Eden Connor > Quotes

“Because it’s not the things we write about that define us. It’s the things we fear writing about.”
― Eden Connor, Gas or Ass

“I look into her eyes and a storm looks back. And all I wanna do is stand in the downpour.”
― Eden Connor, Good Wood

“Tell me about dying, Del.” Her eyes fluttered open and she looked out the spattered window. “It’s a little like being a raindrop. You wanna cling to the glass, but the ground’s calling your name.” –”
― Eden Connor, Rain on Me

“Who’s the informant, Ennis?” He wiggled a battery cable. “Not sure. They’re protecting his identity like the Pope protects perverts. Why?”
― Eden Connor, Rain on Me

“Nothing is as American as these big block monsters made of Detroit pig iron. In its day, this car represented everything that was right about this country. Damn near every piece of it was produced here, from the steel in the frame, to the switches behind the dash, to the scoop popping through the hood, to the real chrome on the fender. They’re pure America; arrogant, brash, and defiant as hell. You look at one and it pulls on you. Every drop of rebellion in your soul rises to the top.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“Well, then, let's make a deal. I'll be your slave girl. You can dress me your way, and I'll do anything you say, so long as you give me two weeks to change your mind 'bout sellin' some land I hear you don't even use." She ventured a glance at his face. "We can get as wildly inappropriate as you want." Pointing toward his slow-moving hand, she couldn't resist adding, "I see you already started.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“My brain caught up to my emotions. He meant for Colt and Caine to take me drag racing? Oh, hell to the no.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“She needed him to take her. His way seemed right to her. Somehow, his blunt brand of sexuality had always seemed right to her.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“She longed for a man who'd be just her man, not some player who'd have a bunch of other women on the side. She wanted a man who'd work, not some jerk who was always getting fired because his job description was smaller than his ego. Someone reliable and solid, like her Grandpa Earl had been.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“When you found a woman who wanted to get up close and personal with your inner caveman on a long-term basis, you had to be her everything, because you were demanding that of her. You had to commit to becoming so attuned to every little shade and shift in her moods that she could hide nothing.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“I'm a man who likes to take control, Cynda, but I don't object to proving I deserve to be in control of a woman's body.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“Let you win? I heard somethin’ about that chivalry shit, but when I get behind a start line, the only gender I see is Ford or Chevy.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“Men who think women are weak are fools. Their greatest strength is that they’re wicks for every nuance of emotion around them. That gift makes them both perceptive and yet vulnerable to others’ judgments. Their”
― Eden Connor, Rain on Me

“I dropped my gaze to the faded denim molded around his ass. God, someone needed to give Wrangler a hug.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“Whenever you're taking advantage of all those rules you make in your favor, you're turning me inside out and when that happens, you’re not white and I'm not black, or poor, or one bad mood on the part of some racist asshole away from being unemployed. In your garden, I'm Eve, and when you take me shoe shopping, I'm Cinderella. On top of your mountain, I feel like Mother Earth. In your house, I'm a lady. You dress me like one and you insist others treat me like one.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“She couldn't see an ounce of fat on him. No wonder he strutted around buck naked. He was built like a god. He was more than naked. He was hard. And getting harder by the second.”
― Eden Connor, Wildly Inappropriate

“And those fingers just keep on wagging until some gay teenager hangs himself because he can’t fight the fucking tornado of hatred whirling around his head, and that ill wind keeps blowing, until over in Kenya, some man lifts a knife and cuts out a young girl’s clitoris? It’s all connected, Dale.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“People say it’s hard to know what’s in a man’s heart. I say it’s the easiest goddamn thing you’ll ever do. Just look at what he puts first.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“until someone from Concord tells him or his big shot daddy that my stepbrothers whored me out when I was in high school?”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“Love never fails.”
― Eden Connor, Incidental Contact

“Revenge is a redheaded bitch.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“I went back time after time, because he wounded me in the same places Mom wounded me. I already knew by heart which little lies to tell myself to stop the bleeding.”
― Eden Connor, Pedal to the Metal

“made up?” Shame darkened Phillip’s brown eyes. “Not everyone knows love when they see it, Shelby. Sometimes, it doesn’t look the way you think it should.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“Gerald smirked. “Oh yeah. Hottest thing I ever saw in my life, those two studs going at it. Next time I saw Colt out there, I told him I’d love to tune up that monster of his.”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“them. They’re just too goddamn far away.” When a man has an equal passion for you as for his work, he’s the one.”
― Eden Connor, Pedal to the Metal

“Desperately, I squeezed her hand. “Tell me about dying, Del.” Her eyes fluttered open and she looked out the spattered window. “It’s a little like being a raindrop. You wanna cling to the glass, but the ground’s calling your name.”
― Eden Connor, Rain on Me

“Davis was the sort of man to make a woman try to recall if she’d donned her sexy underwear that morning. Looking at Matt would make her regret wearing any. ”
― Eden Connor, Come, They Told Me

“Can’t you see that every time someone lifts a finger to wag it in our faces, it creates a little wind? And that puff of wind finds the next wagging finger and joins with the wind blowin’ off of it, until it makes a storm. So,”
― Eden Connor, Turn & Burn

“I bet you play your games with half-grown boys. Come on up to the big leagues, Shelby. I’m a grown-ass man. No time for little girls.”
― Eden Connor, Gas or Ass

“I read body language the way most women read romance novels.”
― Eden Connor, Good Wood