Steamy Quotes

“Warmth radiated from her skin in waves. Her pulse beneath his fingertips. The telltale flutter in her neck. Life. It mattered, was precious. And could be taken away in an instant.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“Callan stared at the door. Raw and razed and present. A crucial moment—when he wasn’t the one with his finger on the trigger.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“He grimaced and went after her. “I’m not a trainer. Just spent a lot of time working out.” 

“Misspent youth, clearly.” She held the door open, standing just outside. 

“My application to princess school was rejected.” Callan exited the building and fell into step alongside her. “Working out was how I coped.”

Sunlight peeked out from behind striped clouds and lit the early-morning sky. Autumn weather chilled the perspiration on his skin. 

“Such a shame.” Meridian glanced up at him out of the corner of her eye. 

“What is?” 

“That you didn’t go to princess school. Could have learned some manners.” Her blue-green eyes sparked in the sunlight. And her mouth . . . Her lips set in some smart-looking, lopsided grin, with a small dimple. 

I should definitely kiss that look off her face.

“Overrated. Inefficient. And I look terrible in a tiara.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“Every day is a battle. Still. She doesn’t need this…this mess. The nightmares. She doesn’t deserve what I’d put her through. And she probably wouldn’t stick around anyway. Who would?”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“She made a face at him, and he could picture her, as a child princess—sticking her tongue out at a playmate in her princess castle. ”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

“This goes two ways, Stella. You like the feel of me. I like the feel of you.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

“She reached for the milk and honey soap, then poured it into the puff, but when she started washing him with it, he chuckled.
“Uh, sweetheart?”
“Hmm?” Candice mumbled as she stared at some interesting spot on his arm.
“Real men don’t use puffs,” he said, amused and turned on by having Candice’s undivided attention.
She finally managed to drag her gaze away from his forearm and stared at him as if he’d lost his mind. “You can’t be serious?” When he only shrugged, she rolled her eyes. “What does it matter what I use, so long as you’re clean?”
“It matters, believe me.” Blade knew he sounded absurd but he couldn’t help it. It was bad enough he’d let her put bandages on a few measly cuts; if word got out he’d let her use a peach-colored puff and milk-and-honey bath soap he’d never hear the end of it.
A man had to put his foot down somewhere.”
― Anne Rainey, Tasting Candy

“Suddenly, Cain flipped her over and caged her in, his muscled strength creating a protective embrace. “My diamond,” he growled. “You are home.”
She lifted her hand and cupped his cheek, then murmured, “Yes. I am.”
“I was dead without you. I would have ended up a shell like Rafael.”
She kissed him, hating the pain in his voice. “No, never like him. He was evil, Cain, his soul black. Yours isn’t. Just a little gray.”
He smirked. “Gray?”
She shrugged. “Well you aren’t lily white, that’s for certain.”
― Anne Rainey, A Diamond at Midnight

“Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pregnancy. She and morning sickness were not seeing eye-to-eye.”
― Koko Brown, Player's Ultimatum

“there really is a place where kisses taste like apple pie and where stars spill like sugar across the sky.”
― Nina Lane

“The world moves on with or without you, Matt. Things never stay the same. So when an opportunity like this presents itself you have to take it.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“Memories of a man who is gone forever and has left me with an unmendable broken heart.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“How clever must she be to do such important work? Beauty and brains. Just like the superheroines from my favorite comics.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“If you give in now, this is the best you’ll ever get,” she said to Elena. “Make him work for it, girl!”
― Desiree Span

“It was unreasonable for a man to be that attractive. Dangerous. Like, how could I ever drive a car with him in the passenger seat? One sideways glance while he was smiling like that, and we'd be straight off a cliff.”
― Briar Black

“There should be a soundtrack playing for me as I walk down the street... And for what I'm about to do, cosplay is for suckers." - Judy The Burglar”
― S.R. Wilder, Hot Prowl

“Just because something was battered and beaten-up didn’t mean you should throw it out.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“Life’s shitty, so don’t give a shit.”
― Desiree Span

“I was a simple dude and didn’t know many fancy words, but in that moment the word exquisite popped into my mind.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“This is exactly the reason I didn’t date and had a firm I-don’t-do-boyfriend policy! No expectations, no promises, and no one ended up waiting by their phone like a lovestruck fool.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“friendship is the strongest foundation for love”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“The attraction between us was so palpable the air thickened every time we were together?”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“So for anyone taking notes on today’s lesson: never, ever, leave your love interest alone with your mother, foster mother, grandmother…”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“In fact, anyone with the word mother in their name is—however well intentioned—biologically programmed to embarrass you within five minutes of introducing them. Bottom line is, keep them away at all costs. At least until the wooing phase is over.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“Elena hadn’t realized I was out of her league before, she definitely would when she saw me standing next to Samuel, radiating all his fucking competence.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“My I-don’t-do-boyfriend policy was kind of losing its strength and credibility.”
― Desiree Span

“Our gaze held and as I was drowning in her eyes, this was right. We were right. Even if it was just for this weekend.”
― Desiree Span

“I wanted more, I wanted to get deeper, get under her skin, in her bones, in her head, I wanted to get in her heart, in her soul!”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“whatever this was that Elena and I had going on, I was going to make f*****g sure she’d remember me forever, because I would never, ever be able to forget her.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“May the best of your past be the worst of your future.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena