Simona Vrastakov > Simona's Quotes

“Just out of curiosity,” she says, “after you wake up in the morning, do you admire yourself in the mirror for one hour or two?”

“Two,” I reply cheerfully.

“Do you high five yourself?”

“Of course not.” I smirk. “I kiss each of my biceps and then point to the ceiling and thank the big man upstairs for creating such a perfect male specimen.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Penises!

Sweet Jesus.

Penises everywhere.

Horror slams into me as I register what I'm seeing. Oh God. I've stumbled onto a penis convention. Big penises and small penises and fat penises and penis-shaped penises. It doesn't matter which direction I move my head because everywhere I look I see penises.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Hey, come on, don’t cry,” he begs. “It breaks my fucking heart to hear you cry.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“She tries to take a step down the hall, but I tug on her hand and kiss her again, and this time it's not a peck. I kiss her hard, losing myself in her taste and her heat and every damn thing about her. I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know you ever lived without them.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“He shakes his head in amazement. “Your voice is…fuck, Wellsy, it’s beautiful.” My cheeks heat up. “You think so?” His impassioned expression tells me he’s dead serious. “Play something else,” he orders. “Um. What do you want to hear?” “Anything. I don’t care.” I’m startled by the intensity in his voice, the emotion now glittering in his gray eyes. “I just need to hear you sing again.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“And the most important lesson I learned is that I’m not a victim—I’m a survivor.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“-Bros before hos, dude-
-Call my girlfriend a ho one more time and you won't have a bro-”
― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake

“Now, I knew more, and I knew what I wanted.
I wasn’t afraid of taking it and taking chances.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“Smiles will come again, and time heals some wounds and soothes the onesie can't.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“I never expected to feel better. I just wanted them to feel worse.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“He was here. We were alone. We were angry. Déjà vu.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“I wanted him angry and out of his mind. I wanted to trap him.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.”
― Penelope Douglas, Rival

“Note to self: always date someone who can bench-press twice your weight.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Damn it, T, I’m trying to say I’m in love with you.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Women are supposed to be soft and curvy and squeezable. I'm not sure when they were brainwashed into thinking otherwise.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Nothing shapes us like our friends. Family, definitely. Families fuck us up by an order of magnitude. But friends, we collect them like bricks and nails and drywall. They’re pieces in the blueprint, but that blueprint is always under renovation. We’re all deciding toward who we were always meant to be, choosing, mutating, growing into ourselves. Friends are the qualities we want to absorb. What we want to be.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“I want you. I’ve wanted you since the moment I watched you cross the room at that party.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Don’t mistake my manners for indifference.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare

“Taylor Marsh has no idea how cool she is, and that’s a fucking shame.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Dare