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Force of Nature (Deserted Island, #1) Force of Nature by Skye Warren
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“That’s what nature does. It puts beauty in unexpected places,”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“the human body has more needs than just water and food. It needs companionship,”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I was born into a family of homicidal wolves, and that makes me one, too.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Their closest relatives are gingers, bananas, and arrowroots. You don’t often see those in domestic gardens.” “They’re pretending.” “Yes,” I say, my voice gentle. Because that’s what I do. Pretend. Telling her facts that anyone could Google should have been nothing. It was nothing. I didn’t tell her anything that matters. Not that I come from a family of Canna lilies. That we’re wealthy and powerful and violent—and beautiful, which is the only reason we’re allowed in the garden with other plants.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“We wouldn’t normally be touching at any point. Except that I’m attached to him like a starfish.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“It’s an all-consuming feeling. Hot, like the sun baking on the beach. Sweet like caramel syrup. Electric like lightning in the dark sky over the island.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“My words are lost against his tongue. It’s not him I doubt. How could I, when he tastes like everything I ever wanted?”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“It’s pure greed. It’s pure lust. The very definition of sin, but it feels like heaven.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Doing this work always seemed like a righteous outlet for the evil, violent urges I have. In Theo’s cabin, it’s beginning to feel like a heavy chain around my neck.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“The suggestion that June doesn’t belong to me feels blistering.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Man’s obsession with money has caused decades of sin and strife.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“There are plenty of people in cities across the world who want the same thing I do. A physical release, no strings attached. No exchange of personal information.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I didn’t tell her anything that matters. Not that I come from a family of Canna lilies. That we’re wealthy and powerful and violent—and beautiful, which is the only reason we’re allowed in the garden with other plants.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Their closest relatives are gingers, bananas, and arrowroots. You don’t often see those in domestic gardens.” “They’re pretending.” “Yes,” I say, my voice gentle. Because that’s what I do. Pretend.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“It’s one thing to defile a sweet, optimistic woman in a lace sundress. It would be something darker and more physical to do the same to him.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Mission protocol dictates that I should let June Porter die before I compromise the objective. Mission protocol dictates that the lives of many outweigh the lives of one. Except the mission’s already fucking compromised. It has been since before we took off at Heathrow.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Our genes make us who we are. You can’t run from the original sins coded into your biology.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“the truth is, June Porter, that we probably won't get off this island alive.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“She has no idea how bad this is. No idea what a threat I am. I should tell her. A good man would.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Maybe she saw under my skin and through my bones to where I have a permanent brand as a killer.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I know you’re the strong and silent type, but me? I’m the terrified and constantly talking type.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I also can’t understand how I’ve been so thoroughly hijacked by hormones and adrenaline.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“her features were designed by human evolution to attract me. Like open petals that beg for butterflies.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Fear begs for dominance, and I can give that to her.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I’m used to life-or-death situations. That’s the job. Kill or be killed.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I’m not sure whether this is a sign that we’re about to die or a sign that I’m about to live, more than I ever have.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“Are you some kind of James Bond superhero? Yes, actually.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“I want to tell her more. It’s a dangerous urge.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“but I want to tell her more. It’s a dangerous urge.”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature
“She’s doing it again, seeing beneath a façade that no one else usually detects”
Skye Warren, Force of Nature

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