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Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2) QUOTES

1 " I can't make out what they're saying; it sounds like: hiss, blah, she hiss, squeak. But the aunt appears to speak the native language. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

2 " Oooh...Aunt Chelsea called Jake the D-word!"
Rory's voice carries into the kitchen. "Dipshit?"
"No."
"Dumbass?"
"No."
"Douchebag?"
"What's a douchebag?"
"Rory!" Chelsea and I yell at exactly the same time. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

3 " A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

4 " I want her – this fearless, stunning woman. And I want the kids. Those perfect, awful, amazing children – whom she loves with every inch of her soul. I want them to be mine. Mine to hold, mine to protect and teach. Their joy, their laughter, their love. I want to come home to it, bask in it, be the reason for it.
But even more than that, I want to deserve them. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

5 " Because apparently One Direction’s superpower is instant friendship. Someone should ship them to the Middle East so they can get to work on that Israel-Palestine thing. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

6 " That won’t give me my lipstick back, you little brat!” “I couldn’t help myself!” she pleads. And I unconsciously nod. That’s it, kid—go with insanity. It’s all you’ve got left. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

7 " So…what’s the typical schedule with the whole dating thing? How long before one gets to the actual fucking?”
“Three dates,” they all answer simultaneously.
My eyebrows raise. “Three dates? Seriously? Are you guys, like…more religious than I ever knew? "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

8 " Criminal defense really isn’t so different from proctology. In both fields, it’s one asshole after another. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

9 " There's two of him?"
Chelsea grins. "If that's your way of asking if Rory has a twin, then the answer is yes."
"I see you've met my brother," the boy says, apparently used to this reaction. "Don't judge me just because we share the same DNA. You've heard the term 'evil genius'?"
"Yeah."
"Rory's the evil. I'm the genius. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

10 " I didn’t do it.” Which, in my professional opinion, wouldn’t be a bad defense . . . if her mouth and chin weren’t completely covered with thick, blazing pink, like she’s Ronald McDonald’s illegitimate daughter. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

11 " You’ve got this whole knight-in-shining-armor vibe going on.”

I shake my head. “My armor was tarnished a long time ago, Brent.”

“A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

12 " When you take everything else away—money, clothes, nice cars, big houses—all a man has is his word. That he says exactly what he says. If a man doesn't have his word, he´s not a man. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

13 " The racket reverberates down the second staircase and spills out into the kitchen, and the two screeching, running kids who are making it do laps around the island like a fucked-up Hunger Games version of ring-around-the-rosy. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

14 " Yelling is a sign of desperation, an indication that you’re out of options, with nothing behind your back but volume. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

15 " You deserve a man who knows what the right thing is, and who does it. I want…Christ I want to be that for you. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

16 " I’ve played bingo with these senior citizens. They take that shit seriously. They might be old, but if you get I-22 when they were waiting for B-6? They’ll bust your fucking kneecaps as quick as any backstreet bookie, without an ounce of remorse. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

17 " Looks matter, but confidence is by far the most alluring accessory a woman can wear. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

18 " I never realised that the downside of getting to know a woman before I screw her is the possibility that I might not want to screw her after I know her. That a personality could have such a devastating effect on desirability. It’s depressing. My whole worldview is blown to bits. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

19 " when you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, you want the rest of your life to start right away. "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)

20 " And I blink at the ceiling, seeing stars. “Holy fuck.”

Her back shudders with a giggle. “It was kind of a religious experience, wasn’t it? "

― Emma Chase , Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)