Helena Newbury > Quotes

“You have to have someone in your life you care about more than yourself.”
― Helena Newbury, Punching and Kissing

“Be in your body, not in your head.”
― Helena Newbury, Punching and Kissing

“Shit! Had I just sort-of-kind-of asked if she was single?”
― Helena Newbury, Punching and Kissing

“What day is it?” he panted. “Thursday!” “Friday.” He shrugged. “Feck it. Close enough.”
― Helena Newbury, Punching and Kissing

“scorching wind that seemed to slam me back against the restroom door. I tried to take a breath and found I couldn’t. My chest was tight, my eyes wide. The heat inside me went lava-hot, a crashing, scorching waterfall that slammed straight down to my groin. I’d never in my life felt such want. He wanted me. I looked deliberately away and then back. I tried to reduce him to something ordered, to a description. Six-four. Dark hair. Blue eyes—It didn’t work. The words were boxes into which this man refused to be stuffed. He wasn’t six-four. He was just big, big like the mountains outside were big. His hair wasn’t dark, it wasn’t some”
― Helena Newbury, Alaska Wild

“She was nothing like me: she was as city as I was country and we were on opposite sides of the law. And yet...the way her body fitted against mine was just perfect, like we’d been built for each other. She was the softness I needed...but she had the stubborn streak she needed to break through to me when any sane woman would have given up.”
― Helena Newbury, Alaska Wild

“It was impossible. That part of me was broken, had been since I was a kid. But it had happened anyway. I didn’t just care for her or like her or want to protect her. I was in love with her.”
― Helena Newbury, Off Limits

“Those guys are going to kill me, so if you’ve got any feelings for me whatsoever, you kiss me right now because this is our last chance and I don’t want to leave this world without knowing what it’s like to kiss you.”
― Helena Newbury, No Angel

“The guy was a gentleman, in a rough, filthy, blue collar kind of a way.”
― Helena Newbury, Off Limits

“He was smiling at me, which didn’t make sense. Guys don’t smile at me. Guys don’t notice me.”
― Helena Newbury, Off Limits

“Somehow, despite starting out thousands of miles apart, we’d found exactly the person we each needed.”
― Helena Newbury, Alaska Wild

“looks. But I was enthralled and, as I kept nodding her on, her shyness dropped away and she came alive. She didn’t just tell me about the book, she told me about why she loved it so much, how it transported her away. I’d never known a book could do that. “I’m going to have to read it,” I told her.”
― Helena Newbury, Off Limits

“Animals are driven by instincts and needs: food, shelter, safety. People, though—they’re just a mess of contradictions”
― Helena Newbury, Texas Kissing

“I was twenty-seven and”
― Helena Newbury, Frozen Heart

“I’m a librarian. He owns dynamite.”
― Helena Newbury, Captain Rourke

“She did that a lot, mumbling or muttering. Like she was worried someone might notice her if she made too much noise.”
― Helena Newbury, Off Limits

“geek.”
― Helena Newbury, Outlaw's Promise

“Even in her heeled ankle boots, she was six inches shorter than me. Her? She’s the big threat?! I glanced down at my combat gear, feeling ridiculous. I lowered the shotgun and took out a set of handcuffs. She looked at them and raised one perfect eyebrow. “My safeword is Cincinnati.”
― Helena Newbury, Capture Me

“Well, I’ll be here waiting,” she said softly. “With a plate of sandwiches in the refrigerator, a bottle of red on the table and me in that green silky robe and the black underwear with the little gold chains.” I growled appreciatively and she giggled. “Is someone getting excited?” “Hell yeah. You know how long it’s been since I had a good sandwich?”
― Helena Newbury, Guarded

“But I was enthralled and, as I kept nodding her on, her shyness dropped away and she came alive. She didn’t just tell me about the book, she told me about why she loved it so much, how it transported her away. I’d never known a book could do that. “I’m going to have to read it,” I told her.”
― Helena Newbury, Off Limits

“I had to beat the train. That was my only chance: beat the train to the next station and get on. I checked the screens. The train had left Penn Station at exactly 2pm. It stopped at Newark Penn Station at twelve minutes past. I had less than twelve minutes to save her.”
― Helena Newbury, Kissing My Killer

“friends for?” Lily”
― Helena Newbury, Kissing My Killer