L.A. Witt > Quotes

“If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life.”
― L.A. Witt, Rules of Engagement

“Every time I look at you, I'm either so pissed I can't stand the sight of you or so fucking horny I can't take my eyes off you. I don't think I have to tell you which I prefer.

I swallowed. "So which is it now?"

I'm looking at you aren't I?”
― L.A. Witt, The Distance Between Us

“I rolled my eyes. “Do all narcotics officers lack basic human
compassion, or were you just not hugged enough as a child?”
Trust Me”
― L.A. Witt

“Then why the fuck did you still shoot me?”
“Because I fucking well wanted to.”
― L.A. Witt, A Chip in His Shoulder

“...The sex was amazing. And the man made me trip over my own feet. And he had a smile like Ctrl+Alt+Delete on my brain.”
― L.A. Witt, Where There's Smoke

“Dylan looked at me and matter-of-factly said, "My Dad's smart. Boyfriends are way better than girlfriends." I laughed. "Oh really? And why is that?" The kid wrinkled his nose. "Because girls are gross.”
― L.A. Witt, Where Nerves End

“I didn’t feel guilty about cheating on you back then,” he said quietly. “Or all the times I promised not to do it again and talked you into taking me back.” He paused, glancing at me.
I clenched my jaw, resisting the urge to lash out at him, but I said I’d hear him out, so I kept my mouth shut. Tightly shut.
He cleared his throat. “It was the last time that did my conscience in. Maybe it was some long overdue maturity, maybe it was because it was the longest we’d gone without getting back together after breaking up, but it started eating at me. The longer it went on, the more I missed you, and the more I realized I’d done you horribly wrong from the start.” He closed his eyes for a second. His Adam’s apple bobbed once and then he went on. “When I realized what I’d lost, I was scared to come back and even try to apologize because I was afraid the one time I really, really meant it—” His voice cracked, and he paused, clearing his throat again before continuing. “I was afraid that would be the one time you’d finally had enough and told me to fuck off for the last time. Which I certainly deserved at that point, I just…” He looked at me. “I didn’t think I could face you again because I finally knew just how much I’d hurt you and just how much you had every right to hate me.”
― L.A. Witt, A.J.'s Angel

“He grinned, making sure to flash his straight, gleaming teeth, every last one of which I wanted to knock out of his head”
― L.A. Witt, A.J.'s Angel

“If it flies, drives or fornicates, it´s always cheaper to rent it.”
― L.A. Witt, If It Flies

“The world is full of dirty bastards, and I am their king.”
― L.A. Witt

“The tiny focal points of pain still glowed on his nerve endings, like stars coming into view one by one in a dark, bare sky. One by one—in the middle of his buttock, just below his collarbone, on the inside of his thigh—more stars came into focus, each glowing brightly at first before settling into the same intensity as the ones before, slowly forming a constellation.”
― L.A. Witt & Aleksandr Voinov, If It Flies

“We burned the midnight oil making love, even if it was just kissing and touching, for hours. It could be a single candle, Fourth of July fireworks, or anything in between.”
― L.A. Witt, A.J.'s Angel

“He swallowed. “But what if I forget who you are?” “Darren . . .” I brought his hand up to my lips. “Even if you do, I won’t forget who you are.”
― L.A. Witt, Suspicious Behavior

“I want you, Spencer. Your trust. Your surrender. Your courage. That's all...strong stuff. Felt like you were made for me--never freaked out, no bad habits from some arsehole that I had to train out of you. You went into it with everything, all out, and there was nothing you wouldn't have given me if I'd asked for it. That's huge for me, Spencer. I've never really had that, and now that I've had it, I don't want to lose it. I don't want to lose you, Spencer.”
― L.A. Witt, If It Flies

“They got ninjas working as strippers in this town or something? Well.”
― L.A. Witt, If the Seas Catch Fire

