Just One Day (Gayle Forman)
I turn to Melanie. It’s on her now. She narrows her green
eyes at Willem. “If you rape or murder my friend, I will kill you.”
Willem
tsk-tsks. “You Americans are so violent. I’m Dutch. The worst I will do is run
her over with a bicycle.”
“While stoned!” Melanie adds.
Just One Day (Gayle Forman)
He looks around. “It’s nice, this. The canal.” He looks at
me. “You.”
“I’ll bet you say that to all the canals.”
Beauty
Awakened (Gena Showalter)
“What are you, anyway?” she asked almost absently.
“You
haven’t figured it out on your own?”
“No. How could I?”
“There are many ways.”
“Name one.”
“Easy. A sensitive spirit.”
She expelled a weary breath. “All I
know is you aren’t human.”
“Correct.”
“So why don’t you just tell me?”
“Would
you believe me?” If he admitted he was a Sent One, she would, perhaps, have no
idea what that was. If he used the word angel, she might have certain
expectations he would be unable to meet.
Penmort Castle (Kristen Ashley)
“Abigail Butler’s phone, Edith Truman speaking,” she
announced grandly.
Abby halted and hoped to all that was holy that there was a
salesman or someone else she didn’t care about on the other end.
“Yes,
Abigail’s here and I’m glad you called,” she said tartly, sounding as if she
was not glad and furthermore the last time she was glad was 1943.
Clockwork Prince (Cassandra Clare)
“Perhaps we could say she’s a mad maiden aunt who insists on
chaperoning us everywhere.”
“My aunt or yours?” Jem inquired.
“Yes, she doesn’t really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she’s a girl who’s fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go.”
“My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting,” said Tessa, and at that, Jem laughed out loud. Will glared at him.
“My aunt or yours?” Jem inquired.
“Yes, she doesn’t really look like either of us, does she? Perhaps she’s a girl who’s fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go.”
“My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting,” said Tessa, and at that, Jem laughed out loud. Will glared at him.
Love Irresistibly (Julie James)
“Our cook made a joke to one of the waiters about honing his
cooking skills in prison. The waiter asked what he’d been serving time for, and
he said, ‘Murder.’”
“I bet that put an end to the conversation real fast. And
yes, you can fire him,” Brooke had said. “Obviously, he lied on his employment
application.”
All of Sterling’s employees, regardless of job position, were
required to answer whether they’d ever been convicted of a crime involving
“violence, deceit, or theft.” Pretty safe to say that murder qualified.
Ten
minutes later, the manager had called her back. “Um . . . what
if he didn’t exactly lie? I just double-checked his application, and as it
turns out, he did check the box for having been convicted of a crime.”
Brooke
had paused at that. “And then the next question, where we ask what crime he’d
been convicted for, what did he write?”
“Uh . . . ‘second-degree
murder.’”
“I see. Just a crazy suggestion here, Cory, but you might want to start
reading these applications a little more closely before making employment
offers.”
“Please don’t fire me.”
Love Irresistibly (Julie James)
“Who said yes?”
“Brooke Parker. I’m seeing her tonight.”
“Fuck you,” Vaughn said, somewhat in awe. “I knew it. You’ve been digging her
from the moment she told you to shove your obstruction of justice threats up
your ass.”
“What can I say? I’m a sucker for the shy, quiet types.”
Bared to You (Sylvia Day)
(Tu treba vedieť, že Gideon Cross je milionár)
(Tu treba vedieť, že Gideon Cross je milionár)
Cracking his knuckles, Cary dramatically prepared to open
his fortune cookie. “Let’s see. Will I be rich? Famous? About to meet Mr. or
Ms. Tall, Dark, and Tasty? Traveling to distant lands? What’d you guys get?”
“Mine’s lame,” I said. “In the end all things will be known. Duh. I didn’t need
a fortune to figure that out.”
Gideon opened his and read, “Prosperity will
knock on your door soon.”
I snorted. Cary shot me a look. “I know, right? You
snatched someone else’s cookie, Cross.”
A Kingdom of Dreams (Judith McNaught)
"You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce
imperturbably replied, "are a bitch."
