Adira August > Quotes

“Christ, Hunter, you can’t leave this for the locals and just have fun while Cam shoves a dildo up your ass?”
― Adira August, Fractured Men

“You made a vow to let me protect you.” I reached for him and bent my head toward his. “You know I can’t think when you’re at risk.” “And I can’t breathe if you’re dead.”
― Adira August, Fractured Men

“Thank you for everything you did. For keeping us safe,” the soft voice came again. “We … well, we all very much appreciate you, here.” I raised a hand in acknowledgement, but couldn’t trust myself to speak or face her. I rubbed my face dry and left her there, closing the door quietly behind me.”
― Adira August, Dancing Men

“Sometimes,” Hunter whispered, “ ‘all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you’.”
― Adira August, Shadow Men

“Get off me, my nose is running.”
― Adira August, Fractured Men

“Cam came so hard he thought he just might blow Hunter’s brains out.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“You know as well as I do the whole department is one giant fuckathon.”
― Adira August, Psychic Men

“He spit in the dirt and shook his head.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“Those signs never do turn green,” he said.”
― Adira August, Forever

“Yeah, I’m the fucking captain. And I should be docked, drunk and have my dick in somebody’s mouth right now. I deliver boats. I didn’t sign on for passengers, I don’t know their names or give a shit about them. I told big, blond and dangerous what happened. Get off my bridge. I don’t know what you want to know.”
― Adira August, Shadow Men

“According to you,” Cam went on, “You don’t attach to anyone. Ever. But we slept together Hunter. And that’s no euphemism. We slept in each other’s arms and we both attached and I don’t want to hear any bullshit about it.”
― Adira August, Dancing Men

“You needed me, bad. Even then, I could see it. Right there in front of me. How beautiful it would be to make you suffer. How easy to get lost in your pain. You were magnificent.”
― Adira August, Matchstick Men

“You may now kiss the bitch, his smartass mind voice said. It was the same voice responsible for multiple detentions before he’d learned to not speak every stray thought out loud.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“The tip felt … oh fuck it was big … every millimeter … oh god, hold still … I watched it enter … helpless to stop it … saw myself fill and stretch, and all I could utter was ah … ah … ah …”
― Adira August, Dancing Men

“In other words, Mr. Derriksen, what happened tonight was Mike Merisi was a hero.”
― Adira August, Psychic Men

“Right here!” chirped a voice so perky, Hunt instinctively wanted to smack whatever face emitted it. The source — a diminutive girl who seemed a slash from a black marker.”
― Adira August, Dancing Men

“Perhaps they expected one of the summer students to attack him with a bamboo bong.”
― Adira August, Psychic Men

“I’m the man who killed your daughter.”
― Adira August, Dancing Men

“My dad said, ‘You arrest them with steel chains and convict them with paper ones’.”
― Adira August, Forever

“Stadler paused. “She’s wearing a friendship ring on her right hand. My daughter gave it to her. They’re best friends. Were.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“Women do that. It’s a response to stress or sadness or anger or a lot of other things. It’s a few tears, not a debilitating condition.” She raised her mug.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“was like stepping into the path of an oncoming tornado. Huge and dark and dangerous and seductive. I touched you. I had to before I fell into you and disappeared. I really, really wanted you on your knees”
― Adira August, Matchstick Men

“Hers?” Merisi asked, eyebrow cocked.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“I have your johnson in one hand and a metal probe I’m about to stick in it, in the other. You sure you want to take that tone with me, right now?”
― Adira August, Dancing Men

“She was a tall, bony, forty-something dishwater blond going gray someone should have named Mildred. Hunter respected the hell out of her. As she did him. Respect did not equate to “like.”
― Adira August, Secret Men

“If he used his Dominant position to bully his sick husband, what would he be but a spouse-abuser? Love”
― Adira August, Forever

“For instance the potassium level increases from the decomp process.”
― Adira August, Shadow Men

“The silence was only broken by the delicate susurration of tiny ice crystals blown off the tops of the drifts. It was a sound Hunter Dane loved. He stood at the edge of the breezeway, the shovel at rest, catching his breath. His exhalations left no clouds in the dry air at altitude.”
― Adira August, Snowed In: Hunter's Story

“I wouldn’t have noticed a T-rex on a pogo stick.”
― Adira August, Fractured Men

“People rarely took much notice of him or anyone in a wheelchair. To the mobile, all they were wearing was a chair.”
― Adira August, Forever