Lost and Found Sisters Quotes

“Having plans sounds like a good idea - until you have to put on clothes and leave your house.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“A hint about women,’ Mick said to Cliff. ‘Never in the history of all history has telling a woman to calm down ever calmed one down.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“If it has tires or testicles, it’s gonna give you trouble.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“You only live once, right?"
"Not true," Quinn said, "you live every day. You only die once.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Some people aren't meant to stay in your life. But, that doesn't mean you can't carry a piece of them in your heart.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Sometimes my life feels like a test I didn't study for.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Mom used to tell me not to worry when people didn't get me. People throw rocks at things that shine - from the mixed up files of Tilly Adam's journal”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“on a scale of mental breakdowns from Justin Bieber to Britney Spears, I think I’m about a Shia LaBeouf.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“My parents taught me to be nice first because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice. Be nice until it’s time to stop being nice. Then destroy them.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“I'd give up being a bitch, but I'm not a quitter.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“If thought bubbles appeared above my head, I’d be so screwed.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“There's a big difference between want and need," she muttered to herself, picking her pad and pen back up. "I mean I want a bikini body, but I need chicken nuggets.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Here was the thing: life sucked if you let it ... Caffeine helped. For up to thirty-eight blissful minutes it could even trick her into thinking she was in a decent mood.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“If it’s got tires or testicles, it’s gonna give you trouble.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“How am I supposed to make big decisions when I still have to sing the alphabet to myself to alphabetize stuff?”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“There are three stages of life:
1. Birth.
2. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
3. Death.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“His expression was strained. "I'm trying like hell to be the good guy here. I need you to go inside and lock the door behind you to keep out of trouble."

"I thought Wildstone was safe."

"It is. The trouble isn't going to come from the unknown. It's going to come from me. Go, Quinn. Now. And lock your door."

She stared up at him, mesmerized by the thought of him being trouble, images going through her head of him proving it to her, all of them involving little to no clothing and a bed.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Everyone knew that bugs traveled in packs. Only the stupid ones got caught. The smart ones lay in wait for her to go to sleep so they could attack.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Some people aren't meant to stay in your life. But that doesn't mean you can't carry a piece of them in your heart.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Luckily even the worst days only have twenty-four hours. - from "The Mixed-Up Files of Tilly Adams's Journal”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“There should be a weather app for people with social anxiety, like "Today life will be partly crowdy with a 70 percent chance of having to deal with people." - from "The Mixed-Up Files of Tilly Adams's Journal”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Try something new.
Follow your heart and go for it...”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“I'm just a girl, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a doughnut. - from "The Mixed-Up Files of Tilly Adams's Journal”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Love was a funny thing. You could get mad, hold a grudge, let it fester even, and then with one little sentence, forget all the bad for all the good.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“No matter how much you eat, there’s always room for dessert. Dessert doesn’t go to the stomach, dessert goes to the heart.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“There are people my age competing at the Olympics and I still try to enter Walmart through the exit-only door.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“I'm a lesbian. I'm not dead.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“When I die, I'm going to slam into help, take off my bra, sit on Satan's lap, and say "Hi, Honey, I'm home.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Your vibrator's batteries are going to die.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters

“Mick?” she whispered.

“Yeah?”

“Are you feeling something?”

“You could say that,” he murmured. “You?”

She licked her lips and he nearly groaned. “I think so,” she whispered.

“That’s good.”

“Are you going to kiss me?”

He cupped her face, let his thumbs trace her jawbone, his fingers sinking into her silky waves. “No,” he said quietly. “And not because I don’t want to, but because when I do, I want to know you’re ready. That you’ll feel it.”

She sighed. “Guys do whatever they want all the time, no emotions necessary. I want that skill.” Another shaky breath escaped her, and since they were literally an inch apart, they shared air for a single heartbeat during which neither of them moved.

Her gaze dropped to his mouth. “Okay, so I’m definitely feeling things.” She hesitated and then her hands came up to his chest. “Maybe we should test it out to be sure.”

God, she was the sweetest temptation he’d ever met, and he wanted nothing more than to cover her mouth with his. Instead, he brushed his mouth to her cheek.

“Please, Mick,” she whispered, her exhale warming his throat.

He loved the “please,” and he wanted to do just that more than anything. But when she tried to turn her head into his, to line up their mouths, he gently tightened his grip, dragging his mouth along her smooth skin instead, making his way to her ear.

“Not yet,” he whispered, letting his lips brush over her earlobe and the sensitive skin beneath it.

She moaned and clutched him. “Why not?”

It took every ounce of control he had to lift his head and meet her gaze. “Because I want to make sure you’re really with me, that you’re feeling everything I’m feeling. That there’ll be no doubt, no regrets.”

“You sure have a lot of requirements.”

He laughed. And she was right, it was all big talk for a guy who didn’t do relationships anymore. Still, he forced himself to step back and shut the passenger door.

As he rounded the hood to the driver’s side, he tried to remind himself of all the reasons she was a bad idea. He lived two hundred miles away and he was hoping to move his mom up by him and never come back here. Not to mention that Quinn lived an equal two hundred miles in the opposite direction and she was in a deeply vulnerable place. No way would he even think about taking advantage of that.

But when he slid behind the wheel and their eyes locked, he realized that while his mind could stand firm, the rest of his body wasn’t on board with the in-control program.”
― Jill Shalvis, Lost and Found Sisters