Friday, April 27, 2007

Your luck's about to change

Yeah, I think that's kind of it for me. Who else remembers that one?

The Big Easy. Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin. New Orleans. They're tumbling around the room, frantically kissing, pulling at clothes...and the phone rings, and he has to leave.

Barkin says, "I've never had much luck with sex, anyway."

And--I'm breathing a little faster as I type this, especially when I think of how amazing Quaid always looked with his shirt off--Quaid grabs her and says, "Your luck's about to change" before planting another champion kiss on her pouty little mouth.

Sigh. It's one of those perfect lines, one of those lines you wish you'd written, one of those lines you wish someone would say to you--and that it was true.

What else? Sexy lines...hmmm...everything John Malkovitch says in Dangerous Liasons is sexy. As Sherrill pointed out, James Bond says a lot of sexy things. "Kiss me, Scarlett...once," is a huge one for me. Is there a sexier man than Rhett Butler?

I've got a few lines in my upcoming Ellora's Cave release, Blood Will Tell (which I hope to have a release date for in the next week!) that make me ridiculously proud. Just as Our Hero, Julian, is leaning in to kiss Our Heroine Cecelia for the first time, they share the following exchange:

He was kneeling before her now, his eyes level with hers. The starched front of his shirt brushed against her bare legs, sending an involuntary tremor though her body. She prayed he hadn’t noticed it, but knew that he had.
“Wait a minute,” she said, as his face drew closer. “I don’t even think I like you.”
“You don’t have to,” he said, and his lips met hers.


Or this one, later on:

The innuendo was so heavy that she laughed. “My mother warned me about men like you,” she said.
He raised one eyebrow. “Come with me,” he said, kissing her hand. “I’ll show you why she was right.”


Got any more sexy lines to share?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of The Man's favourites:
"Gimme some sugar baby."

Sherrill Quinn said...

Your last lines there, D, remind me of yet another line from Casino Royale (what can I say? Told you I'm on a James Bond kick). The woman he's seducing says, "Why can't nice men be more like you?" To which James responds, "Because then they'd be bad."

Ooh, yeah!