and, at two hundred and twenty pounds, quite an imposing figure, strode out wearing nothing but his fire boots. Well, and a few soapsuds. He ambled over to the big bay windows, grabbed a squeegee, and went to work scrubbing the glass, his twig and berries swinging in the wind. The entire crew doubled over, dying of laughter. Everyone, that is, except for the captain, who was looking apoplectic. “What the hell are you doing?” he bellowed. “Cleaning like you ordered. Sir,” Mitch added politely, scrubbing with a whole new level of vigor.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Nice,” the clerk said without a smidgeon of judgment in his voice as he rang her up. “I especially like the way you’ve got the entire junk food pyramid represented here. That’s not easy to do.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“You’re not a job to me, Lily. Not even close. You’re more. And I think I’m more to you too. I think it’s not that you don’t feel anything, it’s that you feel too much. I scare you.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“I...” Her gaze dipped to his chest and then back to his eyes. “I do feel things for you,” she whispered. “Big things. I just...”

He pushed her hair from her face. “You’ll get there when you get there. There’s no rush, Lily.”

Her eyes were big on his. Uncertain. Wary. “I’m just...”

“I know. And I’m not going anywhere,” he promised. “And neither are my feelings for you.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“He stepped closer. "Lily---"
"No. Stay back," she said, pointing a finger at him.
He went still. "Why?"
"Because when you come close I do stupid things."
"Like?"
"Like let you kiss me."
"Let me?" He laughed ruefully. "Lily, you just about crawled up my body to get at these lips."
She narrowed her eyes. "Like I said. Stupid.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Penny: PROBLEM. Spider in the clean laundry basket and now it’s gone. I have to burn down the house. Gray: No. Penny: You’re not grasping the severity of this situation. The spider is huge and it’s going to eat the cat. Gray: Then the spider will rightfully take our cat’s place and become our beloved spider cat. Penny: This is on you. And remember that thing I said you could do to me tonight? It’s off the table.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“There were some men who just knew how to kiss, the kind of kiss that could send a woman reeling. The kind of kiss that could take away problems and awareness and … and everything. The kind of kiss that could shatter her into a trillion little pieces. The kind of kiss that somehow both calmed her body and soul even as it wound her up for more. Aidan was that kind of kisser.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Apparently some things, like Cheetos finger stains and the searing pain of grief, couldn’t be fixed.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“He had no desire to take a walk down Memory Road either, especially when that road had ended in a spectacular crash with no survivors.
Just the walking dead.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Aidan Kincaid, wearing cargo pants and a dark blue T-shirt with a Search-and-Rescue emblem on the pec, a radio on his hip, looking dusty and hot and tired and sexy as hell.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“He remembered kissing her… falling for her.

Then how she’d left the mountain without looking back, forgetting about him with shocking, heartbreaking ease.

Now she was back. And she’d kissed him like maybe she hadn’t forgotten him after all...”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Lily drew him in with those eyes, her voice, the outer toughness she showed the world, the inner vulnerability she did her best to hide.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“With that same small smile still playing on his mouth, Aidan lifted his hands in a stance of mock surrender and took a step back.
Which meant she couldn’t very well run him over now. Instead she let her tires chirp as she accelerated out of the parking lot like the hounds of hell were on her heels.
Because in a way, they were.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“He hadn’t shaved that morning, she noticed. Maybe not for a handful of mornings, and the scruff gave his square jaw a toughness that suggested the wild teenager had long ago become a man.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Nice,” the clerk said without a smidgeon of judgment in his voice as he rang her up. “I especially like the way you’ve got the entire junk food pyramid represented here. That’s not easy to do.”
She had a rack of donuts, two pies—one lemon, one cherry—a pint of caramel delight ice cream, a family-size bag of chips, and now cookies as well.
“Bad breakup?” the clerk asked.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“After fighting a brush fire at the base of Cedar Ridge for ten straight hours, Aidan Kincaid had only three things on his mind: sex, pizza, and beer. Given the way the day had gone, he’d gladly take them in any order he could get them.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“with you, Aidan, just as you are, whatever your job is, whatever you do. I just hate that you got hurt—”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“The special please," she said, waving a coupon from the week's paper. "The young rejuvenating facial. I want to look thirty."
"Mom," Jonathan said. "It's a facial, not a magic wand."
She rolled up the paper and swatted him with it. "Fine, I'll take forty." She gave Lily a hug. "And you! How lovely to see you again!" She turned to Jonathan. "So... you can make me look forty, right?"
"How about gorgeous?" Jonathan asked his mom. "Does gorgeous work for you?”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“I'm good at a lot of things," he murmured.”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer

“was”
― Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer