Scandalized Quotes

“He doesn’t make emotions feel like a dirty word.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“What are you doing?" I whisper.
"Thinking."
"You're thinking very deep into my personal space."
"Should I move?"
I lift my hand and rest it on his abdomen. "No, I like it when you invade my personal space.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“This is a moment I will remember for the entire rest of my life. No matter what happens after this, I will file tonight under Happiness.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“But I’m too tired to worry what I look like from the back right now. If thirty-three-year-old Alec Kim wants to check out grown-up me in the cleanest article of clothing I currently own, I’m not going to stop him.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“But in the chaos of the past few weeks, I’ve stopped feeling like my career has to be everything.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“I liked that I could just be a man with you,” he says. “That I didn’t have to live up to some expectation and that you weren’t nervous with me. I liked that you were real. I never get real, ever.” He stares at me for several tense seconds. “But I’m sorry I lied to you.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“someone”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“You’re going to make me love you, aren’t you?” He doesn’t even falter, in step or breath. He says only, “I’m sure going to try.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“Anyway, so here I am, wandering LA, doing absolutely nothing, letting this problem fester. Retracing our steps the past two weeks and wondering how on earth it is that I could fall in love in a matter of days. But I did. In fact, I think I fell in love in a matter of minutes, with the woman sitting opposite me at a hotel bar. She was exhausted but mesmerizing, wearing a red dress and nothing else.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“Having a Pretty Woman moment.

Be more specific, she answers.

Were you shunned from stores or are you in a bubble bath?”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized

“Well, do they?” he asks, finally, grinning.

“Do they what?”

“Taste like sugar.”

“No.”

“What do they taste like?”

“Happiness.”
― Ivy Owens, Scandalized