Heather Guerre > Quotes

“And stop following me. Go away.”
He halted immediately, allowing me to storm past him. Dammit if his immediate acquiescence didn’t make me a little less mad at him. Boundary-respecting asshole! I fumed ineffectively.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“I wanted to see more of you. I wanted to watch over you. Guard you.” “‘Guard’ me. Like a possession?” Tessa asked, anger stiffening her spine. She’d never been able to tolerate jealousy in men. It frightened her, made her feel caged. “No,” Amos said quietly. “Like a queen.”
― Heather Guerre, Hot Blooded

“After eight hours of performing a one-woman play about a mentally-engaged, emotionally functional human, whe had nothing left in her.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“There isn’t a thing you could ask that I wouldn’t do for you.”
― Heather Guerre, Hot Blooded

“Goddamn it, Grace! Quit using your feminine wiles to pull information out of me.'
''I'm just laying here!'
'And you're very good at it.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“The knowledge that he alone was making her come went straight to some primitive, lizard part of his brain and lit it up like a Christmas tree. Mine, the lizard thought smugly.”
― Heather Guerre, Hot Blooded

“Knyazhna, I did not know what love was until you took it from me. Please give me your heart back, because you already have mine. With love always, Your Mishka.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“She needed the money, but her pride had some value too, and being a billionaire’s on-call sugar baby rankled a little bit. She’d always imagined herself manning the guillotine during the revolution, not jerking off the ruling the class.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“He was too good to be true. So what if he turned into a wolf sometimes? At least he didn’t turn into a condescending, gaslighting, soul-destroying narcissist like her ex had.”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten

“When she finally found the motivation to end things, Alex had just stared at her with that same puzzled frown, echoing her words like a senile macaw. Over? We’re over? You’re…leaving me? Me? He couldn’t have been more incredulous if the couch had broken up with him.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“People matter more than money. Especially the people we love.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“After several rounds of rinsing his mouth, Amos came back. He stood next to Tessa, looking dispassionately down at Phillipe. Sighing, he bent and hefted Phillipe’s body up, slinging him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Phillipe’s emaciated arms draped limply down Amos’s back. “Congratulations,” Amos said wryly to Tessa. “You’re a mother.”
― Heather Guerre, Hot Blooded

“people need family. They don’t have to be your blood relatives, but everybody needs people they can depend on, people who love them.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“She was so tired of angry men.”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten

“Grace hated being the recipient of such blatant male interest. It felt like she was guarding her wallet from a pickpocket but wasn't allowed to yell *thief!*”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“He considered her for a moment, his beautiful face both sorrowful and pensive. “I wish I could undo it all,” he said quietly. “But I can’t, so I’ll do better.”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten

“Babysitting your children is not a break! she wanted to scream at him. And don’t use your fucking kids as emotional blackmail!”
― Heather Guerre, Hot Blooded

“Excuse me, Judgey McJudgerson, but I have pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes. That’ll be two vegetables on my plate.”
― Heather Guerre, Demon Lover

“She didn’t want to be the sort of woman who lived with the constant threat of punishment just for the hope of a few scraps of pleasure.”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten

“Pride and indomitability radiated off of her like an ancient Slavic goddess. It didn’t help that the sun coming through the windows had cast her in a pool of morning light, turning her hair the color of old gold, making her eyes snap like blue flames, while she was wrapped in twisting vines and glaring at him like she’d smite him off the face of the earth, given the slightest provocation. Wary and brittle, she might have been a defeated goddess, but she was all the more dangerous for it”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“Thank you. And… sorry. For flipping out.” “Don’t apologize. If I do something that upsets you, I want to know.” Well, that was something she’d never heard from a man before.”
― Heather Guerre, Hot Blooded

“Because you ate a single potato molecule. Take a bigger bite.”
― Heather Guerre, Demon Lover

“This isn’t service, safisa, this is ownership.”
― Heather Guerre, Spell Bound

“She didn’t bother standing up to peer over cubicles at the commotion. It was almost certainly because of a food delivery. The only reason anybody ever got excited about anything around here was because there was free food in the break room.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“An hour later, they were on the road, and Jules was still stuck in stupefied silence. The hungry monster inside of her had been temporarily subdued—caught in a confused muddle of arousal, shock, intrigue, and dismay”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten

“It’s you!” she hissed angrily. “Your scent and your blood and—” She cut herself off on a frustrated snarl. Contrary to her expectations, Max quirked a smile at her. He looked almost… smug. “Am I that good?” “Oh, god, shut up.” Embarrassed, Jules speed-walked away from him, plunging into racks of athleisure wear.”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten

“She liked his dry humor and his protectiveness and his even his unreadable stoicism. She liked that she felt safe with him, but also unstoppably powerful. Selfishly, she liked that he wanted to give her things, and that he did so without an ounce of prickish entitlement.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“But Mikhail was a CEO’s name, not a pet wolf’s. Something more intimate would suit, but all she could think of was “Mike,” which sounded ridiculous. She fought a smile as she considered calling him that, just to see his reaction.”
― Heather Guerre, Preferential Treatment

“a lifetime is made of individual days.”
― Heather Guerre, Cold Hearted

“Oh no,” Max drawled. “I am at the mercy of a dangerous, but incredibly beautiful apex predator. Whatever shall I do?” “You’ll lay there and take it like a good boy,” Jules whispered.”
― Heather Guerre, Once Bitten