Once Ghosted, Twice Shy Quotes

“Took you long enough,” she said, finally. Somewhere, the polite part of Likotsi’s mind chided her for blocking the flow of pedestrian traffic, but she didn’t start walking. She slowly adjusted the lapels of her coat and then the hem of each cuff. “Well. I’m certainly worth the wait.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“Sometimes it made sense to lead from behind, and other times you had to take the situation to hand.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“Likotsi's feet were slightly numb from the cold but surprisingly unblistered despite the new shoes as they crossed the tip of the island from east to west through the Financial District, filled with imposing old buildings and statues of the men credited with building America. She had never understood the veneration of these men, who took their own biases and made them into a country's laws, but Americans were quite strange, after all.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“She’d thought that Fab had smashed their connection like a smartphone beneath a car tire, but all their data had been saved on a cloud drive somewhere, it seemed, and was happily downloading and ready to resume where they’d left off.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“Dejection was inefficient, and worse, it was pedestrian.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“When she’d seen Likotsi’s photo—a woman in a dapper suit with a bearing that made her think of royalty and a mouth that made her think of worship—a flash of desire had zipped through her body, surprising her.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

“Out of all the train cars in all the world you had to walk into mine.” Likotsi switched up which ankle was resting on which knee, the action forcing Fab to take a step back, then tilted her chin toward the doors separating the cars. “You’re only supposed to use those in case of emergency.” “I’d say that seeing you a few feet away counts as an emergency.”
― Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy