Lauren Dane Quotes & Sayings

He knew he'd be back, because he had a bit of a like on for the very charming, blushing Elise. Like was a good thing between two single adults. Especially if it entailed naked and horizontal moments. — Lauren Dane

Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up. — Lauren Dane

But first he was going to eat her until he made her come really,really hard.He leaned in close and breathed her in.Then he licked.So.Fucking.Good. — Lauren Dane

Dude you say the best stuff. You're so getting lucky. — Lauren Dane

It wouldn't be easy with this man. He had trouble written all over him.
But there was something else too ... There was something in his eyes that gave her an absolute surety that he'd be worth the struggle.
She expected scientific proof of many things. But sometimes fate was just fate. And he was hers. — Lauren Dane

Friends will sit your ass down and give you the 'Come To Jesus' talk when you need it most. — Lauren Dane

A laugh burst from Nina's lips. Not as awkward as it must be for you. Honey, please. If you bent around any harder trying to let me know you fucked Lex to try and make me feel bad, you'd be a pretzel. Although you're about as smart as one. — Lauren Dane

A mad killer or anything, darling. If you're going to insult our neighbor, let's use proper grammar to do so." Brody — Lauren Dane

I carry this thing between us, like a weight. A good weight, in my pocket. I reach out and hold it from time to time like a wonderful secret. I will always have that. I will never feel this way about another woman, ever. My heart will be yours forever, no matter who shares your bed, no matter whose children you bear. I'm here." He tapped her chest. "And you're here." He tapped his own. — Lauren Dane

Best greeting ever." He grinned ... "You totally objectified me. It was awesome. — Lauren Dane

Does this mean you're going to marry me then?"
"I've only been pestering you to marry me since the day we met, Daniel. What clued you in that I'd be interested other than that? — Lauren Dane

I don't need protection." Not that she minded, of course. She always protected. It's what she did every moment of the day, and that small span of time when he'd protected her had been, well like a present.
"Don't need it, no." He gave her the coordinates, and she got moving. "Deservie it, yes. — Lauren Dane

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I'm over it. — Lauren Dane

You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife.
- Marc to Olivia — Lauren Dane

I think the question is, can you live without her? Watch her fall in love with someone else? ... If the fear of some random thing happening in the future is bigger than the reality of her being with another guy, walk away now when it'll merely sort of kill you to do it. But you can't have this doubt between you. Man up. Love her the way she deserves it, or let another man do it. — Lauren Dane

My position on what other people think of me is, fuck what other people think. — Lauren Dane

And those blonde skeezoids you were a boy skeezoid with can fuck right off. — Lauren Dane

You still smell like the best thing I've ever tasted. — Lauren Dane

She didn't think in terms of "dom" being capitalized and "sub" being lowercase. To Erin, D/s wasn't about one person being worthy of a capital letter and the other not. It wasn't about unequal worth; it was about two equals sharing power, sharing sex and emotion. She didn't submit to him because she wanted to be debased or harmed, because she needed to be lesser than anyone. She was aware some people got off on that, and hey, whatever floats your boat. But when he dominated her, she felt cherished and adored, cosseted in those cherished moments between them-in a way she never achieved with anyone else. — Lauren Dane

Look, wolf boy, he's gone. He came by, borrowed money," she snorted, "took money - it's not like I'll ever see it again - and headed out. Told me that the Pack was looking for him, wanting to kill him.
Even if I knew where he ran to, which I
don't, I certainly wouldn't tell someone out to hurt him. — Lauren Dane

I know what pheromones are! But that's
mumbo jumbo. You're just horny, I'm just
horny. It's not science. — Lauren Dane

That's love. Real love is scary. Because you know what you stand to lose. — Lauren Dane

The last thing I want to do is harm her. Especially now. She's in me. I breathed her in. I kissed her and took a good long taste. This is not just a female I enjoy. This one is so much more than that. My beast has chosen and the man seems to agree. — Lauren Dane

Nina, before you i never spent the night with women. I had sex and left. I didn't bring them here. They served a purpose and it was a body-to-body thing. You are everything. Body, soul, heart to my body, soul and heart. You're it. We're it. — Lauren Dane

I definitely think there are times
setbacks
where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time. — Lauren Dane

Facing the fear helped. Most days. But the thing about fear was that it ate away at your reason, made you smaller.
It was her mini dare each day to come home to this place. To embrace normal and live her own life on her own terms, even if she was afraid. Her life was her own. She made it, and no one would take it from her again. — Lauren Dane

First of all, I was running scams when you were at keggers at Kappa Kappa Werewolf. You don't know much about me but I am way smarter than Gabriel was. I'm a consummate liar. I can street fight with the best of them and I can cheat at cards like nobody's business. This on top of my computer skills. I may not howl at the moon and have superhuman strength but I can hold my own. — Lauren Dane

Someone isn't your family simply because they contributed to your DNA. Family is how you act. — Lauren Dane

The first time he'd laid eyes on Renee's sister he'd been hooked. Hooked on her scent. The sound of her voice. Her prickly demeanor. Oh how he loved that she could be so bitchy. She was a woman who would brook no bullshit, though he had the feeling she hadn't always been so. — Lauren Dane

That mama-bear, elegant-and-modest-on-the-outside, hot-as-allfuck-on-the-inside thing was ringing his doorbell. And God help him, he knew it was beyond inappropriate to be making up fuck fantasies about this woman right then but he couldn't help it. — Lauren Dane

Baby, you two are my girls. I'll protect you. I'll protect you both. — Lauren Dane

In any case, in general, I prefer to avoid conflict when I can. Not because I'm afraid or because I'm too weak to fight back. But because conflict eats up your time. It is exhaustive in terms of energy you have to expend to be involved in it. More if you mean to win, and I'd never do it if I didn't mean to win. I'd rather spend my time on other things and in general, most people aren't worth that much of my time and energy. — Lauren Dane

I love you, Levi."
"Thank God for it because I love you too."
Her laugh was back in his house again. Her scent on his sheets.
Her crap on his bathroom counter and her stuff in the drawers in his armoire.
She lived in him and he had no plans to ever let that change.
It didn't matter that she was younger than he was. All that mattered was that she loved him and he loved her. The rest they could work out as time passed. She'd keep him in line. Decorate their house and fill it with music and love. And one day with children.
They had time, he realized. Time to be in love and be engaged. Time for her art and his job, time for weddings and honeymoons and nesting. She was his, forever. As deeply as he was hers.
Made the groveling worth it.

~~Sway — Lauren Dane

You're a pain in my ass."
"I was a pain in the ass long before I met you, Roman. Don't take it personally. — Lauren Dane

Mick, I love your tiger. Which isn't a euphemism for your penis. Though I really like that too. — Lauren Dane

You, little bird, are welcome to any and all of my cookies. I'd even share my cake with you. — Lauren Dane

I know your game, you know. You get nasty when you're backed into a corner. — Lauren Dane

Between the inked-up, rough-and-tumble Mick and Adam, the debonair dom, she was totally screwed. But like, in a good way. This sort of thing they made together was a sort of magic, and there was nothing she could do but love it as much as she loved them. — Lauren Dane

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric. — Lauren Dane

Hi there! You're cute. Do you have any girlfriends? 'Cause Gran says Momma needs a man in her life. Then Pops says, 'Pfft, Martine, the last thing Elise needs is a man!' But I think my Gran is right."
"Rennie, for tonight, let's play the think-about-what-we-say-before-we-say-it-game. — Lauren Dane

That's love. A part of what makes it so awesome is the level of real, true intimacy, and the risk you take by opening yourself up that way to someone who has the power to gut you. — Lauren Dane

He growled a sigh and her insides got all warm and gooey. She really needed to date nice men who didn't growl.
-Lily Travis — Lauren Dane

Bull. Look, sometimes certain kinds of pain bring important lessons. Those lessons harden you, prepare you for your life and the only way to learn them, the only way to be a better, stronger and yes, harder person to survive the world outside is to learn those lessons first hand. Pain forges strength. — Lauren Dane

That's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk. — Lauren Dane

Love isn't enough so you have to work your tail off to make up that last twenty percent. Don't rely on love, rely on your head and your heart and the knowledge that working and being in love is way better than slacking off and having it all fall apart later. — Lauren Dane

I don't have poetry like you do. I only know that I love how my sheets smell after you've been in my bed. — Lauren Dane

Andrew, you are aware that no one should be that shade of orange unless they're an Oompa-Loompa,right? — Lauren Dane

Art isn't about where it ends up. It's about the creation. — Lauren Dane

You're weird. I thought brothers were supposed to pretend their sisters were sexless."
...
"I'm your brother, not an idiot. If he hurts you, I'll crush him, but I want you to be happy. You want him and that's enough for me. — Lauren Dane

Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try. — Lauren Dane

You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance.
Brody to Erin. — Lauren Dane

