Kevin Kowalski Quotes

“Who’s Beth?” Keri asked.
“The bartender at your wedding.”
“Oh, that’s right. How could I forget when
my husband almost got thrown out of our own
reception for trying to hire her like a hooker or
something.”
“What’s a hooker?” Bobby asked.
Keri’s island tan flushed pink. “Oops.”
“You put it on the end of a fishing pole,
dummy,” Brian explained.
Bobby frowned. “Uncle Joe tried to hire a
worm?”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“He was swaying back and forth with their daughter gazing adoringly into his face from the cradle of his arms. “I’m going to do my best to make sure your life is awesome, but it won’t always be. Those are the times you need to dance in the kitchen the most. It’s good for your soul.”

Beth sighed and leaned her head against the corner of the wall, as enchanted as Lily by the soft, tender timbre of his voice.

“You don’t even need music,” he told Lily. “You can dance to the music in your head. Hopefully not to that country-and-western shit your mother listens to, though. Oh… damn. Don’t say shit, Lily-bean. Or if you do and Mommy hears you, don’t tell her you heard it from me, okay? Tell her Uncle Mike said it.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“Why do you have to be such a nice guy?”

He flashed his dimples at her. “You’ve met my mother. Too scared not to be.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“When the reception was over I went for a walk and…she’s pregnant.”

They were both quiet a moment, exchanging one of those old-married-people looks he still couldn’t decipher, but which made him squirm. He and Beth were both adults, but that didn’t make telling his parents he’d accidentally gotten a woman pregnant any easier.

“Lot easier to walk with your fly zipped,” Leo grumbled.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“I’ll do it,” she said before she could talk herself out of it.

His dimples flashed as he slapped a hand over his heart in mock surprise. “Just like that?”

“Did you want me to argue with you first?”

“Hell no, but I had pictured this conversation going somewhat differently. You’d get all offended I didn’t think you could do your job and then you’d get all pissed off and accuse me of trying to be the boss of you and then…”

“And then?”

“And then I had kinda pictured us having make-up sex. And then christening-the-new-office-chair sex. And maybe christening-the-old-office-desk sex because, as far as I know, it was never christened. And—”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours

“So this Logan guy, is he giving you a hard time about the wedding?”

“He’s blackmailing me.”

Kevin jumped to his feet so fast, she sat back in her chair. “He’s a dead man. I’m going to kick his ass so bad he won’t even be able to cry for his mommy. Gonna fold him up like a napkin.”

His loyalty warmed her heart, even as embarrassment warmed her cheeks. “It’s…not what you’re thinking.”

“I’m thinking by the time I’m done pounding on his face, even dogs will be afraid of him.”
― Shannon Stacey, Undeniably Yours