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

“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

“You make everything feel so much lighter.”
― Desiree Span

“I still had a couple of hours left with her. I exhaled deeply, only then noticing I’d been holding in my breath.”
― Desiree Span

“It was as if the universe was throwing my inadequacy in my face, and the irony made me scoff a wry chuckle that ended in a sad, stricken gasp I managed to hold back.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“We were exhaling erratic, hot breaths, our skin burning feverishly; Elena’s hair sticking to her flushed face, mine dripping with perspiration.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“My mind, my whole being, was lost in Elena as she consumed me with breathy sighs, seductive moans, and luscious kisses.”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“I wasn’t Elena’s Cinderella, and she could never be my Princess Charming, because this wasn’t a f**king fairy tale with a happy ending.”
― Desiree Span

“This was a real-life story about a man falling head over heels for a woman who was in love with the ghost of someone else.”
― Desiree Span

“If the heart is anchored to someone else, the mind just won’t let go…”
― Desiree Span, When I Met Elena

“You are in my heart, my soul, in my dreams… I’m yours. You are the one that lives in my heart now.”
― Desiree Span