Liz Reinhardt Quotes & Sayings

He's kissing like he doesn't have a minute to waste, like I'll evaporate under his hands if he doesn't keep pace. — Liz Reinhardt

I wanted to call you. See you. You have no idea how bad I wanted to — Liz Reinhardt

So you like me because I can think like a rebel, but I act like a good girl? — Liz Reinhardt

I hand over some files to and her eyes meet mine, all cool and sweet like a snow-cone in July. — Liz Reinhardt

He's holding an armful of pink tulips and wearing a hungry, focused expression. His blue eyes
travel up and down over my body, and I feel almost shy under his gaze.
"You're a goddess."
He says it like a normal person would say, "Your dress is white. — Liz Reinhardt

So I get ready to let go and free-fall in the scariest jump of my life. But she's with me. So I swallow my fear and do it. — Liz Reinhardt

It's not just a damn game. Whatever it is that I feel for you is more real than anything I've ever felt before. — Liz Reinhardt

I'm powerless against a bad boy and his hot kisses. — Liz Reinhardt

Why don't you wear those tiny shorts when you run, like they do in the movies?" His voice was low and sexy, and he knew it.
"Because I'm not in a movie. I know it's confusing, since you obviously live 'The Saxon Show' day and night, but some of us want to live a boring, old, normal high school life, you know? — Liz Reinhardt

Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. — Liz Reinhardt

I love you. I love you. And I know you didn't ask yet and don't have a ring and don't know when this will all happen, but my answer is definitely 'yes. — Liz Reinhardt

Hey beautiful. You have a minute for me? — Liz Reinhardt

I've loved one girl. That's you, Evan Lennox — Liz Reinhardt

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly.
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly. — Liz Reinhardt

How can I miss someone so badly when we're in the same room? — Liz Reinhardt

Tell me. Tell me why you think you're leaving me again. Because you're not, you know. You're not leaving without me — Liz Reinhardt

I will never break your heart. I will never hurt you. I might fuck up, I might not be perfect, but I'll never hurt you, Evan. You have my word. — Liz Reinhardt

I swear to you, I will rip this world and every other one apart to get to you if you need me. — Liz Reinhardt

To hold you. To smell your hair and hope you don't notice and think I'm some sort of psychotic. To watch the way the light moves over your skin. I want you to get chilly and sleepy and need to press your body tight to mine, and I want to wrap my arms around you. I want whatever you write in that secret book of yours about me to be worth all the other rotten shit you're going to wind up accepting down the line. — Liz Reinhardt

Can I ... " He stopped and his jaw flexed. "Can I kiss you?"
I didn't answer, and he didn't wait for me to. His hands caught me gently behind the neck and he pressed his mouth to mine, softly but firmly. Then he moved one arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him. — Liz Reinhardt

You're welcome, ma'am.
My head whips up at the ma'am.
Not that I haven't heard that word spilled like sticky sweet syrup from a thousand mouths of a thousand boys who've been born and bred to use it everyday.
There's something about this boy, the way that word just slides off his tongue, buoyed with cautious respect and elegant pleasure.
Like he loves saying the word.
Like his lips weigh the worth of it. — Liz Reinhardt

That I love her, that I want her, that I'm never going anywhere, that she and I are going to last. That this is real. That it's forever. — Liz Reinhardt

What man doesn't have dress socks and shoes?" he asks pointedly. "You wanna grow up to be a hobo? — Liz Reinhardt

We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. ~ Junk Miles — Liz Reinhardt

I wanted this to be easy. I wanted to know for sure who I loved and why. I wanted to be in love without a hint of doubt.
But I realised that I could want as hard as I liked; the reality was already messier than I liked. I was in over my head ... and I had a panicked feeling that I wasn't going to be able to manoeuvre this without screwing up big time. — Liz Reinhardt

Forget all of our past bullshit, okay? I've got less than a handful of days to convince you that I'm not a complete douche bag, and I want a fair shot. Give it to me. — Liz Reinhardt

I did not ask you out. But I would seriously think about not shooting you down if you asked me. Nicely." I had to keep my pride.
He took both of my hands in his. "Brenna Blixen will you be my girlfriend, please." He held up one of my hands and kissed my knuckles smoothly. "Pretty please. With sugar on top. — Liz Reinhardt

I'll spend the rest of my life falling as far and deep and hard as my heart will let me go in love with this perfect, crazy girl who taught me to let go and hold on. I know in that minute I'll be Evan's fall guy until the day I die, and my future, for the first time in my life, is an always I can't wait to fall into. — Liz Reinhardt

You don't have to lie to me to be nice, Jake. You can just say, 'Wow, your nails look crappy.'" I did my best boy voice.
"Well, I will tell you that's a crappy imitation of my voice." He smiled so wide I could see his eyetooth from across the table. "But you've got to know you're totally hot, chipped nails and all." He burned beet red all the way to the roots of his hair. "Man, you get me to say some embarrassing stuff, Brenna." He rubbed his hand on the back of his neck.
"Hey, don't blame me when you feel moved to make strange declarations. — Liz Reinhardt

What he doesn't realize is that I'm already standing at the bottom, waiting to catch him. And I never miss. — Liz Reinhardt

Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away. — Liz Reinhardt

I could never hurt you as bad as you try to hurt yourself, — Liz Reinhardt

We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers. — Liz Reinhardt

I don't want to be your God damn friend — Liz Reinhardt

It would be a bad thing because I'm afraid to gamble with your heart, Evan. I'm afraid to hurt you. — Liz Reinhardt

Sometimes is all we really have anyway, right? Nothing is always. — Liz Reinhardt

Whit looks like an angel when she sleeps. She's all sweet, full lips, long, curly eyelashes, and a tumble of sleek, dark hair against the pillow.
She also kicks like a mule, snores like a bear, sweats like a hog, and steals the covers like a fat, menacing caterpillar about to cocoon herself before her metamorphosis. - Deo — Liz Reinhardt

You run away for freedom. You run away because you can't be trapped by the people who love you but don't understand you. You run away because you want to be missed, you want them to start a worried search party combing far and wide for any scrap of evidence that you're going to be back, safe and sound. Running away is a way to play a dirty trick on the perfect fate that will suffocate you if you're not careful. — Liz Reinhardt

And then I save up for a ring and ask you to marry me. And then, if everything goes the way I want, you agree. And then whatever you want. As long as you're with me, I know things will be alright — Liz Reinhardt

You two should do the next partner project together," she said as she flipped through our portfolios. "You both have excellent designs, and you have polar opposite strengths. You'd do well together." Jake and I nodded respectfully, but under the table, he rubbed my leg. "I guess we're pretty good together," he whispered against my ear later in the hall. "Is that what she said? I thought she said you could learn a lot from me."
Reinhardt, Liz (2011-09-06). Double Clutch (A Brenna Blixen Novel) (p. 206). Kindle Edition. — Liz Reinhardt

You're the fall guy, Winch. You're the guy they come to when no one else will stand up and take their medicine. And they come to you because you never make them stand up and take it. — Liz Reinhardt

His mouth closes in on mine, and that single second before our lips meet spins out for eternity. And it makes graphs and flow-charts and PowerPoints underlining all the reasons we should absolutely not be doing this.
But we are.
We so completely are.
Winch walks me back to the bed and lies me down, his entire body pressed long and perfectly weighted over mine. He kisses me with a gentle, coaxing pressure for a few minutes, like he's taking my temperature, gauging my heart rate, and determining if I'm in.
I'm all in. — Liz Reinhardt

There are things I want, too. Things I want to change. I'm tired of only being there for a good time, Brenna. I'm tired of being a corrupter of the people I love. I no one wants to be the perpetual fuck up. — Liz Reinhardt

Not exactly what I wanted, but you know what they say about getting what you want."
"That you should want what you have instead?" I guessed.
"No! That's ridiculous advice. Jesus, who told you that? Never mind, don't even answer that. Just forget you ever heard it. They, and by 'they' I am referring to those who know what the hell they're talking about, say that you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes ... " He held out his hand for me to finish.
"You just might get what you need?"
He shucked me under the chin and gave me his best cocky smile. "There's hope for you yet."
He walked away from me with a determined swagger and didn't look back. — Liz Reinhardt

He's the path lined with wildflowers, And I'm Red Riding Hood. I've been warned, but I just can't resist the blossom and perfume that calls me over. — Liz Reinhardt

Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology. — Liz Reinhardt

It takes every fucking ounce of my self-control to say the next three words. 'Lead the way. — Liz Reinhardt

Dresses that are complicated," she says softly, the smile on her lips pure wicked fun, "are essential to teach girls that they shouldn't bother with guys who won't figure out how to take off a dress. — Liz Reinhardt

You've fought for me. You've challenged me. You've begged me and left me and come back to me — Liz Reinhardt

I'm winning a date with you. Granted, it's the frigging lamest date on earth, but I'm winning it anyway. — Liz Reinhardt

I don't deserve you — Liz Reinhardt

Sweet on the street, alpha in the sheets. — Liz Reinhardt

You deserve better that what I've given you — Liz Reinhardt

I'm in love. Twice. It's not a love that divides fifty-fifty. It's not a love that's split between good and bad, safe and dangerous, real and imaginary. It's all mixed up, confused, good, bad and ugly love times two, and it's all mine. — Liz Reinhardt