Laura Larson

“Hey, the only person I almost shot was Owen,” Maddie said, giving her boyfriend a huge smile. “And if that does end up happening, he’ll forgive me.”
Owen grabbed her wrist and pulled her close, kissing the top of her head. “You’d nurse me back to health?”
“I’d make you alligator gumbo out of the fucking lizard that tried to take a bite of you,” she said.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou

“We don’t go hard and fast down here,” Ellie said. “Long and slow and laid-back is more our style.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou

“If there’s anything you can think of that you might need from a real man with plenty of testosterone, you just let me know.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou

“Sometimes you sucked it up and did stuff you didn’t like because the people you loved needed you to.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou