Cold Hearted Casanova Quotes

“Does she look heartbroken to you?” Kieran barked out a laugh. “Look at her. She has that bedding-someone-a-decade-older-than-me-who-is-also-my-roommate-oops-the-secret-is-out glow.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“It felt like I’d taken a molly that had transferred me back to the nineties, if I was adopted by an unbalanced yet endearing family.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Riggs was on the settee, smoking a joint and drinking a beer when I walked in, the picture of clean living.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Can you have an affair with someone you’re married to?” I wondered aloud. “Kind of like being a fuck buddy with your girlfriend, no? It’s all baked into the cake.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Even through my knickers, my body gave a clear message. “I’m ready for the final act!” “You’re really bossy for an employee, you know that?” Riggs finally—finally!—”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“A girl warrior saving a sleeping beauty of a prince.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“But it was hard, with my family only able to afford frozen food from Aldi.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Kieran was leaning against the white-and-blue Formica of his fish-and-chips stand, a fag tucked behind his ear. He looked like an untended-to male version of me. With floppy overgrown hair and droopy violet eyes and a Joy Division tee that had seen better days. In the eighties.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Experience shapes you, and heartbreak defines you.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Riggs had a tattoo of a mountain on his inner bicep, and beneath it, a list of famous mountains: Mount Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, and so on. The entire list had been crossed off, other than Denali”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“Riggs and I met outside the USCIS building. It was the first time I’d seen him in weeks. He wore dark jeans and a button-down denim shirt, the first three buttons undone, sleeves pulled up to his elbows, exposing his muscular forearms. His hair had grown in the time I hadn’t seen him, and he looked especially delicious and grown up. So much so I wanted to cry”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova

“You do tend to forget what people say or do, but you always remember how they made you feel.”
― L.J. Shen, Cold Hearted Casanova