Carrie Thorne > Carrie's Quotes

“What was that technique you were using on those bastards?"
"An ancient form called kicking ass.”
― Nora Roberts, Chasing Fire

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”
― Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea

“A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.”
― Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have made her own sufferings seem but light and easy to bear--a strong man, overwhelmed with his own passion and despair. Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love and as soon as her light footstep had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade, where her tiny hand had rested last.”
― Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“People in hell want snowcones.”
― Nora Roberts

“Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.”
― Susan Mallery, Only Mine

“I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt”
― Susan Mallery, Under Her Skin

“It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.”
― Susan Mallery, Barefoot Season

“Don't be logical. You know I hate that.”
― Susan Mallery, Already Home

“One whiff of him and her libido went first-grader on her: hand raised, butt dancing in the chair as her hormones screamed, "Pick me! Pick me!”
― Coreene Callahan, Fury of Fire

“They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde