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I turned my attention back to Jenn and Jackson, and continued my original course, meandering with purpose toward my woman.
"Jackson," I said as I pulled even with them, ensuring my voice was as flat as thetires of his car.
They aren't flat yet, but they will be -- Penny Reid
Who thinks, I'm going to cheat on my girlfriend, but I've got too much of a social conscience to leave my condom wrapper on the floor - heaven forbid I litter. -- Penny Reid
There's no reason to be uncomfortable."
"I'm not uncomfortable. I'm just feeling weird, and I don't know how to un-weird myself."
"Well, don't un-weird yourself on my account. I like you weird. -- Penny Reid
Give me a small intimate gathering of five people, a dinner party, where one-on-one conversations can be had, where people talk about current events, good books, good food, and weird news. That was my idea of a good time. -- Penny Reid
I can't do anything about the fact
that our dreams don't align. And since
I do love you, I want you to live yours. -- Penny Reid
What are you!? A Disney princess?" Ashley's annoyance powered semi-shout surprised the room. She dropped her knitting to her lap and glared at me, apparently sincerely perturbed by Janie's revelation. "Get over yourself! We all have to fall in love more than once - even if it's with the same person. -- Penny Reid
Right ... here's what we'll do: I'll get the kids. You take your shower. After homework and playtime, I'll challenge them to shots until they pass out. Then we'll eat the rest of their Halloween candy while binge-watching Game of Thrones. -- Penny Reid
... I'd never have to wonder what he was thinking or feeling about me. He would be direct and honest.
In truth, I admired this about him. I wasn't nearly as fearless. By comparison, and especially with him, I was a feelings and thoughts hoarder. -- Penny Reid
DEDICATION To my computer: I couldn't have written this without you To the software developers responsible for spellcheck: You are my everyday heroes To Karen: I hope this makes you laugh and makes you proud. To my readers (all 3 of you): Thank you -- Penny Reid
Do you want to tell me what happened? Why were those bikers chasing you?" Jessica's gaze bounced between us.
"They were upset I switched their tampons with Depends." Cletus sounded so serious and reasonable, I almost believed him. And I'd been there. -- Penny Reid
I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week. -- Penny Reid
Tell me what you need," he said between raining soft kisses against my hair, temple, and cheek. "I'll do anything for you. -- Penny Reid
Jethro Winston was my forever person. I would never be strong enough to let him go. -- Penny Reid
I can't wait to taste you." He whispered against my stomach, allowing his hot breath to spill over my chest, sharpen the goose bumps pricking my skin. "I've always wondered what you taste like." I could tell he was speaking mostly to himself, but his words drove me a lot insane. -- Penny Reid
You've had a stick shoved so high up your ass all night, I'm surprised you can't taste it. -- Penny Reid
The protector inside me was frowning while the predator soaked up her discomfort with glee. -- Penny Reid
Maybe love, at its essence, is being a mirror for another person - for the good parts and the bad. Perhaps love is simply finding that one person who sees you clearly, cares for you deeply, challenges you and supports you, and subsequently helps you see and be your true self. -- Penny Reid
I didn't tell her, because I didn't think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it's only when we love others - through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof - that we become found. -- Penny Reid
I imagined that this was what Snow White must've felt like when she woke up in the presence of the seven dwarves.
Seven hovering beards.
Seven sets of bewildered eyes.
Seven inquisitive expressions - partly suspicious, partly amused. -- Penny Reid
Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key. -- Penny Reid
I was still tired, and this day had started out on a bizarre note and was circling the drain of strange. -- Penny Reid
Pretending Tina Patterson was Jessica James was like pretending tofu was steak. -- Penny Reid
... smart, funny, sweet, nice to his family, good looking in an adorable kind of way. -- Penny Reid
Feet are resilient, they're like women that way, -- Penny Reid
He's the man equivalent of a gun to the head, except without the fear for my life aspect. -- Penny Reid
I'd been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery. -- Penny Reid
Being quiet can be louder than shouting.'" I -- Penny Reid
You're a movie star. A celebrity with millions of fans."
"And you're a wildlife ranger who traps giant, dangerous black bears for a living and acts like it's no big deal. Tell me that doesn't sound like a heaping helping of crazy, with bizarre gravy, and a slice of mashed loco for Cocoa Puffs. -- Penny Reid
I don't like to judge people.
I love it.
Writing people completely off was liberating -- Penny Reid
Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. -- Penny Reid
I was drunk at five in the afternoon.
Luckily, we were in Las Vegas. I contemplated the fact that being drunk in Las Vegas was like being sober everywhere else in the world. So... normal. -- Penny Reid
Soon all the leaves would fall, leaving this spot bare and brown. I felt like I was looking at the pinnacle of a particularly dazzling firework as it filled the night sky, just before it lost its shape and faded into darkness. -- Penny Reid
I didn't, because the idea of apologizing felt inadequate. I wasn't sure that I was ready to be forgiven. So I kept quiet and swallowed my guilt. -- Penny Reid
I reached for something to hold on to and ended up leaning against the wall behind me -- Penny Reid
In fact, I'm doubting that love exists. Maybe, as a society, we made it up to explain and justify our unhealthy desire for co-dependence." He -- Penny Reid
Fire burns blue and hot.
Its fair light blinds me not.
Smell of smoke is satisfying, tastes nourishing to my tongue.
I think fire ageless, never old, and yet no longer young.
Morning coals are cool: daylight leaves me blind.
I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind. -- Penny Reid
But when Marie laughed, when her mouth curved in a perfect arch, when her eyes became the combined colors of hydrogen on the visible light spectrum, when the manifestation of happiness as perfect music passed her lips, then time stopped. Just -- Penny Reid
You should get a permit, but don't attempt to outwit, and here's a tidbit." I pointed to my shoulder, "This is my armpit. -- Penny Reid
Sir McHotpants Von Grabby Hands -- Penny Reid
I like you because you are Kaitlyn - genuine, beautiful, brilliant, amazing Kaitlyn - not because you're Kaitlyn Parker. And I'm in love with you because I can't help myself. -- Penny Reid
Agree!" This came from Sandra. "Roses are red, violets are blue, rhyming is hard. Wine. -- Penny Reid
I'm not letting you leave this car
until we make it to second base. At least."
"Jess, you know how good I am at baseball, right? -- Penny Reid
Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me. -- Penny Reid
I kept my attention fixed on Quinn, blinked twice so he would come into focus, -- Penny Reid
Alex the waiter was on my Spank Naughty list in third place, right after Henry Calvill the actor, then Henry Calvill as Superman. He was proof that God existed, and that God loved straight women. -- Penny Reid
You can't tell me that I don't know you. I see you. I see you better than you see yourself. And everything about you is beautiful. -- Penny Reid
If I told you I love you now
How many seconds would it take
How long would you allow
All that I am to break
I turn away
Before you can see
How badly I need you to stay
With me -- Penny Reid
Come with me. I dare you to come with me. Next month, next year, whenever. I dare you to come with me when I go. And stay with me, stay with me always. -- Penny Reid
He was hot like lava and sexy like cake. Wait, like lava cake. Yum. -- Penny Reid
After a short silence, he said, "We grew up together, we're in love, and she's going to marry me."
