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21 " 'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?' 'No.' 'Point of no return.' "
― Josh Lanyon , The Dark Tide (The Adrien English Mysteries, #5)
22 " One thing I'd learned the hard way: people loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed. "
23 " This could be heaven or this could be hell'?""A lot will depend on the mattress. "
24 " Yes," I clipped out, "I know. Hurt happens."I heard that long, weary exhalation."It does. That's life. It's the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the wins and the losses. I never thought you'd be too afraid to try. I though you were stronger than that. "
25 " He smelled familiar. Not the dèjà vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow - or wanting back something you should never have given away. "
26 " I cracked the window shades of my eyes. Jake knelt over me, the head of my cock in his mouth.I raised my head, mumbled, "What are you doing?"He paused the proceedings long enough to utter, "If you don't know, I must not be doing it correctly. "
27 " There was a line from The Lady in the Lake I could have quoted him: “Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.”When Jake recognized that he had failed to live up to his responsibility to uphold that law, he had resigned. He had had the honor and the courage to step away. Not every man had that in him; I thought probably very few men did. "
28 " 'Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!' 'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.' "
29 " 'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?' I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?' "
30 " Passionate kisses, the intoxicating exchange of breath and saliva - and something more intimate - something there was no real name for, like a spark catching between us and taking light.How had I forgotten this? How had I been satisfied with anything else?Guy...Mel...it was like choosing celluloid kisses over the real thing. The real thing was raw and powerful and dangerous...but it was the real thing. Had I really believed I could make do with safe substitutes? "
31 " I didn't believe we had ever been this tentative - not even in the very beginning. Perhaps especially not in the very beginning. We gave each other plenty of time for second thoughts, for a change of heart. We were polite with the buttons and respectful of the zippers. And all the while we watched each other's face, eyes locked. "
32 " He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like... the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away. "
33 " Jake sapeva di bourbon e dolore. Aprii la bocca alla sua lingua, il suo ruvido velluto che spingeva contro il mio, reclamandomi come io stavo reclamando lui. Quel torrido pomeriggio – le scuri di legno che sbattevano contro il muro, il ronzio delle api fuori dalla finestra, il rumore lontano di un aereo che viaggiava verso luoghi sconosciuti – era solo un altro anello della catena. "
34 " Sembrava esserci una strana, dolce continuità in quell’amoreggiare incerto e reverente, eppure, in un certo senso, era come se fosse la prima volta mentre facevamo l’amore tra le rovine dei sogni di Jake.Ed era la prima volta. La prima volta che stavamo insieme senza segreti e restrizioni. Eravamo nudi… in ogni modo possibile. "
35 " Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. "
36 " I can't "Think of a nicer way to commit suicde."That's good."I can't think of a better way to commit murder "
37 " One thing I’d learned the hard way: people loved you in the way they knew how — and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed. "