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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 78e8c6d | You're the whole focus of my world," he murmured. "After you left, I went crazy.I flew down to New Orleans, and-" "You did?" Stunned,she drew back to look at him. "You went after me?" "With various purposes in mind," he muttered. "First,I was going to strangle you,then I was going to crawl, then I was going to just drag you back and lock you upstairs." Smiling,she rested her head on his chest. "And now?" "Now." He kissed her hair. "We compr.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| e61defa | Love,' she murmured as she washed. 'Nobody inside it knows the hell how to handle it. | Nora Roberts | ||
| ec318e2 | Kissing Red must've killed off some of your brain cells," Ryder decided. "You can tell a woman what to do---if you play it right---and maybe, half the time she'd do it, or something close to it. That's a live woman. A dead one? I figure that's closer to zero." | humorous women | Nora Roberts | |
| 86e4473 | Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do. | Nora Roberts | ||
| f08ec41 | He braced his elbows on the desk,his brow on his fists. "She came shrieking across the court.I'd just hit a line drive,barely missed beaning her. Cameras rolling, and there I am trying to look my sixth-generational-hotelier best, the athletic yet intelligent, the world-traveled yet dedicated, the dashing yet concerned heir to the Templeton name." "You'd be good at that," Margo murmured, hoping to placate him. He didn't even look at her. "Su.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 27ab37b | 'Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.' | Nora Roberts | ||
| 750cb41 | Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 1e0ab63 | Mirizmite ostavat s nas nai-d'lgo, zabraven aromat ni vr'shcha otdavna pogrebani spomeni i chuvstva. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 21c3190 | Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point." | raymond-quinn | Nora Roberts | |
| b6e478a | Seduce my mind and you can have my body, Find my soul and I'm yours forever. --ANONYMOUS | Nora Roberts | ||
| 39ce29c | Harry, I promised you something. I said I'd clear it with you before I asked your mom to marry me. I need you to tell me it's okay if I do. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 44808ab | What the hell are you doing here?" "A typical Grant Campbell welcome." | Nora Roberts | ||
| f615093 | There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful. | Nora Roberts | ||
| b5762d9 | She'd already accepted that she loved him, hadn't she? And it had been easy, a simple process of steps and study. Her mind was amde up, her goals set. Damn it, she'd been pleased by the whole business. So what was this shaky, dizzy, sensation, this clutch of panic that made her want to turn her mount sharply around and ride as far away as possible? She'd been wrong, Keeyley realized as she pressed an unsteady hand to her jumpy heart.She'd.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8582759 | She stared at him. "You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically?" "Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3c60f40 | His hands came to her wrists, squeezed reflexively, before he got quickly to his feet. "You're mixing things up." Panic arrowed straight into his heart. "I told you sex complicates things." "Yes,you did.And of course since you're the only man I've been with, how could I knew the difference between sex and love? Then again, that doesn't take into account that I'm a smart and self-aware woman, and I know the reason you're the only man I've be.. | Nora Roberts | ||
| 5a0be44 | Is your dog in a coma?" Quinn asked when the dog didn't move a muscle. "No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest." | humor | Nora Roberts | |
| fa1e5da | You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red." He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. "I think you have to marry me now. You're the first woman besides Loo who's seen her and known what she is. I'm pretty sure we're engaged." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 8666336 | What good are laws if they're not human? | Nora Roberts | ||
| 3ee39ce | Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 5b7ed90 | Why did the stars seem to be looking down at me with pity, making me feel ant-sized, overwhelmed, completely insignificant? It was too big, that close sky, too beautiful, and it filled me with a strange sense of foreboding. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 02e60e3 | From this day forward, I vowed to myself, I was in control of my life. Not fate, not God, not even Chris was ever again going to tell me what to do, or dominate me in any way. From this day forward, I was my own person, to take what I would, when I would, and I would answer only to myself. | control domination fate life vow vows | V.C. Andrews | |
| 3407c7e | The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time for everything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waiting for me. | happiness time waiting | V.C. Andrews | |
| 2955d8f | I had a gift too; not the bright and shining coin that was Christopher's. It was my way to turn over all that glittered and look for the tarnish. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 883c4b1 | I think you might be the kind to put all the men you love up so high they are bound to come tumbling down. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| e091728 | Blood ties are not supposed to be chains. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| f69f568 | Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face. | millionaire money petals-on-the-wind rich rich-people smirk | V.C. Andrews | |
| 1433e04 | I watched the jealousy between them grow, and felt it was none of my fault--only Momma's! As everything wrong in my life was her fault. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| e5d97e9 | Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children! | baby child children dresses gray kid kids pious righteous self-righteous standing | V.C. Andrews | |
| 6d178c2 | A PART OF ALL YOU EARN IS YOURS TO KEEP. | George S. Clason | ||
| c075eda | Until you get the measure of your own soul, Jim, don't be quick to condemn a priest, or anyone else for that matter. I'm not scolding you, sweetheart," she said hurriedly. "It's just that, until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago. Do you hang in there, or cut your losses? Soldier on, or admit defeat and try to make the best of things?" She'd looked a little sh.. | promises | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 6ca902e | Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| 52af781 | On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| e47b92a | You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| de86715 | What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15) | science-fiction | Mary Doria Russell | |
| af3eec9 | You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do," Anne said, biting off each word, "without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require heaven or hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently, thank you very much." | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| a30dafc | John] watched the flames for a while. "I would have to say that I find God in serving His children. 'When I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a stanger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, sick and you cared for me, imprisoned and you came to me.'" The words lingered in the air as the fire popped and hissed softly. Sondoz had stopped pacing and stood motionless in a far corner of the room, h.. | fire god love quiet | Mary Doria Russell | |
| 336130c | Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day. | Nicholas Sparks | ||
| 087ef10 | It was Wang Lung's marriage day. | opening-lines | Pearl S. Buck | |
| 58af2d9 | Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping. Of all those women who followed Wang Lung in his coffin, his w.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| ff109bc | I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 07723ea | And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| e8814ed | This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| cd0ad2d | You cannot arrive at your life's purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with God, your Creator. You exist only because God wills that you exist. You were made by God and for God - and until you understand that, life will never make sense. It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. | god identity purpose purpose-driven-life rick-warren | Rick Warren |