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Tangle (Dogwood Lane, #2) Tangle by Adriana Locke
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“When you can't dazzle someone with facts, you bewilder them with bullshit.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Well, you can what-if yourself to death. Keep it up, and you’ll find yourself on your deathbed someday, wondering what-if, and you’ll be out of time. A hundred years goes by like the blink of an eye.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Because love doesn’t end. Because that piece of paper that says we were no longer married didn’t climb inside me and cut the line from my heart to his.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“I shadowed a dentist there a few months ago, and they called and said they’d like to talk to me. Cool, huh?” “Look at you. Taking over the world one tooth at a time.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Dad claps my shoulder as he laughs again. “Always pick a woman who scares you a little. They keep you in line that way.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“I want her to go with me tonight just the way she is. Like a beautiful woman that I’m lucky likes me enough to be my friend. To humor me and my crazy ideas. To let me into her world, even if for a minute.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Hope is like the peak of a mountain. If the wind blows the right way, you fall into a beautiful meadow on one side. And if the wind knocks you the other way, there’s snow and ice and no hot chocolate in sight.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“I. Need. That. Doughnut. Today has gotten off totally on the wrong foot, and I need something to smile about, okay?” “You have me. We’re friends. Smile away.” “Doughnuts make me smile. People don’t.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“See you later, sexiest-friend-I’ve-ever-had-whom-I-can’t-touch-and-it-makes-me-crazy-but-I-need-to-be-a-responsible-adult.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Don't worry-- you have me so tangled up in you now, you'll never get away.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“We didn't have fancy weddings back then like they do now. But it wasn't about that back then. It was just about finding the person to hold on to when the storms got bad because, back then, they got bad in a hurry.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“People make things work that they want to work.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“He tastes like the sting of bourbon and the sweetness of Coke, and of the hundred fantasies I've had of this exact moment. Only those daydreams weren't nearly as satisfying as having Trevor Kelly in the flesh.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Always pick a woman who scares you a little. They keep you in line that way.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“She deserves to be happy in whatever way she wants to define that, and she should absolutely not accept anything less.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“That's so unlike me." He glances at me over his shoulder. "I always make sure I fulfill my end of the bargain before getting mine.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Somewhere between sitting down at the table and ordering drinks, I went wrong. I lost control. The power I usually hold in conversations and interactions with women flew right out of my pocket and into her sweet little hands.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“When a guy is thinking about taking you to bed, they aren't thinking about whispering love notes in your ear." His hand moves discreetly to his groin. He shifts in his seat, moving his eyes back to the road. "They're thinking about the curves of your body and how you'll feel wrapped around them.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Hope is like the peak of a mountain. If the wind blows the right way, you fall into a beautiful meadow on one side. And if the wind knocks you the other way, there's snow and ice and no hot chocolate in sight.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“You say and hear the most when there aren't words exchanged.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle
“Are you finished?" he asks.
I zip a line from his boots to his face. "What do you mean.?
"I don't want to walk out of here until you've finished appreciating me." He grins. " If you're done, I need to go.”
Adriana Locke, Tangle