With that, he turned to the
horrified priest and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be
wed."
Tangled (Emma Chase)
I smile and hold out the flower again. “Have dinner with me
on Saturday.”
Her brow wrinkles. “Are you taking some kind of medication that
I’m not aware of?”
“Why do you ask?”
“Did I not make myself clear last night?
Why would you think I would ever consider going out with you again?”
I shrug.
“I was hoping you’d be in a better mood this morning. That maybe after a good
night’s sleep you’d realize that you still…like me.”
She snorts. “Don’t hold
your breath.” She takes a step. Then stops and turns back to me. “No, on second
thought—do.”
The
Viscount Who Loved Me (Julia Quinn)
Kate's eyes widened as he left the bed and stripped off the
rest of his clothing. His body was perfection, his chest finely muscled, his
arms and legs powerful, and his— "Oh, my God," she gasped.
He
grinned. "I'll take that as a compliment."
"The next night I walk in on Zane just coming out of the shower. He's wearing nothing but a towel knotted low around his waist. Beads of water slide down his tanned muscles, from his chest down to the fascinating ridges along his hips... Don't worry, I handle it well. I scream, "Ewww!" and run from the room. No, I really did. I walked into that room and saw the hottest sexiest guy I've ever seen--wet and half naked. And I said, "Ewww." I know. How am I still single, right?"
Falling for the Ghost of You (Christie, Nicole)
“So I was super fat. It’s my father’s fault. He
never hugged me.”
“So, what, you ate him?”
Vain (Fisher Amelie)
He watched me intently and a deluge of emotions washed over
his face. His eyebrows pinched together as if he was trying to fight something.
Finally, his face relaxed then both his palms rounded my back and up my
shoulders, fisting both my braids.
“They’re falling out,” I finally spoke.
“They always do at the end of the day,” he added, never breaking his stare,
inches from my face. My eyes closed when he pulled the bands holding both
braids and they slipped off into his hands. His fingers deftly freed both
plaits painfully slowly all the way to the top of my head. Finally, I felt his
fingers sift through the length to the ends. “It’s the favorite part of my
day.”
Play It Safe (Kristen Ashley)
“Do you think it’s weird that I sleep with my fake, gay
boyfriend?”
Shadow's Claim (Cole, Kresley)
“I live a life of service,” Trehan had corrected him. “And I
have pastimes I enjoy. I read by the fire—” “Because your only alternative is
to stare mindlessly at the flames.”
I do that as well.
Shadow's Claim (Cole, Kresley)
(Vnútorný monológ hlavného hrdinu)
Bettina was woefully young, and she’d obviously been
overprotected. Perhaps she simply hadn’t been around other males? She might
have bonded with the one given most access to her. Or was this only wishful
thinking? He knew his looks didn’t compare to the demon’s—admittedly Caspion
was . . . without flaw—but Trehan had other laudable qualities.
I’m a good killer. A talented scholar. Fuck. How could she possibly resist?
The
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (April Tucholke)
It was the kind of place someone like Edgar Allan Poe would
want to rot away in . . .
The
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (April Tucholke)
I stared at him for a second. “The things you said in the
cemetery, before we heard the kid’s screams, about there never having been another
girl before me. You were kind of telling the truth, weren’t you?”
River looked
at the wall, and kind of, well, fidgeted.“Yes. Yes, I was.”
“Are you lying?”
“Yes.”
“Did you
just lie, again?”
“Yes.”
Present Perfect (Bailey, Alison)
My head was so screwed up that Freud would have thrown his hands up and retired.
Ruin (Rachel Van Dyken)
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Well, there really was no way out of it. I nodded. “Sorry, I
just…” I shouldn’t have looked. If I could go back in time, I would have. I had
no idea that one look would devastate me. Weeks from now I would regret that
one look, for one reason and one reason only. His eyes held my ruin.
“Weston.”
He held out his hand. “And you are?”
Screwed.
Ruin (Rachel Van Dyken)
“You’re a freshman. I don’t do freshmen, as in, I don’t date
them. Hell, I don’t usually even help them, but you did almost knock me over,
and regardless of how much you deny it, you were counting my abs—”
“I wasn’t—”
“You were.” He sighed wistfully. “I watched your mouth move, one, two, three.
