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Please tell me people who look like us can be loved. Please tell me people who look like us can be desired. Please tell me people who look like us can have happy endings.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
If you truly love me in return, accept me as I am. If you can't accept me as I am, maybe you need to rethink your definition of love.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
But I'm not looking to be fixed. I want to be loved and liked and desired not because of my size, not despite my size, but because I'm ME
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Since approximately half the humans on this planet either have gotten or will get periods, I’ve always found that particular brand of squeamishness ridiculous.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Your lack of anger does not reliably indicate a lack of wrong done to you.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Some scriptwriters believe death and misery and stagnation are more clever, more meaningful, and more authentic to reality than love and happiness and change. But life isn't all misery, and finding a path through hard, hard lives to joy is tough, clever, meaningful work.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
she loved shiny things, always had. But he wasn't a diamond. Just fool's gold.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
I am the only fucking person in this car and on this planet who can decide what my career is worth, he'd raged, offended fury in every syllable, and it's not worth my fucking soul.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Wren’s comfort was worth his discomfort.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Sometimes they blundered because their personal histories hadn’t taught them to be sensitive to certain issues. And sometimes they blundered because— Sometimes they blundered because they had trust issues. Major trust issues.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
His home was filled with valuables, even if he currently felt worthless.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
I’m not sure posting pictures there is a great idea.” It was more or less the same advice April had received for more than thirty years: If people are cruel, make yourself smaller and smaller, until you’re so inconsequential no one can target you.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
It's not right on a societal level or even a professional level, but it is fine on a personal level. It has to be, because otherwise I'd spend my life angry and sad, and I don't want that for myself.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
She'd almost forgotten how it felt to squeeze into a space too cramped to contain her comfortably. She'd almost forgotten the specific pain of attempting to make herself as small as possible, contorting her arms and legs in a way that hurt her joints and made relaxation impossible. She'd almost forgotten the reality of her life.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
As always, fatness was a sin, most likely mortal rather than venial.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Lauren wasn’t really into frosting, he’d learned, which was preposterous. Possibly un-American.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
My duty as an American forces me to buy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups wherever I may find them.
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
We’re getting you a dress. Time to Pretty Woman this shit.” He cracked his knuckles with relish. “I can’t wait until someone refuses to wait on you because you’re so obviously an unsophisticated oaf from Kansas or wherever–“ “North Hollywood. Basically just down this hill and over the next one.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
some scriptwriters believe death and misery and stagnation are more clever, more meaningful, and more authentic to reality than love and happiness and change. But life isn’t all misery, and finding a path through hard, hard lives to joy is tough, clever, meaningful work.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
He was almost entirely certain he’d shifted far enough, but maybe she had some sort of preternatural erection detection ability?
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Why do you listen to closely to everything I say, and then remember it?" He frowned down at her, reaching over to rumple her hair with his free hand. "It's all very unfair.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
But I’m not you, Peter. I need people I love around me every day to be happy.
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
But empathy requires imagination, and he didn’t have enough of either.
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
Just . . .” His fingers tightened on hers. “Just . . . hear me out until the end, and if I say something wrong, please let me explain myself.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
The synth speaks to my soul.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Make like a dancing firefighter on a Vegas stage,” she said, “and strip.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Dieting? No fucking way. Taunting the Grim Reaper? No problem!
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
Someone I know writes fanfic, and he— they want me to help proofread and give feedback on their stories. But I can’t give useful feedback unless I know what a good story looks like, so I’ve been reading fics about Cupid. The ones with the most kudos.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
I thought . . . or maybe I hoped?” She hesitated. “Hoped is probably more accurate. Anyway, I kind of hoped you were, uh . . . past the point of wanting kids?” “Oh, thank fuck.” He exhaled in a rush, sagging with relief. “I don’t want kids either. I have zero desire to take on that responsibility, especially given how hectic and unpredictable our schedules can be.
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
And somewhere in that lazy stretch of time after the auction, she started laughing too. Not by accident. Not because the world became a significantly more amusing place over the course of a week or two. No, she started laughing because he’d formulated a new goal to define his days: He wanted to make her laugh as often as he frustrated her. Which was to say, frequently.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
You want me to work out with you?” she asked. Before this moment, she’d thought— It didn’t matter. He was treading familiar ground now, digging the same poisoned well deeper and deeper yet, and she’d abandoned that particular spot long ago. She wasn’t going back. Not for anyone, and especially not for a man whose company already came fraught with endless complications and contradictions.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
If you ever decide to write your own scripts, a bit of advice to keep in mind: As we’re both aware—all too aware—some scriptwriters believe death and misery and stagnation are more clever, more meaningful, and more authentic to reality than love and happiness and change. But life isn’t all misery, and finding a path through hard, hard lives to joy is tough, clever, meaningful work. Yours sincerely, E. Wade.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
world-class perfumer can identify over a thousand different scents, mostly by associating smells with specific memories. I worked on that a little. Learned about the history of perfume. Watched one woman grind ambergris with a mortar and pestle too, just for kicks.” “What is ambergris?” she asked. “I’ve always wondered.” He smirked at her. “Hardened whale feces that washes onshore.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Please tell me people who look like us can be loved. Please tell me people who look like us can be desired. Please tell me people who look like us can have happy endings.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Here it came at last, inevitable as death, taxes, and the fridging of female characters in action films.