“If I was going to shoot you, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. What’s your name?” The Italian lifted his head enough to meet Sergei’s gaze. “Who wants to know?” Sergei rolled his eyes. “The guy who’s going to decide whether you wake up tomorrow in a hospital, a jail cell, or a morgue.” He”
― L.A. Witt, If the Seas Catch Fire

“I want you. I’m supposed to want you dead, but I just want you. Dom”
― L.A. Witt, If the Seas Catch Fire

“Seems we’re two men trying to survive in a city that don’t give a damn if we do.”
― L.A. Witt, The Venetian and the Rum Runner

“He‟d taken that old cliché “tall, dark, and handsome” and made it his little bitch.”
― L.A. Witt, Where Nerves End

“If there was anything I wanted from a man, it was knowing our relationship was worth going to hell and back to save. I wanted someone for whom I’d be willing to do that, and I wanted someone who was willing to do that for me.”
― L.A. Witt, Meet Me in the Middle

“Letting go of a dream was supposed to be heartbreaking, not liberating. Maybe that meant it hadn’t been a good dream for me after all.”
― L.A. Witt, The Husband Gambit

“All the unspoken things that were said with glances and implications. One of the things he liked best about being in a relationship: It always felt like a conspiracy of two.”
― L.A. Witt

“Your book does not exist until you’ve written it.”
― L.A. Witt, Writing Faster FTW

“The distance between us was just a few inches of evening air, but his arm seemed to bridge a span of miles and his featherlight touch crumbled walls that had taken
years to build.
His fingers moved into my hair, and his other arm slid around my waist. My hands wanted to go to him, but in disbelief, I couldn’t move.
He took a breath and, for a moment, I thought he was about to speak. Instead, he drew me to him and kissed me.
It was a gentle kiss, just his lips against mine as we breathed each other in, but it eased a deep, consuming sense of loss I hadn’t even been fully aware of. I
wrapped my arms around him, holding him closer and letting him overwhelm my senses. For all that had been said and all we’d been through, it was this kiss—this
deliberate, silent return to the way things should have been—that allowed me to release my breath for the first time in months. In years.
I had to break the kiss just to look at him, to remind myself that this was real. Our eyes met, and it was. He was here. My world was back on its axis.
There were a thousand things I wanted to say, to ask, to know, but words hadn’t done us a lot of good. All they’d done was keep me from hearing everything he’d
tried to tell me all along. Talking could wait until we’d said all the things we needed to say.
So I kissed him again.”
― L.A. Witt, The Distance Between Us

“In the office, he was miles above me. In the bedroom, he was on his knees below me. And afterward, when the work day was over and the dust had settled, we landed on level ground.”
― L.A. Witt, Not Safe For Work

“They spoke three languages between them, and there weren’t enough words to convey what they’d take to the grave, what they’d had a chance to taste before fate inevitably closed in. Dom”
― L.A. Witt, If the Seas Catch Fire

“He’d never had sex like this before. Usually it was sweat and panting and driving each other insane until they came. And then maybe they’d collapse together if they liked each other well enough, and maybe they’d catch their breath and do it all over again until sleep took over and tomorrow hurt. This… this was all that and more. Every touch, every kiss, every frantic, trembling movement, added up to something he’d never imagined. This wasn’t the cooperative pursuit of pleasure and orgasms. They held each other, clawed at each other, like they thought they might actually start fusing together. Molecule by molecule, cell by cell, not just getting under each other’s skin but becoming part of each other. One thing that could only become two again if it was broken.”
― L.A. Witt, If the Seas Catch Fire

“I’d spent so many years avoiding anything that even smelled like a relationship, and it felt good to just give in and let myself go all stupid for Ryan no matter how early in the game this was.”
― L.A. Witt, Protective Behavior

“You cheat with your body, but you lie with your mind. Lying is blatantly rude, whereas cheating is just something you get away with when the other person isn’t paying close enough attention”
― L.A. Witt, Double or Nothing

“But one look at this guy, and I swore all my dating profiles spontaneously reactivated on their own. Single, available, and with an enthusiastic libido, right here.”
― L.A. Witt, 2 Dead Fish Named Kevin