Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2) QUOTES

21 " How’s the coffee?”

“She hasn’t had any yet,” Cletus answered for me, then added, “but she wants you to ask her on a date tonight, no place public. Somewhere private, for discussing things.”

Jethro’s eyes widened, and he glared at his brother’s reflection in the rearview mirror, snapping, “Cletus.”

“Don’t clutch your pearls at me, big brother. Look at her, for hootenanny’s sake. She’s got the hots for your ugly face, Lord help her. And I know you’ve been thinking about her, judging by how long you took in the bathroom this morning.”

I clamped a hand over my mouth just as shocked laughter burst from my lips.

“Dammit, Cletus,” Jethro growled, turning the ignition and shooting his brother an incendiary look. “You are the worst. Just, don’t speak. Ever. Don’t speak ever again.” Jethro’s gaze darted to me then away as he sighed, looking remorseful. “I’m so sorry.”

I placed my hand on Jethro’s thigh—FYI he had a really nice thigh—to ease his mind and because I wanted to touch him. “No, no. Please don’t apologize. He’s right and he’s wrong. I do have the hots for your face, but it isn’t at all ugly.”

At this Cletus snorted and grumbled, “Well, it ain’t pretty.”

Jethro pressed his lips together and I could see the hint of a smile there amidst his frustration. “Glad you have the hots for my face.”

“Just ask her out already,” Cletus demanded. “She ain’t doing anything tonight. You two will go out tonight. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

22 " Jethro closed his eyes, a small grin curving his mouth, and whispered like it was a secret, "Thank you for being lost."

I smiled and whispered in return, "Thank you for finding me. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

23 " So she’s like Redbull? She gives you wings?” He lifted a teasing eyebrow.

I shook my head. “More like she’s the sun, and she makes every minute better than the last "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

24 " If you don’t fight for what you love, then you have nothing worth losing.” *** "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

25 " You’re a movie star. A celebrity with millions of fans.”

“And you’re a wildlife ranger who traps giant, dangerous black bears for a living and acts like it’s no big deal. Tell me that doesn’t sound like a heaping helping of crazy, with bizarre gravy, and a slice of mashed loco for Cocoa Puffs. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

26 " I decided the map was clearly written by masochistic-doodling ancient Egyptians because everything was hieroglyphics and unreadable doodads.

I cursed the map.

“BY MOTHRA’S NIPPLES! I FUCKING HATE THIS MAP!”

Irrational anger bubbled to the surface and all I could think about was murdering the map. I would show the map who was boss.

I was boss.

Not some evil, wrong map from hell. I had no choice but to hit the map against the steering wheel several times, grunting and releasing a string of curses that would have made my sailor father proud. And maybe blush.

Then I opened my driver’s side door, still grunting and raging, and slammed the map against the car, threw it on the ground, stomped on it, kicked it, and just generally assaulted it in every way I could think of. I’m a little embarrassed to admit, in my mindlessness I was also taunting the map, questioning its virility, flipping it the bird, and cursing now in Spanish as well as English.

It was the most cardio I’d done in over twelve months.

Stupid map, making me do cardio. I’ll kill you! "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

27 " Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ― Kahlil Gibran ~Jethro~ "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

28 " Congratulations, Jethro. She’s sweet on you. You’ve just taken one the world’s most famous role models of feminine independence and turned her into a giddy, flustered mess of hormones. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

29 " You should get a permit, but don’t attempt to outwit, and here’s a tidbit.” I pointed to my shoulder, “This is my armpit. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

30 " People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” — Dalai Lama XIV "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

31 " Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"

He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

32 " You and your saying of sweet things, it does something to me. You do something to me."

Jethro's mouth hitched to the side with a pleased smile. "Happy to hear it. Because when I'm with you, I feel like I'm both flying and falling. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

33 " We don’t believe in false pleasantries around these parts, nor do we kick a fella when he’s down. So I’ll just say, bless your heart, and leave it at that. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

34 " You’ll be tactile, and I’ll be clingy, and we’ll be very happy just as long as we sleep in a twin bed and call each other seventeen hundred times a day. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

35 " Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ― Betty Friedan "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

36 " I have lost friends, some by death . . . others by sheer inability to cross the street.” ― Virginia Woolf ~Sienna~ "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

37 " If you don’t fight for what you love, then you have nothing worth losing. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

38 " BY MOTHRA’S NIPPLES, HE WAS A GREAT KISSER. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

39 " “You’ve had a stick shoved so high up your ass all night, I’m surprised you can’t taste it. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)

40 " Well, don’t un-weird yourself on my account. I like you weird. "

― Penny Reid , Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)