Smartypants Romance Quotes

“I don't want to sound like a badass, but I eject my USB without removing it safely.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Flying kisses are ones that make your insides feel like you're accelerating to reach altitude, and the moment you begin to soar, your chest can fill with air again, and your body floats free. I never had a flying kiss and always thought Mum was talking romantic nonsense." He took a deep breath, looked back at his hands, and smiled. "Apparently, it wasn't nonsense.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“You can be afraid and still strong, still fearless and indomitable. You can be afraid, and you can trust, and then when you're ready, you can let go of the fear. Fear muffles you. Let it go, and then you can live out loud again like you're meant to.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“To both of our surprises, I gripped her closer and squeezed her until she relaxed back into my arms. "Don't apologize for feeling things freely. Just because I'm bad at it, doesn't mean I don't envy it."
She sniffled and looked up at me. She shook her head and frowned. "Your issue is not that you don't feel, Ford. Your issue is that you feel too much." She smiled and put her head back on my racing heart.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“Whatever words get said in the heat of anger, or cold fear, or even calm conversation, it's your choice to believe them, and your choice to give them meaning. Because you know what? They are just words, and the only power words have over us is the power we give them.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“I was transfixed. It wasn’t just the way she mastered the room. It wasn’t just how her choreography perfectly correlated with the entrancing music. It wasn’t just her sex appeal. It was that unwavering gaze and focus on her task. To the rest of the room, staring blatantly at her admirable- ahem-assets, she was an object, but I recognize the barely controlled passion rolling under her skin. What would it be like to be that strong? Not just physically, but strong in a way that allowed her to bare her soul to a group of greedy strangers. My passions were locked away safely inside me and yet she had put it all out there. Such bravery and passion.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“Every step brought me closer to a line I never thought I'd cross. But this was my life. My choices had all led me to this point. There was no changing those facts without doing what Occum asked. I had to live this role a little longer if I wanted to be someone new.

But it didn't change the fact that with every step toward that room, I felt like I was giving something of myself away I could never get back.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“It's okay you know," she said without looking up.
"What is?"
"To have a little fire in you.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“I think you look very...sufficient."
"You can do better than that Ford." She frowned.
I squeezed my fists and on a whoosh of breath said, "You take my breath away every time I look at you." I gently shut the door and jogged around to the driver's side.
I started the car and pulled into the street without a glance in her direction.
After a few minutes, she relaxed back against the seat. "You don't look so bad yourself.”
― Piper Sheldon, My Bare Lady

“My entryway had just become mortification central, and my face flamed horrendously. So I did the only thing one can do when one makes a complete ass of oneself. I kissed him.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“It's the differences between men and women that keep things interesting

- Gabriel Eze”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Payback and Karma are the bitchy little sisters of Revenge, and I promise you, it's not a family you want to mess with.
-Shane, P.I.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“I taste you in my dreams," he murmured against my mouth. "I think about kissing you ten, fifty, a hundred times a day.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Feeling empty just means you're ready for filling.
-Miri Eze”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“I told my brain I wasn't presenting myself as an open target for the arms that encircled my waist as he stepped up behind me, but I was a lying liar who lied, especially when I tried to pretend indifference.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“I'm just like that faded structure. Right before everyone's eyes yet no one notices me.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“My eyes meet Jedd's. Oh Lordy, that is not a good idea. The gleam to them is like a beacon, calling me to say all the naughty thoughts in my head, curse the things in my heart, and strip bare the truths I've been holding deep inside for a long time.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“Beverly," he groans, lowering his forehead for mine. "I don't want anything to hurt you."
"Nothing will," I tell him, but instantly other thoughts whisper through my head. You might.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“Let's be clear. I want you, anyway I can take you. If it's bits and pieces, I can wait.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“A man changes all his plans for a woman like you.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“She's the air I need to breathe, and I can't draw her in fast enough.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“Love at first sight shouldn't exist. Love at twenty-thousand blinks shouldn't either.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“Beverly is the new end goal, but once she learns who I am, the game might be over.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“You know I'll do anything for you, Bee, Because the one thing on the list for, Bee, is you. You're my whole list.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“I don't need the deed to the land, Bee. I need the deed to your heart.”
― L.B. Dunbar, Love in Deed

“Star Wars isn't a romance. How is Han the romantic lead?"
I rolled my eyes. "Everything's a romance. Every good story worth telling has a romantic element - it's what makes us want to watch them, want to be them. You can't possibly tell me you had little boy aspirations of growing up to be Luke? Everyone wanted to be Han. I wanted to be Han, although Leia was pretty badass despite the breakfast bun hair.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Kaida's attorney suggested a quit claim deed as the best vehicle for transferring Gail’s home into Kaida's name with a limiting clause for a life estate for Gail. The single page was drafted on his computer.
When Gail asked Kaida why her beneficiary deed and her will were not sufficient, Kaida told her the new “trust” was more complete. It ensured that Grant and Paige would finally inherit her property at the end of Kaida’s life. It would also substantially help her build Kaida’s credit back from the bankruptcy to have her name on the deed.
Gail certainly loved Kaida and her grandchildren. Gail trusted Kaida’s promise to care for her in her old age, and she believed their funds had become hopelessly co-mingled, so that sitting in the attorney’s office that day, she finally agreed to sign the trust document with a “joint tenancy life estate” on her property. It felt like a business transaction. It was only right to incentivize Kaida for her promise to care for her in her old age.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch