Jessica Peterson > Quotes

“For the cowgirl in all of us. Ride hard. Ride often. Ride free.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Choose me. Goddamn, Sunshine, I’m dying for you to choose me.”
― Jessica Peterson, Wyatt

“You’re a cowgirl now, honey. And cowgirls can’t be tamed. Wouldn’t dare to try.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Honey, I’d marry the shit out of you. Not because it’s the right thing to do, but because I’m in love with you.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“This ain’t the first time I gotta cowboy up. Sure as hell won’t be the last.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Nothing’s simple unless you make it simple.” She gives me a watery grin. “So I make it simple.” “I’m here to help you try, honey.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“It’s just funny. Men love to call women ‘crazy,’ but y’all are the crazy ones thinking we’d ever settle for your bullshit.”
― Jessica Peterson, Sawyer

“That day you picked me up, you said you’d be my sunshine anytime.” He searches my eyes. “What do you think about being my sunshine forever?”
― Jessica Peterson, Wyatt

“I’m not crying. There’s no crying in cowboying.” “Cute League of Their Own reference,” Cash says, even as his nostrils flare. “But cowboys do cry, Mollie.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“I’ve never wanted to burn anything down. But I’d burn down this whole town if it meant never seeing that look in her eyes again.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Don’t know what I love more. My morning coffee or my afternoon beer.” “Depends on who you’re having it with, I think.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“We’re in the bathtub a week later when I fall in love with Mollie. It happens all of a sudden. Or maybe it’s been happening all along, and it only takes some bubbles and a good, hard laugh for the realization to finally crystallize.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Do you ever get the feeling that you’re hiding who you really are to fit in? Do you ever want more? Not more stuff, but a life that’s more you, you know?”
― Jessica Peterson, Southern Charmer

“So you like the ’stache,” I manage. “On everyone else, I hate it. On you?” Mollie’s nostrils flare. “It’s like the second coming of Tom Selleck.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“There are cowboys, and then there are cowboys.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Nah, Sunshine. That ain’t how this is gonna work.” The playful, cocky gleam in his eye is back. “You date me, you don’t drive. You definitely don’t make the plans. I’ll buy some tickets. Then I’ll come grab you, and we’ll have some of that fun you been missin’. Sounds like we have a lot of lost time to make up for.”
― Jessica Peterson, Wyatt

“Of course I’ve been to therapy. Why do you think I’m such a charming, well-adjusted beacon of contentment and emotional maturity?”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“The man can be a grade-A asshole. But right now, I feel kinda bad for him. From my limited observation, Cash really is the go-to guy here on the ranch. People come to him with problems, and he always has a solution. I imagine that kind of responsibility, the constant barrage of interruptions, is a heavy weight to carry.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Wheeler, I just took you on a tour of my family’s working cattle ranch. We saw cows, horses, snakes, and a freaking bald eagle. Not to mention the Colorado River. But all you can talk about is cowboys?” Wheeler blinks. “Yes, cowboys are what interest me most. What’s wrong with that?”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Maybe Dad wasn’t a bad person. Maybe I’m not either. Maybe we were both just hurt people, and we did the best we could with what we had.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Romance is feminist. The reply was on the tip of my tongue. Romance is one of the few genres that explicitly puts a woman’s dreams and desires, sexual and otherwise, front and center. It’s one of the many reasons I love reading it.”
― Jessica Peterson, Southern Charmer

“I’m not crying. There’s no crying in cowboying.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Babies really make you aware of the deficiencies in your marriage. The things you could sweep under the rug before—the shit you convinced yourself you could tolerate—is no longer tolerable with a tiny new human in the mix.”
― Jessica Peterson, Sawyer

“You don’t know how fun I can be, sweetheart. You want me to teach you how to use those legs? Let me get between ’em, and I’ll show you exactly how it’s done.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“I’ve been dead since the second you waved to me in the parking lot.” “Six feet under since you dumped your beer on me.” My lips twitch. “Hey, that was an accident.” His eyes search mine. “This isn’t.” And then he leans in, his thick neck slanting in the sexiest way imaginable as his mouth meets mine.”
― Jessica Peterson, Sawyer

“Life is heavy. It’d be nice not to have to face it alone for once.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Cute League of Their Own reference,” Cash says, even as his nostrils flare. “But cowboys do cry, Mollie.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“Sophia closed her eyes, willing herself to sleep.
And woke that morning with a start when she realized she’d dreamt not at all of a glamorous turn at Almack’s on the arm of the Marquess of Withington.
No.
It had been Thomas Hope who’d taken captive her dream, whispering into her ear all the things he wanted to show her.

All the things he had yet to make her feel.”
― Jessica Peterson, The Millionaire Rogue

“Family is great, but it’s also a burden. “I’m jealous of you,” I say. “Your freedom.”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash

“You’re telling me you’re surrounded by hot cowboys, but you’re going to have sex with Gordon Gekko instead?”
― Jessica Peterson, Cash