Jessica Bird Quotes

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“Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.”

“It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.”

“Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.”

“Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.”

“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why."

Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”

“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”

“The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel.
-Manny and Butch”

“Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.”

“I ejaculated about ten minutes ago and the stuff was black. So everything is not normal."

Silence greeted that happy little announcement. Man, if he had hauled off and sucker-punched V, he would have gotten less of a shocked-out reaction.”

“This is going to be a really long couple of months if we worry about ever little twinge."

"You just tried to throw up your liver."

"I did not."

So you were working on your pancreas?”

“And as he held his first true lover against him, feeling that familiar difference in their heights and smelling that wonderful cologne, part of him wanted to debate this break up until they both gave in and kept trying.
But that wasn’t fair.”

“The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home.”

“Time keeps on… slippin'… slippin'… slippin' into the future.”

“Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J. R. Ward”

“In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?"
"Try a brick wall.”

“When were you going to tell me?"
He demanded. "Tell you what? That you can be a real asshole? How about right now.”

“I always root for the monster.”

“John?
As it was dark he whistled a what.
You are such a male of worth, you know that. You really are.”

“Butch put his hand on his roommate's nape and murmured, "I'll do the saving until you get your head back, how about that? I'll keep you safe.”

“What are you going to have?” he asked.
“A nervous breakdown,” she muttered and opened her menu.
So we’ll tell the waitress to make that a double, he thought.”

“But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself”

“No Last Meal for you guys, either. Guess we have that in common.” Someone bust out the pom-poms and cheer for the team. Yay.”

“Uh-huh, uh-huh, ohhhh, yeeeeeeeaaaah, who's your daddy…”

“There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, “Booga-wooga!”
At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for another beer.”

“Courage doesn’t mean you aren’t scared.”

“Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well… I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.”

“I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.”
“I thought your mother was dead.”
“She is.”
“You have a very low standard for communication.”

“Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly.
"Why not?"
"You just can't."
She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin.
"Mind if I ask you to prove it?"
"How?"
"Can I touch your hair?”

“That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.”

“When she didn't say anything more, he frowned, thinking this was the pair of them in a nutshell: Standing three feet away from each other and being separated by miles.”

“Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be… enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by her.”

“I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile.
Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!”

“… but her eyes had had too much in them and his heart way too little for things to keep going.”

“What… are you?" she choked out.

"No sunlight. Funky choppers." he inhaled raggedly. "Take a guess.”

“What's doing?”

“Hello, Doctor. It's your man.”

“Bye-bye, Elan. P. S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist.”

“You’re like your,” he whispered. “You make the world go away for me”

“good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.”

“Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air.
He lived, though was not truly alive”

“And mortal terror in a female was Z's favorite turn-on. He got off on it like most males favored crap from Victoria's Secret.”

“Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.”

“Word of advice. These have a kick, so don’t suck too hard—”
Holy hypoxia, Batman.”

“Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.”

“He was having an illicit affair… with his own mate.”

“Her bra was cotton and white and, bless its little frickin´ heart, had a front clasp.”

“And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.”

“And I'm full aware of how much you don't like me at this moment"

Can't be a new thing for you" Jim said”

“She is . . . the moon in my night sky. And that is the beginning, middle, and end of it. There is no more to be told than that, and never shall I speak of her again.”