Mari Carr > Quotes

“Life moves fast, things change. Sometimes I think our only job on this planet is to hold on so we don´t get thrown off the ride.”
― Mari Carr, Falling Hard for her Roommate

“Promise you’ll never let go of my hand?”
He kissed her. It was the easiest vow he’d ever made. “Promise.”
― Mari Carr, Falling Hard for her Roommate

“I look at my future and all I see is you.”
― Mari Carr, Falling Hard for her Roommate

“You’re finally there, Robbie. On stage in front of huge audiences. All of your hard work has paid off. It’s your time.”
He didn’t want any of that. As he looked at Zoey, the priorities he’d always set for himself fell away, leaving just one. One thing that mattered to him.
Her.”
― Mari Carr, Falling Hard for her Roommate

“Choose your tempo,” he whispered in her ear. “What?” “Fast and hard or slow and easy. Your tempo, your choice. You get to direct this symphony.”
― Mari Carr, Scoring

“Colt, you’re a cop. I’m fairly certain you realize what you are proposing is illegal. As in bigamy.”
He laughed. “You don’t legally marry us both. Just one of us. Then the three of us make our own private vows.”
“Fine,” she leaned back and gave him a smug look as if expecting her next question to jar some sense into them. “Who am I going to legally marry?”
He grinned at her transparency. Obviously, she thought this was going to be a sticking point. “We’ll arm wrestle to decide that.”
― Mari Carr, Tequila Truth

“I thought if I created some distance, maybe I wouldn't want you to touch me so badly. Maybe I could come to work today and not sit at my desk all day dreaming about every wicked thing I want your hands to do to me”
― Mari Carr, Sugar and Spice

“The idea of committing her body to the hands of a man she trusted was freeing, liberating in a way she couldn't quite explain, even to herself”
― Mari Carr, Sugar and Spice

“She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts.”
― Mari Carr, Come Monday

“Jesus. Every single think about cancer fucking sucked.”
― Mari Carr, Falling Hard for her Roommate

“Jesus, she was turned-on by his spanking. He should have realized. After everything they'd done Friday night, he knew her taste for sexual adventure more than matched his.”
― Mari Carr, Sugar and Spice

“Have you ever heard the expression topping from the bottom?” She shook her head. “Yeah, well, I’m going to explain it to you tomorrow night when I have you tied facedown to my bed, spanking your ass.” She disregarded his threatening grin by flashing a mischievous smile of her own. “You’ll tell me exactly what I did wrong?” she asked. He looked at her suspiciously and nodded. “Yes, of course I will. Why?” She laughed as she answered, “I want to make sure I do it again.”
― Mari Carr, Come Monday

“Don’t fall in love with me,” he said.
“I won’t,” she whispered.
It was the first lie Penny Beaumont had ever told him.
And he pretended to believe it was the truth.”
― Mari Carr, Hard and Fast

“The idea of spending any more time in the air was as appealing as a trip to the gynecologist, but she held her peace.”
― Mari Carr, Misplaced Princess

“I love the way you make the same seven meals every week. The way your socks are separated by colors in your drawer and the way you appear to all the world like this respectable, responsible woman when really underneath you are one hardcore kinky bitch. I love the way you howl, Josie Jacobson. And I love you.”
― Mari Carr, Falling Hard for the One-Night Stand

“I’d hardly call four years rushing things. I love you and I think I know you better than anyone. I know your favorite food is sushi and that you hate rap music and all about your unhealthy obsession for Gerard Butler.” “Oooo, Gerard,” she teased.”
― Mari Carr, Scoundrels

“that there were many flies trying to avoid that trap. Too many of the single women in town were casting themselves upon it. Ordinarily, Diego and Luc went out of their way to annoy her, flirting and asking her out just to make her blush and get under her skin. They knew she didn’t approve of their dating style, though apparently she was the only person in town who felt it wasn’t normal. She’d even heard her Aunt Louise and Aunt Beverly tittering about the firefighters one morning over coffee, Aunt”
― Mari Carr, Making Her Ours

“Ooh baby, the ways we hurt each other in my dreams would straighten those pretty curls of yours.”
― Mari Carr, Scoring

“Mitimur in Vetitum.” “We strive for the forbidden,” she”
― Mari Carr, Elemental Pleasure

“That’s very sweet.” She smiled. “It’s also very stupid. You’re lucky you’re pretty.”
― Mari Carr, Scorching Desire

“Why am I friends with you again?” “Because you don’t want to grow up any more than I do, Peter Pan. Neither one of us is going down without a fight.”
― Mari Carr, Educating Ms. Wright

“There’s a big difference between merely existing and living a life that’s exciting.”
― Mari Carr, Making Her Ours

“Oh, you’d be surprised how many options there are. I’ve heard us described as a threesome, a triad, a throuple. Someone even called us a trinity once, although that sounds totally cloak and dagger/secret society to me.”
― Mari Carr, Hot and Heavy

“Pretending to be the heroine in her novels, she could flee the dangers a true liaison would involve. In her mind, love equated loss and after so many years alone, she seemed unwilling to take that risk again.”
― Mari Carr, Erotic Research