Cross Her Heart Quotes

“He’d rather run into a hail of bullets than experience the kind of soul-deep loss Bree was handling.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Your mouth doesn’t run before your brain, and you don’t have a dick to trip over.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“A good father puts his children’s interests first, not his own,”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Loving your family meant accepting them for what they were.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Dana set her purse, keys, and sunglasses on the island. Bree filled bowls of food and water. The cat leaped onto the kitchen island. He stared at Dana’s face and lifted a paw over her sunglasses. “Don’t you do it.” Dana shook a finger at him. Maintaining eye contact, Vader knocked her sunglasses to the floor. “Your cat’s a jerk.” Dana picked up her glasses, put them and her keys into her purse, and set them out of Vader’s reach. “Yeah, but he’s my jerk,” Bree said.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“smelled thickly of flowers. Two”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“it feels like I’m treading water in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight. Sure, I know the mechanics, how to move my arms and legs to stay afloat. But how long could I keep it up before I sink?”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Whatever. She’d had more than enough therapy as a kid. She was done with it. After she’d turned eighteen, she’d decided to stop analyzing herself. Some damage left a permanent mark. There was no changing that.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“A little lipstick makes you look like you have your shit together even when you’re so tired you can barely spell your own name.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Here’s a pro tip from someone who’s been dragged out of bed at all hours for the past thirty years. A little lipstick makes you look like you have your shit together even when you’re so tired you can barely spell your own name.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“That phrase was going to be her new mantra.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Bree let the implication hang that surrendering to her would be safer for Ronnie’s health.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“Brody whined and stuck his nose in the cat’s face. With lightning speed, Vader smacked him solidly on the nose and went back to licking his paw and cleaning his whiskers as if nothing had happened. The dog backed up three steps and looked up at Matt. “Sorry, buddy,” Matt said. “It’s a cat. Nothing I can do.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart

“No way. I can’t stare at the walls of my crappy apartment for another day.”
― Melinda Leigh, Cross Her Heart