Forced Proximity Quotes

“I want to tell her that she's luminous, she's so bright in my mind, sometimes I can't focus.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“She walks in like a force of nature wrapped in a tight-fitting pencil skirt, and just like that... my morning unravels.”
― Tricia Newlan, Echoes of One Night: Forbidden Love Romance

“You’ve got nothing to worry about.” He cradles my cheeks, leaning in to press his forehead against mine. “I told you already. It’ll always be you.”
― K.A. Tucker, North Country

“I head to the door, feeling frothy. All from imagining…a nap? Who even am I? When did naps become flirty? When Lake Axelrod told me he’d give me a lesson.”
― Lauren Blakely, Just Playing for Keeps

“I have one night to myself to do whatever I want, and what I want is to do Liam Bradley. All night. Maybe twice.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“Oh yeah, tough guy? Come on. I’ll give you the first swing. But you better kill me. Because when I swing, you die.”
― Kay Cove, Paper Hearts

“The Ice Queen's hijacked my f***ing brain. What if I can't concentrate on the ice? Right now all I'm thinking about is that kiss.”
― Kara Kendrick, Bad Boy Breakaway

“I’m a servant, and he’s a prince. Cinderella to Prince Charming. Only there’s no glass slipper or happily ever after for us. We’re what happens when midnight never ends.”
― J. Saman, Midnight Prince

“What look? The one that says I want to be inside you so badly I can barely think straight?”
― Carly Robyn, Fire and Ice

“When I straighten from my pose, he’s standing too close behind me, and he’s definitely hard.
Partner yoga is doing it for him. Or maybe he just really likes sunrises.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Left Field

“Em!” I call out, my voice husky. “I never stopped thinking about you. Never.” No matter how much I tried.
She stalls and, after a lengthy delay, peers over her shoulder at me. Her eyes are glossy in the bath of light from the garage’s spotlight. “I guess it’s time you forgot about me and moved on.” With that, she vanishes into the darkness, nothing but a faint glow of her flashlight to mark her trail.”
― K.A. Tucker, North Country

“I want you like this all the time. Mine to feast on whenever I want. Naked on my desk. Pleading.”
― Brandy Hynes, Roulette Rising

“I will do anything for you, Zar. Anything. Name it, and it’s yours. But don't ask me to let you go.”
― Brandy Hynes, Roulette Rising

“I refocus on the window across the way.
“We were friends for a lot longer than we were anything else. And it was nothing. A high school thing. We wouldn’t have lasted.” Can she hear the lie in my voice? Because I don’t believe it for a second.
Logan and I would have had a long life together.”
― K.A. Tucker, North Country

“That pep talk sounds pathetic even in my own mind. My inner diva is a badass bitch who takes no shit. It’s a shame she gets stage fright and rarely appears to help when it’s time to advocate for myself. I don’t want Luca to see how deeply this morning has affected me. I may be in the middle of an internal meltdown, but that doesn’t mean he gets to see any real part of me. Not anymore. He might not have ever deserved to in the first place.”
― Abby Millsaps, Upgraded

“I’m about to board a sunset dinner cruise with my fake girlfriend, my brother, and my ex, who’s married to said brother.
I need a drink. Stat.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Left Field

“It felt like stepping into a memory that had kept going without her.”
― Coral Harper, Newport Weddings: White Sands

“She deserves soft. She deserves easy. What I wouldn't give to be the man who could provide that for her on a regular basis.”
― Abby Millsaps

“I’m the one who burns for you. Every minute. Every second.”
― Rebecca Dale, The Fall of Summer: The Reckoning Duet, Book 1

“I want you to choose that ruin. To walk into it with your eyes open. To give me everything and know you’ll never get it back.”
― Rebecca Dale, The Fall of Summer: The Reckoning Duet, Book 1

“You’ll never have to be afraid again. Because there won’t be anything left to be afraid of.”
― Rebecca Dale, The Fall of Summer: The Reckoning Duet, Book 1

“A horse gallops in the distance, and I recognize it right away as Biscuit by his white coat. But that’s not Isla on his back. She never rides him that fast. Nobody does. Jon won’t even attempt to climb on him again and, besides, I don’t see his telltale hat.
There’s only one person I know who would ride with such reckless abandon.
Despite this unbearable weight that’s crushing me with Logan’s return, I smile as I watch a glimmer of the boy I used to know race across the field.”
― K.A. Tucker, North Country

“Brazenly, my voice crackling from sleep, I whisper, “Take what you want, Alaric." Silently I add, please let what you want be me.”
― Abby Millsaps, Upgraded

“It only took three weeks for me to fall completely in love with Archer Bradley…and then to lose him.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Left Field

“You get my cock when I say, sweetheart, and not a moment before. Between the hours of eight and midnight, I own this beautiful body, and I’ll use it as I see fit.”
― Cleo White, Second Edition

“I can’t just move into a twenty-six-year-old’s bachelor pad. Especially not when all I want to do is fall back into his bed with him.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“You have watched me play a bit then?’
I blush furiously. ‘Well of course, George.’
‘And do you think I’m good?’
I raise an eyebrow. ‘You don’t need me to tell you you’re good. You’re Britain’s number one.”
― Hannah Bicknell, Her Advantage: A Must-Read Spicy Enemies-To-Lovers Tennis Romance, Perfect For Fans Of Elle Kennedy

“If it’s foolish to pretend we’re not attracted to each other, it seems even more foolish to pretend that this means nothing.”
― Cleo White, Second Edition

“I will do literally anything to get out of that house with my soon-to-be ex-husband…even if it means shacking up with my best friend’s little brother.
Correction: my best friend’s cute little brother. My best friend’s pro football player little brother, who really isn’t so little, and has he always been so attractive, and I just didn’t notice because I wasn’t looking?”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“You have me aching every hour of the day. Merde, you feel incredible. Please mon amour, let me take you to bed. Let me make you feel good.”
― Cleo White, Second Edition