Foreplay Quotes
"But it’s strange how that thing you run from always finds a way of catching up with you."
"Sometimes you can’t help yourself. You have to stop. You have to turn and look."
"You have to let yourself fall and hope for the best."
"I don’t feel right leaving you out here alone."
"Just never heard anyone but my grandmother say it."
"I wanted to belong to the family that had offered me such solace growing up."
"Enough about me. What about you? Are you seeing anyone?"
"It’s gotta be right. It’s gotta be... special."
"I knew what I had to do. If I was going to get him to look at me differently, I had to be different."
"He looked as good as ever if my memory served. Better. A body made for sin and a face that was too masculine to be beautiful, but the sight of it did something to me."
"You’re training for Hunter. Look at him as your 5K."
"It’s hard being a girl who actually emerges from her dorm room and talks to sexy boys."
"I know. It’s hard being a girl who actually emerges from her dorm room and talks to sexy boys."
"Nothing was going to happen if you just ordered, paid, and moved on."
"I might look like some nerd college girl and not one of the sexpots tripping through the bar every night, but—"
"Getting mauled outside the bathroom might have turned some girls off from coming back again the next night though."
"We really need to stop bumping into each other like this. People will think we’re having an affair."
"I’m actually interested in reconstructive surgery. Correcting birth defects . . . that type of thing."
"There was no saving my mother, but I would save me."
"His family. How perfect they all were. I wanted that."
"There is more to a relationship than just sex."
"I wasn’t one of those girls who didn’t know what she looked like when she stared at herself in the mirror."
"But sometimes the thing you want isn’t what you really need."
"That’s just ridiculous," I breathed, awe and lust swirling through me like some heady elixir."
"Tip number one: Don’t call a guy ridiculous when he undresses in front of you. It might give him a complex."
"Your turn . . . I mean, if you’re done staring."
"You don’t need to stand there like you’re facing a firing squad."
"Keep going." His voice slid like velvet over my skin.
"This has nothing to do with thinking. It’s just instinct."
"I really need to shop for some sexier lingerie."
"Not if you’re so sweet all I can think about is getting you naked and tasting every inch of you again."
"You know what they say. Curiosity killed the cat."
"I don’t want to talk about when my mom abandoned me. Left me on my grandmother’s doorstep like I was some rolled-up newspaper."
"We’re not that different. Two people that didn’t have the faintest clue about belonging to a normal, loving family."
"Sensing his gaze on me, I slid him another look and my pulse quickened at the way he was studying me. Almost like he had never seen me before."
"I’m sure he noticed, but said nothing. Or maybe he didn’t notice. Maybe he was just accustomed to being checked out, so he wasn’t aware of it happening."
"He actually sounded worried. "Pepper? Everything okay?""
""It’s okay. Go on. He’ll be yelling for you.""
""I wouldn’t have waited this long for you. I would have already showed up at your dorm the minute I decided I wanted you. I wouldn’t leave until I convinced you that you were mine.""
""Everything that happens is a result of those choices." His gaze flicked over me coldly. "Just like you made your choice. You’re going to be with this Hunter guy. I’m just a distraction until the real thing comes along for you.""
""Guess those lessons in foreplay helped after all.""
"I needed to consider this. Use logic instead of wild impulse, which seemed to be my only setting when it came to him."
""God, I missed you," he muttered, his hand skimming my face, hard fingers burying themselves in my hair and gripping my scalp as his hot mouth crashed over mine."
"I understand what you meant now. Bad shit happens. I thought picking Hunter . . . I was being smart. My safe choices didn’t matter tonight though. Did they?"
"It took me so long to figure that out, but I know now. You are the safest thing I’ll ever find. Because you love me. Because I love you."
"I thought you were gone, Pepper. It was bad enough to lose you the first time, but to lose you like that? I couldn’t have dealt with that."
"You’re the reason I’m alive. I heard you and that made me fight. You were there, somewhere, and I knew that. I had to get to you."
"I’ve always known. I just thought your feelings might change. You might start to feel something more for me. God knows you seemed determined to ignore whatever it was you had with Reece."
"I guess when it’s real it doesn’t ever fade away."
"And now I am going to do it. With you." I shook my head, emotion clogging my throat. "You’re the best boyfriend ever."