The Cornerstone Quotes

“Shannon…you’ve always been mine.” “Are you sure I’m not too much for you?” “How could you ever be too much for me when I can’t get enough of you?” he said.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I am going to marry you so hard you won’t remember your maiden name. I’m going to love you and protect you, and I’m going to put up with your brothers and the violent citrus-throwing, too. You better get used to it because I’m here to stay.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“His hands shifted to my face and he kissed me, fast and hard. It felt like a punishment and tasted like a promise.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Fear is a choice,” I said. “Danger is real, but you decide whether or not you allow fear into your mind.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Shannon…” he sighed, his head resting on my thighs. “I want you. For a long time. A long fucking time. If you don’t, I need you to lie to me, because there’s a real possibility that I’ll cry right now if you say no.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Shannon: He’s gone out of his way to avoid speaking to me for the past four days because of this.
Will: You want me to kill him?
Shannon: No but I appreciate the offer.
Will: Anytime
Will: You’re not a bitch, peanut.
Shannon: I’m pretty sure you’ve been telling me otherwise for months.
Will: I’m allowed to insult you, I make up for it in orgasms. Those other fuckers are not, and God help them if they upset you again.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“You’re so much … And I want all of it.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“It was as if Strawberry Shortcake fucked Winston Churchill, and nine months later, Shannon Walsh was born.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I love you, too, and I’m not listening to any opening remarks or qualifications on the matter. You are my fire and ice, my calm and chaos, my everything, and I can’t remember life before loving you.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“His arms wrapped around me, strong and warm and safe, and I didn’t push him away. How could I? How could I find the strength to protest when my heart required this, when I’d spent the week stewing in my anger but wanting nothing more than this, when I’d spent months numbing myself to the memories of this.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I love you, too, and I’m not listening to any opening remarks or qualifications on the matter. You are my fire and ice, my calm and chaos, my everything, and I can’t remember life before loving you.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I’ve spent eleven days with you in the past eight months and that’s all it took for me to fall for you. Because I’ve sent you over five thousand texts and called you two hundred and eighteen times and you know what I have to show for that? I fucking love you.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“What was that?” he asked. He didn’t stop thrusting. He went right on rocking over every tender, pulsating inch of me.
“An orgasm,” I said into the blankets. “Surely you’ve encountered more than your own, commando.”
“If that was an orgasm, it was a pathetic one,” he said, his arm snaking around my waist and hiking me up.
I looked over my shoulder at Will, horrified. “Did you just insult my orgasm?”
“Yes,” he said, nodding. “Now get your little ass over here. You can do better.”
Of course this asshole wasn’t finished. “And what are you getting out of this?”
He bent me over the edge of the bed, my feet not even touching the ground as he moved in me. “If you have to ask,” he grunted, “you’ve been doing it wrong.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Lips and tongues and teeth all fought for control, and oh holy fuck, I was bringing this girl to her knees tonight. I didn’t care what it took, she was going to surrender to me.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Don't even start with that shit, peanut," I interrupted. "I am going to marry you so hard you won't remember your maiden name. I'm going to love you and protect you, and I'm going to put up with your brothers and the violent citrus-throwing, too. You better get used to it because I'm here to stay.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Taking care of people is how I show my love.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“If you two want to whip your dicks out, I'll find a measuring tape," Shannon said. She lifted her glass in salute to no one in particular and took a hearty sip. "I might have an app for that. I'd need my phone, but some lawyer-fucking meathead stole it.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I lived with an intimate knowledge of the unimaginably gruesome awfulness that existed in the world, and though it was easier to believe that awfulness was extraordinary, that it was exception, I knew it wasn't exclusive to the war-torn regions I frequented. The unimaginable happened to ordinary people every day, and often, the people you least expected.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Shannon: Something weird is going on
Will: Not your horoscope again
Shannon: Do not mock me.
Will: Not mocking. Just baffled that a woman with a law degree relies on mystical prophecies for daily guidance.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Shannon: Something weird is going on
Will: Not your horoscope again
Shannon: Do not mock me.
Will: Not mocking. Just baffled that a woman with a law degree relies on mystical prophecies for daily guidance.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“She could handle them, of that there was no doubt. She could handle everything. But that didn’t mean she had to”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I want the best day of my life to be a lazy Sunday morning with raspberry pancakes and open houses and my person. The wedding is a party with legal documents, and I don’t want a party to matter more than a marriage. But that’s just me.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“For a split second, I wanted all of this, but more than the beachside ceremony, pink wedding dress, and champagne everywhere, someone who saw only me. Someone who adored me.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Too often, the world wasn’t very nice to females, and yeah, we needed to deal with that shit straightaway. But no one was going to tell me to stop standing up for the women in my life.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“It's charming that you think you can walk in and explain my life to me,”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“If you don't want it, I don't want it. Simple as that," he said.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Be a good little cock tease and stand still until I tell you to move,” he growled in my ear. What”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“Yes, peanut, you are really fucking adorable.” Will took the flat iron from my hand and set it aside, then slipped his hand down the front of the sweater. His thumb passed over my nipple, circling it until it peaked for him. “But if one of the guys gets an eyeful of tit, there will be a volume of bloodshed tonight.” “That’s why you have balls. Just give them a twist whenever you think you’re going to do anything homicidal,” I said as I nudged him away.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“I didn’t know how to be the person others worried about, and I rarely knew what to do with their concern.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone

“We should get some vitamin E on that,” I said, eyeing the raised, red lines that looked recently sutured. He grumbled something about real men not needing vitamin E.
“That’s right,” I said. “They just grab their nut sacks and will themselves back to health. Let me know how that turns out for you.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Cornerstone