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1 " If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, the fucker will jump right back out. It knows it’s wrong, it hurts, it will kill him. But if you put him in a pot and slowly raise it up to boiling, he’ll stay. That’s what abuse is like. You might not even notice it’s happening at first. You’d brush it off as him having a bad day, you pissing him off. But then it starts getting worse in small ways until you’re in so deep and you’re so hot and your skin is peeling and you don’t know if you even remember you can jump anymore. That doesn’t make you weak. You got out of that shit, baby. That makes you stronger, a lot stronger, I think, than you even realize. "
― Jessica Gadziala , Shane (Mallick Brothers, #1)
2 " Bumped uglies?” I repeated on a laugh. “You are a retired phone sex operator and the best you can come up with is ‘bump uglies’? I’m disappointed in you.” “Gland to gland combat? Slytherin in the Hufflepuff? Doing the monster mash? Verbing the adjective noun?” I "
3 " I don’t give a flying fuck what all the fairy tales say, what families always say. Love is not unconditional. And it never should be. Everyone should know that there is only so much they can get away with before you wash your hands of their shit. No one gets a free pass just because they have the same blood in their veins. When you wouldn’t tolerate a stranger doing something, you shouldn’t tolerate a family member doing it. "
4 " I wasn’t one of those women who only gave head begrudgingly. It wasn’t a special events and on my period pity thing. I genuinely enjoyed the power that came from knowing a man you loved, cared about, or just found irresistible was fully at your mercy, that their pleasure was owned by you. I liked that.I got off on that in a way. "
5 " If you were in a room with your ex and you had a loaded gun… "
6 " He was just another on the assembly line of bad choices. Hot? Check. Foul-mouthed? Check. Sexy as all get out? Check. Dangerous? Check. Sure to fuck up my life even more than it already was? Yeah, I was going to go ahead and put a big fat check right there too. Thank God I didn’t tell him where I lived. If he just showed up at my door one night, I was pretty sure there would be no denying him. “See?” I said, swallowing a little hard. “There’s another strike against you.” “How so?” “I’m in a good guy phase.” To that, his lips tipped up in a somewhat condescending smirk. “Baby, I give that a week.” I lowered my eyes at him. “Why?” “‘Cause you ain’t exactly a good girl. "
7 " - Tell me the new one isn’t a fuck like that one and the other one, - he said, tossing me the boots he had in his hand.I felt myself smile a little wistfully. - He’s one of the good ones.Grig’s head turned to the side. - You? With a good guy? - he asked, genuinely amused then. - I refuse to believe that.- Okay. So he’s a loan shark enforcer. "
