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141 " A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?” I flinched. "
― Tarryn Fisher , The Opportunist (Love Me with Lies, #1)
142 " Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model. "
143 " I loved him with everything in me. He taught me who I was, something I never would have known, without his deft handling of my personality. That "
144 " I want to be with you Caleb. These few days have been the stuff of dreams. I love you more every second I'm with you. "
145 " That’s not just any blue, it’s Airport blue,” he said. “And don’t you ever forget it.” I "
146 " Asking a peacock to pull out his feathers was a hard thing to do. "
147 " My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds. "
148 " Caleb Drake doesn’t go to girls, girls go to Caleb Drake. He just stepped out of his box to talk to you and you blew him off! "
149 " He watches my face in fascination. He’s looking for a reaction, but my reaction is all on the inside where he can’t see it…where I am hiding it. "
150 " He was like a jalapeño: bright and smooth, but dangerously hot. A small part of me wanted to bite him. "
151 " Olivia, Time to pay up. Meet me in the library in ten minutes. -Caleb “Unbelievable! "
152 " I could see the gossip monster crawling its way up her esophagus and pushing frantically behind her mouth to be let out. "
153 " Break everything. "
154 " What car are we taking?” she says all businesslike. “I thought you didn’t want to.” She snatched the coffee from my hand and looks at me over the rim. “Of course I want to, but I would look like a bad person if I didn’t object at all.” I shrug. I stopped trying to soothe my conscience years ago, but to each his own. "
155 " He had to find her. “No, "
156 " This is supposed to be for laughs, but it doesn’t sound funny, it sounds like something I will be replaying years from now—when I am sitting alone in a room full of cats. "
157 " Four years pass. "
158 " I was waiting for you—for years. I didn’t live. I just waited for you to come back.” He "
159 " I hate being sugar-lipped, especially by a bleating goat in pinstripes. "
160 " Wine,” he "