Quinn choked on the water he'd just brought to his lips, drawing everyone's attention to him. He recovered quickly, replaced the glass, and stared at Nico as though he were an alien -- Penny Reid
Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others. -- Penny Reid
Does he give you zings in your things? -- Penny Reid
Almost immediately I told that voice to go eat shit and die. -- Penny Reid
I always struggled with opening single-serving items such as bags of M&M's or condoms. -- Penny Reid
These stubborn people and their demands were like cracker crumbs in my beard: irritating and flaky. -- Penny Reid
marriage is an ultimate sport in emotional multitasking. I'm never only mad at Greg. I'm mad and madly in love; angry and concerned for his wellbeing; he frustrates and delights me in the same second. We were arguing, but we were still a team. -- Penny Reid
We don't believe in false pleasantries around these parts, nor do we kick a fella when he's down. So I'll just say, bless your heart, and leave it at that. -- Penny Reid
No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George. -- Penny Reid
I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want us to be - "
"Smart," he finished for me, his resentful gaze softening as it moved over my face. " I know. You always want to be smart and do the right thing. But the problem is, Parker ... I just want you. -- Penny Reid
I'm not talking about the girl who wants to have fun and a good time with no strings attached. I'm talking about the girl who's looking for a free ride after the ride ends. -- Penny Reid
What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sowing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl. -- Penny Reid
The driver asked me where I wanted to go; I wanted to say Las Vegas but I didn't think that would go over very well -- Penny Reid
I recognized him instantly even though the last time I saw him in person he was seventeen, naked, and asleep. I was sixteen, haphazardly dressed, and sneaking out his window. -- Penny Reid
As usual - when we really kissed - I lost track of my surroundings, the operation of my limbs, and the functionality of my vocal chords. I may have started to climb him. -- Penny Reid
With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words. -- Penny Reid
I stared at him and, for the first time, I felt like I was really seeing him. He didn't love me. He used the word love like a weapon, as a means of control, as a way to ensure my blind obedience. He made it ugly. He -- Penny Reid
have no judgment for Wendells; in fact, I applaud their stamina and ability to provide excellent service to so many women. It seems like a very efficient and generous use of resources. -- Penny Reid
If I ever cheated on my wife, I think she'd have my balls cut off. If you don't want to castrate this guy after what he's done, then he's not the one for you. -- Penny Reid
When a guy sees a car he likes,
all he can think about is getting under the hood or taking her for a ride. -- Penny Reid
I'd been sleeping for twenty-two years. I felt like, for the first time in my life, I was finally conscious. Life was finally happening. I was making it happen. I -- Penny Reid
Martin wasn't smiling, but his eyes were warm and interested. "Do you always talk like that?"
"Like what? Like awesome?"
"Yeah, like awesome. -- Penny Reid
Greg crossed to me, his gaze moving in a slow, cherishing path over my features. "If you knew how I saw you, how I think of you, your ego would become unmanageable. -- Penny Reid
I was making pie.
I didn't usually make pie, but I was waiting for the bread to rise so I could knead it again. I'd woken up with a thirst for violence. Cutting the butter into the flour for pie crust was almost as good as kneading bread. -- Penny Reid
You're my beginning, middle, and end. -- Penny Reid
So the man told you the truth, and now you're surprised to discover he didn't lie. -- Penny Reid
Fiona?"
I closed my eyes, imagining his face. My heart gave another painful tug. "Yes, Greg?"
"Tell me you feel it, too. -- Penny Reid
I wasn't wondering whether you had a lip fungus, but thank you for getting that awkward conversation out of the way. -- Penny Reid
Don't Drink and DERIVE, Alcohol and Calculus Don't Mix, -- Penny Reid
I was never one of those girls who could go comfortably braless; there was too much jiggle in my wiggle. -- Penny Reid
How could I have looked at her with anything but wonder and respect and desire? -- Penny Reid
You like me witless?"
"Let's just say it evens the playing field a little. -- Penny Reid
Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance. -- Penny Reid
And when you're ready to cut his balls off, I will provide the knife. -- Penny Reid
Four a whore does not you make. -- Penny Reid
When we were locked and loaded, he led the way and we jogged in silence.
Actually, I jogged in silence, my feet and movements soundless. Greg jogged like a large man who used to be a Marine.
Crunch.
Crash.
Smash.
Snap.
Crack.
Amateur. -- Penny Reid
you are the only boat in this regatta. -- Penny Reid
If I let another person's opinion matter then I was giving him control over me; I alone had complete control over my self-image. -- Penny Reid
Over the years I'd learned absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitude. However, absence does make the body greedy and irrationally amorous with frustrated need. -- Penny Reid
Have you ever seen someone and thought to yourself, Whoa, he's hot! I'd like to screw his brains out. And then, you talk to the guy and realize someone already has? -- Penny Reid
My head said no and my vagina said yes and my heart said I DON'T KNOW!! I'M EMOTIONALLY INHIBTED! LEAVE ME ALONE!!! -- Penny Reid
I scoffed, enjoying myself far too much, my heart and stomach fluttering together, in cahoots like squealing fangirls. -- Penny Reid
I don't think of you as perfect.
"Oh ... ok." My eyelashes blinked in rapid succession and my brain started compiling the list of
all my imperfections, "It's because of my height? My seepage of trivial facts? My granny panties- -- Penny Reid
How is your nose?" I asked, anxious and feeling guilty that I might have caused my friend harm.
"Fine. It's not broken. Thank God for that. It would be the fourth time, and I really like the job the last guy did resetting it. -- Penny Reid
Dedication Do you love Janie and Quinn? If so, this book is dedicated to you. *fist bump* *high five* *bottom pat* ... too far? -- Penny Reid
I liked this about Drew: always to the point when talking about business, but always philosophical when talking about life. Attending his birthday party had been a priority since I met him four years ago -- Penny Reid
I do quite like the idea of mutual ownership. -- Penny Reid
Maybe Jethro, Claire, and I can live together in harmony. Maybe she can be my sister wife. Yes. That was the answer. She could have her pretty farmhouse and custody of Jethro on Sundays. I could have him the rest of the week. And if she touched him, I would claw her eyes out. Perfect. -- Penny Reid
Jethro huffed a laugh and shook his head. "You know, Beau. You're a lot more like Cletus then you let on."
"Thank you." Beau grinned at me. "In lightof recent events, I'll take that as a compliment. -- Penny Reid
What I didn't expect was that she would recognize that I needed to be held accountable.
I needed it.
I needed accountability so that I could change. -- Penny Reid
Why does everything good happen when I'm not there? I swear, the next time Janie's hot boyfriend saves ya'll from neck-tattooed skinheads, ya'll better wait 'til I'm done with my shift or else I'm gonna be pissed. -- Penny Reid
soups are the food equivalent of a warm hug -- Penny Reid
I felt dichotomously dismayed and dazedly giddy by the prospect. -- Penny Reid
When things are fantastic, it's hard not to expect that the worst is waiting to pounce on you from a dark corner. -- Penny Reid
Congratulations, Jethro. She's sweet on you. You've just taken one the world's most famous role models of feminine independence and turned her into a giddy, flustered mess of hormones. -- Penny Reid
Cell phones, like the other social media constructs of our time, encourage the collecting of so-called friends and contacts similar to how my grandmother used to collect teacups and put them on display in her china cabinet. Only now, the teacups are people, and the china cabinet is Facebook. -- Penny Reid
Allow me to take a moment to express my appreciation for Cletus Winston and his entrances. -- Penny Reid
Your birthday gift to me is to place me in the middle of an art heist so that I can taser someone?" He nodded, smiling, looking very proud. "Thank you, Alex. I mean it. I ... I just love you so much. -- Penny Reid
I was looking at my past self through the one-way interrogation window of my current self, and it caused me to experience the strange sadness that accompanies helplessness. If only I could have told teenage Elizabeth that none of it actually mattered. It all seemed to matter so much at the time. -- Penny Reid
Stop it." Cletus snapped his fingers in front of our faces. "I hate it when you two mind-meld through your eyeballs. -- Penny Reid
I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar. -- Penny Reid
I couldn't help myself as the words tumbled out. It was a sickness. -- Penny Reid
Life was not good. In fact, it was shitzterhozen - hozen full of shitzter. I wanted to heckle life.