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
No, she was staring up at him, brow furrowed, perched at the edge of her chair. His Wren, poised for flight. His dear friend and protector, ready to leap between him and danger. Which she, in fact, had already done. It was his turn to leap for her, because she deserved it. She deserved everything.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Ah, concern and pity had made a simultaneous entrance into the conversation. Lovely.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Most of them.” She wouldn’t lie, and she wasn’t embarrassed. Not about having written explicit content, anyway. “Or at least on-page sex occurs in most of them, even if sex isn’t the main”—she couldn’t resist—“thrust of the story. So to speak.” He half groaned, half laughed at that. “Don’t distract me, Whittier. This conversation is hard—difficult enough as it is.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
The Saroyan Stairs were special. Before leaving for Spain, he hadn’t anticipated sharing his late-night pilgrimages there with anyone. Not even Marcus, much as Alex loved his best friend. Lauren’s presence wasn’t an intrusion, though. It was a completion.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Once Desiree had assured him that Lauren really was fine, his fury toward his minder had ballooned, and it hadn’t shrunk since. Instead, it had only expanded as he’d watched her walk into the ballroom and study her surroundings with that sharp gaze; as he’d watched her quietly take her seat, black lace teasing the pale skin of her collarbones; and especially as he’d watched her watch him during his speech, her attention rapt and … proud, almost. It had caught at his throat, that look. It had made speaking difficult. At one of his stupid jokes, a rare laugh had turned her beautiful eyes bright, and— All of that, all of who she was, could have been gone, all because she didn’t give a damn about herself. It was intolerable. Bending at the waist, he spoke into her ear, quietly enough that no one else could hear. “How badly are you injured?” “I’m fine.” She flicked a hand in dismissal, her voice as low as his. “Just a little bruised.” Lauren would say that if someone had lopped off one of her limbs, but since Desiree had told him the same, he chose to believe both of them. “Good.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
They loved her. She knew that. But they’d taught her that family peace was more important than her feelings. And since then, she’d spent decades giving away pieces of herself, because she didn’t matter. Not as much as everyone else.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Instead of scattering his thoughts, the pain had focused them. If he wasn’t irredeemably selfish, if he didn’t need to atone, if he didn’t have to prove his love through heedless self-sacrifice, then his path forward was clear. Finally, finally clear. No matter what did or didn’t happen with Lauren.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
That flaming hair should have warned him. Somehow, she was his crucible, burning away everything but the truth. Forcing him to speak it aloud and purify himself before her.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
In that moment, in his enraged concern, he’d put her first. Even above his own charity, his own professional obligations. It felt … odd. Disorienting. No one ever put her first. Not even her. Not until now.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
As far as he could tell, there were no cameras pointed in their direction, and he didn’t recognize any of the other diners. Even if a dozen cell phones had been trained on them, though, wielded by a platoon of producers, he wouldn’t have cared. Let a hundred people see how much he wanted and adored her. Let a million.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Because she suddenly wanted him. Marcus. Caster. Hyphen. Rupp. The dim, vain man who was, apparently, neither vain nor dim. Or at least not as vain and dim as he pretended.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Could he even call whatever emotion they felt for him love, when they didn’t either understand or respect anything he did, anything he was?
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
At the confirmation that she’d grown just as attached to him as he was to her, that she valued the man he’d shown himself to be online—his real self—more than the gleaming star he’d put on display earlier that night, Marcus collapsed in on himself.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Her face puckered in thought, and it was fucking adorable, and he hoped like hell she gave him the answer he wanted. Because a woman who’d spent her life serving and protecting others at the cost of her own safety and emotional well-being deserved a champion. A better one than him, obviously. But he was what she had right now, poor woman, and he wanted her to accept his entirely inadequate fealty. He wanted her to accept him.
Olivia Dade (All the Feels (Spoiler Alert, #2))
Dammit, he was right. Back to listening, instead of dirty punnery.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
If you’re still worried I don’t know who you are, show me who you are. I’ll prove I can differentiate the man from the performance.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Heidi looked thoughtful. “Mel, darling, are you thinking what I’m thinking?” “Probably not.” With her chopstick, Mel was poking at the roe atop her sushi. “I was compiling a mental list of species whose eggs we consume and wondering where and why the line gets drawn.” Heidi blinked at her. “You’re right. That wasn’t what I was thinking.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
He might have mastered unicycling and chopping and emotive sniffing and swordplay, but she had her own particular set of skills when it came to swords. They deserved appreciation too.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
It was unforgivably stupid. Naive. He knew it. But each time, blinking against the harsh strobe of the flashes, overwhelmed amid the roar of voices calling his name and telling him to look over here, the realization that his date hadn’t wanted him, really, but rather the dubious perks of his odd, transient fame— Each time, he’d floated outside himself for a moment. Disoriented. Lost.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Ian: oh, that’s right, your mouth is surgically affixed to her ass, so if she told anyone you’d know Maria: did you watch The Human Centipede AGAIN, Ian
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
If she needed space from her father, Marcus could give her that space, and she’d already told him how to do it. Her father cared about appearances. That being the case, there was literally no one better suited to occupy his attention and keep him away from April than the Well-Groomed Golden Retriever. He had his character. He had his script and plenty of motivation.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Black to disappear. Extra fabric to disguise. As always, fatness was a sin, most likely mortal rather than venial.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
Smart, accomplished, passionate women were his undoing, always, even though he knew—he knew—he’d never be enough for them.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
It was more or less the same advice April had received for more than thirty years: If people are cruel, make yourself smaller and smaller, until you’re so inconsequential no one can target you.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
MEN LIED, TO THEMSELVES AND TO HER. Cocks didn’t.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
He cared about work above all else. As many Americans supposedly did, probably because they didn’t have much of a safety net if they lost their jobs.
Olivia Dade (Ship Wrecked (Spoiler Alert, #3))
Millie! Millie, don’t leave me! But she’s past answering.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))
His cheeks were wet, and she was blotting them with a napkin, and he was too lost to feel embarrassed. “I know they love me, and I love them, but I don’t know how to forgive them.
Olivia Dade (Spoiler Alert (Spoiler Alert, #1))