"Before I had a heart, a pulse, lungs, and a spine. Ideas, wishes, and preferences. When I was no more than an abstract idea."
"Nothing wrong with her at all, except for one thing—she wasn’t my choice."
"My blood never ran blue. It was like my heart, pure black."
"Misbehaving, however, wasn’t something I did often, or even at all. That was the sad part."
"On the outside, I was perfect. On the inside, however, I was rotten to the bone."
"Burning heretics at the stake was one example, foxhunting another."
"The only thing preventing me from vomiting up my guts was the fact I did not want to waste the perfectly good brandy currently sloshing in my stomach."
"I don’t know what the meaning of life is, but I’m sure as fuck not going to take pointers from a pudgy rich kid who needs to pay the maids to cop a feel."
"Humiliation is a feeling. One must submit to it in order to experience it."
"Most sought after bachelor in England, my foot."
"Hope is like ice cream. The more you indulge in it, the more sickened you get."
"Putting your trust in stupid people is worse. Smart people are, at the very least, highly predictable."
"It’s true. I constantly need to fight men off. How do you think I developed these babies?"
"You’re barely capable of keeping yourself alive."
"Well, two, if you count the fact that he is twenty-nine and my teacher."
"Tomorrow is Monday, which means early track practice in the woods."
"Everything, I think as I make my way out of the car."
"Pregnancy was not like whole-wheat bread. You couldn’t be indifferent about it."
"The group was always super active, so all I really needed to do was jump in."
"I’m bracing the armrests, about to stand up when he walks into his office and closes the door."
"The truth is, you fall in love with a woman twice. Once, so that you want her to give you a child. And a second time, when she does and you realize you cannot live without her."
"I had an interesting conversation with the lads tonight. After which I came to the decision that I want to be present during your pregnancy, not just after the delivery."
"I’m sorry, Ross. It’s just because … general health stuff. This is a high-risk pregnancy, so I didn’t want to announce it too early."
"As much as I hated to admit it, Devon was right—I needed rest."
"Good thing I had a gun, which I was going to take with me everywhere from now on just in case, Krav Maga skills, and the badass bitch attitude with which to strangle this person with my own hands if they came anywhere near me."
"Exquisite things often have thorns. It’s to keep away unwanted attention."
"I wasn’t going to turn you off with this attitude, am I?"
"There’s nothing I like to see more than old flames spark anew due to baby-making."
"Well, I’m not ready to put my trust in you yet either."
"Trust cannot be placed in the hands of someone who does not trust themselves."
"Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people."
"Fate is like a stalker. It has its ways of finding you."
"I’ve a suspicion you will come back from the jealous haze you’re wrapped in right now in a few moments and regret this. Let’s change the subject."
"Ditto, darling. Especially when it’s wasted on you."
"I noticed. We’ve been in the same room for close to eight minutes and you still haven’t tried to stab me."
"Nothing would make me happier than seeing your ass married to someone else."
"Fucking around is not the same as having a partner."
"I don’t want to be that person, the person who makes someone’s life … wrong."
"If a tree falls in the middle of the woods and no one hears it … did it actually happen?"
"That’s when I decide sin doesn’t taste so bad."
"You’re the biggest sinner of them all, and we both know that."
"Love, it seemed, was a brilliant distraction from the fact that everything was temporary and nothing quite mattered like we thought it did."
"Life was a lonely business, even if you were never completely alone."
"I’d still let you warm my bed, if you play your cards right."
"You’re frightened, aren’t you? That I’d put a ring on her finger."
"I only choose the best for myself. Suits, cars, properties, restaurants. That’s the way I’m wired."
"You’re clever, independent, shrewd, creative, funny, and, so help me god, a bit of a nutter. But you are also responsible, stable, strong and levelheaded. You’re going to be an amazing mother. The best to walk upon this earth."
"Look what you’ve done. Now I can’t even hate her properly."
"This is the moment I realize I am not myself anymore."
"I calculate back and realize the pregnancy was five weeks long."
"This is when I think my faith in humanity will never be restored."
"I was about to get a glimpse of the real her."
"Family treasures are supposed to be the relationships, laughter, and support you get from one another."
"You're burning down a legacy! All you'll be left with is the title."
"Love is a very weak word for what I feel for you, Sweven."
"You put me in twenty-seven different ones. That’s why we’re here."
"With my beautiful baby in my arms, and my friends and family waiting outside, I know one thing—everything will not be okay. Because it’s already perfect."
"Nicola is growing at a fast pace... she is a complete delight."
"I am out of this place I could never truly call home."
"Everything I wake up on the wrong side of capitalism, I’m pretty sure my car’s about to die, and my back’s not getting any younger."
"Fairhope was a town so small you could only find it with a microscope, a map, and a lot of effort."
"That was the main irony about Fairhope—it was not fair and offered no hope."
"I knew, because they were supposed to work shifts here, and yet, most of the time, it was just me."
"Maybe if you were nicer and more conscientious, your poor son could have more opportunities."
"My only consolation was that with a face and pickup lines like those, Drew hoodie kid was bound to stay a virgin deep into his thirties."
"I’m perfectly capable of booking two cruise tickets."
"You know, you’re not even half as nice as people think you are."