Chasing Christmas Eve Quotes

“They all eyeballed the last muffin.
“How about we split if four ways?” Kylie suggested.
Elle produced a pocketknife.
“What the hell is that?” Kylie asked.
“I always carry a knife,” Elle said. “You know, in case of having to split a muffin in four pieces. And don’t look shocked. You carry dangerous tools yourelf. Yesterday I watched you use a huge jigsaw like it was nothing.”
“Yes, but that was for work,” Kylie said. “Although you’ve got a point about being able to split a muffin. I bet I could do that with a jigsaw in an emergency.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Maybe we should go to the gym later and do some crunches or something," Willa said, sounding less than enthused about this propect.

Kylie shook her head. "My brain just auto-corrected the word crunches to cupcakes...”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“You’re taking a stray cat but leaving behind your man?”

Colbie’s heart twisted. Her man… “He doesn’t fit into the cat carrier.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“What happens when the YA thriller writer heroine tries to get thru airport security with her research notes in her bag? :
“How to murder people by poison without detection,” the TSA agent read aloud.
The woman behind Colbie gasped in horror.
“Okay,” Colbie said, pointing to them. “That’s not what it looks like.”
The woman behind her, cradling a leopard-print cat carrier, had turned and was frantically whispering to the people behind her.
“Really,” Colbie said. “It’s a funny story, actually.”
But the agent was flipping through her notes, not even remotely interested in her funny story. He didn’t need to read aloud what he was looking at, because she knew exactly what was there – other Google searches, such as how to get away with murder using a variety of different everyday products that weren’t considered weapons. “It’s research,” she said to the room.
"Yeah, that’s probably what I’d say too,” a guy said from somewhere behind her.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“She kissed him, and then kept at it, kissing hello and goodbye and just because, because she knew this was all going to stop soon.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“We all have horrible track records,” he said. “It’s what leads up to the real thing. It’s what allows you to recognize it when it shows up.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Close out the world,” he said in her ear. “Close out everything but this.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“So if there was a Santa Claus, what would you ask him for?” he asked.
You, she nearly said. She’d want him for Christmas and no take backs.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Colbie looked at Spence. “Are you sure you’re not in a relationship with Elle?”
“No, I’m in a relationship with bad judgment.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“The truth was, she’d never really thought about love before—the heart-pounding, can’t-live-without-you kind of love that grows in the pit of the stomach and spreads outward until you’re warm all over. The kind of love you know is real because you’ve got not one single teeny, tiny doubt that he’d be there for you, no matter what”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Maybe I didn’t want to let you in,” she said.
"Yeah, well, right back at ya, honey.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“You’re taking a stray cat but leaving behind your man?”
Colbie’s heart twisted. Her man… “He doesn’t fit into the cat carrier.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Ten's my favorite," he said and read it aloud-- like she didn't know what she'd written. "A wild, passionate, up-against-the-wall, forget-my-name love affair that makes me weak  in the knees when I think about it-- but only a very short wild, passionate, up-against-the-wall, forget-my-name love affair because..." he paused, probably to control himself, before continuing... "I don't have the time or stamina to maintain that level of sexual activity, much less a relationship."

She moaned and closed her eyes.

"Pretty detailed," he said running a hand over his deliciously scruffy jaw to hide the smile she knew he was fighting.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“I’ll remember you,” she promised and did as she’d promised herself she would, she walked away.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“She’d offered him her friendship. Her body. And he’d taken both. He wanted to keep them both. And he also wanted more, so much more. He wanted her heart, like she had his.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Why can’t men think with two body parts at the same time? Is it in your blood? Is it just in the genes? What?”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“but even he knew that fine didn’t mean fine. The scale went great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“I get that the proof of my wanting isn’t as … evident as yours was, but I’m quite certain you could find it if you searched hard enough.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Bacon is breakfast food. Bacon is every-meal food.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“Her phone vibrated with a text. Spence. My life doesn’t work without you in it.”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#Mudderfudder”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#SuckADuck”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#JiminyCricket”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“What the flip?”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#WhatTheFlip”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#Balls”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#SonOfABumblebee”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#Mothertrucker”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“#HolyGolfBalls”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve

“SonOfAMotherlessGoat”
― Jill Shalvis, Chasing Christmas Eve