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Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2) QUOTES

Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2) QUOTES

1 " He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

2 " I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

3 " College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and dread, I'd realized that was the wrong reason to go to college. That the potential for those things had been inside of me all along, only I'd never realized because I hadn't believed myself strong enough to break free without an intermediary. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

4 " As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

5 " No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you.” He leaned in. “It fucking kills me. Every night. I relive what I did to you every night.” His forehead rested against mine. “Until you,” he said softly, “I never felt truly helpless. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

6 " I'm not going to force you into anything you don't want. But I'm also not going to take a vow of chastity and pine away for you, or whatever the hell it is that men do in romance novels these days. I have needs. I'd rather satisfy them with you, but if you don't want me I suppose I'll just have to find someone else. Might take me a while, but I'll make do. I always have before. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

7 " All right,” she said a little sarcastically. “I was going to assume you liked eating babies and sacrificing virgins, but I might as well ask, what do you do for fun?”

“I languish in sin,” I replied in the same tone. “I take my babies rare, and my virgins over easy. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

8 " I'm pretty sure those're my balls you've found,” I said to the man searching my pants. “You gonna count 'em out now? Because I'll save you the trouble. There's two. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

9 " We both want you dead. I'm bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

10 " You must be a blast on long car rides.”

“Oh, I am. You haven't experienced fun until you try to fuck in the front seat of a Civic. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

11 " You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?”

“My gun turned back into a pumpkin. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

12 " Life's a party. So smile and eat shit and pretend it's fucking caviar. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

13 " Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never been hurt. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

14 " When I felt her yield and kiss me back, and realized I had a fighting chance to make this all work out somehow, I had hope.

That was far deadlier than any knife or mace. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

15 " He smelled like alcohol and a bad dream. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

16 " I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man who treats her like dirt because she didn't know any better. And isn't it a pity that they don't still teach sex-ed in schools? Or, oh, Christina, that filthy slut, if she puts out for a man like that, I imagine she puts out for anyone. You stay away from her. It wasn't like that at all. Maybe it would have been easier if it was, just like ticking a box. Are you the Madonna, or the whore? The victim, or the vixen? The Sabine, or the skank?

But nothing in life is ever that simple. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

17 " I had a fucking standing ovation going on in my goddamn pants, and it was demanding an encore. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

18 " Out running errands—be back before noon. I made a list of some things I like. Check the ones you're interested in, underline any maybes, and cross off your no's. I'm going to do two of the things on that list to you when I get back—your choice. Surprise me.
-M "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

19 " I was starting to fall in love with Michael Boutilier. Quickly, violently. It was a love that was both armed and dangerous, a ticking time-bomb of destruction that threatened to send my whole world up in flames--and it felt good. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)

20 " I fucking love you, you know," he said. "You made my life complicated as fuck, and I could care less. "

― Nenia Campbell , Armed and Dangerous (The IMA, #2)