Victoria Dahl Quotes

#1. She'd never felt more powerful. She wanted to do this again. In an hour. In the middle of the night. In the morning. She wanted to wake up like this, shaking and strong and whole and broken all at once.

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#2. Edward, it will take time to find a willing and acceptable match, won't it? Decent men do not hang about at crossroads just waiting for ruined women to take them home.

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#3. Ben hid a wince behind his hand, trying very hard not to think of seventy-year-old Ellie Verstgard rolling around with Mr. Wenner. Despite his best resistance, the image scrolled across his brain and took some of his love for the world with it.

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#4. Yes," she spat. "I am quite picky. Often I like my seductions to consist of more than 'Hallo there. are to spread your knees for a duke?' Silly miss that I am.

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#5. Apparently falling slowly is a scientific impossibility. Falling means that you're not in control, doesn't it? I should've considered that.

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#6. On the contrary, I like men. They are polite and helpful and necessary for dancing. And men are so handsome and different, aren't they?"
"Not all of us, clearly, but I'll let that go.

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#7. I like you, Miss York, because you are wicked, and there can be no finer blessing for a man than a good and wicked wife. Wouldn't you agree?

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#8. I think he could handle being used. It would be good for him. He's having trouble sleeping.

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#9. Lori sat way back in her chair and gave him the once-over. What in the world's gotten into Ben Lawson? jokes? Flirting? Maybe I should sleep with Molly. I think she's got a magic hooha.

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#10. But she beat that voice down and stomped on it with imaginary work boots. Those steel-toed monsters were good for something.

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#11. She might not do it tonight, and she might not do it with that French boy, but she was going to get laid, and soon, because she was forty-three years old and she damn well needed it.

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#12. Really, Your Grace. Crooking your little finger again? At least buy me a bauble before you try to tup me in the carriage.

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#13. I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.

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#14. I don't bake cookies. I don't want to take care of a man. I'm bitchy. I'm demanding. I want my own space and free time, and when I'm in a bad mood, I'll tell you and I'll use bad language while I do it.

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#15. In fact, I think you're a genius, Quinn. And I think I'm a genius for picking you." "Revisionist history. You didn't pick me. I inserted myself into your sordid plan." Lori grinned. "Right again. You are a genius at inserting yourself, Quinn Jennings.

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#16. Aw, hell, Tessa. I was in ninth grade. By the time I got to the part where I imagined a girl without panties on, it was all over.

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#17. Buddies didn't have touchable breasts or intriguing vaginas. Buddies were people you burped around and bragged to about other women.

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#18. I'm a man of strong physical needs, but I'm clearly a romantic at heart.

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#19. Despite the man's intimidating mountain-man looks, Wallace dated men, women and some people who seemed to skate between genders.

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#20. He smelled the way a man should smell when he was in your bed and working hard for it.

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#21. This is so weird. I feel like bambi just morphed into a raging nymphomaniac.

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#22. You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.

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#23. Jane Morgan had ruined him. Ridden him hard and put him up wet. He might never recover.
Mentally he was even worse off. Who was this girl?

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#24. And judging by what she'd been saying when he walked in, she was also fond of penises. He really couldn't overlook such an important aspect of her personality.

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#25. Yes, she was imperfect. But that didn't mean she wasn't also spectacular.

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#26. Of course not," she snapped. "I'm only thirsty. Would you play the gallant and find me a glass of lemonade?"
"I assume 'lemonade' is code for wine?

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#27. He was crushing. Hard. Veronica was cute and sweet and smart. And the sex was fucking fantastic.

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#28. I've had a rough six months, okay?" she cried. "Little Blue was my last friend,
and frankly the last time his batteries ran out I had a fleeting moment of panic
that he'd been compromised!

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#29. Divorce hadn't devastated her. She'd felt awful for her son, but God, she'd felt free, and she'd hoped that a happy mom was more important for Sawyer than a married one.

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#30. Don't be maudlin. You're a librarian, for God's sake. Toughen up.

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#31. Pictures of the corners of life that no one else saw.

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#32. That werewolf fantasy would be a hard one to pull off. She'd have to troll through the forest in high heels, just praying one of the scruffy campers was actually a raving beast.

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#33. You know that's not what I mean! I just ... I don't know what to do with men. I get nervous. I make too many jokes. I act like a kid sister instead of their fantasy sex machine.

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#34. She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

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#35. I'll need hot water for washing." Hart barked.
Wellford murmured, "Immediately sir," as he bowed back out the door. He did not say, "Of course, sir. I bring you hot water every single morning, even when you haven't debased yourself for a woman.

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#36. Yeah, I'm kind of proud of myself, too. I was a fucking sex ninja.

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#37. Thank God she wasn't wearing shorts. She hadn't shaved her legs in a week, theorizing that October in the mountains was pretty darn cold and she might need the extra layer of insulation.

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#38. We just went out for dinner. We didn't participate in a Roman orgy, I swear.

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