Quotes from Jill Shalvis

I'll have you know, I actually got a speeding ticket last year. 'For driving under the speed limit?

I've got a hot shower and an even hotter bed only ten minutes from here. Hotter bed? It's got a heater in it. She narrowed her eyes. It does not. Hand to heaven, he said. She narrowed her eyes. Does this 'heater' run on electricity? Nope.

Motherforker!

ShiitakeMushrooms

I can't actually tell if you're stunned by my brilliance or your own stupidity.

sometimes we try so hard to protect those we care about, we end up hurting them. But that doesn't make that love any less real.

Tell me you're butt-ass naked beneath that trench coat," he said. "It'd really turn my day around." She crossed her arms. "I'm in costume!" "I can see that," he said. "Slutty nurse? Oh please, God, be the slutty nurse.

Cherophobia." She looked at him. "What?" "It's the fear of being happy.

They then spent the next two hours working, just two regular unicorns, getting through their to-do list.

I call it strategic incompetence." Shay's lips curved. "The art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.

What's happened is a part of you now. Doesn't mean you have to take it seriously all the time. Joking is healthier than not dealing.

The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.

She let out a small choked sound that might have been a laugh or genuine distress. "Café…Nirvana?" He didn't try to hold back his amusement at her shock. "That's right." "Café Nirvana, in the town of Little Paradise?

Hey," he said. "Stressed is desserts spelled backward.

Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy." Chloe Traeger

On the best of days, he made her feel things she liked to shove deep, deep down, because going there with him would be like jumping out of a plane – thrilling, exciting… and then certain dismemberment and death.

Hey, are you guys coming or what?" Caleb called to them from the trailhead. "Or do you need a room?" Kel looked at Ivy. "I hope you don't mind that I'm going to have to kill him. I'm sorry for your loss.

This was the stuff nightmares were made of. Going to school in your Spiderman pj's. Giving a public speech naked. And discovering you'd accidentally slept with your boss.

And now he had her in his arms, this amazing, prickly, suspicious, hardheaded woman that he was falling for in spite of himself because she was also sweet and kind and had the biggest heart of anyone he'd ever met. Falling hard. It was going to take a lot to convince her that he was a good idea, although he was pretty sure her body might've already made its decision. He had no idea what it would take to persuade the rest of her.

A guy's definition of baseball: you don't have to buy the other team dinner to get game.

Been looking for you," Sam said as he opened Cole's passenger door and got in. Tanner helped himself at the driver's door, forcing Cole over so that he was sandwiched between them, coming into such a close and personal relationship with the gearshift that the two of them should have gotten a marriage license first.

She was the first person to love me without reservation. She always loved me, no matter what she was going through.

Mothertrucker

I've learned that life is a crapshoot, and at any moment someone can walk into it and change it forever.