The Front Runner Quotes

“For all the women who’ve been told they should smile more. Fuck that noise. Frown all you want.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“You have beautiful hands. Almost as beautiful as your mind and heart. Sometimes I find myself staring at them while you work, so elegant and strong all at once. Hands that heal. Hands that save lives.” His voice drops. “Hands that belong in mine.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“There’s something about a woman who wields her brain like a weapon and her tongue like a whip that makes me want to worship at her feet.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I don’t want to tame her; I just want a front-row seat to watch her win the race.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Good. Because I want to make myself abundantly clear.” We’re so close. I can feel the entire length of his body covering mine. He teases me with the lightest brush of his lips against my ear as he drops his voice and holds me captive. “You are not the pawn, Mira. You are the prize.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“The next person to make that woman cry will wish they hadn’t.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I could keep her secrets. She could be soft with me. She could let loose with me, and I’d still stand back and let her be the fiercely independent woman she is. I don’t want to tame her; I just want a front-row seat to watch her win the race.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I intend to cherish you like the treasure you are. This fire burned everything else away. My anger, my vendettas. The only things that mattered to me I pulled out of it. And so, I’m taking this as a fresh start. Everything else is ash—dust in the wind. And now I realize that the only thing that matters is what made it out. You and me.” I pause here, watching my love reflected at me in her eyes. “Mira Thorne, would you do me the incredible honor of being my wife?”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“This isn’t one for the record books. This is the record book.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“She’s a bit nerdy. But in the best possible way. There’s something about a woman who wields her brain like a weapon and her tongue like a whip that makes me want to worship at her feet.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Nothing about this feels fake. Our bodies. Our minds. Our hearts. Absolutely everything about being with Mira feels like one of the most real things I’ve ever had in my life. And I won’t let her slip between my fingers now. I’m going to make her come on them instead. I pull away to nip at the lobe of her ear, and she whimpers in protest. “Do you remember what I said I was going to do to you if I had you up against a wall, Dr. Thorne?” “What?” Her voice is pure lust, almost slurred. “I told you that you’d be the meal.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Because the coffee doesn’t matter when I’m in your company.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Whatever you want, Kitten.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“He really is like an injured rat. He grosses everyone out.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“You are not the pawn, Mira. You are the prize.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Sometimes unexpected surprises change the course of our life in the most irrevocable of ways. In the best ways. Life is one big adventure, Mira, don’t let it pass you by while you’re stuck on a boring old path.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Not everything happens for a reason. Some things happen because we make the conscious decision to stop letting shit happen to us.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I must be a glutton for punishment because getting turned down by her has become one of my favorite pastimes.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I intend to cherish you like the treasure you are.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Get out of here. Go get him. Nobody walks away from my favorite granddaughter unless she lets them.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I want to know Mira Thorne in ways she can’t even imagine”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Absolutely nothing about the way I feel for you is a joke. And I’ll keep telling you that until you believe me.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Challenge accepted. But I’m not going to fuck you until you’re begging for it.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Thank you for coming tonight,” he whispers, his accented voice endlessly deep, turning me to face him and smoothing down the lapels of my coat. Like we do this all the time. He takes a hold of my wrist and presses a swift, feather-light kiss to the center of my palm. Something that feels intensely personal.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Go fuck yourself. Stefan You shouldn’t talk that way. It’s unbecoming. He’s not wrong. I’ve been spending too much time around Billie. But would it really be so hard for him to be compliant this once? Mira Okay. Please go fuck yourself. Stefan I think I will. ;)”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Whatever you say,” he replies smoothly. “I just can’t fall in love with you, right?”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Words aren’t even necessary when a man looks at you like that.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I take pleasure in my solitude. There are very few people in the world I can spend extended periods of time around without eventually feeling agitated by them.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“I would walk through fire for you any day. Over and over again.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner

“Life gave you some sour fucking lemons, and you added the sugar and made yourself some lemonade. You love so fiercely.”
― Elsie Silver, The Front Runner