The Vixen And The Vet Quotes
"All she’d ever wanted was to become Mrs. Trent Hamilton, loving wife, mother, and pillar of the community, and, voilà!, that’s exactly what she was getting."
"‘The first time you see a future with him.’ That’s a good one unless everything he’s telling you until dawn is lies and you don’t realize it because you’re blinded by lust—she refused to admit to the other "l" word—and you believe everything he says because how could he be lying and still worship your body like he’s been schooled in the erotic arts?"
"Number twelve, the first time you realize that he loves you as much as you love him."
"Trick of the light, she told herself, wondering if Miss Potts was currently throwing her brownies in the dustbin."
"If you want your life to look different, Asher? Then change it."
"You don’t remember what happened when I first got back."
"Just don’t wait too long. She’s a survivor, that one. If you won’t help her? My money’s on her finding someone else who will."
"You want your life to look different, Asher? Then change it."
"If this is hell, I need to review my definition of heaven. I've clearly been lowballing paradise."
"I like you," he said, "just the way you are."
"You don’t have to be pretty to be sexy. You’re plenty sexy, Asher."
"What have you done lately for the good of humanity, Trent?"
"I didn’t want you to think I’d stood you up."
"Your skin's like warm honey. So sweet. So damn sweet, Savannah."
"Where'd you come from, Savannah Carmichael? And why me?"
"From across town," she said softly, nestling her cheek against his shoulder and opening her eyes to the thousands of white lights roped over their heads. "Because you said yes."
"Maybe I was saying yes to your mom’s brownies."
"Real-world experience," Asher agreed, raising his glass to cheer her.
"I was a senior in college when 9/11 happened. All I wanted to do was help," he said simply, taking a sip of wine.
"I like that about you," he said, reaching his hand across the table, palm up. "I like how ambitious you are. How focused. I admire it."
"It feels terrible to want," he said softly, "when your chances of getting what you want are so slim."
"Caring about someone means looking out for their best interest. Always. Without exception."
"If you don’t like the way I’m living my life, Savannah, you don’t have to be a part of it."
"The problem with hope was that you were required to acknowledge the possibility of not getting what you desperately hoped for."
"And for now, for the next handful of weeks, she was his, and nothing—nothing—would compel him to walk away from her until it was time for him to let her go."
"Well, clearly that makes me an asshole. Ergo, the flowers."
"I owe you an apology. It couldn’t wait until tomorrow."
"I’m not a shallow man, but I love that vehicle."
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Asher. And I’ve seen the way Savannah Carmichael beholds you."
"I’ve always loved the wickedness of the name."
"The way the smells of cotton candy and funnel cakes mix with salt water and sun lotion in the summertime."
"Hamilton boys and Carmichael girls go together like peas and carrots."
"The lifelong friendship between his grandmother Frances Sherman and Matilda Potts meant that Miss Potts often said and did things that resonated so strongly of Asher’s mother, Pamela Sherman Lee, it sometimes took his breath away."
"It’s not as loud as you’d think it would be, but there was a big cloud of dust and sand, and I’d been thrown a little distance."
"I didn’t know how bad it was at the time. I didn’t know my hand was gone and my face looked like chopped meat."
"I’m falling so hard for you, Asher, and you’re falling so hard for me."
"Nobody ever made Savannah Calhoun Carmichael do a thing she didn’t want to do, Asher Lee. Hush up."
"Well, I’m here now, I’m already packed, and I’ll be right in for a Bellini."
"Y’all, Vanny is a perfectly sweet sobriquet," said Jenny, who’d once spent a week in Paris.
"Their love affair might be great news, but it was also … theirs."
"I’m glad you’re finally taking this step, Asher."
"This wasn’t checking off a box or saying words she didn’t mean in a 'Sure, love ya too' sort of way. He was braver than she was."
"You’re my girl, Savannah. You’re not burdening me. Nothing’s off-limits."
"I am hungry, she realized. For food first, then for you."
"The sort of gratitude that lasts … All. Night. Long."
"You," he said, leaning forward to kiss her neck. "How much better my life is with you in it."
"I'm falling in love with you too," she finally said quietly with her back to him.
"I need you," she said, her breasts rising and falling quickly as her nipples puckered under his intense gaze.
"He fell in love. Someone tangled with his girl. He settled accounts."
"He loves you." She patted Savannah's hand before releasing it. "He hasn't been to town in almost ten years. And now? He's been to your house more times than I can count, and he just broke Lance Hamilton's nose."
"You walked out of my dreams fully formed. I wasn't about to let you walk away."
"It's not a burden. I … I … You know how much I care about you."
"As long as you're my partial bionic man," she said, leaning up on his chest to snag his lips for a kiss, "I'm in."
"So don’t ask me again about your face. Don’t wonder for a minute if I feel like I’m being shortchanged by choosing to be with you. Just know this: you walked out of my dreams fully formed. I wasn’t about to let you walk away."
"Adam would still be considered agoraphobic, but I am encouraging him to get out into the world more and more. As for me? I’ve found my very own modern-day Richard Harrow—and in my eyes, no man was ever so beautiful."
"It’s not every day you fall in love with the man of your dreams. When you do, you want forever to start as soon as possible."
"I believe in us and I know we’ll find our all-American happily ever after."
"Asher’s privacy had been protected, hadn’t it? Yes. Yes!"
"I promise you will not find anyone more driven, devoted, and committed to her work."
"You’re not going to be able to walk tomorrow."
"Open your eyes, Savannah. I want you to watch me."
"I did. I stayed alive for you. For the dream of you."
"I’m sick of hiding. I want to live in the world again because of you."
"It’s impossible because no man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you."
"Can’t ride two horses with one ass, honey. Try it and you’ll get hurt."
"Breathe, Savannah," she told herself, clenching and unclenching her phone in a sweaty death grip.
"This isn't the sort of love that ends. It's forever."
"People wait a lifetime for what you two found with each other. It doesn't just go away no matter how much you hurt one another."
"Having hands was something we all took for granted. You're supposed to take them for granted."
"I love him. I love him so much. I love him more than anything else."
"He still loved her. Despite everything, he still loved her."
"Asher was really starting to feel different, like he recognized himself a little more, like he was coming into focus."
"When Asher lost his parents, he’d learned, with the help of an excellent therapist, how to compartmentalize his grief so that it didn’t take over his whole life."
"More than anything else in the world, he missed her. He wanted to know that their time together was real."
"Like most amputees, Asher knew what it was like to feel a phantom limb. He often felt his hand, as though it were still attached to his body."
"Despite everything, Asher was still deeply, irrevocably in love with her."
"She’s a mighty pretty thing. If she’s not the girl for you, I guess she won’t be single for too long, huh?"
"Knowing you, loving you, being loved by you—it’s been like being reborn. An angel giving me a second chance to live."