My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding Quotes

“Don’t go stargazing with anyone else. You want stars, I’ll give you stars.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“He took her mouth in a deep kiss. Finally he let her up for air.

Don’t propose. Don’t propose. Don’t propose. He repeated the words until he was sure he wasn’t going to say something crazy.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“So how do you feel about weddings?”

“Are you proposing?” he asked.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“He’d been waiting all his life to meet a girl who made him want to act like a crazy, romantic ass for her.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Bayou boys were definitely cocky.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“What the fuck? He looked up at the balcony where a group of drunk frat boys were throwing beads down to the street. Another one went whizzing past his ear. Jesus, they weren’t supposed to wind up to throw the things. And did he look like he had tits?”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“For possibly the first time in his life. Okay, that wasn't one hundred percent true. They were naked breasts. But as he handed yet another woman a strand of beads, Josh was already pushing past her. A nearly identical”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“And it isn’t fair to me to be asked to give you time alone together anymore. If you were just childhood friends, that’s one thing, but you can understand why I would be concerned now.” It was Tori’s turn to gasp. “So you don’t think that Andrew and I can have a private conversation now because you think I’m in love with him?” She saw exactly what Paisley was doing. The other woman was jealous of Tori and Andrew’s relationship—a friendship, dammit—and history, so she’d come up”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“them,” Andrew told her. They’d talked about Tori’s feelings for Andrew? Or what they thought Tori’s feelings for Andrew”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“If I wanted Andrew, why would I be trying to convince him that there’s another guy?” Tori asked her. “Because you thought that you’d have time to tell him how you really feel and to convince him to run off with you, but then I showed up and ruined your plan. Now you’re embarrassed.” Tori rolled her eyes at that. Wrong move. Paisley sucked in a gasp loud enough to be heard over the people around them who had returned to”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“you have to tell her that nothing’s going on.” “Nothing’s been going on,” he said to Paisley. “I had no idea that Tori wanted to kiss me.” Tori felt her mouth drop open. Okay, he was drunk. But seriously? “What are you doing?” she asked him, stepping closer.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“I didn’t tell you, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen,” she said. Then she frowned. “Wait a second. Do you think I’m lying about him?”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Ellie chuckled. “And she clearly has good taste.”
“I’ll bet she does,” Owen said, waggling his eyebrows.
“Uh, no,” Josh said.
“No, she doesn’t taste good?” Owen asked. “I don’t believe it.”
“No, YOU are not going to be thinking about how she tastes,” Josh said.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“We’ll give it a year. And then, if we’re still thinking about each other and want to see each other again, we’ll both show up at Bourbon O on Mardi Gras. If we’re both there, we’ll know.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Can cows be lactose intolerant?”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“She sighed. “Kittens.”

“And hot barn stall sex.”

“Not necessarily in that order.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“He just seemed so… obvious about everything he felt. Whether he was frustrated or happy or turned on, it was clear and he didn’t hold back on expressing it. She loved that.
It was what she loved most about dogs. Most animals, actually. They were very clear about their feelings.
She’d never liked a guy because he reminded her of a dog but in this case, it was a very good thing.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“I’m way more fun, and dangerous, than a N’Awlins boy.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Don’t want to scare you off. I can ease in.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“I have several… gifts, as a matter of fact.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“I can give you a very long list of things you can do with me.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Good?” One of the women wrinkled her nose. “Really?”

I didn’t say to behave,” he told her with a wink. “I said be good. At whatever you’re doin’ tonight.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“Fighting a Mardi-Gras-In-New-Orleans crowd for eight blocks from Trahan’s Tavern on St. Peter to Bourbon O on Bourbon was like a man being willing to swim the Nile, climb Mount Everest, and cross the Sahara for true love.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“There were naked breasts everywhere. Literally.”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding

“He kissed her long and hot, drinking in her taste and scent. Her hands went to his hips, her fingers hooking through the belt loops on his khaki shorts. She pulled him against her, arching her back, the fly of her jeans against his.
Josh sucked in a deep breath and finally, reluctantly, lifted his head.
“I’m so damned glad to see you.”
“I’m so damned glad I got on that bus,” she said, her voice breathless, her smile wide.
“I hope you’re planning to stay for a while. Like all day. And night. And then the next. Four or five.”
Her eyes widened. “The next four or five days?”
He lowered his head, brushing his lips over hers. “I was thinking more like months.”
She laughed softly, her breath hot against his mouth. “So everything I remember feeling last year is still here.”
“Definitely still here,” he agreed. And stronger. Absence did make the heart grow fonder. He also knew it made memories fade and fantasies grow. But it seemed that neither of those things had happened in regard to Tori.
He remembered everything—the freckles on her nose, the length of her eyelashes, the reddish-gold highlights in her hair, the way her laugh punched him in the gut and made him hard as steel.
“Thank God,” she said softly.
“So that’s a yes to the four or five months?”
She laughed again. “Part of me is a very definite yes.”
“That’s the part I want.”
“Well, I can definitely offer you a chance to hang out with me for a few days.”
“Done.”
“You don’t even want to know what for?”
“Doesn’t matter.”
“Wow,” she said again.
Josh brushed his thumbs over her cheekbones. “That’s what I was thinking.”
She blew out a little breath. “So how do you feel about weddings?”
“Are you proposing?”
― Erin Nicholas, My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding