Jill Shalvis is a bestselling American novelist celebrated for her warm, humorous, and emotionally engaging stories. Her writing captures everyday challenges, resilience, and the healing power of connection, often through relatable characters and heartfelt moments. Shalvis's success reflects dedication to craft and an authentic understanding of human relationships. She inspires readers and aspiring writers alike by showing that optimism, perseverance, and kindness can coexist with realism, creating stories that comfort, entertain, and uplift.
"Lily, the next time you tell me you don't know what to do with family. Because you know exactly. It's about loyalty and kindness and unconditional love, and you are more than capable of all that."
"Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with."
"Finn smiled and blew half her brain cells. "You going to teach me how to have fun, Pru? he asked in that low, husky voice."
"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"
"I don't want to dig him or his sexy self. But I keep losing my clothes when I'm with him."
"There was the amount of time you'd known someone and then there was the way you'd spent that time."
"Ben was in his truck, window down, idling at the curb, dark lenses hiding his eyes from her, looking effortlessly big and badass.The way she wished she felt."
"Note to self-give serious thought to becoming an alcoholic."
"She was thinking of his mouth on hers. Which seemed only fair since he'd given a lot of thought to the same thing."'Night, she whispered."Night, he whispered back.And yet neither of them moved."
"He slid his fingers over her jaw and tilted her face up to his. "You're smarter than hell, sexier than hell, and I like you way more than I should," he said."
"If I looked like him, Tara said. "I'd want to have sex with myself. All the time."
"Her hands slid to his shoulders, his biceps, and dug in as if to hold him here, right here. But he wasn't going anywhere. He liked her hands on him, liked her tongue in his mouth, and when she made that noise deep in her throat, the one that said she was as lost as him, he groaned, both in pleasure and with a good amount of what-the-fuckery, because he knew.He was in trouble. Down to the bone trouble, and he didn't give one single shit."
"This had already been the best sex she'd ever had and all he'd done was touch her."
"Tag opened the door to his knock, and with a look of disappointment, peered behind Wade."You got someone better coming over?" Wade asked him."Pizza," Tag said."
"Maddie swallowed hard and tried to channel which actress? Damn, she couldn't think of anactress to save her life! She was on her own."
"If she'd thought the oncoming storm outside was crazy, it was nothing compared to what happened between her and Finn every time they so much as looked at each other."
"I deserve more. I mean I understand I do. Once you've protected someone the way you protected me, you get well, protective. But I'm no longer that sixteen-year-old girl, Archer. I'm a grown woman."
"I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans."
"Finn was different.And he was different because she wanted him in her life in a way she hadn't wanted anyone for a very long time.Maybe ever."
"There was a group of fans who wanted autographs, and several women who managed to write their phone numbers on Wade's hand before he pulled free.Sam sent him an arched brow, but he just shrugged. He got numbers written on him a lot; he'd never figured out how to stop that from happening."
"He held up his hand, and in it was... Oh, God. The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell."
"Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card..."
"Just remember, there's not a lot of softness in his life, or room for weakness-of which you're definitely one. He has absolutely no idea what to do with you, and as an action guy, that's confusing to him. So maybe think about taking it easy on him. Even just a little bit."
"He regretted nothing. Not the way she'd felt in his arms and not the way he'd felt in hers."
"For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view."
"Who's there?"The scratcher of your itch, he said.She opened the door a crack and stuck her nose out. "Was that supposed to be romantic?"