Love Bites Quotes

“Now stop looking at me before I pull my dress over my head and run screaming from your office because I don’t remember how to people.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“Do I make you nervous, Miss Harvey?” Abernathy asked, glancing up from the resume. Ever noticed how there’s no good answer to this question? Such as: No, my anxiety disorder does. Or maybe: No, my face always looks like it’s bracing for a shovel.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“Post-wolf naked doesn’t count.” “And why not?” “Because there’s naked, and there’s naked.” “What’s the difference?” He discarded his careful control like a mask. Behind it, I found undisguised need. “Want to find out?” And here, his totem animal—wolf—met my totem animal—chicken.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“As I stacked the papers the best I could and slid them back into the cabinet, my fingers brushed across the cool, slick surface of polished wood. I peered into the inky pocket of shadow and could make out light reflecting dimly along a straight edge. With a crablike wandering hand, I coaxed a box of delicate inlaid wood out of the shadows. Not a speck of dust marred its gleaming face.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“This whole stony-silent-type thing isn’t helpful for our working relationship, you know.” “There’s my business,” he said, “and then there’s my business. This happens to be the latter. Not the former.” A smug smile slid onto his profile. It was a good line, and we both knew it.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“Three months. Three months and four days since I’d last been poured the pork.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“Abernathy was taking me here? Over any place in the whole wide world? “Cuxhaven? As in, not in Bremen?” “Correct,” Abernathy said. “How far is it from the airport?” “About one hundred and seven kilometers.” “It’s way too late to be using those fancy words.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“For the first time in as long as I could remember, I had forgotten to be sad.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“I can see you’re not yet tempted by my many charms. That’s okay. Because in addition to being devastatingly handsome, I’m also patient.” “Well, I’m not,” she said, shifting her weight. “What will you have? And if you say, ‘Just you, doll-face,’ doll-face will dead-ass stick this pen up your nose.” “Point taken. Just the usual, then.” “Tuna salad on wheat, extra pickles, strawberry jam, and crushed Fritos?” “Fritos on the side today,” Steven said. “I’m feeling saucy.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“Being at the service end of Abernathy’s scrutinizing gaze was a little like staring into a cannon. “Kind of.” “And you bought it?” “A little.” “How much did you pay for it?” “Twenty-seven.” “You paid twenty-seven dollars for a dead cat? Who the hell is going to buy a dead cat?”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“Abernathy only smiled. “If you think you’re worth sixty thousand a year, then I need to pay you more. My business is complicated, and I have no desire to teach it twice. Once you’re mine, you’re mine.” I was certain he hadn’t meant it the way I’d felt it. “What do you say?” “May I bear your children?” “What?” he asked. “What?” I parroted back. “Is that a yes?” “Emphatically.” “Do you have any questions?” I did, in fact. What do you look like naked? being the chief one of them.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“pulled my sweater a little lower, as much to reveal an extra half inch of cleavage as to cover the slacks I’d had to secure with a hair tie, a safety pin, and the will of Jesus.”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“thousand dollars”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites

“And”
― Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites