Alisa Kwitney > Quotes

“So if you brushed up against someone who suddenly made you feel twice as alive, the real crime was not taking hold of pleasure with both hands.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“It struck her that admiration, for all its Austenian overtones, was actually a crucial element of desire.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Cadaver & Queen

“Yeah, well, friends don't let friends drive Hondas.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“Aver paura della morte fa parte dell'umana natura. Solo nella stretta di una grande sofferenza, la malattia o la vecchiaia fanno accettare l'inevitabile a molti di noi. I pochi che l'abbracciano quando hanno gioventù e vigore vengono ricordati per sempre.
Sono chiamati martiri o eroi.
Fanatici o santi.
Sono ammirati e odiati e pianti molto dopo il perdono e l'oblio delle solite morti. Essi sono la materia delle leggende, e quasi sempre ci si aspetta che tornino in vita... o si prega che non succeda.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

“Santa," said the little boy in Mack's arms.
"Satan," Mack corrected him.
"Satan! Satan!”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“Trying not to think about falling, she kept going up.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“This is what replaces sex in women's fantasies, you know. One day, you look at all the magazines that promise to help you flatten your tummy, please him in bed, and choose the right pair of jeans, and you think, I don't care if I'm flabby or how my jeans fit and I really don't care whether or not I'm pleasing him in bed, because he's sure as hell not pleasing me out of it. So you start looking at the magazines that promise to help you make your kitchen look like it belongs in an old farmhouse, complete with recipes for zucchini bread and an easy-to-plant herb garden. You dream about what it would be like to sit somewhere beautiful, with something delicious to eat and a few good friends to share it with.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“And it was quite some butt, Mack had to admit, particularly in those blue jeans. It might wind up crushing a man, but he'd sure as hell die happy.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“He wanted to sleep but wound up thinking about the dead teenager, the story the skid marks told, the way most problems usually boiled down to not having enough reaction time to correct a mistake.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“In some hard-to-define way, her body felt right, the way some cars felt right, as if the controls had been custom made to your specifications.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

“I miss you. I'm having the best sex of my life and I don't have anyone to tell about it."

"You're having the best...this driving instructor is he best."

"You know what my feet are like, right?"

"I try not to think about them, but yes."

"Well, he sucks my toes."

There was a momentary silence, and then Bronwyn let out a long-suffering sigh. "Okay...”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars