Run Posy Run Quotes

“Everyone else is a piece. A pawn, a knight, a king. Not you.” I snort softly. “Let me guess. I’m the queen?” “Nope. You’re the one on the other side of the board.” And”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I always thought falling for the wrong man would be my downfall—like it was for my mom. Maybe it’s worse if the wrong man falls for you.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Marriage was the next chapter in my own personal fairy tale. I know better now. This isn’t Cinderella. It’s Little Red Riding Hood, the messed-up version where she gets eaten.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“What are you doing now?” My complaint is muffled by cotton and muscle. “What the fuck does it seem like, Posy?” he says, grouchy as hell. “Cuddling.” He slaps my ass. Hard. “Shut up and take it.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“It would be insane to marry a man who hunted you down. Threw you in a trunk. Made you watch him almost beat a man to death. A woman who could do that could have no self-respect, no survival instinct at all.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Hair in a messy bun. No shoes. She looks like a drunk hooker, and if Miles looks up from his desk, I’m gonna blind him with a letter opener.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“She’s sitting cross legged at the table, shoveling scrambled eggs in her mouth and reading a crumpled newspaper. I see that Ray’s been by. “What are you doing?” It’s obvious, but I can’t think of what else to say. She’s supposed to blush. Stammer breathlessly. React somehow to what I did to her last night. I figured her out, damn it. I played her like a violin. She shrugs, gesturing at the table with her fork and blinks her bright blue eyes. “Plotting your downfall. Eating protein.” Cheeky little brat. I force my lips not to twitch as I take the seat across from her.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I’m bored with the market. Is Posy going to sleep all fucking day?”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Where are you? The bad guys are closing in. You don’t have time to play around.” I inject my voice with urgency. “I’m in your brain, stalker.” She grins. “I’m all up in your gray matter. I bet you can taste me.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“She’s figured out that I don’t love her. I don’t have those kinds of feelings. No, she’s playing a game. My lips twitch. I love to play games with Posy Santoro.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Until I met you, I was a psychopath. And then I was a sociopath.”

“That’s better?”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“What’s the difference between degrading myself for some crumbs of affections and whatever this is that you’re offering me?”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“there’s no pretense between us. No polite fictions. The slut and the psychopath. The predator and his prey.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I can’t marry you.”

“There’s nothing stopping you.” He slides me a glance. His muscles have tensed.

“Only common sense and self-preservation.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“This isn’t Cinderella. It’s Little Red Riding Hood, the messed-up version where she gets eaten.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“What do you need?” he asks. I glance up. He’s serious.

“A ring,” I joke. “And a house with a white picket fence. And a dog. And lots and lots of therapy. For you.” I think a second. “And me, too.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“He was going to be so stoked. He’d give me one of his tight smiles, the slightest curve of his firm lips, but I’d know he was pleased.

There’s a sharp stab to my heart. I breathe through it.

That should have been my first red flag. What kind of man never shows his teeth when he smiles?”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Lord knows I’ve kissed a lot of frogs. I’m due a prince.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“For you, always yes.” “Always?” “Yes,” he exhales, gently cupping my neck and pressing his lips to mine, softly, as if I’m the only woman in the world for him, and all his words are true.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Dario inhales and nods in recognition. “Then I love you, Posy.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“You noticed me back then?” I thought I wasn’t on his radar until I came onto him in the club. “I’ve always noticed you.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I didn’t fully understand then.” “Understand what?” “That it bothers me when you’re unhappy.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Posy Santoro isn’t in my system. She burst into life in my empty shell and made it into something. She is my system. Maybe I didn’t understand that before I lost her. I’m a man. I can be a cliché. Still, it’s true, and I know it now, ever since the moment I caught her. I don’t just get off on what she is—I need it.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I know her perfectly. Better than she knows herself. She’s a tangled ball of self-doubt, foolish pride, dumb hope, brilliance, masochism, and blind affection. And I’m obsessed. I need her back.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“You do, don’t you? You love me just the way I am.” “You didn’t come any other way,” he says. I guess that’s true enough.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Pass the butter?” He narrows his eyes at my bread. Judging. I reach right past him for the butter dish. “You need to eat more leafy greens.” “You need to crawl out of my ass.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“After Frankie popped me one, he bought me flowers and said he was sorry. Dario shoved me in a trunk, and I’m fairly sure he still sees nothing wrong with that.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“Are you sure? He wouldn’t save you.” “No one can,” she breathes, so quiet, it’s almost voiceless. I smile. She’s right.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I wanted you back. You’re here now. It’s all good.” I struggle to keep my heavy eyelids up. My tongue is thick as I say, “It’s not good. At all. You’re fucked in the head. As soon as I can, I’m going to run, and this time, you’re never going to be able to find me.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run

“I think you can’t stand that I flipped the script. You threw me away, and then you changed your mind, but I was gone. You’re butt hurt that the trash took itself out.”
― Cate C. Wells, Run Posy Run