Top 300 Sarina Bowen Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Zach was beautiful on his worst day. But a horny Zach was a thing of fantasies.”

— Sarina Bowen

252. “Back then, my whole world orbited around this man. Even now I feel my world tilt subtly in his direction. He has his own gravitational pull.”

— Sarina Bowen

253. “Someone already filed a complaint against Danton’s language, and it’s going to the disciplinary committee on the same day as the complaint against you.” My spine tingles. “Who filed it?” “Your team. Every last player. They.”

— Sarina Bowen

254. “So I force myself to pull back. When I look down at Jamie, his eyes are glazed with lust, and his lips are swollen and red. I make the sign for “time out.” He tips his head back into the pillow and sighs, and I can’t help dipping down to kiss his exposed throat. I love you. The words are always right there on the tip of my naughty tongue. I swallow them back like I need to and say something much more practical instead.”

— Sarina Bowen

255. “I no longer have a choice about how I feel. He’s gotten to me. And if I hold myself back, I might miss something.”

— Sarina Bowen

256. “You’re not okay. And I’m the one who noticed.”

— Sarina Bowen

257. “She and I were a dangerous combination. We needed cautionary signs like the ones hanging in the tractor shed over the cans of diesel fuel. WARNING: COMBUSTIBLE.”

— Sarina Bowen

258. “Be well, Lark. Look kindly at yourself. That’s all I ask of you.”

— Sarina Bowen

259. “I need you in my life, smalls,” he says in a whisper. “No matter what happens tomorrow, that won’t change.”

— Sarina Bowen

260. “Damn. This thing between us isn’t going to just burn out. I was a fool for thinking I could walk away.”

— Sarina Bowen

261. “We’d been so close all those years ago. My subconscious just couldn’t get over the idea that we weren’t anymore.”

— Sarina Bowen

262. “You can bite the pillow when I make you scream.”

— Sarina Bowen

263. “At least somebody has fun in my bed.”

— Sarina Bowen

264. “I guess I’m turned on by philanthropy? Who knew.”

— Sarina Bowen

265. “Ugh. Betrayed by my subconscious.”

— Sarina Bowen

266. “He breaks out in a huge smile. Rubs his hands together and then cracks his knuckles as if he’s preparing for a throwdown rather than a kiss.”

— Sarina Bowen

267. “And now he was horny. His hand had moved, resting just above the waistband of his shorts. He gave the spot beneath his abs the tiniest of caresses, like he had an itch, but it was obvious he’d been hoping to do some strategic rearranging.”

— Sarina Bowen

268. “I’m supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven’t even brought a measuring tape. And it’s not the apartment I need to measure – it’s the size of my balls.”

— Sarina Bowen

269. “I want to fit in – it’s just that I don’t speak the language.”

— Sarina Bowen

270. “Gripping my shaft, I position myself between his big thighs. My breathing is equally unsteady. Hell, my hand is trembling around my cock as if I’ve never done this before. But I haven’t done this. Not with someone I love. The head of my cock nudges his hole. He tenses again, clenching to deny me entrance.”

— Sarina Bowen

271. “Faceoff: the start of play, in which the referee drops the puck between two opposing players.”

— Sarina Bowen

272. “He was almost the hottest hockey player I could name. The hottest one was sitting beside me on the sofa.”

— Sarina Bowen

273. “You acted like a total douchecanoe.”

— Sarina Bowen

274. “But it takes courage to want things, and to pursue them. Staying numb means you can never be disappointed.”

— Sarina Bowen

275. “You’re not competing for him, dumbass. He’s already yours.”

— Sarina Bowen

276. “You two look at each other like you wished clothing was never invented.”

— Sarina Bowen

277. “That dude is a lot like a big, drooly dog. Doesn’t matter if he just met you, he wants to lick your face and hump your leg.”

— Sarina Bowen

278. “At ten o’clock I receive a text from Blake. Hi, girlfriend! I just wanted you to know I’m turning in for the evening. Alone. Because we’re dating. I’m not a total jerk, so I reply, Hey there! How’s Chicago? I’m turning in, too. Alone. Because that’s how I roll. I miss you, he writes. And now I don’t know whether or not to be honest. I miss you, too, I admit. But that doesn’t mean we’re dating. We are, though. Good night, Blake. Good night, girlfriend.”

— Sarina Bowen

279. “Will you think less of me if we do this?” “Will you think less of me if I beg you to?”

— Sarina Bowen

280. “Audrey’s appearance in my home had the same effect on my libido that springtime had on the deer living on our hilltop.”

— Sarina Bowen

281. “It is universally acknowledged that I am something of a badass.”

— Sarina Bowen

282. “Wes spares the couch a single glance. “Dude, my couch is wearing a condom.”

— Sarina Bowen

283. “He shrugs. “I spent my whole life trying to stand out from the crowd. I swear to God, I could announce I wanted to live my life as a transsexual vampire yeti, and they’d still say ‘Oh, Jamie. You’re so cute.”

— Sarina Bowen

284. “I love kissing you,” he says solemnly.”

— Sarina Bowen

285. “It freaked me out that you’re a guy. And that I let you take the lead. Part of me wants to forget it happened. Most of me wants you to do it again.”

— Sarina Bowen

286. “But tonight I understood that if you kept your heart in the game, there would always be one more period to play. And excellent people to play it with. Game on.”

— Sarina Bowen

287. “It’s been a long time since I dared to get close to anyone, and I didn’t realize letting down my guard could ache like this. I’m facedown in the ocean, and she’s the lifeboat.”

— Sarina Bowen

288. “There was a long silence. I found myself holding my breath. I’d just ordered him repeatedly to leave. And now I was terrified that he would. And then he did. The sound of the outer door downstairs broke me in half.”

— Sarina Bowen

289. “With one smooth thumb she brushed water off my cheekbone. The sweep of her skin against mine was at once familiar and electrifying. Whenever she touched me, I felt as if I’d loved her my whole life.”

— Sarina Bowen

290. “Be kind to yourself. Don’t push away the good people in your life, especially if you think you don’t deserve them. Let people surprise you.”

— Sarina Bowen

291. “Isn’t that everybody, though? Who walks around every day feeling perfectly worthy of love?”

— Sarina Bowen

292. “I was as good as resisting Griff Shipley as Homer Simpson was at resisting a donut.”

— Sarina Bowen

293. “Fine. One more kiss,” I say in a grudging tone.”

— Sarina Bowen

294. “Every touch was a command, as if I’d been placed on this earth to pleasure him. Judging from the way my body responded to his touch, perhaps I had.”

— Sarina Bowen

295. “Several curious heads turn in Jamie’s direction as he crosses the massive lobby. A flashbulb goes off, but still, he doesn’t stop. He keeps me trapped in a serious stare and erases the distance between us, and then he’s in front of me, those brown eyes twinkling playfully as he leans closer and – Kisses me.”

— Sarina Bowen

296. “Jamie doesn’t leave my side, though. He and I are the calm eye of a friendly, familial hurricane. And I hope the storm will never pass.”

— Sarina Bowen

297. “Twelve years ago, I’d never known what I’d done to deserve Benito. He was the greatest gift I’d ever been given.”

— Sarina Bowen

298. “Now he snickers, but the sound dies when the tip of my finger circles his hole. His ass cheeks instantly clench. Not in fear, but anticipation. I see it in his eyes, a raw gleam of heat, before he lifts up his other knee and all but puts himself on display for me. Jesus. Nope, not gonna survive this.”

— Sarina Bowen

299. “Summer always ends.”

— Sarina Bowen

300. “Then it was all over but the cryin’.”

— Sarina Bowen