Sweet Talk Quotes
"From the minute he’d looked into those gorgeous, sparkling blue eyes, he’d known she was going to be a troublemaker and a fighter."
"All of them had a disease that, thus far, no drug had been able to conquer, and none of them felt the least bit fortunate to be human pincushions, subjected to a tremendous and sometimes unbearable amount of agony."
"Once she had gained her new friends’ trust, she began to chip away at the boredom and, more importantly, the anger and the fear."
"By the end of the month the Pips had taken him for more than three hundred dollars."
"If I get to grow up, I think I’d like to catch criminals. No matter how talented and clever they might be, eventually they all make mistakes," she said. "And they always get caught."
"If you think you’re going to look for a wire, be advised. I’ll punch you, too," she warned.
"You want to talk nightmares?" she said. She put her hand up to his face and unfolded her three fingers. "I’m I . . . R . . . S."
"Isn't everyone in Washington an attorney? I think it's a prerequisite to living here."
"Next time you're attacked during an interview, you can pay for lunch."
"I'm learning so much about how to investigate financial crimes."
"You’re with the IRS, you could find out all about me."
"I want to put my father in prison... or die trying."
"I’ve got more money than I know what to do with from my mom’s life insurance."
"You’re driving me crazy. You know that? Absolutely crazy."
"I remember everything about her," he admitted. "And I didn’t even speak to her."
"Of course I noticed," he said. "I’m not blind."
"Olivia MacKenzie works for the IRS. Therefore, Jorguson attacked an IRS agent."
"It isn’t a date," she argued. "It’s work-related. We’ll be discussing the Jorguson investigation."
"You’re fairly intelligent, somewhat sweet when you aren’t being bitchy, and beautiful."
"I don’t want tomorrow night to be romantic. How crazy would it be for me to get involved with him?"
"No, I’m going to the Capitol League Benefit. He’s going to drive me there and drive me back home."
"I’m not going to juvie, and I didn’t do anything wrong," Tyler said. "She’s my lawyer. I called her, and she came right away. She’s taking me back to my new home."
"No. I’m no longer nervous with you." It was a blatant lie, but she thought she’d told it well.
"Oh God, Grayson, just kiss me. I won’t stop talking until you do."
"It was the most erotic kiss she’d ever experienced, and she never wanted it to end."
"Be sure to lock the door," he said in parting. His voice was a rough whisper.
"I swear he’s Houdini. He might be committing the perfect crime because I can’t find the fraud."
"There’s no such thing as a perfect crime. At least that’s what they tell me."
"The drugs?" "When I was a child, I went through chemotherapy."
"You better understand, Grayson. I’m never going to ask you to kiss me again." "You won’t need to."
"She doesn’t like to go out in the cold," Olivia explained.
"You may act tough, but you have a soft heart, Olivia MacKenzie."
"I'd like to discuss your brother-in-law," he continued.
"There's nothing imperfect about you, Olivia."
"Yeah, okay. He owes three hundred thousand to a bookie named Subway, and every week the interest escalates."
"I’m serious," Grayson insisted. "I’m going to remove myself from the investigation."
"You would have wanted to, but you would have taken them in."
"Neither one of them have the connections outside of prison or the funds to hire a hit."
"I’m not your darling. Now get off the phone."
"I didn’t know we got to use dirty words, Mr. Hood. Let me have a turn."
"It’s a hell of a lot more than lust between us, isn’t it?"
"Yes, I worry about you, but I don’t want to. Besides, what’s the point? Worrying is wasted energy."
"I’m keeping my distance from you until we make an arrest."
"What do you see when you look in the mirror?"
"We can’t plan futures. Happy endings don’t exist for any of us."
"I’m going to cram all I can into the time I have."
"Maybe we shouldn’t live our lives waiting. You know?"
"If you don’t mind, I’d prefer tea if you have it."
"I’ll admit I’ve become a little too careless about my asthma. I’ll try to do better."
"Let’s face it, sweetheart. I’m good. You’ve told me so."
"Every time I’m with you I get sidetracked. It’s not your fault. You’re a very seductive woman."
"I need to be able to concentrate on the investigation, but you’re messing with my mind, Olivia."
"That’s because I have the sense of humor of a nine-year-old. He gets me."
"I feel like I’m missing something, some detail that might make a difference, but every time I’m with you I get sidetracked."
"And by the way, your little seduction didn’t work."
"Olivia, we all have at least one family member we’d rather not be related to."
"One tiny little splat, and the dress is ruined."
"No, you listen. There isn’t any deal. Got that? No deal."
"I know what he is, and he has to be stopped. I would like your help to do that, but even if you can’t, or won’t, I’ll still keep trying until I succeed."
"You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain."
"The poor thing. She does tend to exaggerate."
"You’re part of this, too, George," Ronan interjected. "Attempted kidnapping and—"
"All I know is that Kline and Vogel have been working for Carl Simmons for at least a year. He tells people they’re his bodyguards. I heard him offer them a big bonus if they could get it done fast."
"He’s afraid of Jeff Wilcox’s attorney because he knows he’ll have to open up his files." She looked at her brother-in-law. "George, tell me what you think ‘clearing it out’ means." She wanted him to acknowledge what her father was going to do.
"The money, the stocks . . . he’s going to close it all down."
"This was all Carl Simmons and your father. Start to finish."
"And now all those people who trusted in Robert MacKenzie, the innocent clients who gave him their life savings, are going to find out the truth: They’ve lost it all."
"Any threats that the parents hurled at her were met with the sound and logical details she would use in a suit against them and their son."
"Mrs. Deckman trying to comfort him with the promise of a new iPad as soon as this mistake was sorted out."
"Just to make him happy, she drove under the speed limit the whole way home."
"The silence brought a few welcome moments of peace."
"He carries an extra inhaler for me because he knows I’ll forget to put one in my purse."
"It’s not ‘Bill and me’—it’s ‘Bill and I are going to hurt you’—dumb ass."
"It won’t matter," she said. A single tear escaped and slowly trailed down her cheek. "I don’t understand why you want—"
"I won’t marry you, Grayson. I can’t marry you. You need to move on without me."
"Everything," he answered. "They have everything to do with this. And so does Dr. Andre Pardieu."
"I was glad of it," she blurted. "I saw what my friends’ families went through. It was horrible for them. I can still see their faces, their anguish."
"You think it’s going to come back," he said very matter-of-factly. "And you don’t want anyone you love to go through that agony. Right?"
"So you are willing to live your life waiting for death? What the hell, Olivia? Do you not see how crazy that is?"
"Because we had our talk, and I understand. You aren’t going to marry me, and you hope that I’ll get on with my life . . . my life without you."
"Never see him again. The thought made her sick."
"Everything will change when I leave here. I know that’s what you want," he told her.
"Yes, it would have been easy for Simmons to plant the gun in Martin’s house."
"You think she’ll let your father take you away?" Henry didn’t have to think about it long. "No."
"Olivia deserves some happiness, and I hope she’ll find it with you."
"Olivia, I’m in love with Olivia and I want to marry her, but she’s a very stubborn woman."
"Olivia has not shown any symptoms of toxemia, so, from what I’ve seen, she has nothing to worry about."
"Good luck," Dr. Pardieu said. "Olivia deserves some happiness, and I hope she’ll find it with you."
"The tower thought we should use the chute, but I got them to let us park at the gate because it would be much easier to get all of the sick off the plane that way."
"I also told the passengers that the landing would be the smoothest they’d ever experienced. It was, too," she asserted. "Not a single bump."