Boo-o-o and hiss-s-s! -- Penny Reid
... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters. -- Penny Reid
Realization of his philandering arrived via an empty condom wrapper tucked in the back pocket of his jeans as I, the dutifully dumb girlfriend, decided to do him a favor by throwing some of his laundry in with mine. -- Penny Reid
He was so silly. So I said, Duane, you are so silly. -- Penny Reid
As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six. -- Penny Reid
DEDICATION
To the very capable engineers responsible for Microsoft Windows 10.
Bless your hearts.
Bless. Your. Hearts. -- Penny Reid
I know you want adventure, I know you want to see the world. But love is the greatest adventure, where you risk the most for the greatest reward. What good will all this exceptional living do if you're doing it only for yourself? -- Penny Reid
But love is the greatest adventure, where you risk the most for the greatest reward. -- Penny Reid
Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies. -- Penny Reid
Now, Diane, leave her alone." My father's voice sounded from down the hall and I heard his footsteps approach. Soon he was also in the doorway. He gave me a quick once-over and nodded. "She looks really good. Hopefully he'll be concentrating on the way she looks so she doesn't have to talk so much. -- Penny Reid
I inhaled slowly and thought about making a joke about how the NSA doesn't really need to call anyone; they just interrupt while you're already on the phone. -- Penny Reid
Proposing is like giving someone your dick and a sharp knife, then waiting to see what they do next. -- Penny Reid
Nothing screams lady-mind-porn like a hot, shirtless, sexy man doing dishes after giving her a reason to be exhausted. -- Penny Reid
I finally shook myself out of my reticence.
He was just a boy. He was harmless. He had a girlfriend who was gorgeous and sociable. I would calibrate my smiles and interactions to friendship or acquaintance level. No big deal. -- Penny Reid
She was a superhero. She was my hero. Therefore, moments when she allowed herself to display vulnerability were distressing. It was like watching Superman struggle through a bout of kryptonite exposure. -- Penny Reid
My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs' turn to roll the dice. -- Penny Reid
When I was younger, I wanted plenty of things, plenty of people, until I realized there was no point in wanting. Since then, I've never had something I wanted, not really. Not 'til you. -- Penny Reid
And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you've been assigned by people who might love you, but don't really know who you are anymore. -- Penny Reid
Jethro had been the disappointment.
I'd been the clown.
Individually we had become more.
But together and with each other, we didn't need to be our labels.
We were free to just be ourselves. -- Penny Reid
She was a line usurper and a bully. I wasn't in the mood to be bullied or usurped. -- Penny Reid
Janie makes me a better person."
She gave mea small smile before she turned to the front of the chapel. "You make yourself a better person. Janie is just a reminder of why it's worth it. -- Penny Reid
I'd once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father's ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women. -- Penny Reid
However, the more stressful my situation is, the less I think about it, or anything related to it. At present , I thought about how the elevators were like mechanical horses, and I wondered if anyone loved them or named them. -- Penny Reid
Boy bands are sent by God to aid women of all ages in their quest to avoid reality, but specifically to trick young women into believing that males think about topics other than sex. -- Penny Reid
I'm sure you're used to the deafening sound of underwear hitting the floor every time you enter the room. -- Penny Reid
I walked into Elizabeth's apartment feeling like a zombie. I needed brains. -- Penny Reid
Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature. -- Penny Reid
Sorry, sometimes when I try to rhyme I end up sounding like Yoda. -- Penny Reid
Absence makes the heart suicidal. -- Penny Reid
If you ignored a cake's personality the cake would ignore you. It'll be a rude, boring cake. I -- Penny Reid
Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels - may make your panties explode. -- Penny Reid
My heart keeps finding new ways to love you. -- Penny Reid
Oh . . ." I nodded faintly, my throat suddenly dry. I attempted a smile. -- Penny Reid
Duane pulled a chair out for me and claimed the seat adjacent as I sat. Or, I tried to sit. I didn't know quite how to sit. Sitting suddenly felt weird. I was super-conscious of my limbs. -- Penny Reid
It's ok to be gifted at using people if you're using them for good. -- Penny Reid
We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. -- Penny Reid
Quinn, that's the ring from downstairs!" I hissed in a loud whisper because I was afraid of the answer. "Did you steal that ring? -- Penny Reid
I hope you wander into a hornet's nest and die of an acetylcholineoverdose," I spat.
"You say the prettiest things. -- Penny Reid
Stop what?"
"Stop having an entire discussion without me. -- Penny Reid
There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it's not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion - everything is distant and removed. Maybe -- Penny Reid
He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche. -- Penny Reid
He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners. -- Penny Reid
I once went on a date with a guy who chewed with his mouth open. It was like sitting across from a garbage disposal. -- Penny Reid
I didn't want to be peed on. -- Penny Reid
Men live simply, but are not simple. Boys are simple, but do not live simply. -- Penny Reid
Of course I was wearing my compelling red dress, thigh-high stockings, borrowed zebra print stilettos, black pushup bra, and nothing else.
This was war. -- Penny Reid
You've shown me joy where before I saw only despair. You've taught me hope where before I knew only hopelessness. I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. And I'll work every day of my life to deserve you. -- Penny Reid
You'll always have the advantage of me, Jenn. Because I'm lost without you. -- Penny Reid
Thanks for being such a bully." I flattened my expression. "I wasn't a bully. I was merely a persistent peddler of holiday cheer. -- Penny Reid
Crap.
She's going to cry.
This was a situation that required neutralizing. I placed my hand over hers and gave her a squeeze.
"There, there." Fruit cake. "Calm down - -- Penny Reid
Parker, what are you doing?" "Making a funny face in an effort to make you stop staring at me like I murdered your beloved goldfish. -- Penny Reid
He didn't miss a beat. "Is this an interview?"
"Yes."
"What job am I applying for?"
"The job of my dance and life partner - figuratively, literally, horizontally, vertically, and hopefully, laterally. And, depending on how flexible you are, diagonally. -- Penny Reid
No. Since I first saw you. Since I first laid eyes on you and felt sorry for every beautiful thing that was made no longer resplendent - nullified by your being. -- Penny Reid
She was also wearing brown high-heeled boots, the kind that don't make sense.
Boots are for working, for walking through wet mud, for keeping feet from getting shredded by brokenglass and falling machine parts.Boots with spiked heels were just as practical as sandals with steel toes -- Penny Reid
I exist as many things. All of them are in love with you. -- Penny Reid
I was down to my lacy black bra and matching, thankfully, modest boy shorts first.
Ashley was next. "Thank god I shaved yesterday!"
Sandra was stripped to her underwear soon after. "I didn't, but I need to. No one look at my downtown. -- Penny Reid
Don't change a thing. God, Jess. Don't change a single thing. Be wild for me, be reckless. I love your kind of wild. -- Penny Reid
I had the abrupt sensation of falling, lost my breath, worried briefly that I'd never catch it again. The more we were together, the further and faster I fell. His gaze was steady yet scorching - which explained why I was melting beneath it. -- Penny Reid
Marie," he whispered against my hair.
"Yes?" I closed my eyes, bracing.
"You're holding me too tight."
"Oh, sorry." I loosened my arms, having to use a mental crowbar in the process. -- Penny Reid
When people are overwhelmed, they can't see past their own campfire. -- Penny Reid
A little voice in the back of my head said, Don't trust him! You're not special! You're weird and awkward and a bigheaded Neanderthal freak with Medusa hair! He's confused you with someone else! Almost immediately, I told that voice to eat shit and die. -- Penny Reid
I turned, feeling steady but somewhat dazed, and looked from the hand, now on my elbow, up the strong arm, around the curve of the bulky shoulder, and over the angular jaw and chin, until my eyes met the breath-hijacking sight of Sir Handsome McHotpants's piercing blue eyes. I cringed. -- Penny Reid
His eyes always seemed to be a shade of up-to-no-good blue. -- Penny Reid
His gaze was impossibly kind as he said, Then, daughter dear, call me Dad. -- Penny Reid
And why did men insist on buying the largest size? Didn't they understand the concept of sizes? Did they think buying a magnum sized condom was going to fool me into thinking their Toyota Camery was an aircraft carrier? -- Penny Reid
He half said, half mumbled, "I'm not that nice. -- Penny Reid
Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other. -- Penny Reid
Magazines wanted Jessica Rabbit - the animated character - not real women. Heck, even supermodels weren't good enough anymore. Real women didn't sell magazines. Unrealistic and unhealthy images of female beauty sold magazines. -- Penny Reid
Why do you love it? I had a sense that I would enjoy her answer. I knew it would be unexpected and unique. Everything about her was unexpected and unique. She was my bright light of eccentricity in a very predictable and ordinary world. She made everything new and interesting or funny. -- Penny Reid
Love you, Quinn Sullivan. You are precious to me, and I will love you always. And if I die before you, I plan to haunt you -- Penny Reid
I know it hurts, honey." Mom flipped off the gas stove and wiped her hands on her apron, turning to face me fully. "And it's okay to hurt. Hurting is just as much a part of life as joy, maybe even more important. Falling down teaches you how to stand up." I -- Penny Reid
I hated longing. I hated it almost as much as I hated pining. It sapped the mind of good judgment, filled the heart with achiness, and distracted the vagina from other potential conquests. -- Penny Reid
God, Quinn, you have no idea how permanent I'd like this to be. I'd like us to be Twinkies and cockroaches, death and taxes. -- Penny Reid
I was determined to stay off the see-saw of crazy -- Penny Reid
Go then." I shrugged. "And if you lock yourself out of your car don't call me. I won't be answering my cell phone. -- Penny Reid
You make me want to be less of an asshole. -- Penny Reid
I will die happy here, today, in this spot," she sighed. "In your puddle of lust." "Leave my puddle of lust alone. Get your own puddle. -- Penny Reid
I faced the hallway. My feet and my brain discussed the situation very, very briefly, a la:
Feet: He's right there.
Brain: Go get him.
Feet: Rodger that, we're on our way.
Then my feet moved me toward the open door of the office. -- Penny Reid
I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake. -- Penny Reid
I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word 'moisture' or even 'moist' from the English language; I really hated the way it sounded and always went out of my way to avoid saying it. I also really didn't like the word slacks, -- Penny Reid
Greg's eyes narrowed on me, but this mouth curved to one side. I don't know ... that feels like something Hitler would say. -- Penny Reid
They've got to have backups on the cloud, or the mist, or whatever it's called. -- Penny Reid
A brief silence followed, during which the reality of my present situation crashed over me.
I was alone. I was alone with Cletus Winston. I was alone with Cletus Winston and no one knew where I was.
Oh. Shit. -- Penny Reid
But I want to be your only source of romantic situations from this point forward. -- Penny Reid
Nothing was worse than a handsome guy who became an ignorant toad when he spoke. -- Penny Reid
We're taking it a hundred miles north.
That's a hundred miles closer to where you are.
I've decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit.
With you there are only two distances that matter:
Here.
Not here.
You are not here. -- Penny Reid
He asked questions periodically; the moon space elevator in particular drew an avalanche of questions. When I didn't have all the answers I promised I would email him a link to the NASA update page for the project. -- Penny Reid
When does something man-made cease being synthetic, and become real? -- Penny Reid
Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water. -- Penny Reid
Then again, back when I was an addict I turned to alcohol for every occasion. Just got good news? Have a drink to celebrate. Just got bad news? Have a drink to commiserate. "It's -- Penny Reid
What do you call each other? What are your pet names? Dearest? Turtledove? Thor? Herr Handsome of my heart? Lizard of my labia? Captain of my clitoris? -- Penny Reid
She's my BFF, do you know what that means? It means: Boy I will fuck up your face if you mess with my girl. -- Penny Reid
You'll be tactile, and I'll be clingy, and we'll be very happy just as long as we sleep in a twin bed and call each other seventeen hundred times a day. -- Penny Reid
To friendscorts. Like escorts, but without the cash. -- Penny Reid
When did you know?"
I watched him take a breath, and with it all pretense fell away. All his walls, all his cleverness, all his grandstanding and pretending. He looked vulnerable, and it made my chest ache.
"When I saw you ... -- Penny Reid
Touching her now, after her gratifyingly loud and spectacularly animated release, calmed me even as it stoked a frenzied fire of need. I wanted to touch her everywhere. And for always. What -- Penny Reid
Call it wine, call it Quinn-sniff induced obscurity -- Penny Reid
Quinn, you sound like a monologuing supervillain. -- Penny Reid
I wanted to explore this part of myself for me, not in spite of or because of another person. If I was going to change my style or add to it, I wanted to do it because of how it made me feel. Not because I wanted to make someone else feel better or view me differently. -- Penny Reid
You want to get breakfast?" Like- like this?"
He gave me a small sardonic smile as he turned, "No, obviously I'll get some clothes on. -- Penny Reid
Also, hon, you may not have been as transparent with your advances as you believe. I've seen you, you're not a skilled flirter. It's usually hard to watch -- Penny Reid
This is what I'm talking about. I don't know if we can call a truce. All we know how to do is argue."
"You say that like it's a bad thing."
"Isn't it?"
"Jessica," he whispered, "arguing with you is one of my favourite things to do. -- Penny Reid
I sputtered for a minute. Then I consulted the ceiling. It was silent on the matter and, strangely, didn't seem to share my outrage. -- Penny Reid
Only you get to decide how you stand, what you stand for, and when you do it. -- Penny Reid
Fiona: "I agree with Janie. If we have to put up with a grumpy Quinn all year, then we should be able to use his plane for emergencies. -- Penny Reid
Why are you crying, Marie?
I didn't know.
I honestly had no idea.
Feelings? Whoremones? Maybe a nearby, but as of yet unseen onion? -- Penny Reid
Being in love is a lot like being hacked. -- Penny Reid
You don't need a big trip to have an adventure. There's plenty of adventure to be had right here.
If you can't have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you'll have an adventure anywhere else?
Truth or beard -- Penny Reid
I shook myself, trying to figure out what I should do and who I should be. Defaulting to pragmatic me was easiest because it was where I lived most of the time. I was good at bottling my frustrations and disappointments, especially when they didn't really matter.
- brought tears to my eyes btw - -- Penny Reid
I love you wildly, madly, completely, Fiona Archer," he growled, then groaned on a broken breath. "I love you always. -- Penny Reid
Do you want a margarita? I'm making them with Limoncello and Petron. -- Penny Reid
You're the girl that guys like us, if we're smart and if we're lucky that is, you're the girl we marry. You're the marriage girl. -- Penny Reid
And how he'd asked me to expand on the seamless intercourse between government bodies, they all gasped. -- Penny Reid
And, by the way, thank you for drugging me with Ketamine in Nigeria. He now thinks I'm a recreational drug user." "You're . . . welcome? -- Penny Reid
I shook my head, feeling like a natural disaster on mute. -- Penny Reid
I saw his eyes widen and his mouth fall open and his expression change from stoic to stunned.
