Jodie Slaughter Quotes

“I don’t think it’s a bad thing to want somebody to understand you in that way. I mean, I know we live in a time where some people feel more comfortable talkin’ about mental health than they have in the past, but it’s still easy to feel alone when you’re in the thick of it. Plus, it’s not like society as a whole makes it safe for people to be as open as they might want to be about this kind of thing.”
― Jodie Slaughter, Bet on It

“The second he met Aja he’d made an effort to remember her name. He’d repeated it in his head six different times. He would have written it down, but he had no idea how she spelled it. So he turned it into a little tune instead. Aja. Aja. Aja Ow-ens. Aja. Aja. Aja Ow-ens.”
― Jodie Slaughter, Bet on It

“Her skin was a dark golden brown that caught the sun just right, making his breath hitch.”
― Jodie Slaughter

“How easy it would be to widen his legs and pull her between his thighs until they were brushed up against one another so intimately that he could feel nothing but her, smell nothing but her.”
― Jodie Slaughter