Kelly

“You boys with the badges,”

“Always wanting to be the heroes and not realizing that bein’ saved—havin’ someone see you and decide you’re worth it, and bein’ willin’ to jump in and pull you out of whatever it is that’s threatening you—is maybe the best damned thing that can happen to a person." Ellie Landry - Gotta Be Bayou”
― Erin Nicholas, Gotta Be Bayou

“Juliet laughed. "I am not the first woman to tell you that she finds you attractive."

"No," he said, again almost as if he was thinking out loud. "But you're the first to lay it out like that. And the first with the scar."

"I'm not," she said, with absolute confidence. "I might be the first to say it, but no, Saywer, other women have found that hot too. I promise you.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou

“They didn't tell you about me?"
"I think I would have remembered mention of a gorgeous brunette comin' down here to give me a hard time," Sawyer told her.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou

“Maybe she should have been grateful for the soft, lingering, slow kisses in the kitchen. Because in that moment, she wasn't sure she was ready for a full-on, take-over-everything-including-her-body-and-heart Sawyer.

That was absolutely the best way to describe how he was looking at her right now.

She had no time to get ready, though. Sawyer's mouth took hers in a deep, hot kiss. He didn't say a word, gave her no real warning, just sealed his lips over hers and started kissing her as if it was his single goal in life to make her come with just his lips on hers.”
― Erin Nicholas, Beauty and the Bayou