Leslie

“You need fear to stay sharp. You need fear to keep your wildness in check. But just a little bit. Just enough to feel alive.”
― Karina Halle, Dirty Deeds

“Because love is the greatest scam of all time. And because as much as I fucking love you, I hate you for inflicting it upon me!”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Swan & the Jackal

“I’ve heard that hat making drives people mad,” Pandora remarked. “Which I don’t understand, because it doesn’t seem tedious enough to do that.” “It isn’t the job that drives them mad,” West said. “It’s the mercury solution they use to smooth the felt. After repeated exposure, it addles the brain. Hence the term ‘mad as a hatter.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“In that moment, I finally figured out what kind of handsome he was. He was fiction-handsome. Romance novel handsome; but not the clean-cut (billionaire) alpha male or even the tattooed (billionaire) bad boy archetype. He was the Scottish highlander, Viking conqueror, bodice-ripper historical romance kind of handsome; an unshaven, lion wrestling, mountain man recluse, toss you over his shoulder and plunder your goodies kind of handsome. He was both scary and swoony. I wanted to braid his beard. I also wanted to run away.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache