The Single Dad Quotes

“Hey, hey,” I whispered into her face. The heat from her crying thick like steam. “I know you don’t know my voice or the feel of my arms, but I’m going to tell you something.” I pressed my lips against her forehead, breathing her in, her scent so clean and powdery. “I’m never going to let anything happen to you.” I held my lips there, my eyes closing, my heart pounding away. “I promise.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“breathed”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“She hadn’t realized I’d gotten on my knees. That I was holding out my hand.
That I was asking, “Be my wife?”
“And my mommy,” Everly chimed in.
I slipped my other arm around Everly glancing at my daughter as I added, “Be ours.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“And in that moment, I knew something else to be true.
Ford Dalton was mine.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“I think you’re good just the way you are.” I softened my voice, feeling the need to repeat, “I’m not going anywhere, Ford.” I ran my fingers across his lips—a move that had previously belonged solely to him. “I’ve wanted to say this for a long time, and I finally can.” My chest pounded as I took in his eyes. My whole body tingled. “I’m yours.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“Her arms wrapped around my shoulders, her hands diving into my hair. “I would pick her over and over again. Everly means everything to me.” She took a breath. “But I want you both, and the truth is, I always have.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“You need to believe me when I say this, Sydney: there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“He’s texting with Sydney,” Dominick said. “There’s no one else, aside from Everly, who can make him smile that hard.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“If he counted a constant fucking hard-on. My head filled with fantasies of every place I wanted to fuck her in my house and not being able to take my eyes off her. Then, yes, I had issues.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“Which is why you need yourself a woman,” Jenner said. “So you won’t get lonely when Dom and I have a million fucking kids.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“I promise … I’ll give you and Everly everything I can.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“Seeing you with my daughter”—his gaze dropped, like the intensity was too much—“it was more than I expected.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“The way he looked at her took my breath away.
But it was the way she looked at him that completely stole my heart.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“My dick was hard, and this meal was the last thing I wanted to be eating right now.
What I wanted …
What I craved …
What I needed …
Was Sydney’s pussy.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“Daddy.
That fucking word.
From Sydney’s mouth.”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“was too unsettled to even consider pursuing him. Gabby had been right, of course. Had I shut myself off, which I’d been leaning toward, I wouldn’t have woken to his arm wrapped around me like a seat belt. He was even incredibly handsome when he slept. His expression so honest. His core so dominant, his hands so experienced, his mouth so pleasurable. How could only the lightest graze of his fingers, the subtlest exhale of his air cause me to quiver? But I did. In the last four years,”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad

“Saturday”
― Marni Mann, The Single Dad