Robin Kaye > Quotes

“Trust and respect are more important than love in a relationship because no love will last without equal amounts of respect and trust.”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“Women have bitchfests when their men do something stupid. They get together to dicuss us, compare notes and sympathize. She has to have enough chocolate to share”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Don't look at me in that tone of face.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Sometimes you just have to put everything you got out
there and screw the consequences. Sometimes you have to jump and trust someone else to catch you. Sometimes you have to put your dignity
aside and beg”
― Robin Kaye, Back to You

“Who in their right mind wonders how a cat takes his coffee?”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“He'd moved in. They were living together. When had that happened?”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“His eyes locked on hers, all signs of humor vanished. He stared as if he could read her mind. She wondered if he could. It would help if he'd clue her into what he saw, because right now, all she knew was what she felt. There was the ever-present lust, a fierce protectiveness of him, fear for herself, and the terrifying feeling that she'd complletely lost control of her life. She couldn't choreograph this dance. He led, and she seemed to have no choice but to follow.”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“I'm told he takes after our father - a sweet-talker he is not. His mouth sees more feet than a treadmill at a crowded gym.”
― Robin Kaye, Wild Thing

“on marriage..."You gotta love her even when you don't feel like it. Love is a decision, not a feelin', because believe me, you won't be feelin' the love a whole lot of time.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“Everything was neat, clean, and normal except for the three-legged cat sitting on the coffee table drinking out of a big ass coffee cup.”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“(Becca) "Okay you win." Her voice was rough with sleepiness. "I can't keep up with you."

"It's not a competition, baby. Just relax, and let me love you.”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“God excused cursing if done in a second language. He gave bonus points for cursing in a third.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Go. Take care of your girlfriend. Come by for dinner sometime, and we’ll talk.” She waited for Mike as he kissed his mother good-bye and then made the rounds with her family. Papa shook Mike’s hand hard enough to make him wince. Annabelle cringed as he shook Mama’s hand. She leaned over and whispered something to Aunt Rose, who, much to Annabelle’s mortification, took Mike’s face in her hands, kissed him on both cheeks. “You’re a good boy. Everything with your job and with Annabelle will work out in time. Have faith… and make sure you got a lot of antacids.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“her parents’ cold silence covered everyone around them like a cloud of dry ice fog in a bad production of Macbeth.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“walking on crutches means I’m effectively walking on my hands!”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“All she wanted to do was hit the sale at Macy’s. As it was, she’d have to head uptown during rush hour, which was not fun. The subways started to resemble sardine cans by four-thirty, and cabs were scarcer than straight men on Fire Island.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Rich and Becca looked up to see a firefighter had walked in. “This looks like the culprit.” He held up a wire. “It went through one of the holes in the dryer and apparently hit the heating element and threw enough sparks to ignite the contents.” Becca turned to Rich. “Why would you wash a wire?” The firefighter chuckled. “It’s an underwire, ma’am. You really should use a lingerie bag if you’re going to machine wash and dry your unmentionables. Becca’s eyes widened. “My unmentionables?”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“Rosalie opened the trunk, expecting to see her spare tire. It was supposed to be right there, but all she saw was a big hole.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“You don’t have your car?” “Why would I drive? Everything is within a five-block radius.” “Gee, I don’t know. Maybe because I fell off a ladder, tore all the tendons in my ankle, and walking on crutches means I’m effectively walking on my hands!” She held her hands out and showed him Band-Aid–covered blisters. “Want a piggyback ride?” “No. I want a cab ride.” “Aw, come on, buck up. It’s just a block and a half.” “Sure. Okay. No problem.” She took her crutch and aimed for Richie’s foot, crushing a toe under the rubber-tipped crutch and scarring the Italian brown leather. It felt good to know that she wouldn’t be the only one bucking up because she was in pain.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“She pulled over to find her tire was as flat as matzo,”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“With the divorce rate at 53 percent, if you added the number of unhappy marriages that wouldn’t end in divorce because of religious beliefs or sheer stubbornness, which she estimated was running at about 46 percent, only 1 percent of all marriages could be considered happy.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Ma and Aunt Rose are in the kitchen. Johnny and Papa are watching TV.” “Hockey?” She hung her coat on the hall tree. “No, synchronized swimming. Of course, hockey. They’re watching the pregame stuff; you know, the male version of Oprah.” They walked through the empty living room and into the dining room. Rosalie gave herself a mental head slap. She should have asked Nick to tape the game for her. “Yeah, I like the part where Dr. Phil discusses their feelings about the fight in last night’s game. Stay tuned for a very special Sports Talk—The Cause of Unnecessary Roughness.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“She shot Aunt Rose a look that would scare most people. It always worked on Ben. Aunt Rose only laughed. “Don’t look at me with that tone of face. You come talk to your aunt Rose. I’ll tell you a thing or two. Not that you’ll listen.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“Wiping grime from his hands, Nick contemplated one of the world’s great mysteries: why man had ever combined computers and the internal combustion engine.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Pushing the door open with the end of the bat, she watched the steam roll toward her and bring with it the scent of yummy-man. A man who smelled like that at any other time would have her following him just to get a whiff. His scent was clean, with citrus and spice overtones that made her mouth water. The body that stepped out of the shower bare-ass-naked stole the breath from her lungs, the attack plan from her memory, and made her thankful she was a woman who could appreciate the human form because she’d never seen one finer.”
― Robin Kaye, Breakfast in Bed

“The man could grace the covers of magazines and romance novels, but if she needed eye candy, she’d buy herself a beefcake calendar. She knew they made one with guys from the NYFD. Maybe they made one with mechanics. She had no problem imagining Nick with the zipper of his coveralls pulled low, showing his muscled chest, washboard abs, and treasure trail leading down to. . .well, let’s just say she wouldn’t mind checking out his undercarriage.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“I thought I was on the Insanity Express rounding the bend to Psychosis City.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“Mother’s Day was conceived to establish a holiday when buying cards and presents were necessary, thus giving the mother yet another thing to hold over the child’s head. As if the 102 hours of labor wasn’t enough.”
― Robin Kaye, Too Hot to Handle

“I couldn’t remember if Michigan was famous for steak or if that was Kansas. Geography was never my strong suit.” “Don’t ask me. If it isn’t in one of the six boroughs, I don’t know much about it. Sure, I’d like to go to Hawaii, the Bahamas, maybe Guadalupe, but aside from that, the only place I want to be is New York.” “Gina, there are only five boroughs—” “You forgot Florida. You’ve heard of the South Bronx; Florida is the South Manhattan. Don’t you know anything?” Rosalie cut into the perfect steak—so rare, you could save it with sutures—and took a bite, nearly groaning in ecstasy. She’d never known how good it could feel to be able to taste food again. A trickle of blood dripped onto her chin, and she laughed.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo

“Don’t look at me in that tone of face.”
― Robin Kaye, Romeo, Romeo