Nora Everly > Quotes

“This flour is a metaphor for my life. I swear it is. Messy, flying in a million different directions, unsettled, just like me.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“You can’t just throw punches at the dinner table, Piper, darling. Be a lady and throw a glass of wine in her face. Here, take mine.”
― Nora Everly, From the Heart

“You didn’t take advantage of me,” she insisted. “I wanted it. I asked you for more, didn’t I? I’ve been thinking about what it would be like to kiss you ever since I arrived in Cozy Creek. And I want to do it again. For real, this time. With nobody around. Can we?”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“softly”
― Nora Everly, Hotshot and Hospitality

“ordered a crap ton of books about armadillos for Cletus Winston a few years ago,” I informed her.”
― Nora Everly, Crime and Periodicals

“His biceps strained at the sleeves, and his pecs were pec-cing all over the place. Good lord, his chest was broad, like a freaking wall. My eyes were about to pop out of my head like one of those old-timey cartoons. I was in real danger of embarrassing myself over him.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“service my undercarriage”
― Nora Everly, Architecture and Artistry

“Life is all about learning. One day you’ll realize that you will never know enough about anything. Which is kind of sad now that I think about it.”
― Nora Everly, Architecture and Artistry

“the bottom line is that you deserve to be happy.”
― Nora Everly, Holiday Hearts

“His eyes burned into mine. It reminded me of the way he had looked at me at Genie’s Bar when we danced, right before he kissed me. Something intangible existed between us, I was sure of it. His gaze reminded me of how Leonardo DiCaprio’s looked at Claire Danes in Romeo + Juliet—hot and full of longing. Sure, after that first hot gaze in the beginning of the movie the whole thing turned to crap and they died at the end. But that first look was everything.”
― Nora Everly, Crime and Periodicals

“Are you sure you aren’t a Disney Princess?” he teased. “You resemble Belle right now with all these books everywhere and your pretty brown hair,” he murmured. “Plus, everyone seems to have fallen in love with you since you got here. Natalie talks about you every morning after she gets back from walking with you and Basil.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“Deck the halls with loads of coffee.”
― Nora Everly, Holiday Hearts

“You have freckles,” he blurted. My eyes whipped to his. “Yeah, I usually cover them up.” “Why would you do that? I mean—you’re so beautiful. I—”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“She was the biggest secret I had ever kept, and the only true regret I had in my life.”
― Nora Everly, Passing Notes

“What is meant to be always finds a way.”
― Nora Everly, By Your Side

“There is no place I’d rather be than here with you. Believe that. You deserve a man who will take care of you, respect you, and treat you like the amazing woman that you are. Not some dumb motherfucker who would try to humiliate you in a goddamn bar.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“I swear I could feel it, him wanting me, and I wanted him too. I didn’t know what I’d do with him once I got him, but I was dying to figure it out. Okay, that was a lie—I had a top ten list of things I wanted to do with him written down in my journal. I had a good imagination. Plus, I’d been reading romance novels since I was twelve.”
― Nora Everly, Crime and Periodicals

“Forget about him. Forget anything he said that made you feel like you were anything less than beautiful, Madi. You are sexy as hell right now in that black dress. I noticed you the second you walked through the door, and I had to force myself not to stare. It’s not your problem that he didn’t know what to do with you when he was lucky enough to have you.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“I have emergency tea bags in my purse if you don’t have any.”
― Nora Everly, Hotshot and Hospitality

“He”
― Nora Everly, Hotshot and Hospitality

“continue to stare at him before taking a deep breath and answering, “Because I haven’t had sex in over a decade, okay? Not with a real man. A man who wants me. One virile and passionate and solid in the”
― Nora Everly, Hotshot and Hospitality

“mental pornspiration,”
― Nora Everly, Architecture and Artistry

“overload of feels.”
― Nora Everly, Architecture and Artistry

“smiling in anticipation when I imagined Cole’s reaction if I saw him. I liked how it felt when his eyes were on me. It felt like he really saw me, not like he was checking me out. He wasn’t winking or being flirtatious. He was paying attention and learning who I was; it was a heady feeling. I craved it.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“until all the ducks were in a row, not wandering around in the street like maniacs.”
― Nora Everly, Crime and Periodicals

“He always added blackstrap molasses and apple cider vinegar to it”
― Nora Everly, Crime and Periodicals

“When you were free to be yourself”
― Nora Everly, By Your Side

“Sometimes”
― Nora Everly, Make You Mine

“I bit my lip to stop the drool from forming as he got out and rolled up the sleeves of the dark blue plaid shirt. His biceps strained at the material as his hands worked the fabric up his muscular forearms.”
― Nora Everly, Fall at Once

“Nice guys like Everett were dangerous. Every girl knows that men like him were the most trouble, because they’d steal your heart all stealthy-like and before you knew it, you’d be sitting on his couch, watching TV while he cooked you a nice dinner.”
― Nora Everly, Carpentry and Cocktails