Shannon Stacey > Quotes

“Josh: Just because you’re not looking for something doesn’t mean you won’t find it.
Sean: Well, aren’t you quite the fucking fortune cookie.”
― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep

“He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.”
― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep

“She said you were probably plastic and Uncle Kevin said he’d give you a feel and let her know and then Uncle Joe punched him in the shoulder and said the only thing he’d feel is his A-S-S getting kicked if he tried.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“Kevin slapped a box of hot dogs down on the rock. “What the hell was that?”
“A kiss. It’s something guys like me do with girls we like. But don’t worry, someday you’ll find one drunk enough to let you try it.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”
― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep

“I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“The waitress tapped her pen on the tab. "So do you guys know what you want?"
And then he did it, just as he always had whenever he'd been asked that question―he looked straight at Keri with blatant hunger in his eyes and said, "Yes, ma'am, I do.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“Oh yes, Sean Kowalski. Your amazing kisses have made all rational thought fly out of my besotted brain. If only you could fill me with your magic penis, I know we'll fall madly in love and live happily ever after.”
― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep

“I'm having a cheeseburger," Anna said. "With fries smothered in vinegar and salt."
"I told you I wouldn't kiss you again. You don't have to poison your mouth."
"Very funny. What are you having?"
"Something with onions and garlic.”
― Shannon Stacey, Slow Summer Kisses

“It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“For each full day you stick it out with the Kowalskis, you get to ask me one question.”

Keri, unlike Joe, did have a poker face and she made sure it was in place while she turned his words over in her head. “When you say the Kowalskis, you mean…”

“The entire family.” The dimples were about as pronounced as she’d ever seen them. “Every one of them.

”Her first thought was oh shit. Her second, to wonder if People was hiring.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.”
― Shannon Stacey

“She wrapped her arms around his neck and gazed into the face of the man she was going to spend the rest of her life with. "Just promise to love me forever."
"This is one story that's going to have a happy ending," he told her, and he lowered his mouth to hers.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“You. I want you and I don’t want to be a luxury. I want you to need me. I want you to not be able to concentrate because you’re thinking about me. I want you to reach for your phone because you thought of something you have to share with me. I want you to not even be able to breathe at the thought of never seeing me again, because that’s how I feel about you, Paige. I want to be a necessity.”
― Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Needed

“I do need you, because I love you and you make me happy. I can live my life just fine on my own, but it will be so much better if I live it with you.”
― Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Needed

“Honey, love isn't like rappeling into a cave, where you can control your descent and how deep you go. It's just falling into the hole.”
― Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Needed

“I'm just afraid if I get used to leaning on you and you decide to walk away, I'll... fall over.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“Ryan: Lady, I ain’t a boomerang. You throw me away again, I’m not coming back.
Lauren:You call me lady in that tone again, it’s your balls that won’t be coming back.”
― Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Desired

“Who’s Beth?” Keri asked.
“The bartender at your wedding.”
“Oh, that’s right. How could I forget when
my husband almost got thrown out of our own
reception for trying to hire her like a hooker or
something.”
“What’s a hooker?” Bobby asked.
Keri’s island tan flushed pink. “Oops.”
“You put it on the end of a fishing pole,
dummy,” Brian explained.
Bobby frowned. “Uncle Joe tried to hire a
worm?”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“Let’s see if I can synopsize our situation,” he said. “I never give interviews. You want an interview. No, strike that. You need an interview, because the rabid jackal you work for has made it clear your job is on the line. Am I close?”

The sizzle receded to a tingle. “You’re in the ballpark.”

“I’m not just in the ballpark, babe. I’m Josh Beckett on the mound at Fenway. If I don’t give you what you need, you’re hiding behind palm trees waiting for drunk pop stars to pop out of their Wonderbras.”

And that pretty much killed the last of the lingering tingle. “Payback’s a bitch and all that, right, Joe?”

The dimples flashed. “Isn’t it?”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.”
― Shannon Stacey, Taken with You

“He was swaying back and forth with their daughter gazing adoringly into his face from the cradle of his arms. “I’m going to do my best to make sure your life is awesome, but it won’t always be. Those are the times you need to dance in the kitchen the most. It’s good for your soul.”

Beth sighed and leaned her head against the corner of the wall, as enchanted as Lily by the soft, tender timbre of his voice.

“You don’t even need music,” he told Lily. “You can dance to the music in your head. Hopefully not to that country-and-western shit your mother listens to, though. Oh… damn. Don’t say shit, Lily-bean. Or if you do and Mommy hears you, don’t tell her you heard it from me, okay? Tell her Uncle Mike said it.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“Why do you have to be such a nice guy?”

He flashed his dimples at her. “You’ve met my mother. Too scared not to be.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“Here's a list of the things you'll need. I jotted it down in the parking lot."

Keri unfolded the paper and read the list twice, trying to get a sense of what she was in for.

BRING: Bug spray; jeans;T-shirts; several sweatshirts,at least one with a hood; one flannel shirt(mandatory); pajamas(optional); underwear(also optional); bathing suit(preferably skimpy); more bug spray; sneakers; waterproof boots; good socks; sunscreen; two rolls of quarters.

DO NOT BRING: Cell phone; blackberry; laptop; camera,either still or video; alarm clock; voice recorder, or any other kind of electronic anything.

She had no clue what it meant, other than Joe wanting her half naked and unable to text for help.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“If somebody wants you to pin a label on my place in your life, just tell them I'm yours. It's that simple.”
― Shannon Stacey, All He Ever Desired

“Of course I’m getting ideas. You’re hot and I’m not dead. But I know enough not to confuse lust with anything else.”

She snorted and looked out her window. “Oh yes, Sean Kowalski. Your amazing kisses have made all rational thought fly out of my besotted brain. If only you could fill me with your magic penis, I know we’ll fall madly in love and live happily ever after.”

The truck jerked and she glanced over to find him glaring at her. “Don’t ever say that again.”
― Shannon Stacey, Yours to Keep

“Do you remember the fundraiser buffet for the senator at the Yacht Club?” ... “I’d forgotten something in my car so I was outside when you arrived. I saw you driving too fast with the top down and the music too loud. You were belting out the lyrics like you didn’t care who was listening. Then I watched you use the rearview mirror to fix yourself up so you’d look respectable, and when you were all spit-polished and perfect, you gave the mirror the finger.”

She remembered. “You asked me out on our first date that night.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“When the reception was over I went for a walk and…she’s pregnant.”

They were both quiet a moment, exchanging one of those old-married-people looks he still couldn’t decipher, but which made him squirm. He and Beth were both adults, but that didn’t make telling his parents he’d accidentally gotten a woman pregnant any easier.

“Lot easier to walk with your fly zipped,” Leo grumbled.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“Instead of someday meeting the woman he was meant to spend the rest of his life with, maybe he’d simply met her again.”
― Shannon Stacey, Exclusively Yours

“You’ve always been independent. And stubborn about it. You were only four years old when you told me you didn’t need me to tuck you in anymore and you could do it yourself. I could never make you understand it wasn’t whether or not you could do it. It was about sharing those last few minutes of your day with you. You have a way of not letting people in.”
(Kindle Locations 2492-2495)”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours