Slow Burn Quotes
"We all need to lose ourselves sometimes, don’t we?"
"No one wants to play it safe tonight…. Live a little."
"You must have dated some real winners in your past."
"Sometimes don’t you just want to have a little fun without complications?"
"You know you can call me if you ever need me, right? For anything."
"You’re lucky that your welcome doesn’t include a swift kick in the nuts."
"Yeah, but chasing tail and chasing dreams are two entirely different things."
"I seem to remember the other eighty percent a whole helluva lot more."
"Sorry, but small objects like yours are a choking hazard."
"Hearts to break and high heels to wear, right?"
"When it comes to men, there are only three moods to be had: fuck you, fuck off, and fuck me."
"I love you. To the moon and back's not far enough."
"Everyone deserves to be rescued at some point."
"No strings, then cut the ties … but frankly, I don’t think you know what the fuck you want."
"Don’t be sorry, Had. Never be sorry for needing me."
"You can’t fuck with people’s emotions and expect them to want to be there for you."
"Make sure you taste your words, Dante, before you spit them back out."
"I’m giving you exactly what you asked for, right? One night, no strings."
"It’s weird that he understands just what I need and yet I haven’t asked for a single thing from him."
"As you can tell by my rambling, I’m kind of lonely tonight. Would you mind hanging on the phone with me until I fall asleep? You don’t have to talk or anything. … It’s just nice to know you’re there."
"Minutes pass with just the even rhythm of his breathing and the thumping tail of a dog against what sounds like his mattress. I sink farther into my bed, into the silent comfort of his presence on the other end, and let it wrap around me."
"But damn, just like that first night we met in Las Vegas, I can’t help the one sight my eyes keep drifting to. The one person they keep getting lost on."
"I’d be a stupid bastard not to want her again. Or a blind one."
"I swear there is no way we came from the same mother."
"You leave, Haddie, I’m not chasing you again. So you’d better make sure that’s what you want."
"But at least the tortoise stays hard and has one hell of a shelf life."
"I hate you!" I yell needing more of a reaction to justify my hysterics. "Let. Me. Go!"
"I find consolation in the rhythm of our chests resting against each other’s, from the physical contact that allows me to steal his warmth and use the reassuring beat of his steady heartbeat to soothe my aching soul."
"What the heart wants, the heart takes … even when it knows its owner won’t allow it."
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
"Humans are drawn to each other’s rough edges."
"A life without passion and love is like slowly freezing to death."
"He sees the fire in your eyes and wants to play with it … and that? That’s hard to find since most men would consider that a challenge to their manhood."
"I’ve kinda got a thing for baseball players. They’ve got big, hard sticks."
"It’s not the size of the stick, sweetheart, but how you use it."
"If it didn’t matter, they’d be selling four-inch dildos, now, wouldn’t they?"
"My wife on me would look better, but I’ve gotta take what I can get, right?"
"Life’s all about the amount of laughs and orgasms you can have."
"Don’t you think that’s his decision to make? Why do you get to hold all the cards?"
"I’ve stood by for six months, watching you grieve, but you know what? I’m not going to stand by for another six months while you piss away a chance at living because you’re so focused on the off chance of dying. You’re being ridiculous."
"A quick fuck doesn’t make you forget your own name because you’re so busy moaning mine."
"How selfish does that make me to let us have a chance at more? Love me, and oh, by the way, I’m so fucked in the head right now it took me three months to take the test that’s going to tell me whether or not I’m gonna get breast cancer and die in the next five years?"
"This orgasm is mine. You will not give it to anyone else, even your own hand. I want you strung so goddamn tight, you beg me to fuck you, beg me to own you."
"And hell if I’m going to admit that to Colton, but it’s the truth."
"Wild keeps a man on his toes … causes him to always pay attention, not take a single thing for granted."
"When a man gets complacent, he can lose sight of what matters most."
"I’m not going to make you talk. I could never force you to when whatever it is that puts the look in your eyes you have right now breaks my heart."
"Give us today. Forget whatever it is that’s making you push me away over and over again, and give us a chance."
"Fuck you and your goddamn strings. I may be too cynical to believe in love at first sight, Montgomery, but I believe in the click that happens between two people."
"I focus on those particles shining innocently against the sun’s backdrop. They look so free, so light, and I’d give anything to be one of those right now."
"Fuck you." My tone is low and even, a chill to it that he doesn’t deserve.
"You don’t get to choose the people that care about you. You don’t get to make choices for others, tell them how to feel or, better yet, block them out because of what you think they’ll go through."
"Because when kisses like this are involved, speaking is way the fuck overrated."
"I don’t care how hard you push me, Montgomery. I’m not going anywhere. You don’t have to do whatever this is alone."
"You’d rather stand there and tell me you prefer the numb, the void, the nothing, than admit you need me."
"I was just doing what I thought was best, protecting everyone from more hurt, more everything."
"I don’t know what the hell is going on, Montgomery. I have no fucking clue. You want space? Fine, I’ll give you space, but don’t for one second think I’m buying the fact that you choose that douche bag over me."
"I don’t walk away from the people I love without a fight, and damn it to hell, Haddie Montgomery, you’d better prepare for that fight because I’m in love with you."
"It’s called growing up, in case you haven’t reached that phase yet."
"Warning bells sound louder now, and I’m trying hard to keep the panic from reaching my eyes."
"There will be no taking of anything from me unless it’s my fist in his face."
"Muscles may not be able to make sense of something, but hell if they can’t ache with pain when they’re used and abused."
"Life hasn’t been easy for her this past year."
"Voodoo, bro. Don’t knock it till you try it."
"You don’t disrespect women. Ever. Whether you’re sleeping with them or not."
"I wouldn’t care if you were a Two Buck Chuck bottle … I’ll pick you every time, Haddie. Scars, inability to have kids, bald, sick, emotional … you’re beautiful to me. Every single way. I’ll still pick you every goddamn time."
"You said you wanted to feel for the right reasons … so sit back, do anything but shut up—hell, scream if you want—and let me make you feel to remember … not to forget."
"There are going to be plenty of moments, plenty of days where the cancer is going to get between you and me, but don’t let it ruin this moment. Because right now, you’re just this heartbreakingly gorgeous woman full of fire and spunk, and I’m this mild mannered guy who’s missed the hell out of you. You’re not sick, and I’m not healthy…. We just are."
"The only reason for a man to be behind a woman is because he's checking out her very fine ass."
"Being in the middle of the action’s even better."
"It’s not the sugar or the spice that matters but rather the man who's mixing it."
"I love that feeling, and I love that I’ve only ever felt that way with you."
"Every part of my being sighs at the words he doesn’t need to say because he shows me so handily those feelings in everything he does for me."
"The world stops for me—time stands still—when I put my arms around you."
"We just went a full twelve rounds and finally got the knockout."
"I want to be the first thing you touch in the morning and the last thing you taste at night before you dream."
"Sweet is good, but some girls like a little spice added in."