Strength Check Quotes

“Any normal day, the guilt would slip the chloroform over her mouth and smother her, but right now she burned.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“With her hair pulled into a loose ponytail, she looked softer, like she’d been painted in watercolors. Seeing Roxie like this didn’t help tamp the flutter in her chest even a little bit.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Roxie’s lips were still swollen from the heated kisses they’d shared, and she couldn’t help but lift her fingertips to brush against them, feeling the tender sting.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Mel’s grin widened. “A gorgeous woman hurling herself at me? Talk about the stuff fantasies are made of.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“From the moment you walked through my front door, I was half in love with you. And the more I've gotten to know you how you bring sunlight into any room, how you figure out when I'm hurting even when I'm not aware, how you're determined, fierce, and everything I wish I could be-there's no way I couldn't fall completely in love.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“I’m not one for keeping people in closets,” Roxie responded. “In case you weren’t able to tell by the lesbian about me.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“God, you’re going to ruin me for anyone else,” Mel murmured against Roxie’s mouth.
A grin stole her lips. “That’s the plan.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“She lay bare to Roxie, but as the woman dragged her palms along her thighs to open them wide, Mel couldn’t help but surrender.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“From the moment you walked through my front door, I was half in love with you.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Maybe those relationships cracked for a reason—to let the light in.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Roxie swallowed hard. This was why she didn’t do emotional talks. Lilah’s words burrowed under her skin like a chestburster, leaving her raw and exposed in the aftermath.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Roxie swallowed hard and headed to the kitchen, feeling the weight of that woman’s presence like a vulture tearing at the scraps that remained.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“When it came to Mel, she just wanted.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Jasper made gagging noises. “Don’t tell me this darling child is used to eating garbage.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Lilah elbowed her in the side. “Better wipe your mouth, you’re drooling.”
Roxie lifted her middle finger. “I’m showing my support.”
Lilah waggled her brows. “I bet she wouldn’t mind you supporting her all the way to the bedroom.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Roxie pasted a smile on her face, but inside, she yearned like she stood in a field staring at the distant stars above—longing, longing, longing.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“The tension stretched at her insides like a gray morning with that crisp scent of impending snow, filled with anticipation of something more.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“You’re on a date here?” she asked, trying to break the awkward silence.
“One that’s going horribly,” Jasper said. “This guy is so pretentious I want to gag, and not in the good way.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Mel shook her head. “I mean, we could have a ‘whose friends hate them more’ competition, or you could explain to me what a DM is when you’re not sliding into someone’s?”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Roxie arched a brow. “I think I’m familiar with mortifying, doll. Remember, I’m driving my mother to prison tomorrow.”
“Ah, that old chestnut,” Mel teased back, trying to cling to her composure.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Maybe her new roommate wouldn’t think she was the worst like her last one did. Or most of her friends back home. Fuck, she’d become so sick of standing on the outside looking in on friendships, tapping at the glass but never being able to step through.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check

“Roxie emanated this earthiness Mel found herself drawn to, and her low voice scraped like fingernails over skin, causing a delicious shudder.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Strength Check