Shaye Marlow > Quotes

“His touch and proximity were starting to arouse me again.  Or maybe it was just the thought of Spock, I couldn’t be sure. ”
― Shaye Marlow, Pursued

“Those… troll-licking ass-munches,” I spat.  Forget the hot blonds.  They’d crossed the line.  Again.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Ugh, I’d tried to flirt with Ed with a big, fat Band-Aid on my forehead.  I probably looked like the Alaskan Bush version of Frankenstein, except, of course, Alaskan Frankenstein would have been put together with duct tape and zip ties.  Maybe I should have directed Ed to my duct tape drawer.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Cooking me dinner was something I’d demanded of them, but cooking my favorite?  And accompanying it by Adele?  And candles?  And shoulder rubs?  And now, suggesting my favorite TV series?  And cuddling?”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“found out my heroine wanted to rip the hero’s dick off, rather than ride it.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Cabins, One Lake

“He’d spent five years in jail for robbery in his youth, which made him an obvious suspect.  I’d also heard that his penis curved pretty impressively to the right.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Oh, shit, he was staring at my dick. “Ed, it’s not what it looks like,” I said.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Obviously she was among his conquests; looking at him all googly-eyed, trusting her drunken best friend to his protection, and tit-slapping me when I was about to verbally fillet him.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Cabins, One Lake

“Then Zack cannonballed through one of my taped windows.  He rolled, scrambled to his hands and knees, and sprinted toward the river. Mimi vaulted out the window after him, her form champion jumper perfect.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Despite being thrown like a bad romance novel and then rammed like a castle gate, his movements were spry.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“clambering over a fallen log with all the grace of a pregnant wiener dog.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Brutes, One Barista

“I glanced up, and Gary was sitting in the canoe, staring at me with the kind of shock a genteel person might reserve for a train wreck—if the rail cars had been full of dildos.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Cabins, One Lake

“started missing him the moment I stepped”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Mimi took off at a dead run across the yard.  She took the stairs in a running leap, and shot through her dog door. From inside, I heard a scream.  Panicked shouting.  Through the screen, and my multiple broken windows, I heard clattering.  Glass breaking.  There was heavy thumping as if someone were running up my stairs.  Another shriek.  The plastic taped over my windows billowed.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“Helly…” she warned, sounding like she was gonna crawl through the phone and rip the info outta me if I didn’t dish. “He’s a real prick,” I said, prefacing what I was about to let pass through my lips.  “But yeah.  Six-footish, maybe a couple years older, black hair, green eyes, built.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Cabins, One Lake

“permanent fund dividend was an annual oil royalty payment that each resident in Alaska received, usually one to two thousand dollars.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Cabins, One Lake

“Injuries were pretty common in the Alaskan bush.  Here, life is a contact sport.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair

“After I’d accepted his proposal, he’d offered to help me get back into fighting shape. We’d both gotten hot and sweaty on my brothers’ weight set, grunting and groaning with effort. He’d been beside me, helping correct my squat form, and behind me, saying, “Harder. Harder!”, and in front of me, murmuring, “Oui, that’s it”, and under me, egging me on as I rose and fell. … Okay, okay, I’ll stop.”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Brutes, One Barista

“was already walking away.  Toward the bar.  Which sat atop an illegal fight club. ”
― Shaye Marlow, Two Captains, One Chair