Line Mates & Study Dates Quotes

“Are you checking me out?” I jump at being caught, but he’s smiling again. “Just objectifying you.” “And that’s better because …” “It’s not personal. You have a nice butt.” It might be my imagination, but I swear he flexes.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Asher starts for the showers and then turns back to me. “Hey, do you wanna be friends?” “What is this, grade school?” “Forget it.” “Asher.” I can’t help laughing at how ridiculous he is. “Yes. We can be friends.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Are you checking me out?” I jump at being caught, but he’s smiling again.
“Just objectifying you.”
“And that’s better because …”
“It’s not personal. You have a nice butt.”
“This is hockey. Literally everyone here has a nice butt.”
“And I’ll objectify them too.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Asher … is that … sincerity I hear?”
“Don’t get used to it.”
“Today will forever be marked as the day that Asher Dalton showed gratitude.”
He laughs and steps forward, then before I know what’s happening, he leans in and kisses me. And if this is his way of thanking me, I accept.
Because damn he can kiss.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Feel free to continue using me as stress relief.” “That’s an offer I’ll hold you to.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“By the time Asher appears behind me, the sauce is in the pot bubbling away, and I’ve stacked all the dirty dishes in the dishwasher.
Not going to lie, I’m totally a domestic fucking goddess right now.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Okay, so what do we have to do?” “So what are we going to cook?”
“We?”
“Sure.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“He can’t even tell the twins apart.”
In his defense, it’s hard. “Kind of goes with the whole being identical thing, right?”
“I can tell them apart. Emmett is the quiet one.” There’s a quiet one?”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“I like that he has a friend.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“A whine comes from Hades, and I glance down as he starts to hump Asher’s leg.
“Aw, another thing he gets from his daddy,”
“I told you that you exude sex appeal. We’re the innocents in all this.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“He’s a terrible judge of character”
“Like his owner?”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“I want to look after you.”
He screws up his face. “That’s … weird.”
“Why?”
“Because I can’t remember the last time someone wanted that.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“You really are such a charmer. I will never understand why you’re still single.”
There’s a slight pause before he says, “I’ve been wondering the same thing about you.” Something in the way he drops the snark from his tone makes me fluttery inside.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Has anyone ever told you that you’re impossible to like?”
“Daily, actually. I’ve been waiting for you to catch on.”
“It’s lucky for you I don’t scare easily.”
“Lucky, you say. You’re a pain in my ass.”
“I will be.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“For some reason seeing him smile makes me smile.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“What’s your favorite color?”
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
“Mine’s gold.”
“That’s not a color.”
“Technically, it is.”
“Fine. Mine’s black like my soul.”
“Uh-huh. Totally big and scary and empty.”
“What was it you called me? An emotionless trash can?”...“Well, we can’t all have sunshine radiating out of our asses.”
“So that’s why you’re obsessed with my ass?”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“I hate you.”
“Keep telling yourself that.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Kole leans in this time. “Because my mouth is worth it.”
“So true,” I murmur.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“The way he slept next to me … took care of me … my chest warms, and I know I should hate that feeling, but I strangely don’t.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Press my lips to his.
Then I remember that, one, when my mouth is on Kole’s, I lose all sense of my surroundings, and two, I can never just give him a small, chaste peck.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“A feeling of never measuring up to him sits heavy in my chest.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Kole licks his lips, and I’m two seconds away from offering to do that for him.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“There’s no doubt Kole Hogan has some weird hold over me because I’ll do anything to have his mouth on me again.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“I’m just content to sit and watch the side of his face as he concentrates.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Your glasses are sexy as fuck.”
“The face underneath them wasn’t.”
I gently push him off me so I can look him in the eye when I say, “I don’t believe it. You’re all …” I screw up my face. “I was going to say beautiful, but—”
“Eww, gag.”
I laugh. “Right? But I mean, you’re drop-dead gorgeous.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“There’s a part of me that wants to protect Kole’s dignity... even if he doesn’t have the same reservations about it.
I want to protect it. Protect him.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“I just know.
Me and Asher, we were meant to end up here. We were meant to be together.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Even in the hard moments, being with you is easy”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“Are you following me?” “Yes, I’m stalking you.” He lowers his voice and mutters, “Fucking hockey players and their egos.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates

“I can communicate with all my siblings with one single look.”
― Eden Finley, Line Mates & Study Dates