Georgia Cates

“I’m not pretending this is anything more than a short-term relationship, but I like being with you even when there’s no sex involved. That means you’re not a booty call.”

“Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel.”

“Oh, fuck me running! Or on the edge of your bed using your mouth.”

“Liar, liar. My pants are so on fire. And so is the rest of me.”

“Are you missing your filter, or is it an Aussie thing to blurt out every inappropriate thought you have?”

“If I do this, something will go wrong and this man will hurt me. I know it as sure as I’m sitting here next to him feeling how much he makes me want to say yes.”

“And how old are you, Miss Beckett?” “Seventeen.” “What!” There is no way she’s seventeen. I inspect her face, studying it intently, but don’t know what it is I hope to find. Laugh lines maybe? She watches my face. “Is my age a problem for you?”“Hell, yeah, seventeen is a problem.” I throw my napkin on the table. All of this has been a waste. “Forget it all. This whole thing is off.” “I don’t act seventeen. I’m very mature for my age.”“No way. You’re not even old enough to be drinking that wine.” I lean in and whisper so no one will overhear. “I’m almost twice your age.” “I don’t mind. I have daddy issues.” She breaks into a huge grin and I hear a girlish giggle. That’s when I realize she’s fucking with me and has the ability to lie with a straight face. I’ll have to remember that for future reference. I’m not amused. “I see I have a comedienne on my hands.”

“She has bewitched me. And I want her. She’s the one.”

“I love her too much to let her leave and I need to tell her right this minute.”

“My lasagne has been known to bring me to the knees.""Baby, it doesn’t take food for you to bring me to my knees.”

“We’ve shared countless kisses. They were almost always heated and demanding, but this one is entirely different. It tells me things he can’t or won’t say because it goes against everything he intends for our relationship.”

“I’m sorry for all the secrecy, for making you feel like you weren’t important enough to know the real me. But I’m most sorry because I have fucked you – I don’t know how many times – and never made love to you.”

“Mmm … I love me some him.”

“Don’t leave. I want you to be with me.”“You’ll have your family.”I swallow before I say the words that will change this relationship forever. “You’re the one I need.”“But that would mean meeting your family.”It does, and I’m okay with that if it means she’s by my side. “I don’t care. I need you to be with me.”She smiles and cradles my face with her hands. “Of course. I’ll come if it’s what you want, but this is going to change everything.”“I know, but it’s what I want.”

“His mouth is so close to mine, I feel his warm breath on my lips. “Right now, all I’m thinking about is how I’m going to get you in my bed so I can show you all the ways I can make you come.” Umm … yes, please and thank you.”

“Let me get straight on this. You don’t want to be the girl to wear out your welcome, but you’ll be the girl who lets him wear out your vagina?”She slaps my arm in the dark. “That’s just crude, Laurie.” She giggles. “But oh so true. He did wear it out like a champ.”

“That’s who I am to you from now on. No more Lachlan. No more pretending”

“You might as well be the devil.”“Baby, you’re the one holding the apple.”

“The best way to get over somebody is to get under someone else”

“Nothing speaks louder than your heart. Listen to what it's telling you.”

“..you don't always know the true worth of a women's love until it becomes a memory.”

“Baby, you've fucked my mind without touching my body.”

“A women can hold a grudge for a long time. The longer it simmers, the longer the grudge lasts and I advise you to get this straightened out quick like fashion.”

“Right now, all I'm thinking about is how I'm going to get you in my bed so I can show you all the ways I can make you come.”

“I hope he got plenty of rest last night because his legs are gonna be real tired after he runs through your mind all day.”

“No and Yes. No, it doesn't change what I think about you, and yes, it validated you're still an asshole.”

“I feel myself...going under. I'm drowning in you because I am so hopelessly in love with you. You're the only one I want.”

“Hey, there's a song about me called 'Jessie's Girl.' I still hear it on the radio occasionally.""Yeah, everybody wishes they had Jessie's girl," he laughed.”

“Am I crazy for thinking I could have a chance with her?”

“but Betty…the boy wants to be your Fred Flintstone so he can make your Bedrock. Peyton from Going Under”

“Many great ideas have happened by mistake.”

“Love was overrated and nature used it to kick us in the gut and trick us into reproducing.”

“I want what Claire has with Jessie.”

“And that’s why I can’t go out with you. I’m not going to become a number you can’t identify. It’s not what I’m looking for.”

“You might have announced in front of the entire football team and cheerleading squad that Ifictitiously liked what your hands did to me, but I just made you come with one finger, so tell me now who has the skills.”

“Can't you see I would do anything to be your everything?”

“When we're not together, I want to be. When we're not touching, I hold out hope for just the slightest, accidental graze. You're all I think about and it's because my whole world is falling for you. Hard.”

“Yeah, I've always been different. I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.”

“Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?”

“I liked you a lot better when you were messing up her lip gloss instead of her mascara--Claire”

“I want truly, madly, deeply.”

“Love is delicate as glass; once broken it can be fixed, but there will always be cracks.”

“Hey self, Stop having a lady boner moment!”

“I hope you know CPR because you are going to take Jessie's breath away.”

“When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.”

“There would be many that would take back the experience of falling in love if it meant also carrying the pain associated with losing them, but I couldn’t agree less. To feel the pain of loss is to know you once had something worth losing and I would always carry the memory of how the world was once right, when I laid on a couch, holding the woman I loved in my arms while she slept.”

“Chansey Leclaire is a Daughter of Anteros, which makes her your agápe. She is your gift....and your curse.”- Sebastian from Blood of Anteros”

“Marsala isn’t the one that’s going to keep you and Chansey apart. It’s you.”

“It took 139 years to find her and only a few precious days to lose her, so if leaving was the right thing to do, shouldn’t it be easier than this?”

“I love you, Chansey Rose Leclaire and it is a terrible tragedy that you will never know how much because I could never be the same after loving you.” - Curry from Blood of Anteros”