Quinn Sullivan had lost his composure.
He looked completely astonished and it took my entire slow march down the aisle for him to recover -- Penny Reid
Your jokes are terrible."
Greg grinned, walking me backwards into my suite and wagging his eyebrows he corrected me, "It's pronounced
tremendous. -- Penny Reid
I returned to my pillow and comforter, both of which I loved; they smelled like lavender, and were so cozy, poems should be written about their epic cozy wonder. I snuggled against their softness and willed away the touch of anxiety I felt about my mom's strange behavior. -- Penny Reid
It is a universally acknowledged, inalienable truth that a knitter faced with the unadorned neck, head, and hands of a person she cares for feels an overwhelming compulsion to smother that person in fancy hand-knits. -- Penny Reid
For some reason it always irked me when people felt it necessary to draw attention to my height as though I wasn't aware of my larger than average stature. I once responded: "Yes, and you're very small." but that didn't go over very well, even though in that situation it was true. -- Penny Reid
I was always running after her, but this time I wasn't going to let her get away. -- Penny Reid
Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause. -- Penny Reid
He wanted me. I wanted him. This was a frightening and thrilling prospect, because when I pushed him, he pushed back. -- Penny Reid
It means my brain finds you more interesting than all the really interesting trivial facts I could be contemplating or researching at present. -- Penny Reid
I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true. -- Penny Reid
It was horrible and senseless, and I now felt the sudden need to drink scotch, brood, and read Edgar Allen Poe or the ending to Hamlet. Maybe I would top it all off with some YouTube videos of drowning kittens while listening to Radiohead. -- Penny Reid
A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister. -- Penny Reid
I decided, as I succumbed to sleep, that men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons. -- Penny Reid
I treasure my sleep over the wellbeing or interests of my loved ones -- Penny Reid
Just because someone is an idiot doesn't mean they're a bad person. And just because someone is smart doesn't mean they're good. -- Penny Reid
I wasn't a hypocrite - well, everyone is a hypocrite, but I was trying hard to be less of one. -- Penny Reid
My heart twisted then leapt as he wet his bottom lip just before drawing the succulent flesh into his mouth, between his teeth, and biting.
That's right, bite that lip.
I almost groaned. -- Penny Reid
I liked sleeping on the couch; it made every night seem like a sleepover. I liked the non-permanence of it. -- Penny Reid
Derek gave me a look that was part sheepish, but mostly whatcha-gonna-do, amiright? -- Penny Reid
Because you scratched my itch and then you kissed me - both of which freaked me out because neither of which are in the course syllabus for laboratory experiments this semester. And, furthermore - -- Penny Reid
He was a superhot vigilante. "Oh, Quinn ... ." I gave him a sympathetic smile. "You really are Batman. -- Penny Reid
I gagged instinctively, covering my mouth with my hand, but I also laughed. Through my fingers I mumbled, "It's like there's a party going on in my mouth, and everyone is throwing up. -- Penny Reid
His pasty, white wang. Gross. -- Penny Reid
You'll have to read the book, and don't interrupt me. It's distracting enough looking at you. You've already derailed my brain train with your face several times. -- Penny Reid
All girls should be treated with respect regardless of whether or not they're virgins. Being a virgin doesn't make me any more or less worthwhile than a non-virgin. -- Penny Reid
For all my bravado, when I fell, I fell hard. I fell fast. I fell stupid. I invested too much too soon. My capacity for giving was matched only by their capacity for taking. -- Penny Reid
Seriously, big guy, you just need to make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here. -- Penny Reid
I was planning to sort my comic books based on level of second wave feminist influence." "As opposed to first wave?" "Yes, well, Susan B. Anthony laid the foundation for those who have come after. It's all really interrelated but she didn't have direct influence over late twentieth century comics. -- Penny Reid
Only you can compare a relationship to a disease and make it sound both romantic and terminal. -- Penny Reid
You're Catholic, right? What do the Catholics say?"
Nico lifted an eyebrow and regarded Sandra with sparkly eyes. "I'm not the Lorax of Catholics. I don't speak for the trees of the faithful. That's why we have the Pope. -- Penny Reid
My smile grew. "Yeah. Me and Drew."
His eyes narrowed. "Is it serious?"
I nodded, my smile morphing into a giant grin. "Yep. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a chronic condition. -- Penny Reid
Sure, but don't expect great observations. Mostly I just looked for dirty pictures hidden within the artwork. Did you know Monet put a boob in all his paintings? Apples and Grapes - get it? I mean, come on. The guy was a horn-dog. -- Penny Reid
If you don't fight for what you love, then you have nothing worth losing. *** -- Penny Reid
In all honesty, I'd enjoyed the horse ride more than the man ride. At least the horse had been a stallion. Looking back, my lab TA was more like a Shetland pony - hairy and small. -- Penny Reid
Holy hotness, Batman. -- Penny Reid
And, when it was time for Meg to give her statement, I punched her in the face. -- Penny Reid
It's not the wanting part that makes you crazy. It's the blackmailing-me-into-marrying-you-and-giving-you-a-baby that brings your mental health into question." Jennifer -- Penny Reid
You and your saying of sweet things, it does something to me. You do something to me."
Jethro's mouth hitched to the side with a pleased smile. "Happy to hear it. Because when I'm with you, I feel like I'm both flying and falling. -- Penny Reid
As much as the idea of collaring and leashing you sounds promising, the purpose of the phone is to ensure you're reachable." I interrupted him. "You mean bound and restrained." "Janie, if I wanted to restrain you, I'd use rope. -- Penny Reid
I swear whatever pheromones Quinn Sullivan secreted were the equivalent of Janie-cat-nip. -- Penny Reid
There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- Penny Reid
Life is alphabet soup, Elizabeth. Eat that soup." *** -- Penny Reid
Everything could be reasoned away or made to look silly with enough rational scrutiny. Faith, love, hope, lust, anger, sadness, compassion - everything. -- Penny Reid
They're stackable, like Tetris. All beverages should be stackable. -- Penny Reid
No one makes all good choices, and everyone makes mistakes. -- Penny Reid
Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts. -- Penny Reid
We see the strengths and faults in others that we do not or cannot recognize in ourselves. -- Penny Reid
Tonight the silence sounds like a scream. If you were here, we could chase it away with our whispers. - -- Penny Reid
You're angry with me." I heard him sigh.
"I'm not angry. I don't get angry."
"Then you do a really good impression of angry. -- Penny Reid
You don't know love?"
"No."
"But you're so certain that this is it, that what we have - what we're doing - that this is us in love?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because it's what love should be. -- Penny Reid
So, as you can see and if you reflect on it, awkward headed-females mating with beautifully normal headed-males is a bad idea. -- Penny Reid
I just feel sorry for men now. It must be frustrating to be so feeble and limited. -- Penny Reid
Why'd he pull you over, Duane?" This question came from Billy.
"He's an idiot. He said my tail light was out."
"Is your tail light out?"
