Hungry For You Quotes
"Dear God, how anyone can work around all this food is beyond me. The stench is unbearable."
"Not doing one doesn’t preclude your doing the other."
"Male designers don’t wear women’s clothing, but they design it."
"Women aren’t the sweet little biddable gals pleased just to have a bit of attention anymore. If they have a man in their lives, it’s because they want him there, not because they need him to take care of them."
"I know they don’t do crack, so it must be the music thing."
"Get started on the orders. I’ll be there in a moment."
"He’s here visiting in Canada for a while, but offered to help out until you can find a replacement chef."
"Music often helped her be creative as well. She’d come up with some of her best recipes while rock music blared in her ears."
"Her attitude won her a moment of chilly silence that was followed by the manager’s announcing coldly that he would be more than happy to replace any unopened cans of paint remaining."
"It was a bit stunning … and—if she was honest with herself—tempting. Cale was a good-looking man, and at another time she might have been pleased to let him get to know her."
"Shaking her head, she said quietly, "I’m afraid I don’t have time in my life right now to get to know anyone. Excuse me.""
"She had always found music soothing. It often helped her be creative as well."
"What the hell had she ever done to deserve this ridiculous run of bad luck? She was a good person, generally nonjudgmental and nice to everyone she met."
"No strings attached," Cale added solemnly, and that was enough for her.
"Cooking has always been my first love. I’d rather do that than anything in the world."
"I hate the business end of things. I am not an organized type person by nature. I’m more a creative sort, used to chaos."
"It’s usually controlled chaos in the kitchens every night, and I love it."
"Good bosses understand that working themselves to exhaustion does no one any good."
"Every day after school, we’d come home to find him whistling as he pulled cookies or some other small treat from the oven."
"He would have been bursting with it," she said with a laugh. "Especially since I trained in Paris."
"I loved it," Alex assured him. "The smells, the sights, people watching ... It’s the only place I know where absolutely everyone seems to be wandering around with baguettes in hand."
"He hadn’t fed since … well, actually he’d only had the one bag at the enforcer house in the last forty-eight hours."
"It was a very small burger," he muttered and moved away.
"No way," Alex said firmly. "There’s absolutely no nutritional value to that stuff, and you haven’t eaten all day."
"Thanks," Alex said softly, and then cleared her throat. "Then you should probably change."
"Great, thanks." Cale tipped the man and saw him out.
"Knock knock. I’m coming out. Are you decent?" Alex’s voice sang out teasingly.
"Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet."
"I wish," Cale muttered, grimacing at her obvious amusement.
"That’s what I thought. So you don’t know where the nearest twenty-four-hour grocery store is. I do."
"I’m the one who was hungry," he reminded firmly when she appeared about to protest allowing him to foot the bill.
"I’ve never been this satisfied in my life. Getting reimbursed for the tiles is better than … well, better than sex even."
"I suppose you’ll be cooking tomorrow as well?"
"I must have been seriously exhausted," she muttered with a shake of the head.
"Don’t thank me, it’s the truth," Alex said solemnly.
"I think he’s gorgeous, smart, funny, smells divine, and he probably has the sexiest accent I’ve ever heard."
"If you don’t, you could be passing up on the greatest happiness of your life."
"He said he’d like to get to know me better, but I made it plain I don’t have time for men right now and he’s respecting that."
"Thank you thank you thank you for sending Cale to me. He’s working wonders and keeping me from bankruptcy. You saved my life. I love you, Sam."
"Actually I’m not so much reading them as you are shouting them. It’s this new life-mate business. It makes it hard for you to guard your thoughts and even seems to amplify them. We’ve all been through it."
"Kisses are nice, but she might pull away before you could get very far."
"She’s noticed that you’re handsome and is attracted to you, but it’s like seeing a lovely dessert you’ve never tried before when you’re on a diet. It may look delicious, but because you don’t know for sure how delicious, it’s easier to deny yourself."
"I didn’t lose consciousness or anything. It’s just a bump."
"She’s supposed to take it easy the next couple of days? What about the restaurant?"
"It only takes a minute or two to reheat dishes when you have it on high."
"Because they couldn't see that and would wonder how I could."
"Thanks for bringing the blood … and for the help with heating up dinner."
"Good luck with dreaming. Hopefully her headache is gone now and you’ll be able to experience the shared-dreams business."
"I’m not counting on it. She took a pretty hard knock."
"You weren’t counting on her being your life mate either."
"Congratulations! You’ve won a free trip to Las Vegas."
"It wasn’t your fault. The phone call roused me from sleep, but I wasn’t fully awake."
"A little achy still, but I think more sleep would cure that."
"You’re now thinking your getting attacked is good luck?"
"If it makes Emile cook in my kitchen and garners a lot of press, you’re damned right it’s good luck."
"Was it just the aftereffects of her head trauma? Sex wasn’t normally that all-consuming for her, and she had never before blacked out like an alcoholic after a three-day binge."
"I’ve been awake for a little while," he said wryly when her eyes shot to his with surprise."
"Dear God, how had he done that? she wondered dazedly, and then his hips shifted beneath her, rubbing his erection against her core, and her eyes shot open."
"Bricker had agreed, but warned that it might takesome time for him to get there, so Cale had carried Alex to the couch and settled there with her to wait, not terribly surprised when she woke before the other man’s arrival."
"She’d explained to him the night they’d painted the dining room that her office used to be the master suite with an attached bathroom."
"Recalling how skimpy the item hadbeen on him, Alex felt heat flow through her and immediately turned into the spray to rinse the lather away."
"I was hoping we could try a bed next time. Maybe go to my place?"
"I don’t think it’s possible for you to disappoint your boss," Alex said dryly, and smiled when he laughed again."
"Alex had a terrible feeling she would get there only to find him dead. She just wasn’t lucky enough to be given a gift like him and be allowed to keep it."
"All Alex could make out was Cale’s still form lying across the seats, his head in the passenger seat. He wasn’t moving."
"If it was as bad as it looked, they would need the Jaws of Life to get him out, she thought with despair."
"Cale?" she said with disbelief, her hands moving to his face as he fell back on the seat. "Can you hear me?"
"Yes, I know baby, you’ve lost a lot of blood. I need to call for an ambulance."
"Sorry," Cale sounded as miserable as he was weak."
""Okay, I’ll get the cooler," she said quickly, trying to calm him."
"I have to get you help," she moaned, wondering if he’d ever walk again."
"Oh God," Alex breathed again, thinking that explained why Sam had suddenly dumped a career she’d worked toward her whole life."
"Alex glanced in the mirror as she washed her hands and paused as she saw her reflection. She looked utterly ridiculous with the foil over her head … and it hadn’t even worked."
"An immortal is never too weak to control a mortal," Marguerite assured her.
"But that is because you are not a life mate to any of us."
"The nanos only increased the natural abilities all humans have."
"You are not afraid of me anymore, Alex. Nor are you afraid of Cale now that you understand the basis of what we are."
"It’s because of the shared pleasure that only life mates experience."
"Even one night with him was worth any heartache that might be waiting."
"It wasn’t just Jack. He was just the icing on the cake that made me this way."
"It’s been one thing after another for months."
"We were considered the best in the business."
"I’m pretty sure he knew exactly what he was doing. He deliberately ran me off the road."
"I know there have been a lot of problems lately. Believe me I know."
"People’s minds are … Think of it like a dish. You smell it before you actually bite into it, and that gives you a hint of what you’re about to taste."
"I already have. I told him outside that I’d be his life mate."
"I like you. You’re funny and smart and considerate and sexy as hell, and I really like you."
"You get me forever," she assured him quietly.
"Works well, doesn’t it?" she agreed with a laugh.
"Your family wouldn’t. They’re all dead," Suzette snapped in response.
"A little discipline would have gone a long way toward making better women of you all."
"I am an earl, girl, an important man who is far too busy to waste time gallivanting about the countryside when there is work to be done here," Dicky said stiffly.
"What else had the man been doing?" she wondered grimly.
"Then I shall just have to kill him, won’t I?"