Accidentally on Purpose Quotes

“Okay,” Max piped up. “I have a girlfriend now so I know this one. When Rory says ‘wow’ like that, it’s not a compliment. It means she’s thinking long and hard on how and when I’ll pay for my stupidity.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“When you find someone who knows you’re not perfect but treats you as if you are anyway, someone whose biggest fear is losing you, it’s worth whatever you have to go through.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Are you angry? Because we do some of our best naked work when you’re angry.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“You probably had more adventures today than I’ll have in a lifetime. Walking must seem tame to you.”
“Elle, you’re more of an adventure than anything that’s ever happened to me.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“He snorted. “Elle, you’re always right. It’s your world and we all just live in it.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“It’s just tea, you weirdo. And I could totally survive without it if I needed to.” She paused. “I just can’t guarantee anyone else’s safety.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“He made it hard for a girl to not fall head over heels.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“No, adulting is like”—she searched for the right words—“looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“I want in your life, Elle. All the way in.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“I want you, Elle," he said, voice low and rough. "It's a goddamn ache, I want you so much.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Whatever you need… Always.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Resetting the password only further frustrated her because the password had to include an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, and the blood of a virgin.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“She picked up the remote on the coffee table and aimed it at the biggest TV she’d ever seen. It came on, the volume up high, the screen flashing through channels so fast it made her dizzy. “I think I just launched a lunar module, but I’m not sure.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“The whole birth thing though,” Elle said. “It just seems like a poor exit strategy, doesn’t it?”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Oh for God’s sake,” came Morgan’s sleepy voice, disembodied in the dark. “Go after the hot guy, would you?”

“The peanut gallery needs to shut up,” Elle muttered into the cushion.

“Just sayin’,” Morgan said. “I’d leave you alone out here in a hot minute to go have sex if I had the chance.”

“I’m not going to go have sex while you’re out here knowing I’m having sex!”

“Your loss,” Morgan said.

“Oh my God,” Elle said. “Stop talking!”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Her heart just about stopped. “Us?” she asked in shock. “There is no us. There’s a you. And there’s a me. And okay, so sometimes we get crazy and become a very momentary us but it’s not real.” “It could be,” he said. She gaped at him, completely gobsmacked.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Fine. It’s your life, but—” “But you’re still going to tell me what to do?” he asked, a small smile on his lips. She went into defense mode at his amused tone. “Well, I’m sure as hell not going to be quiet about it.” “Duly noted,” he said dryly. “And for the record? I never want you to be quiet, Elle.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“I’m putting a temporary hold on the ‘stay away from me’ thing,’” she said. “just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we’re definitely going right back to it.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“Just remember, there’s not a lot of softness in his life, or room for weakness—of which you’re definitely one. He has absolutely no idea what to do with you, and as an action guy, that’s confusing to him. So maybe think about taking it easy on him. Even just a little bit.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“What is it with us?”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“I deserve more. I mean I understand I do. Once you’ve protected someone the way you protected me, you get… well, protective. But I’m no longer that sixteen-year-old girl, Archer. I’m a grown woman.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“I just don’t want you to…"

"What?"

"Be reminded of the girl that I used to be…”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“He already couldn’t remember what it’d been like before her. He’d thought everything was great in his life but then he’d been thrown a curve ball in the form of this gorgeous, passionate woman who he suddenly couldn’t get enough of. Which made it official. He was hers, completely.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose

“They took the elevator up with another couple who were lip locked for the entire ride. And not just lip locked but hand and leg locked too, really going to town, running their hands over each other like they were searching for ticks.”
― Jill Shalvis, Accidentally on Purpose