A Ticking Time Boss Quotes

“You think highly of yourself, don’t you?”
“Can I tell you a secret?”
“The most brilliant woman on earth loves me. So yeah, I think pretty highly of myself. How can I not?”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I’d rather be too hopeful than too cynical.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Is a person more than their parents?” I’d asked. Dad answered immediately. “Of course they are, sweetie. You’re more than Mom and me.” “But what I mean is… are they more than their parents’ worst actions?” He’d laughed. “God, yes. What’s all this?”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“You’re everything I wanted, and so much more I didn’t know I did.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“She’d left my apartment earlier than me this morning, bashful about travelling in my car without me. As if she feared it was a nuisance instead of pleasing on a deep, molecular level, the same way I felt when I saw her wearing one of my T-shirts to bed or the scent of my shampoo in her hair.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Audrey Ford, light of my life, will you please come home with me tonight?”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Perfection is the enemy of efficiency,”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“You look beautiful,” he says. “You said that about the last dress.” “The clothes change, but the woman stays the same,” he says with a grin. “And she’s the one I’m complimenting.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“He travelled a lot for business when I was a kid. Only later did we realize, my mother and I, that he had another family. And that most of his business dealings were illegal.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Her eyes are bottomless on mine, like two pools of water where I can’t see the bottom. I think I might die if I can’t have her in my arms soon.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Your mind is a mysterious thing,” he says.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I’m still only six years younger than you, kiddo.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“it’s still an awful day when you have to look someone in the eye and tell them they’re out of a job.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“People understand, of course,” he says. “That you have to cut costs. Sacrifice a limb to save the body. But that doesn’t mean people enjoy being the limb in question.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“thirty-three”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“He kisses me like he’s thought long and hard about it. Like it’s an extension of our banter, another match of wits. Deep and soft, quick and slow, he varies the pace.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“You look shocked,” he says. “Can’t be the first time a man admits to wanting you?” No, I think, but it’s the first time in forever I’ve wanted him back.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I didn’t call you because I was drunk,” he says. “I called you because I was jealous.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“So how long will I keep your interest on this date?” I say. “Until dessert, at least?” Carter tilts his head, considering. “Yes, but give or take a decade, probably.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“He gave me the feeling that I could say anything, do anything, and he would be on board. He’d never laugh or reject me.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“It’s one of my favorite activities,” I say. With you, though, it would be worship.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“You like having sex,” I repeat. The words send an instant ache up my thighs. “I do,” she whispers. “Don’t you?”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I push all thoughts of Audrey down. Of a life outside of this. This is what I know, this is what I do. I network and I perform and I talk.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Were you nervous tonight?” “No.” Just now, I think. I’m nervous right now. “Why would I have been? He smiles again. It’s smaller this time, and something about it makes my heart hurt. “You and I were on a date, spitfire.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I grew older, and I learned that stories have power. They can mobilize. They can galvanize, polarize. They can change a person’s life, a person’s business. Some are huge, like the whistleblower stories. Others are smaller. A construction halted because of a petition.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I’ve never had a boyfriend.” His hands slowly lower to the plate, pizza slice forgotten. “Never?” “No. Nothing… confirmed. I haven’t really been on dates, either. Before this past year.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Funny how I never have to hide my ambition around him.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“I rather like texting you,” I say, taking a bite of my pizza to avoid his gaze. It feels like a vulnerable thing to admit. To put into words the weird connection we have, this… non-thing that’s a thing all of its own.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“Kid, never get rich. It’s all events and sir, would you please look at this? and tiny fucking food. People never stop trying to con you out of your money, either.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss

“grin at him, and he smiles right back at me. Something flips over in my chest. It feels like the beating of a pair of wings, light and airy and launching into flight.”
― Olivia Hayle, A Ticking Time Boss