Lily Morton > Quotes

“He stares at me. “So you’re telling me that you obey all my orders, because honestly that would be news to me?”

“I always obey your orders,” I say indignantly. “I am quite possibly the best assistant in history.”

“That would certainly be true, if you were the only assistant in history.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“The truth is that I will always need you more than you need me. It’s also the truth that I’m not a good bet for someone as vital and young as you. I’m bad tempered, a perfectionist who is too serious, and too used to being on my own. You could go out tomorrow and find someone better for you, but the truth is that no one will ever need you like I do.” He pauses and then says firmly. “No one will ever love you like I do.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“He’s lovely,” I say, putting my hand out to the dog. “What’s his name?”
“Boris Johnson.”
I blink. “Pardon?”
He smiles. “Because he’s blond and stupid and makes very questionable decisions.”
― Lily Morton, Oz

“To: Gabe Foster From: Dylan Mitchell I have prepared the fourth pot of coffee for you to taste. I pray that this one meets your exacting taste buds, because I do actually have plans for the rest of my life.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“Sometimes we think that a certain path in life is the way we have to go. We see other routes, but we avoid them because we’re so insistent they’re not for us, that we might get lost or hurt. Then sometimes fate sets in, and someone takes your hand or waves you over. You step off your chosen path, and find that although this one is new and scary, somehow your feet know the way to navigate it. You might even find that it leads you the way that you were always meant to go.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“Gabe, you’re sick, and much as you’re a shithead sometimes, I’ve trained you to be a fairly acceptable shithead to me. If you died I’d have to go to all the effort of training someone else.”

“If I died maybe you should consider a change of career into the nursing profession. With your lovely bedside manner you’d be a shoo-in.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“Yes, Cinderella won a real prize - a man who couldn’t see her true worth until she fitted in the shoe properly.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“Forever?” I say softly, and Asa buries his head in my neck.
I shiver as I feel, as well as hear his words falling into the air like a magical incantation.
“It’s a deal, Jude.”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“I smile limpidly at him. “I am a bit of a flibbertigibbet. My teachers always used to say so.” “Did you go to school in the 1850’s then?”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“Shithead Boss Man, eh? You know, Dylan, I really lucked out in the assistant department. The other partners in the firm have ended up with someone awful, who soothes them, is at their beck and call and agrees with them all the time. I got one who is sarcastic, argumentative, scruffy, rarely where he should be, and calls me Shithead Boss Man rather than Sir.”

Jude laughs at him, before reaching out and swiping one of the prawns from my carton of sweet and sour. “He’d call you Sir if you spanked him.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“He flushes slightly. “I was mad about him when I was fifteen.”
“How didn’t I know this?” I say indignantly. “We tell each other everything.”
“Not anymore,” Dylan adds hastily, looking at Gabe, but he shrugs unconcerned.
“Don’t try and cover it up, Dylan. Jude’s our very own Camilla - the third person in our relationship.”
“Why am I the old woman in this scenario?” I say indignantly. “I want to be the younger, much fitter princess, who captured people’s hearts and minds.”
“You would have been, babe,” Dylan says hastily. “And you’d look way better with a tiara than she does.”
“I would,” I nod firmly. “I would be a very desirable addition to the royal family, and a very stabilizing influence, if I do say so myself. I also have a full head of my own hair.”
Gabe shakes his head. “I’m worried that I not only follow these odd flights of fancy, but I find myself actually wanting to weigh in with my own opinions.”
“What did you want to say?” Dylan asks immediately, but he shakes his head.
“I said I wanted to, not that I was going to. I’m looking through the windows of the mental asylum, not going through the door.”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“He’s adorably high-handed where you’re concerned, isn’t he?”

My eyes slide closed. “With anyone.”

“No,” he says thoughtfully. “Only you. He really can’t be bothered with anyone else, unless they’re connected to you. You’re all he sees.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“I feel something snap and settle in me. It's the last piece of my heart, falling for him without any input from me at all.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“All good sex comes with a side order of inappropriate laughter.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“You’re my person and I think that I was just waiting for you. Man or woman, it doesn’t matter to me. The only thing that matters is that you are mine and I am yours.”
― Lily Morton, The Summer of Us

“It’s not about over-the-top gestures to me,” he finally says almost shyly.
“It’s all the tiny moments that go to make a real love story. The funny things that go wrong like when one of you forgets your anniversary or does something silly. They all become part of your story. And you add to it with every argument or slammed door that you have. Every birthday or Christmas that you mould into a thing that only the two of you recognise. It’s taking care of each other when you’re throwing up or have a cold, it’s huddling under the duvet together laughing so hard your ribs hurt. It’s holding the other one when they’re frightened, knowing you will do anything to make them feel better again. It’s like being two pebbles on a beach. You start off individual shapes and then the weather and proximity means you rub the rough spots off so in the end you’re smooth with a patina that only echoes one other person.”
― Lily Morton, Best Man

“Everyone is entitled to love who they want, and people aren’t weird just because of who they love. No one is weird.”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“He huffs. “Well, because of
Phillip. Oh, I’m sorry.” He puts his hand over his mouth. “Was I not allowed to
say his name?”

“He’s not Voldemort,” I mutter,
and Asa laughs,”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“I snort at the thought, and he looks at me with one supercilious eyebrow raised. I sigh inwardly because anyone else would find that gesture charming and sexy. Instead, it just makes me want to poke a pen in his eye.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“He leans back in his seat. His legs are spread and his head tipped back, with his eyes challenging me. “Okay what’s next, boss?”

I shudder theatrically. “I see why you like it. Just the word makes me feel all powerful.”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“I don’t always want to see and be seen at the best parties, because I’ve done that for too many years. I want something real and true.” I pause and shoot him a sideways look. “I want a real partner, not a boyfriend who brings home a twenty two year old twink to make up a threesome for my birthday present.”
“What the fuck?”
I look at him and start laughing helplessly. “I just wanted the latest Jeremy Clarkson biography.”
― Lily Morton, The Summer of Us

“Fucking hell, Jude. You can see how cold my nipples are in this, and these black jeans are so tight that if I take them off there'll be an imprint of my dick on them.

Is it puritanical to not want to tell the general public that I've been circumcised?”
― Lily Morton, Rule Breaker

“I don’t see anyone else Nell. All I see, all I want, is you.”
― Lily Morton, Trust Me

“I am the man who loves you utterly and madly. It gives me certain rights, one of which is to take some of your burdens and make them mine.”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“Ask me,” I say quietly. I smile tenderly. “I guarantee I’m going to say yes.”
― Lily Morton, Oz

“I am naked because I am going for a swim,” he says happily. Then he laughs loudly, clutching his side. “Oh Johnny you look like an outraged Victorian chaperone. You just need a pearl necklace to clutch.” He waggles his eyebrows lecherously. “I can definitely help you out with that.”
― Lily Morton, The Summer of Us

“So, in your view, children have pompoms and operate as urine dispensers?”
― Lily Morton, The Sunny Side

“I hope he looks back on our time together well and remembers me affectionately, but just for once, I would like someone to want me to stay. I want someone to miss me when I go.”
― Lily Morton, The Cuckoo's Call

“That brings me back to my predicament, and I stare at the closed front door. “Speaking of my new living arrangements, what would be the good answer when someone demands a password before they’ll let you in?”
There’s a long pause, and then he snorts. “Oh my God, where are you going to stay? Is it a sex club? Is it the password for the dungeons?” He starts to laugh. “If that’s the case, I’d go with red botty.”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker

“My Jude. My best friend, my lover and my heart.”
― Lily Morton, Deal Maker