Bad Boys Quotes

“Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…”
“Thanks,” Simon said. “I’m glad to be classed with the criminal element.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.

They would be irresistible.”
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

“I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”
― Nenia Campbell, Armed and Dangerous

“What girl doesn't love the tortured bad boy? I think when it comes to bad boys, girls/women have this desire to step forward and try to rescue that sort of individual. It is very appealing to the nurturer inside us I think."
- author Lacey Weatherford during an interview on whether she was a bad boy kinda girl”
― Lacey Weatherford

“The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw, it was going to be ugly, and I was going to enjoy every damn minute of it.”
― C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You

“A bad boy can be very good for a girl.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Girl Stays in the Picture

“If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.”
― Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

“A hug a day keeps the bad boys away.”
― Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assualt

“Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.”
― Shanna Swendson, Enchanted, Inc.

“If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.”
― Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

“Zoe gave him a look that was difficult to interpret. Eventually she asked, "What makes you sure I couldn't handle you?"
She didn't know what she was asking for, from a man who couldn't remember what it was like to be innocent. Lightly gripping her hair, Alex forced her face close to his. The blond curls danced around his fingers and tickled the backs of his hands. " I 'm a bastard in bed, Zoe," he said quietly. " I 'm selfish and mean as the devil. I have to have all the control. And I 'm...not nice”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dream Lake

“It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.”
― Jeffery Deaver, Edge

“It is back to basics here,’ Jason said. ‘What women seek to find in a man is dictated by evolution and the role of the man as a hunter gatherer. Women want a bad boy who will treat them well but not so well that they will have nothing to bitch about to their female friends. Bitching about the male of the species is how females bond with each other…another one of evolutions little jokes.”
― J.D. Gallagher

“Though Trish and her bad boy types weren't exactly Kindra's style, she had to agree that Violet went for quiet and uninteresting. Sort of like mild salsa. Why even bother? You'd be better off just biting a tomato.”
― Erin McCarthy, Bad Boys Online

“If I could do all of that on February 14th, it would be a personal best for me. Something to share with my crew for the glory and the laughs, or to cheer up the next buddy of mine to get dumped or cheated on.

From "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: A Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Life would be so much simpler if she would fall for the male whose moral compass was as dependable as the North Star.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“My hunger for this man left me reeling. His scent enveloped me, musk and leather and beneath it all the lingering hint of blood. He was the most dangerous temptation I couldn't resist.”
― Briar Boleyn, Court of Claws

“Hildy resisted the urge to suck on the end of her braid. "Look. I know. Paul crossed the line and --"
Xiu raised her hand. "Stop. For starters, don't call him Paul."
"Why? That's his name."
"Too confusing. Pauls are potentially datable. Bobs are retired gym teachers and alcoholic great-uncles and, thus, are not. Stick to Bob. Or Douchebag. Your choice.”
― Vicki Grant, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You

“You like me needing you, girl? You like knowing you’re the only woman in the whole fucking world I can imagine ever touching again?”
― Kati Wilde, Losing It All

“Show me,” I said softly, and stroked his hair. “Show me what it feels like, to be wanted by a man, the way you want me.”
― Cara McKenna, Hard Time

“Royal is like a beautiful, broken angel: hard to look at, but utterly impossible to turn away from.”
― Victoria Ashley, Royal Savage

“There has never been another kiss like this one in the entire universe. This is the kiss.”
― Callie Hart, Twisted

“Ace, Chapter 2, Erotomaniac.

That’s lust. She wants me to suckle those perky tits. I just fucking know it.”
― Eve Devearoux, Erotomaniac: (Book 1) The Filthy Kings Trilogy

“I love when you lie,”
― Thaise Wolff, His Notes

“IF AN OTTER GETS INSIDE, YOU OTTER GET OUT THE SMELL!”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“The stranger’s eyes gleamed with impossible knowings, as though he had seen the first creature crawl onto the land, the first leaves unfurl, the first great reptile bite down and ruin its prey...”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse

“It was a scent that suggested someone more Minotaur than Theseus, more Grendel than Beowulf, and Nova wanted to go deeper into the monster’s cave. He couldn’t find anything within him that cared whether he came out or not, as long as he found his way to its deepest, darkest depths.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Magpie Witch: The North Star in Eclipse

“Ugly or not, I could still kiss you if I wanted to, and you’d let me.”

I choked on the rich cocoa in my mouth, my book dropping to the ground and closing without a bookmark. Shoot.

“Why would you ever think that?” I’d turned to him, scandalized.

He’d leaned close, one flat chest to another. He’d smelled of something foreign and dangerous and wild. Of golden California beaches, maybe.

“Because my dad told me good girls like bad boys, and I’m bad. Really bad.”
― L.J. Shen, Angry God