Roots and Wings Quotes

“He’d magically turned all of my rough edges to silk when he touched me. Made all of the empty and lonely spots full with his attention. When his fingers moved over me, everything male in him spoke to everything female in me, and I felt beautiful. Fragile and vulnerable.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“How about you walk around back and I’ll show you my rental. You’re going to love it.” I had a suspicion that he was still giving me shit. “Now, Van, this is no Cadillac, but she does turn heads,” he said as I walked around back with him. O’Fallon, hot on our heels. “There she is.” I couldn’t help myself that time. I laughed. And then I laughed a little more. There sat a red and orange, nineteen eighty-something piece of suburban history. “The Astro Van?” I asked. He answered, “The Astro Vaughn.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“The week before I’d found some leftover cake, and, sure enough, it was harder than a wedding night dick.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“He’d magically turned all of my rough edges to silk when he touched me.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“He made me feel so good about being me.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“Busted knuckles? You one of those cage fighters? What’s your ring name? Captain Cavity?”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“You know how you said you didn’t have any roots and that you thought this was a place you could grow some?” “Yeah.” “Well, I think you just broke ground tonight.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“You stick out about like a turd in a punchbowl.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings

“people are just dumb, and she was president of the Idiot Club.”
― M. Mabie, Roots and Wings