Fearless Quotes

“Never before had he said such long strings of sentences in French before, like he did now. In the sheltering dark, his thrusts were slow, deep, sure, his hands digging bruises into her hips, the French rolling in thick purrs off his tongue; she had the impression it was sexual, whatever he said, the way the words caressed and encouraged her.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Ava wasn’t the poor unsuspecting woman who’d let the wild thing into the house, she was the wild thing’s mate, creeping indoors at his side…”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Did you tell that prospect over there that ‘not a hair’ on my head was to be touched?” “I think I said, ‘not a hair on her fucking head, or so help me God, I’ll make you floss your teeth with your own entrails.’ ” “Ah. That sounds more like you.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“I wanted to be special to you."
"Fillette, you were always that.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“​“A girl like you isn’t ever in danger of changing. The influence is the other way; you’re good for him. You make him better. There’s not anyone in the world who could make you less than what you are.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“They were not smooth men, the bikers in her life, not fine, or well-loved by Mother Nature. The life – the wind, the sun, the drink, the sin, the violence – it took their soft layers away like sandpaper, over time, until there was a certain stark pride in their wrinkles and dark patches.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Mercy grinned. “Do I smell a shotgun wedding? I’ve wanted to call you Daddy for so long now.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Break up with him,” he said softly, “or I’ll put his head through a window.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“What the hell’s wrong with this generation?” ​“Participation trophies,” Mercy said. “And Adderall.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“You’re suppressing my first amendment rights,” she said, voice muffled.               “You don’t live in America; you live in the United States of Teague.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“people saw what they wanted to, expected to, and so rarely what was.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“This was the lethal cocktail of Mercy Lécuyer: his baffling good humor, and his veiled fury. A wolf who chose to domesticate himself amongst Labradors, who pretended to be one, most of the time.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“– but I wanted another baby and Sly didn’t take one second of convincing. He was all, ‘Sure. Right now? Let me get my pants off.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Tango, ever the gentleman, gave her a wink. “I don’t have anything in my blood but beer and poor white trash. Figure I gotta get in good with these leader types.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Well aren’t you just a ray of fucking sunshine.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“How did life get so messed up?”
Maggie dabbed at the corners of her eyes and exhaled, quieting, gathering her composure. “Baby, it’s not messed up,” she said with a reassuring smile. “Just a little bumpy.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun. It”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Mercy was his ice breaker, his Jolly Cajun Giant, who could get away with saying whatever he damned wanted because no one wanted to climb up on a stepladder and stop him.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“I dunno,” Mercy said, putting a little more pressure on the frail sternum beneath his boot sole. “Too many people tell the truth, and I’ll be out of a job. If he lies” – a wide smile for Fisher’s benefit – “then I get to go to work.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Did you tell that prospect over there that ‘not a hair’ on my head was to be touched?”
“I think I said, ‘not a hair on her fucking head, or so help me God, I’ll make you floss your teeth with your own entrails.’ ”
“Ah. That sounds more like you.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Come marry me, baby,” he whispered. “Before one of us does something stupid again.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Wherever she was, whichever city or state, whatever mood she was in, there was nothing like a book store to fill her up with happiness.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Five a.m. was a blank-faced, indigo wall, trying to press her back into the house, into bed. Five a.m. didn’t want to be messed with or questioned. It wasn’t the insidious shifting shadow miasma of midnight. It was an angry schoolmarm that didn’t expect to be challenged.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“And he shouldn’t have sent her knight away five years ago. He’d always wanted a king for her, someone she could rule beside. But it was the knight who was devoted, who was in her thrall and would die defending her." Ghost about his daughter Ava and Mercy”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“No facts. Only interpretations. So much of life was all about perspective.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“You can add new parts, baby,” she imagined Maggie saying. “But you can’t lose the parts of you that were already there.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless

“Heartbreak was never cured; it just went into remission. And here it came roaring back, leaving her feverish and weak and unable to move in the bright afternoon sun.”
― Lauren Gilley, Fearless