Stolen Touches Quotes

“I’m not jealous.” I take a sip of coffee. “I just have an uncontrollable urge to kill any man who even looks at my wife.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“I want you to smile at me every day,” I say next to her ear and slam into her again. “Every.” Slam. “Fucking.” Slam. “Day.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“Why”—he buries his fingers in my hair, pulling my head lower until my mouth almost touches his lips—“did I buy the bracelet, Milene?” “Because I liked it?” I whisper against his lips. “Because you liked it,” he says as he presses his mouth to mine.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“I want to feel her skin when I touch her,” I answer. “And I can’t do that if I’m wearing a glove.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“How old are you?” “Thirty-four. Having a wife and kids was never something I planned.” “And do you have a set plan for everything?” “For most things, yes.” He looks into my eyes. “Would you like to apply for the wife position?”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“You shooed away a whole restaurant full of people?” “You said you wouldn’t be comfortable with them staring at you.” He pulls my hand closer . “Now they won’t.” My heartbeat skyrockets. That’s the most fucking romantic thing a man has ever done for me.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“You are one exceptionally rude person.” “What I am, is uninterested.” “Uninterested.” I nod. He’s absolutely nuts. “About the people who work for you, or people in general?” “In general. With one exception,” he says and levels me with that unnerving gaze of his. “You.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“It’s just a smile. Not a weapon.” “And a gun is just a piece of metal. It can still take a life in a second, if used properly.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“If even a seed of an idea of hurting my wife formed in anyone’s head, I would smash said head open with my bare hands like it’s a fucking watermelon,” I spit out. “Next, I would take out their sick brain and squeeze it so hard the only thing left would be mush.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“Am I in love with him? With this controlling, grouchy, closed-off man? Someone I haven’t even seen smile once in all the time I’ve known him? I’m afraid I am.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“Salvatore Ajello, the most feared man in all of Cosa Nostra”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“So, a hundred or more people had to leave in the middle of their meal because of my shorts?” “No. They had to leave because no one gets to make you feel uncomfortable.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“I have a well-founded fear of ending up tied to a man I don’t love. Too many bad examples in my family, I guess. At one time, my sister Bianca and I had an agreement that we’d never get married. We planned on being cat ladies, living in houses that smelled like pee.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“Milene squints her eyes at me, and then she smiles. It’s like the first ray of light after a thousand hours of a long night, piercing the darkness inside my chest and filling me with warmth.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“I’m coming for a lunch with my wife in fifteen minutes. We don’t want to be disturbed.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“—Nunca dejarás de sonreír, Milene —revira—. Si algo, o alguien, alguna vez hace que tu sonrisa se desvanezca, aunque sea brevemente, los destruiré.”
― Neva Altaj, Caricias robadas

“Riggs vomited all over the carpet.” “What?” “How the hell should I know, Salvatore? It looks like hair and half-digested cat food.” “I was expressing my irritation. Not asking for the cat vomit analysis.” “You need to work on expressing meaning through your voice. Your intonation sucks. I have to go and clean this up.” She cuts the call. Apparently, she took the fact I told her it didn’t matter what she talked about literally.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“I’m sorry,” he says. “I know it’s not easy. Being loved by me.” I bite my bottom lip and take a deep breath. “You’re wrong.” I know he loves me, but it’s different when he says it. That he’s reached the point where he can utter those three little words means more than the sentiment itself. “Being loved by you is the best fucking feeling in the world.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“Being ignored is a new experience for me, and the fact she’s the one doing it makes me want to hit something.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“You know I’m not good with emotional shit.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“She really looks like something the cat dragged in.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“People rarely smile at me, and I don’t really want them to.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“You don’t understand, Milene,” I say into her mouth. “Of course I do.” She smiles and looks right into my eyes. “I love you, too, Tore.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“put the phone back in my pocket and find Aldo and Stefano gaping at me. “We adopted a cat. It’s defective,”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“want you to smile at me every day,” I say next to her ear and slam into her again. “Every.” Slam. “Fucking.” Slam. “Day.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“You shooed away a whole restaurant full of people?” “You said you wouldn’t be comfortable with them staring at you.” He pulls my hand closer. “Now they won’t.” My heartbeat skyrockets. That’s the most fucking romantic thing a man has ever done for me. “So, a hundred or more people had to leave in the middle of their meal because of my shorts?” “No. They had to leave because no one gets to make you feel uncomfortable.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“What I am, is uninterested.” “Uninterested.” I nod. He’s absolutely nuts. “About the people who work for you, or people in general?” “In general. With one exception,” he says and levels me with that unnerving gaze of his. “You.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“lean forward and take in the contours of her face. This smile doesn’t compare to the way she laughed at the coffee shop two days ago. The coffee-shop smile, I liked. I don’t like this one. It seems . . . angry.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“But I wasn’t satisfied with watching her from afar anymore. I want Milene Scardoni like I’ve never wanted anything else before.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches

“I’m capable of boiling two pieces of meat by myself.” “Is there a medical issue your cat doesn’t have?” “He’s had a hard life, Tore. Stress can lead to many medical issues. It’s obvious he was bullied.” “Bullied?” “Of course. Didn’t you see his tail?” “Yes.” And its eye. And ear. And it’s also missing some hair on the back. That cat looks like it survived a nuclear catastrophe.”
― Neva Altaj, Stolen Touches