Contractually Yours Quotes
"Nobody should feel like murder when they’re listening to "Il est né le divin enfant.""
"Rage beats in my chest like an imprisoned falcon."
"It’s stealing if you take what’s not yours without permission."
"But to learn that he wishes I’d never been born? It’s like I’m not even his child."
"Those kids all belong somewhere. They’re all wanted somewhere."
"Theft in and of itself is awful enough. But by your own family? That should come with some public flogging."
"Men like my dad and Wellendorff think women are helpless, docile little creatures. I’ll show them how mistaken they are."
"The laws of Nesovia say he’s in the right because he has a penis and happens to be my biological father."
"I believe in rewarding people for a job well done."
"I despise adults who take advantage of children to validate their life choices."
"Sometimes the most irrational things motivate me."
"Gossip reveals a lot about what’s in my people’s heads."
"Money and influence can fix almost anything."
"The only exciting thing I do these days is play tennis, because polo matches take too long."
"I’m taking away control over what’s important to you—money."
"I’m not doing it to be seemly. I’m doing this for satisfaction."
"You wouldn’t be this upset if we gave Sebastian Jewelry to one of your Lasker brothers."
"I’ve been too soft with them, obviously, for them to think they could ‘sell’ me like some painting or something."
"You bring Dad into something, it’s going to be all about him."
"The fact that she knows where I live further stokes my annoyance."
"We can live at my place, then. It’s plenty big enough."
"I was loose. And happy, and pleased with my life. Until you showed up with your ridiculous contract."
"You know why they call it a ‘contract’? Because that’s what it makes your sphincter do. Contract."
"If us having a quiet civil ceremony is what’s going to make you happy, I don’t want to argue about it."
"We’ll do it if we feel like it. We’re both adults."
"I’ve always wanted to have a girl, but I don’t know if that’s a good outcome, considering."
"Love? Surely you don’t believe in such a thing, Sebastian."
"I don’t understand how they can twist a picture between you and Sebastian kissing into you stealing him from Gabriella Ricci."
"You can’t talk to me like that! I’m your father!"
"I can’t afford to have anything derail this engagement."
"Is that what we’re calling groundless gossip these days?"
"My policy is never explain, never complain. Just makes things worse."
"No fiancée of mine will put up with bullshit."
"The most important prop in an engagement or wedding—no matter how fake—is the ring."
"They say hope springs eternal. I guess delusion does, too."
"Whatever affection I might’ve felt for you died when I saw you with Frankie."
"People don’t stay glued to their screens for the truth, but for entertainment."
"If they could, they’d bring out a pool of mud for us to dive into."
"I’m not answering calls from my family right now."
"A good sensibility is an absolute must in our line of business."
"You could quadruple in size and you still wouldn’t be too heavy."
"I’ve used up my Ted Lasker tolerance quotient for the year."
"Screw with one of us, and you just screwed with all of us."
"If she’s a real friend, she won’t expect you to change for her. Like I said, you’re fine the way you are."
"You work hard. You’re disciplined. You’re fun to hang out with."
"My dad isn’t the greatest with names, and he couldn’t be bothered to remember the names of seven kids, so he named us after our moms."
"Good Lord, why don’t you giggle and blush while you’re at it?"
"That’s ridiculous," he says with disgust. "You’re fine the way you are."
"I bet your parents didn’t try to name you after food wrappings."
"An effort to be a nuisance." He sniffs. "I bet your parents didn’t try to name you after food wrappings."
"I can’t imagine. I guess prevention was the key here."
"You’re right. He’d already made seven babies. I guess prevention was the key here."
"The motion feels like a knock on the gate to my heart. And I can feel it crack open, allowing him to slip inside a little."
"Our time is scarily normal, almost as if there were no contract."
"I can’t blame Sebastian without more facts when I’m ninety-nine percent sure he wouldn’t do something like this."
"If I’d known Sebastian would end up being my husband rather than Preston, I might’ve specified in the contract to request more involvement from Sebastian Jewelry for the collaboration."
"I’m a minor celebrity of sorts due to my inheritance, but there are far more interesting and famous people in Los Angeles."
"Sebastian isn’t the type of man you can ignore, even if he gives you space."
"You just seem…so dedicated. Much more so than I imagined."
"Peery Diamonds is mine. I’m the only Peery left."
"The anxiety that’s been plaguing me since I got up this morning retreats."
"What they like or don’t like is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is you’re my wife."
"You can never have enough romance novels on your shelves."
"My insides stop twisting into knots and relax."
"I’ll be honored to be part of girl time and buy all the romance novels we need for it."
"The guests aren’t just friends, but business associates."
"My head throbs from hours of tension squeezing my skull."
"The noise dies down abruptly, plunging me into blessed silence."
"The encounters with Karl, Roderick, and Gabriella should be as bad as this party’s going to get."
"You’re nothing without your husband and your money."
"Then let’s thank God that I married you instead. To be honest, I like you better."
"I’m never going to let myself be blind to a man’s disrespect because of love. When I give my love to someone, it’ll be a man who deserves it."
"You’d have to be a fool to think this union was meant to last forever."
"We watch movies and have pizza and Chinese delivered for lunch and dinner."
"I should’ve kicked Karl until he peed blood for a week."
"One must have enough panache to dominate one’s wardrobe."
"But it’s a sunk cost. Maybe the realization that they aren’t the only ones we can work with might get them off their butts."
"I’m not paying them to say hello. I’m paying them to do their job."
"I have no problem doing whatever is needed to lend her support."
"It’s especially true when the person in charge is soft."
"I make sure he understands that honest work is rewarded at Sebastian Jewelry."
"Sometimes we deceive ourselves, believing what we want to believe."
"I’d never choose Sebastian Jewelry over a woman I loved."
"Lust is the most honest mutual emotion we share."
"Sometimes I just like to hold you at night without wanting sex."
"You only gave me nice things when you wanted to be sure I’d stay loyal and be your friend."
"I’ve seen how hard you work. I’d hate to see you undermined from within."
"But I’m not going to get closure if I don’t talk to her."
"You’ll never understand her. People who do things like this to their best friends don’t think or feel like we do."
"Just remember, it’s best to work with people who aren’t your friends. That way, personal feelings don’t get in the way."
"Some people in my office apparently heard about the scene through friends at Peery Diamonds, and Christoph brought me the gossip."
"I immediately sent flowers because my showing up to comfort her in person could have undermined her."
"I think about my brothers—Emmett, Griffin, and Grant. Rational men who became completely irrational after meeting their wives."
"People will never discover the devastation Sebastian has wrought. No archaeologist will unearth it a century from now."
"She isn’t crying because she believes she’s truly alone."
"I don’t want to be the latest in a long string of losers who betrayed her and tried to excuse their behavior with empty words."
"The house is immersed in silence without Sebastian."
"How could he have acted like he cared? Why did he touch me like I mattered to him?"
"Do I secretly want him to fight the dissolution of our marriage?"
"It’s difficult when the words were so wise. And I’m only asking for three dates."