"Yes. But he's still an idiot. -- Penny Reid
If we were in Victorian England I would have called him dashing;but, since we lived in the 21st century I would have to settle for the wordier GQ model hot. -- Penny Reid
I have these big feelings for you and they make me clumsy. When I couldn't do anything with them, it made me sad. Everything about what I feel for you is new to me. -- Penny Reid
I was starting to understand why the blood of a thousand virgins had been sacrificed at his altar of sexual prowess. -- Penny Reid
Watch out, knitters have balls.... -- Penny Reid
Settle your feathers, crusty britches. We -- Penny Reid
Where I'm from," Tom tilted his head to the side, "they call your kind a hipster or a lumbersexual, with the beard and flannel and such."
Without missing beat, Jethro responded, "Ah. See, where I'm from, they call my kind a man. -- Penny Reid
Road trips can either suck monkey balls or, with the right person, they can be awesomesauce with cheesy fries. -- Penny Reid
That was also weird. Everything was weird."
"Stop using the word weird. You do your vocabulary no justice. -- Penny Reid
For some strange reason which should have alarmed me, I found him completely enchanting. -- Penny Reid
but applying logic to love is like buttering a pig before you slaughter it. -- Penny Reid
I tried to shrug, but I'm sure
it looked like a minor seizure. -- Penny Reid
Did you really just say 'by the mighty power of Thor'?" "I'm trying to cuss less. -- Penny Reid
Is this place home?"
"No, Duane .. You are. -- Penny Reid
aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something... and gained something else. -- Penny Reid
I've never been a fan of funerals for more than the obvious reasons. Of the emotions, mourning in particular feels like something that should be sacred and intensely private. -- Penny Reid
has been no one else since you. No one." His mouth was hot on my skin, devouring me. "You're all I think about, all I want. You are everything. -- Penny Reid
Although it seemed like such a simple thing, for the first time in my life I realized the importance of an introduction. An introduction by a mutual friend buys instant credibility, especially when the mutual friend was universally liked - as -- Penny Reid
Me. Time with my thoughts, especially when I'm anxious, doesn't work to my advantage. -- Penny Reid
They didn't push you out, Shelly. You pushed them away. But you should know that your family loves you, and that includes me now. You have a family that will forgive you, but you have to want forgiveness. When you're ready, when you want it, we'll be waiting. -- Penny Reid
Look! It's Quinn's card! He gave it to me last night before we left the club."
I stared at it for a minute before I responded, "Oh. Are you going to call him? -- Penny Reid
I feel like the rest of the male body makes a lot of sense. And then ... balls. -- Penny Reid
I want to be your first everything. -- Penny Reid
I suppose if the relationship is between two people who are keeping score, then you are right - there will be a winner and a loser. However, if no one is keeping score, then no one loses. -- Penny Reid
You're callous because you have to be. Because otherwise you'd be bleeding all the time -- Penny Reid
Sandra ... ." He blinked then opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again. "This says, I married Sandra Fielding, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
"Yep. -- Penny Reid
Yes?" "My heart keeps discovering new ways to love you," he whispered, like it was a secret. A magnificent, beautiful, perfect secret. -- Penny Reid
Cletus Winston is madly in love with me. *** -- Penny Reid
Cletus's famous sausage is famous." Cletus's -- Penny Reid
I'd kiss you but I don't want our beards to tangle. -- Penny Reid
Cletus's middle name wasn't "Evasive", but it should have been. Another -- Penny Reid
When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow. -- Penny Reid
I might cry later, at home, while watching Steel Magnolias and dressed like a homeless person. Sometimes I applied mascara before crying just to heighten the experience. -- Penny Reid
Over the last several days, I'd done a fair amount of practiced focusing on my present state of "lesness" - homelessness, joblessness and relationshiplessness. Less was not more. Less was an unstable, uncomfortable place to be. -- Penny Reid
You want to know what you are to me? Fine. You're my beginning, middle, and end." The -- Penny Reid
The apartment was a disaster.
A consummate disaster.
If mess-making were an Olympic sport, this mess would have won the bronze medal, maybe the silver. -- Penny Reid
Duct tape is man's answer to electrons and protons. It's how we keep matter together. -- Penny Reid
After found condom wrapper was smacked to his forehead by my palm, -- Penny Reid
I know how birth control works, big brother, and - spoiler alert - putting a wrapper on the banana is ninety-nine percent effective. -- Penny Reid
How can you tell the sun doesn't feel good ... it's not so hot. -- Penny Reid
You have to know that I'm in love with you, you have to know that I've loved you since we were kids, since before I can remember. -- Penny Reid
Kaitlyn Parker has popped Martin Sandeke's spooning cherry." I felt his smile grow just before he said, "It's only fair. I hope to pop your forking cherry. -- Penny Reid
Only if you stop using the F-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it. -- Penny Reid
He smiled. It was small and magnetic. I took a mental snapshot; spending time with him confirmed my suspicion that Duane's smiles were few and should be treasured. I -- Penny Reid
I don't know what to get Quinn for Christmas."
"You - in a bow." Nico said this deadpan. "Maybe forget the bow. -- Penny Reid
Why do people care about each other? What is attraction? I can't give you a list of reasons why I react to you like I do. This isn't an equation to balance. You're the one I'm always thinking about. It's you. It just is." "You -- Penny Reid
Over the past forty days, I think I grieved for her every hour. In a way, I grieved for her before she died. And now that she was gone, I grieved for her still. Part of me wondered, however, if the grief would have been sharper, more debilitating, if I hadn't been given the month to say goodbye. -- Penny Reid
My name is Alex, and I'll be serving you tonight. -- Penny Reid
If it's within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself - or even at great expense - then you should, especially when you love that person. -- Penny Reid
We're having a big wedding so we can be miserable together before we're happy together. -- Penny Reid
I could have gotten away with it, I would have given her a 24-karat gold necklace that read Property of Quinn Sullivan -- Penny Reid
Middling brothers. Goddamn chickens, the lot of them. -- Penny Reid
They weren't making decisions; they may as well have been curtains. There -- Penny Reid
One of the nice things - or not so nice things, depending on your perspective - about not having a cell phone is that you have to know people's phone numbers. Additionally, it keeps you from making meaningless acquaintances. -- Penny Reid
"So, passive-aggressive is how you're going to play this?"
"Well, it's either that or aggressive-aggressive. And I'd prefer not to be arrested for domestic violence today. Maybe tomorrow. -- Penny Reid
Think of how much better the world would be if people craved compliments about the beauty of their heart rather than the beauty of their face. The -- Penny Reid
So you created firewalls for mob bosses? As an aside, if I started a band, Mob Boss Firewall would be an excellent name. -- Penny Reid
Love is, I decided, being a sidekick -- Penny Reid
Anger was essential because otherwise I was just tremendously sad. Bitterness and anger provided harvestable energy, something on which to focus, something through which to work. Sadness simply left me adrift. But -- Penny Reid
Bullshit was the adult version of Santa Claus. For reasons I'll never comprehend, the general population seemed to enjoy wallowing, spouting, and believing in bullshit. -- Penny Reid
I saw an opportunist in banana-cake clothing. Let the record show, I did not roll my eyes. Schooling -- Penny Reid
My momma once told me, you don't need to be pushed in order to fall. I don't think you'll need to do much pushing, Jessica. -- Penny Reid
You took one commercial flight, Steven. One." "Shhh!" he pressed his finger to his lips and loud whispered, "He'll hear you." I glanced to my right and left. "Who will hear me?" "Manuel, the plane. -- Penny Reid
He smirked, his lids lowering to half-mast. Twinkling, hot-lava, sexy cake, sex-on-a-stick, obscene levels of charisma. -- Penny Reid
So she's like Redbull? She gives you wings?" He lifted a teasing eyebrow.
