Roxie Noir > Quotes

“There’s something magnetic about Jackson, and I can’t even put my finger on it. He’s unbelievably good looking, sure, but I’ve met good-looking men before. Is it the way that he’s beyond confident, like he knows you’re going to wind up in bed with him, it’s just a matter of when?”
― Roxie Noir, Ride

“But I want to be someone you can always trust. I want to always have your back. I want to always be there, behind you, and I want to be so constant you never have to think about whether I’m yours or not. I just am. I’m there. I’m there and I always am and you never have to wonder whether I’d hurt you,”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“It’s all lethal injection now,” I point out. “Though I think you can still request a firing squad in Utah, or Wyoming, or somewhere else that the laws are more like guidelines.”
― Roxie Noir, The One Month Boyfriend

“But I like the way my name sounds when she says it. I like the way she looks at me, the way she practically dares me to do something, the way my heart thunders with every inch she comes closer.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“Please, whispers my body. Hell no, whispers my brain.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“It’s so simple but it’s sweet, and true, and maybe that’s what I’ve been missing. Maybe not a lot else matters when things are sweet and true like this, when we’re holding hands on a roof where we’re not really supposed to be, when the sunlight is a dusky gold, when everything feels beautiful and perfect even though I know it’s not. Even though I know there’s no perfect when it comes to people, only endless irregularities: gaps and holes and sharp edges and broken pieces, but it all works anyway. Sometimes in the strangest, most beautiful ways.”
― Roxie Noir, The One Month Boyfriend

“It’s still too polite, too nice, because it’s been bred into me since I was old enough to say goodness gracious.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“I’ve been to a lot of places and there’s no one else like you,” he says, his voice suddenly low, serious. “You’re it, Violet. You’re all there is for me. It’s you or a life of austere hermitude. Let me be yours.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“I hop out and heave the door shut without responding, because anything I say will lead to us arguing in a truck, in a trailer park at almost one in the morning, and that’s how an episode of Cops starts.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“I like us,” she goes on. “I always did, even when I didn’t want to admit there was an us.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“the benefit of the doubt. I keep reminding myself over and over not to judge a book by its cover. People are invariably deeper and more complex than they seem at first.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“I’ve made a lot of puzzling life choices,” I tell her. It’s true. I have a Ph.D. in mathematics. No one in their right mind goes to grad school.”
― Roxie Noir, The Hookup Equation

“I kiss her like I’ve been to war. I kiss her like I haven’t seen her in years, her soft warmth flooding through”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“You’re the sun and I’m the moon,” he says slowly, carefully. “You shine and I reflect, and that’s how we always were. Without you I’m a dark, cold, dusty rock hurtling through space.”
― Roxie Noir, Best Fake Fiancé

“Pivot tables,” Clarabelle Loveless is saying, gesturing with her whiskey glass. “I’m telling you, Violet, once you start using them you’re never going to look back.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“I’m not having sex with him. I’d rather get into a bathtub full of wolverines,”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“You can’t blame yourself for wanting to see the best in someone when that’s all they showed you, right up until it was too late,”
― Roxie Noir, The One Month Boyfriend

“I glare at Eli. He glares back. Handsomely, the most irritating way for him to glare.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“I was voted the panty-droppingest chef west of the Mississippi two years running,”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“She’s arresting. She’s intense, serious, teasing, playful. Violet’s a diamond in a room full of coal: beautiful, interesting, always the most fascinating thing around.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“It’s the feeling that everything around you is slightly wrong and you can’t fix it,” I say, still staring at her. “It’s a bone-deep desire to bury yourself in the familiar.” She turns and looks at me, her face unreadable.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“I feel like an asshole who brought a flower to a knife fight.”
― Roxie Noir, The One Month Boyfriend

“You’re it, Violet. You’re all there is for me. It’s you or a life of austere hermitude. Let me be yours.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“Too bad we’re east of the Mississippi.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“I don’t like feeling as if I owe someone something.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“Todd’s truck: unnecessarily huge, the kind of truck that belies its owner’s insecurities about his dick.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“For all the women who use the men’s room sometimes. Fuck the patriarchy.”
― Roxie Noir, The Hookup Equation

“Do you see this pie?” she asks me, her face and voice completely serious. I just sigh and cross my arms. “Eli.” “Yes, I see the pie.” “This is my pie,” she says. “I nearly had to stab your brother Levi with a fork to get it. And I love you, but if you try to eat it, I’ll stab you with a fork.” “I understand,” I say. “You want me to eat it while you’re asleep.” Violet does not look amused.”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies with Benefits

“consider”
― Roxie Noir, Enemies With Benefits

“I keep going, each stroke fueling the fire inside me hotter and hotter. “Oh god, Jackson,” she whispers. I think her knees buckle, because the next thing I know, we’re unstable, leaning against the gate, and then moments later we’re both on our knees in the sand. I feel almost like an animal, like this is the purest, rawest expression of lust I’ve ever felt. Right now I don’t care if someone comes in and we get caught. I don’t think the National Guard could stop me from finishing, from making the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen lose her mind and come so hard she screams.”
― Roxie Noir, Ride