It’s eight by the way, an eight-pack. I work out a lot.”
Ruin (Rachel Van Dyken)
“I peed the bed once.”
Her eyes widened.
“I was four.”
“How
life-altering.”
“It was.” I nodded. “My teddy bear didn’t make it.”
“Tragic.”
I
shook my head. “I always wonder to myself, could I have done something
different to save my bear?”
Ruin (Rachel Van Dyken)
Well here’s to hoping he still wanted to be my boyfriend
after I clung to him like a twelve–year-old Justin Bieber fan. Yay.
Almost Heaven (Judith McNaught)
“I think he’s quite demented.”
Almost Heaven (Judith McNaught)
“Oh, and don’t comment on Lady Wiltshire’s blue hat.”
“Why
not?”
“Because it’s her hair.”
Hard Evidence (Pamela Clare)
"I know I'm no woman's idea of the perfect husband. I'm
a convict and a killer. I've got a bad temper and no real education. I swear
too much. I've got no roots, no family. Hell, I don't even know what family
is."
Tessa touched her hand to his cheek. "You're strong, brave,
protective—"
"So is a Doberman."
Brooklyn Girls (Gemma Burgess)
My breath smells like an open grave.
Brooklyn Girls (Gemma Burgess)
Why do I only ever see cute guys when I look like an armpit?
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Campbell, Jen)
CUSTOMER: Do you have a copy of Atonement? But not the film
cover, please. Keira Knightley’s neck makes me want to punch things.
The Darkest Minds (Alexandra Bracken)
“I think we should stop for the night,” Chubs said. “Are you
going to find a park?”
“Relax, buddy; I got this,” Liam said.
“You keep saying
that,” Chubs muttered, sitting back, “and then it’s, Oh, sorry team, let’s
huddle together for warmth, while the bears try to break in and eat our food.”
“Yeah…sorry about that,” Liam said. “But hey, what’s life without a little
adversity?”
That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my
fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead
kids in our class because it’d mean more turns on the playground swings for the
rest of us.
The
Darkest Minds (Alexandra Bracken)
Liam: “Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable."
Never Fade (Bracken, Alexandra)
“You are actually the worst person I have ever met,” Chubs
said. “And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.”
Never
Fade (Bracken, Alexandra)
“Miss Vida,” Liam said, “has anyone ever told you that you
are positively the whipped cream on the sundae of life?”
She glared at him.
“Anyone ever told you your head is shaped like a pencil?”
“That is physically
impossible,” Chubs groused. “He’d be—”
“Actually,” Liam began, “My brother once did
try to—What?”
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Chubs said, “apparently the middle of my
sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.”
“I’m going to guess
you probably don’t want to hear about the time he pushed my head through the
neighbor’s fence.…”
“Was there a lot of blood?” Vida asked, suddenly
interested. “Did you lose an ear?”
Never Fade (Bracken, Alexandra)
“So a thought crossed my mind,” Liam said suddenly.
“That
must have been a lonely journey,” Chubs said, flipping the page of his book.
The Immortal Highlander (K.M.Moning)
"I have one of the, er… fairies here with me— "
"Tuatha Dé," Adam corrected irritably. "You're bloody well
making me sound like Tinkerbell."
Lady Be Good (Susan Elizabeth Phillips)
“Do you have any idea how pathetic you are?” she said.
“Me?”
His eyebrows shot up. “You’re the one who’s never been laid.”
“Life is about a
lot more than sex.”
“Yeah, well, you don’t play golf, either.”
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Lover at Last (J.R. Ward)
“I think that’s Justin Bieber.” Standing in front of a
lineup of Lay’s potato chips, Qhuinn looked overhead to the speaker inset into
the ceiling tiles. “Yup. I’m right, and I hate that I know that.”
Next to him,
John Matthew signed, "How do you know?"
“The little shit is everywhere.”
To prove
the point, he motioned to a greeting card display featuring Short, Cocky, and
Fifteen-Minutes-Are-Up. “I swear, that kid is proof the Antichrist is coming.”
"Maybe it’s already here."
“Would explain Miley Cyrus.”
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