I shook my head. "More like she's the sun, and she makes every minute better than the last -- Penny Reid
We're not pumpkins. We're stunning autumn gourds. -- Penny Reid
I can tell you there are as many kinds of love in the world as there are stars in the sky. -- Penny Reid
You're wicked smart. And cool. And drama free, which is a huge deal. Drama free is at the top of my list these days. You can be intimidating."
"Me? But I'm a Hufflepuff. -- Penny Reid
Sorry I'm late. I got caught jaywalking and had to give the policeman a hand job or pay a seventy-five dollar fine. -- Penny Reid
I admired him from afar, like a really amazing piece of art that you only see in photographs or behind glass in a museum. So we affectionately referred to him as Handsome McHotpants; more accurately, Elizabeth and I knighted him Sir Handsome McHotpants one night after drinking too many mojitos. -- Penny Reid
There, there." Fruit cake. "Calm down - " "Don't -- Penny Reid
I know I just provide the mode of travel for these trips, and this is none of my business, -- Penny Reid
You can't just go around giving people cars. You're not Oprah. -- Penny Reid
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Robert Frost -- Penny Reid
Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it. -- Penny Reid
I was asked if I'd had a chance to spend any time gambling since we'd arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers. -- Penny Reid
Jethro closed his eyes, a small grin curving his mouth, and whispered like it was a secret, "Thank you for being lost."
I smiled and whispered in return, "Thank you for finding me. -- Penny Reid
you couldn't find
your way out of a small shed with a map, lighted signs, and an
escort -- Penny Reid
Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, but - " "Give a woman a vibrator, and she'll orgasm for life. I get it. -- Penny Reid
Meanwhile, I was holding on to my composure by sheer force of will. But when we ended the call I was likely going to dismember Greg's favorite boxer briefs and hide his cell phone charger. -- Penny Reid
Sir McCoolpants Von No Touchy -- Penny Reid
Well, either way - peasant or pheasant - it tastes like chicken. My patients bring me gifts too. Things like gift cards ... and viruses. -- Penny Reid
Everyone knows that in real life, fictionally handsome men are vacuous vessels of Satan. -- Penny Reid
There will be no bananas!" "There will be entire tropical rainforests of bananas! And coconuts!" I gestured to my breasts. "And, hopefully, bananas rubbing against coconuts. -- Penny Reid
I didn't like how my body seemed to be intent on sabotaging my brain, especially since my brain was so good at sabotaging itself. -- Penny Reid
My previous outlook could be summed up as follows: Life is shit. Math makes sense. Fictional characters are superior to real people because real people are equal parts pitiful and predictable. -- Penny Reid
You know those French impressionists; all they did was fornicate, drink absinthe, and play dominoes. -- Penny Reid
Musicians are like lightbulbs, they burn hot and bright, but can't be screwed more than once. -- Penny Reid
That's right. A chauffeured car, for a twenty-year-old college student. If I hadn't felt so pensive I might've looked for the Grey Poupon Dijon mustard. -- Penny Reid
I've learned that the more people I love - and I mean really, really, completely, unconditionally love - the happier I am. -- Penny Reid
love was a choice that I was capable of making just as much as it was a risk I was capable of taking. -- Penny Reid
Maybe it was the feeling of certainty that these next days would be full of lasts: the last time I'd laugh with my mother, the last time I'd see her smile, the last time I'd hear her voice. -- Penny Reid
Don't give up on your alphabet. -- Penny Reid
Sometimes doing nothing is what we're called to do, I think. Does that make sense? In any relationship, sometimes we play the lead, and sometimes we follow. -- Penny Reid
His name wasn't Handsome McHotpants. I didn't know his name -- Penny Reid
You have your own room in my heart. It's yours. Stay as long as you want; it will always be there for you. -- Penny Reid
Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking when it was short, sticking straight up or out at awkward angles; at least when it was long it almost obeyed gravity. -- Penny Reid
I had no intention of drinking tequila with Quinn.
Quinn plus tequila equaled Quinquelia and that sounded like something that happens in Mexican jails. -- Penny Reid
Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It's evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation. -- Penny Reid
He's so awful. He's ... he's like ammonium dichromate with mercury thiocyanate. He's the college boy equivalent of the bowels of hell -- Penny Reid
The rest of me was gorging itself on pity party pie. -- Penny Reid
I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation. -- Penny Reid
I don't want a beautiful week with you. I want a beautiful lifetime. -- Penny Reid
Apparently, hope is for hipsters because hope failed me. -- Penny Reid
think they have franchise opportunities available. -- Penny Reid
the reluctant curve of his smile, -- Penny Reid
Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?"
I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, "Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it."
"I'll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to. -- Penny Reid
You know I like my sushi like I like my men ... ." She paused for dramatic effect then added, " ... With two slices of ginger." "You -- Penny Reid
Take romance for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never get their period. They never have morning breath. They orgasm seventeen times a day. And they never seem to have jobs with bosses. -- Penny Reid
Our will is only as strong as our body; the desire for what we need will always trump ideals. -- Penny Reid
It was times like these I wished for invisibility superpowers or a diagnosis of insanity. Dr. -- Penny Reid
So I buried myself under my covers and cried like it was my job and I was hoping for a promotion. -- Penny Reid
Very clever of him to give me something my heart didn't know it wanted in exchange for a promise. -- Penny Reid
Roseanne Barr ~Jessica~ -- Penny Reid
Oh! Oh, I get it! She was one of your slamps -- Penny Reid
Martin ... I'm ... I shook my head, having difficulty finding words. They were hiding in all the closets of my brain, the little bastards. -- Penny Reid
Everyone else said I was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. -- Penny Reid
The best stories, I feel, are those that are self-deprecating and involve some thread of irony. -- Penny Reid
Some guys just aren't boyfriend material."
"Well, then, what kind of material are they? Suede? -- Penny Reid
My hair is ridiculous. It's been misbehaving since birth. -- Penny Reid
If ignorance is bliss, then knowledge is a cage." "But knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation. -- Penny Reid
You think being mean is enough. Being mean and being smart is better -- Penny Reid
You're a siren who doesn't need to sing. -- Penny Reid
What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red -- Penny Reid
not sure if it was compliment, or an insult, or a complisult; -- Penny Reid
I did not want to dwell on my past. These people typically wished to swap stories. I had no desire for commiseration. -- Penny Reid
I might have been a little mesmerized for a moment as I took in the sight of her shapely backside. It was incredible. I just wanted to spank it and bite it and worship it and completely fucking defile it. -- Penny Reid
I will do anything to prove that to you. I will do anything to prove that what we have is worth a battle. What we have is worth a war. -- Penny Reid
this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and hold on to it for as long as it lasts. I want you to seize." "You -- Penny Reid
I sighed again, "Because she was inconsistent and unreliable and was the female version of a Wendell."
He openly considered me, his beautiful lips twisting to the side, "A Wendette? -- Penny Reid
There's a reason we eat popcorn during a movie. If I want to zone out, be brainless and entertained, then I watch TV, go to a movie. If I want a good story, then I read a book." "Ah -- Penny Reid
The carpet would be stained ... so what ? It happens. Shit happens.
And yet, why was it necessary for shit to happen all over the apartment I'd just cleaned? Why couldn't they have shit outside ? -- Penny Reid
I could settle down here in Gangrene Valley. I could learn how to do woman's work. We could have all the babies. Side note, I hope they get his beard and my forearms. -- Penny Reid
The idea appealed to me. Living with Elizabeth would be excellent prophylaxis against my natural reclusive, agoraphobic tendencies. -- Penny Reid
Why did it have to be Sir McHotpants? Why couldn't they have sent Colonel Mustard le Mustache or Lady Jelly O'Belly? -- Penny Reid
Are you serious?"
