Dirty Filthy Rich Love Quotes
"How many times could a song be listened to on repeat? If there was a limit, I was approaching mine."
"The glass was cold against my skin, a stark contrast to the liquor burning in my chest."
"If only she could fix the inside of me as easily as she addressed the outside."
"He was dangerous, yes. Dangerous to me. But he wouldn’t hurt me. Not like that."
"You’re a workaholic too. Your work is just more artsy so you can more easily disguise it as a hobby."
"She liked men who adored her and were into public displays of affection. I liked a man who enjoyed rape play and apparently had a serious problem with stalking."
"He wasn’t here, and I was. I wasn’t going anywhere."
"It’s an endless sea of lights! I bet you can see everything in the daytime."
"And then Donovan had walked in, putting my new world in a spin. Reminding me it had been his world first."
"It’s fine. I mean, you’re not a secret spy for the Dyson’s, are you?"
"Love. Marriage. It’s an outdated arrangement. Amanda seemed to know what was what and had reasonable expectations. But Donovan bought into the pitch. He bought into the feelings."
"He obsessed over her. Knew everything about her. Cared everything about her. He hung the moon for her."
"Walking toward him was like deciding to walk through fire when I was already covered with first-degree burns."
"He was everywhere—beside me, in my skin, on my tongue. I couldn’t breathe without inhaling him."
"You hold the cards right now, Sabrina," he said, his nose almost touching mine. "But don’t begin to think I’ve forgotten who’s in charge."
"All I had left to do was drop off some forms that needed to be signed off on. Forms that couldn’t be emailed because they contained client payment information."
"Just because I’m leaving with you doesn’t change the fact that you came with her."
"I realized a second later that walking away was going to be a short-lived victory."
"Adrenaline shot through me at the shock of being "caught.""
"It always rattled me when he looked at me like that. But today when he saw me, I remembered that he loved what he saw and the butterflies fluttered again inside me."
"He owned the goddamn place. I was the one who’d be laughed at in this situation. Not him. Never him."
"It was just that we were unbalanced in our relationship in general."
"It's the payoff for your father's mortgage. I paid the balance after his death."
"For you. For him, the answer was plain as day."
"I have friends. A friend. He made the register appear the way I wanted it to appear."
"I noticed you the first day you walked into that classroom, Sabrina. That's when it began for me. And it never stopped."
"If I'd found him a job in the states, there was too great a chance that you would have moved with him. And you needed to break up."
"You sent my boyfriend away so that we would break up?"
"Don't tell me it was for my own good. You didn’t do that for me. That was for you."
"Those weren't trumped-up charges. Theodore Sheridan raped Liz Stein."
"Are you looking for honesty? Or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?"
"I've only ever thought about myself. I didn't once, for a single moment, consider what he might do to someone else."
"I want you to be fucking honest. For fucking once."
"I don't care anymore about what he'd done. As long as he didn’t drive away. As long as he kept loving me too much. Maybe too much was just enough for me."
"You worry too much about what arouses you. If you're turned on, just go with it."
"I don't give a fuck about other people. Come to lunch with me."
"I want more. I want a relationship. I want to be open about it."
"So, tell me, Sabrina—who do you want me to be?"
"I think that's the very definition of a relationship."
"I need to know that everything is out in the open."
"Everything was in that file. You know everything."
"If you had any idea what goes on inside of me, you would know—I'm not sleeping with anyone else."
"Would you be my date for prom (a.k.a. Weston's wedding)? –D."
"There's nothing like a fifty-thousand dollar wedding to say true love."
"You really believe this could work out, don't you? That's cute."
"You're dating one of the bosses. And you’re fuckhot. And from what I hear, smart as shit. Of course people are talking."
"You aren't the only one who's had fantasies."
"But maybe she had a point. Donovan's comments from earlier replayed in my mind. He had fantasies about me being in his life. He’d said so himself. Maybe he really was just happy to have me here."
"I'm just giving you a hard time," I said now. "I appreciate what you’re saying. I will keep that in mind as I go forth with my declarations of affection."
"It’s complicated," Audrey said, as if reading my mind. "I get it. But I have every faith that you'll figure it out, and when the time is right, you’ll say the right words."
"The thing is," I said, "you can just ask your private detective whether or not I'm sneaking off to see Weston behind your back."
"I don't need that report." When it came to my email, I’d just delete it, I’d decided. "But if that’s what you need to do, I understand. Right now, what I need is for you to tell me once again that you don’t have feelings for Sun."
"You can't work every second of your life and still expect to do a good job, Sabrina. Trust me, I know. You have to have a little downtime."
"I'm happy to call you Ms. Kincaid, if that's what you prefer," I offered congenially, intending to address her as little as possible.
"I'll certainly consider your advice," I told them. "Of course, when the time comes to make those decisions, Donovan and I will have to seriously discuss it together."
"That my amazing, loving, supportive, understanding parents both died too young. And yours are still alive. And that it’s not fair."
"It always felt like I was running away from you and running to you at the same time."
"I'd lose myself in women—so many faceless women. Women who would let me treat them in terrible, terrible ways, just so I could forget you. And I never could."
"Most of the time I was in Tokyo, I was part of the underground BDSM scene. I never had relationships. Just sex with women who wanted to be dominated, mostly."
"You are submissive enough, Sabrina. Trust me. I do need it. But it's not about the sex for me. I get what I need from you in other ways."
"I think that's been kind of obvious that you're into that."
"There is no place for seduction in chess, Sabrina."
"I think by definition, exorbitant means there isn't an amount you could name."
"You might want to move it, but if you do, I'll have you pinned."
"It’s you, Sabrina. I thought I heard you kids out here."
"Better for me because I wouldn't ever have to face your family?"
"I don’t want to be in a car with you for two hours."
"Donovan!" I cried. Dropping the beer bottle, I rushed for him.
"Are you all right? Tell me you're all right."
"You always slide that bolt when you're home."
"It's complicated and private, but all that should matter to you is that it's consensual. And it is."
"I really did love this about him too. I really did love all of the parts of him. I really did accept all of it as us."
"What I needed was to be alone with Donovan. He was the only one who could fix this restlessness inside me."
"Love doesn't have to be perfect or traditional... It doesn't have to look like the way anyone has ever loved anyone else in the world. And that will be enough as long as someone tries."
"You don't have to know. That was my point. You just have to try."
"Just fuck it up with me, not on your own anymore."