Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. Even if she does wear great shoes,... read more
Unlikely lovers Min Dobbs and Cal Morrisey agree not to pursue a relationship after one date, but they are thrown together again as they deal with a jealous ex-boyfriend, a determined psychologist, and a bizarrely intelligent cat.
“Look, I'm not ready for you. I'm not prepared. I don't have any defenses when you're around. I make these plans and I mean it, I really do, and then I kiss you because I'm crazy about you which would be fine if I didn't fall in love with you but there that is, just standing there, and you know it, you know you've got me.”Minerva "Min" Dobbs
“This fairy tale thing, it's not for kids.”Minerva "Min" Dobbs
“Nobody in my life has ever known me the way you do. Nobody in my life has ever made me feel as good as you do. You know me, you know everything about me, and when you leave me, you’re going to be leaving the real me, the me nobody else has ever seen, that’s who you’re going to be rejecting.”Highlighted by 18 Kindle customers
“If you’re wearing white cotton lingerie, you’ll feel like white cotton, and you’ll act like white cotton, and white cotton cannot get a man, nor can it keep one. Always wear lace.”Highlighted by 17 Kindle customers
Some things are supposed to be made with butter. You’re one of them.”Highlighted by 16 Kindle customers
“Can we go to work now? Because we’re about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don’t think we can come back from that.”Highlighted by 15 Kindle customers
“Infatuation doesn’t last because it’s conditional and conditions change, but if it’s real love, it turns into mature, unconditional love, and new chemicals are released in the brain, endorphins that make you feel warm and peaceful and satisfied and content whenever you’re with the one you love.”Highlighted by 14 Kindle customers
“Sexy is in your head and you don’t feel sexy so you don’t look it.”Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers
the edge of chaos was a time of turbulence, mental chaos if the system was a human being, but also the time of greatest potential, possibly the place where life starts. “The place,” the grad student had said, “where the system cascades into a new order and moves from being to becoming.”Highlighted by 12 Kindle customers
It was really frustrating avoiding the calls of somebody who didn’t have the decency to pick up a phone.Highlighted by 11 Kindle customers
“Your cat just got cat hair on me.” “It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.”Highlighted by 10 Kindle customers
Cal shook his head. Watching Roger date was like watching a toddler in traffic.Highlighted by 7 Kindle customers
Preceded by It Had to Be You, and followed by The Duke and I.
Preceded by Devil in Winter, and followed by Welcome to Temptation.
Preceded by As You Desire, and followed by Dreaming of You.
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