"As an armadillo in a laundry mat -- Penny Reid
He growled, "Say it. Spend the week with me."
I moaned, because ... aroused. -- Penny Reid
Yeah. I can see that. I feel like sidekicks aren't as well developed as the main character in a story, but they're essential in defining that main character. And the protagonist needs the sidekick more than the sidekick needs the protagonist. -- Penny Reid
I truly loathed cell phones. I hated the way they made me feel reachable twenty-four hours a day; -- Penny Reid
But that wasn't how I rolled. Prolonged irrationality wasn't in my wheelhouse. Recrimination was not my homeboy. -- Penny Reid
Just because I don't feel calm, doesn't mean I'm not calm. -- Penny Reid
Do as the song says and let it go. -- Penny Reid
We all belong to ourselves, until we have children. Then our children lease us for as long as they want. -- Penny Reid
Silence stretched as his gaze moved over my face; at length he spoke, "Who is Wendell?"
I blinked, startled. "Wendell?"
"You said you wanted to talk about labels, dinner, and Wendell. -- Penny Reid
A beautiful man is the devil's most potent weapon. -- Penny Reid
I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind ...
Ash. It leaves behind ash. -- Penny Reid
I can't think of anything I want to do more than take you for a ride twice a day." He -- Penny Reid
Jennifer Sylvester wasn't fierce. She was nuttier than a pecan pie. "Right. -- Penny Reid
That is why I don't want a cell phone. I don't want a droopy fin. -- Penny Reid
No. I grew a beard because no one was around to teach us boys how to shave." . -- Penny Reid
No, Kara was the one with the Dungeons and Dragons mini dress. -- Penny Reid
Undies on, undies on, high ho the dairy-o, I'm going to keep my undies on! -- Penny Reid
Me want Martin flavored cookie! Me want cookie now!! -- Penny Reid
I'd always been a big fan of kissing when done right. -- Penny Reid
She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent of saying that I dressed like a librarian with a propensity of fuckmeboots. -- Penny Reid
Why did you hide? Did they make fun of you?"
I shook my head. "No. They ignored me. I think I hid because hiding made it my choice. You can't be ignored if no one can see you. -- Penny Reid
Insincerity was taxing once you'd breathed the refreshing air of artless candor. -- Penny Reid
How are we supposed to teach our children compassion if we remove all inconveniences from the world around them?" "But -- Penny Reid
I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. -- Penny Reid
How can you be certain of what you'll do? What if I kidnap your dog?"
"What? Why would you-" he huffed impatiently, shook his head, "I don't have a dog. -- Penny Reid
I'm pointing out you've been missed. Being present is one hundred percent more meaningful than being there in spirit. -- Penny Reid
People were, essentially, the secrets they kept. -- Penny Reid
I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own. -- Penny Reid
Boys are stupid. I needed to explore becoming a lesbian. -- Penny Reid
I didn't like trusting, I didn't like setting greater than mild expectations, -- Penny Reid
I tempered my reaction so that I appeared merely irritated instead ofDarth Vader force choke mad. -- Penny Reid
I don't do it on purpose."
"Really?" He didn't believe me.
"No. I don't." I held his granite gaze. "I don't like it when they cry. It's why I schedule these first dates for so late in the evening. -- Penny Reid
The thing is, if you can't tell how a person feels about you, then you probably don't want to know. -- Penny Reid
If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you. -- Penny Reid
I want to touch you and kiss you, frequently, and I want you
" he shifted on his feet as though steadying himself then his hand reached out; he stepped closer and he cupped my cheek in his palm, "I want you to touch me. -- Penny Reid
How does the ocean say hello to the shore ... it gives it a little wave. -- Penny Reid
Bless your sexy, sexy Viking heart, -- Penny Reid
I want you to belong to me and I want to belong to you. I -- Penny Reid
Nevertheless, after an hour in the tub drinking alone, I felt no closer to solving my dilemma. Instead I was left with an empty bottle of wine, pruney fingers, and more questions. -- Penny Reid
After dinner, we were all in the kitchen helping with the dishes, and I had the thought, Someone should go check on Momma. And that's when I started to cry. -- Penny Reid
They were all watching me with open concern and curiosity; the only sound breaking the silence was Sandra munching on potato chips. "I'm -- Penny Reid
He smiled, fitting his hand in mine. "Parker, I love you."
"Sandeke, I see your love, and I raise you a secret handshake. -- Penny Reid
And by Bunsen burner I meant, literally, my Bunsen burner. Not the figurative Bunsen burner in my pants. -- Penny Reid
I never cross-pollinate fantasy and reality. -- Penny Reid
You underestimate how deeply you cut when your intentions carry no knives. -- Penny Reid
Who called it? I called it! That's right, uh huh! -- Penny Reid
I'm not scary, I'm ridiculous." I -- Penny Reid
It's not spandex, it's a Kevlar blend." His voice lowered to a growly whisper. "I'm so turned on right now. -- Penny Reid
good looking in an adorkable kind of way. -- Penny Reid
It was like throwing Hustler magazines at sex addicts. -- Penny Reid
What?" I whispered, suspicious, still fighting my flare of hormones. Or, more precisely, whoremones. That's -- Penny Reid
Just because you don't feel calm, doesn't mean you can't be calm. -- Penny Reid
Jessica," he whispered,
"arguing with you is one of my favorite things to do. -- Penny Reid
There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price - not to mention the time saved doing so - that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition. -- Penny Reid
We were both adulting like adult adults who behaved like adults. -- Penny Reid
Women were more than the status of their hymen or their dress size. -- Penny Reid
nerds rule the world. -- Penny Reid
The color of her eyes was mossy gold. It make me want to write crap poetry and hire a skywriter. Quinn Sullivan -- Penny Reid
Nancy Danvish is a farmer." "But she's still a lady. -- Penny Reid
I want enduring love. And, if people are honest with themselves, I think that's what everyone wants. -- Penny Reid
No. I have plenty of reason. But without honor and goodness, reason isn't worth much. -- Penny Reid
We can't change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future. -- Penny Reid
My Jenn. Not Billy's Jenn. Mine. -- Penny Reid
It meant she considered relevancy before volunteering information. You can't teach people how to do that. -- Penny Reid
I'm just saying, if you can't have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you'll have an adventure anywhere else? -- Penny Reid
If they don't learn about launching rockets at home, then they'll just learn about it on the streets." I glowered at him. "That sounds like something Hitler would say. -- Penny Reid
I think we're suited."
"So you've said." ...
"But like you said in the car, we don't know each other, not really."
"I get it," I said on a rush, because I did get it. I did.
And yet ...
But then he admitted quietly, "I want to know you ... And I want to be known. -- Penny Reid
Butter my biscuits, now that's a woman." I -- Penny Reid
Rank, rump-fed harpy. -- Penny Reid
I suppose, all traditions sound silly when explained or discussed.
I nodded at this truth. It was a good thought, worth remembering, worthy of further contemplation. I tucked it away as a data point to be mulled over later. -- Penny Reid
Quinn didn't like it, but then he doesn't like anything except his wife. -- Penny Reid
If he couldn't give me everything then I wanted nothing. -- Penny Reid
You are so adorable. I just want to take you home and put you in my pocket."
I'd prefer her pants, but I guess I'd settle for her pocket -- Penny Reid
I'm not going to let you down, and I'm not ever going to let you go. -- Penny Reid
