Kay Stockham > Quotes

“He sucked in a harsh breath when she pressed her mouth to his, and she was fascinated by the way his eyes darkened and glittered with sexual hunger when their tongues melded together. It was cold, the temperature dropping little by little. It didn’t matter. Not when she could press her bare breasts against his chest to warm them, when his hands slid up her back and his arms were so engulfing and so hot she was encased in perfect heat.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“Liam tossed the top half of the sleeping bag aside and snagged the end of her shirt and jacket. Her jeans were next, the moonlight bright enough he could see the masses of freckles on her pale skin and the starkness of Carly’s matching black lace underwear. “Do you always wear things like that?”
“They make me feel sexy.”
She didn’t need anything to be sexy. “Any sexier and I’d keel over now.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“His mouth settled over hers with mind-numbing possession and it was way better than the on-screen kisses she’d envied. Way better than— Wow.
Liam released a husky groan the second his tongue swept into her mouth to touch hers. Fire exploded in her veins, a hot rush of feeling and sensation that obliterated the chiding voice in her head, screaming at her to run.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“When she didn’t let go, when she buried her freckled nose in his chest and snuggled closer and when she shivered from the cold, he couldn’t stop himself from reaching out and wrapping his arms around her. Hesitant, he lowered his face into her hair and breathed deep.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“With every detail about his home she noted, anticipation built inside her. His silence added to the feeling when the closing of the door and the latch of the lock shut out the moonlight and everything else.
The last what-if niggles of doubts fled entirely, replaced one hundred percent by the awareness that she was with the man she was supposed to be with. Broken, bruised, guarded. Liam needed her. Even more than she needed and wanted him.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“A flash of something—hope, excitement, disbelief— flickered over the boy’s face, shattering the remaining pieces of her heart. She’d known it would be a hard journey, and staring at Riley’s cast and bruises, she struggled to hold a smile on her face. Being a mother, especially a foster mother, took strength and courage, a backbone of steel and a loving heart.
All the qualities her mother had lacked—and all the things Carly was slowly learning she possessed.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“Liam stared at her, his gaze glittering hot with something she was afraid to identify because it made her knees weak and she couldn’t breathe from the intensity and pace of her heart pounding away in her chest.
He wanted to kiss her.
He didn’t want to want to kiss her—she could read that in his expression, as well—but she knew he did. And right, then. Cop or not—mistake that it would be— she wanted him to kiss her, too.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“He suddenly understood in a way and on a level he never had before why Carly was so passionate about fostering. Why she was drawn to it.
He understood, but it didn’t make it any easier. Carly had never been abused and she wasn’t sucked into hell at the sight of every mark on Riley.
Not like him. Staring into Riley’s gaze Liam saw clear to the kid’s battered soul and it ripped Liam’s heart out because what he saw… What he saw was like reliving his past—and getting burned—all over again.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“Groaning softly, he kissed her, his tongue on hers as he matched his movements. His strokes quickened, harder, deeper, until pleasure suffused every nerve in her body and sent her zinging into the heavens above like the lights they’d come there to watch.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“Before you tell me how we shouldn’t be doing this—” did she dare say what she was thinking? “—I want you to remember how it felt when we were together, because I know you’d like to feel that way again.”
His hands tightened at her waist and his entire body hardened against hers. She drew back enough to see his face and caught her breath at his expression. Desire and want, need. Not sexual but…the need for closeness, for a connection. For her.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“She turned her head and rubbed her cheek against the surprisingly velvety feel of his inner arm, the muscle tensing even more against her face when she pressed a kiss to his skin. In response, she felt him flex inside her.
“Caroline.”
She’d always hated her name. It was too old-fashioned, too hokey and very grandma-ish. But when Liam said it like that, she actually liked it. He made her name, he made her, feel like the sexiest, most beautiful woman on earth.”
― Kay Stockham, The Sheriff's Daughter

“Love doesn’t break you, it heals. You’d know that if you’d ever experienced it.”
― Kay Stockham, Falling for Her Boss

“I’m so sorry your mother hasn’t been able to handle things, but I’m telling you now, dear, you can’t let her inability to cope with life’s ups and downs keep you from living.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“Don’t let anybody treat you badly, Joe. Hear me? You went to prison for something you didn’t do. Don’t let them treat you like you’re still there. Hold your head up high.”
― Kay Stockham, Brody's Redemption

“Things happened. Good things, bad things. Ugly, awful things. Not a day would pass without some sort of problem or issue, but she’d finally—finally—figured out it all made sense.”
― Kay Stockham, Falling for Her Boss

“That man’s blind and so are you. You’ve let other people dictate and rule your life, tell you how to feel about yourself. It’s about time you stood up for what you want.”
― Kay Stockham, Brody's Redemption

“A town as small as Taylorsville didn’t have a true secret. Everyone knew everything and made up what they didn’t.”
― Kay Stockham, Falling for Her Boss

“Yes, sir. I served ten years of a fifteen year sentence. Under the statute change, the review judge released me with time served due to good behavior.”
― Kay Stockham, Brody's Redemption

“Let me tell you something I’ve learned over the years. Good or bad, we don’t get to choose who we love. It just happens.”
― Kay Stockham, Falling for Her Boss

“It was horrible to think, to believe, but some so-called good people were the very first to judge. To condemn. Forgive and forget? That seemed impossible to achieve.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“People deserved second chances if they were genuine in their desire to make amends. Nothing could be done to change the past, but everyone knew forgiveness worked both ways. To get it, she had to give it.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“It’s not how long we live, it’s how we live that’s important. How we love.”
― Kay Stockham, Falling for Her Boss

“Public images upheld at all costs, any personal dirt swept under the rugs and into closets if at all possible.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“I love you, Ashley. I think I loved you the moment I saw you climbing out from under your kitchen sink.”
― Kay Stockham, Brody's Redemption

“Barry watched him, guilt tasting bitter on his tongue. Beau had been his flesh and blood, but Barry hadn’t been blind to Beau’s shortcomings as a son and as a man. He didn’t like keeping the truth from Jack, but that guilt was nothing compared to the sadness he felt for liking the man Jack was proving to be more than he’d liked his own son.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“And I’ll take a kind, hard-working man over material things any day.”
― Kay Stockham, Brody's Redemption

“SHE’D READ THAT three little words could change everything. Most people meant I love you, but her I believe you had the same effect.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“Some of us just have to be in control, but it doesn’t work that way. You live like you’re already in a coffin. Have you ever considered that the man upstairs might have a plan that requires you to live to be a hundred and ten? Are you going to spend the next eighty years alone and feeling sorry for yourself and waiting to die?”
― Kay Stockham, Falling for Her Boss

“So much could be saved if people just let go of the pain they carried over things that didn’t really matter.”
― Kay Stockham, With This Man

“She reminded him too much of Melissa’s overwhelming panic when she’d found out she was pregnant. Pregnant and unwed, and having to face her father the cop.”
― Kay Stockham, Brody's Redemption