Release Me Quotes
"A cool ocean breeze caresses my bare shoulders, and I shiver, wishing I’d taken my roommate’s advice and brought a shawl with me tonight."
"LA Lesson Number One: Always carry a sweater if you’ll be out after dark."
"Not so in California, at least not by the beach."
"Bloodred clouds bursting against the pale orange sky. Blue-gray waves shimmering with dappled gold."
"I regret that I didn’t bring the battered Nikon I’ve had since high school."
""Don’t apologize," she says. "I pay for that view every month when I write the mortgage check. It damn well better be spectacular.""
""Honey, the man would rather walk on burning coals than come to an art show. He’s fishing for investors and you’re the bait.""
"I should have told him to wear his own damn cocktail dress."
""I’m too old and set in my ways to quit," she says."
""I knew I liked you." She glances around the balcony."
"I love the smell of tobacco—it reminds me of my grandfather—but actually inhaling the smoke does nothing for me."
""I didn’t think it was that kind of party," I say dryly."
""Mostly I’ve seen miles of freeway and the inside of my apartment.""
""I’m glad he brought me, too. The paintings really are amazing.""
""But you’re getting the flat-eyed look of a girl on her best behavior, and we can’t have that.""
""You are," he continues. "But not like this—splashed across a canvas for all the world to see, belonging to no one and everyone.""
""You’re right," he says. "I’m not going to invest in C-Squared because I met Carl at a party any more than I’d invest in it because you’re in my bed.""
""It’s Los Angeles. Isn’t that what this town is all about?""
""I’m very much looking forward to it. Perhaps it would have been more prudent for me to wait and talk to you then. But the thought of you relaxed and tipsy, leaning back against the leather of my limo … well, that was an image I simply couldn’t pass up.""
""I see," he says. "So the fact that we crave each other doesn’t play into it? Nor the fact that I made you wet? That I held your cunt in my hand and made you moan?""
"You think you know what you’d be getting, but you don’t."
"That’s a bit harsh," he says. "Dump suggests they wanted something more."
"I’m not crazy about small, dark spaces," I admit.
"I want to give you pleasure," he says. "That’s all I want to do."
"I'll hire you right now. Gainful-employment conundrum solved."
"Because I want you, I have since I met you at the pageant."
"I’ve shared more with you than I have with any woman."
"You’re powerful. You’re a survivor. When I hold you, I can feel the power in you."
"No one survives in business going entirely on their own."
"Anticipation is the better part of pleasure."
"Because there’s nothing else. Nothing but you and me."
"Never, baby. Between us, the sun is never going down."
"I am a shell of myself, but it feels so damn good."
"Everyone breaks a little sometimes. That doesn’t make you weak. It makes you wounded."
"I want to belong to you. I want to belong completely."
"Because now that I have you, I can’t stand the thought of ever losing you."