I hope you find a place in your life when you can let go and be happy. But I'm not a dirty secret. I'm not bad and wrong for being comfortable with myself, and I won't let you make me feel that way. — Lauren Dane

Like I need to play on the Wii when you're there willing to f*** me. Video games are what men invented to fill the sex void. Any man who chooses video games over sex deserves to live in his mother's basement with his mint-condition, in box Star Wars figurines and his real doll. — Lauren Dane

Holy shit." Daisy breathes it out as they headed back to where Jonah was now standing with Levi. "If you made semen, I'd totally have your babies. — Lauren Dane

You? A man? Wants to come shopping with a woman? For clothes?"
"Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes." He shuddered. "For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I'll gladly accompany you. — Lauren Dane

Look at you. How did you happen to me?"
Gods, shew as just going to cry if he kept this up.
"I just ... there's no one else. Ever. It's you until I no longer draw breath. — Lauren Dane

Umm, let me see. Hmmm, what to say, what to say? Oh, I know. Fuck you. — Lauren Dane

Erin, I'd like to know you again. Can we do that? He brushed the back of his knuckles down her cheek. — Lauren Dane

Eve of Darkness is, well, sigh, really damned good. I can't wait for the next installment. — Lauren Dane

What a filthy mind you have. Can't imagine why you're single with a brain as dirty as the one you've got. — Lauren Dane

When people lie to me they're telling me I'm not worth the truth. — Lauren Dane

Sugar, I am not playing a game. This is serious. I mean to woo you, so shut up and let me do it. — Lauren Dane

Most people saw her as supremely confident and self assured but beneath that were the doubts. — Lauren Dane

Sleep. I'm here to catch you. — Lauren Dane

For all her talk of being or so progressive and free ... all she really is is full of shit! — Lauren Dane

There had been no one thing at which to point blame. The break-up was the accumulation of months of dissatisfaction. But if there was one thing that had tipped her over the edge, it was the toothpaste. — Lauren Dane

You know, El, you're so much more than the time you were with Bill and the attack. You took something shitty and you made a new future. Most people don't do that. They hang on forever. It's easy to stay in that pit of despair. Or let it be your excuse for not moving on. — Lauren Dane

Who else but you shelters guys like me and Adam from the storms of our lives? Angels are warriors, you know. — Lauren Dane

I want to hold you and shelter you, but I don't want to dim your light, angel. Do you understand the difference? — Lauren Dane

This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech? — Lauren Dane

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour. — Lauren Dane

He was one of those capital M Men. — Lauren Dane

Young? Yes. He probably had wrenches older than she was. — Lauren Dane

This right here is one of those relationship things. Your shit got mixed up with her shit and it all blew up like a shit bomb. — Lauren Dane

Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I am. Flaws and all. Because I'm good in bed and I can carry heavy things and reach all the high shelves. — Lauren Dane

Reading, like other types of art appreciation, is intensely personal. So what appeals to people is going to depend on who they are. It depends on what is happening in their life at any given moment. On what has happened to them over the course of their personal history and what makes them feel any number of things. The value of art, when it comes to being appreciated by the beholder makes the person consuming it part of that process. Failing to appreciate that integral part of the process is done at your own peril.
[*Pulls Ranty Pants Up* In Which Lauren Dane Discusses Art, Publishing, Trash and Writing What you Want, Blog Post, May 16, 2013] — Lauren Dane

I laugh because your pain is amusing. — Lauren Dane

I pay attention. Nothing more than that."
"You make it sound like it's no big deal to pay attention when the sad fact is, most people don't. It takes a lot of energy to listen. — Lauren Dane

Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful. — Lauren Dane

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling. — Lauren Dane

All right. And if any of you get hurt I'm going to be really mad. I sleep with a Glock next to my bed so don't think I'm joking. I will shoot you if you don't make sure Gibson gets back here safely — Lauren Dane

Admirable? And she's related to Rey? How come he's such a weasel then?"
"There's a messed up weasel in every family. Look at you." Lex smirked at his brother as he heaved himself off the couch and headed down the hall to the kitchen. He bent to grab a beer from the fridge and tossed one to Cade.
"Ha ha, very funny. Call me Alpha when you say that," Cade growled. — Lauren Dane

Your precious dirty underpants and scores of blades are untouched by me. But I'm not thick. I can actually see something dangerous and not poke myself in the eye with it. — Lauren Dane

You don't always choose who you love, sometimes it just happens. — Lauren Dane