Robin Reynolds > Robin's Quotes

“And when men are silent, the triumph of evil follows.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Chancellor Manuscript

“Too bad he wasn't as nice as his truck.”
― Diann Hunt, Hometown Courtship

“She wanted to sit ON him, not next to him.”
― Natalie Anderson, Ruthless Boss, Royal Mistress

“It would take a lifetime to know everything about her, and he just happened to have one handy and available.”
― Donna Kauffman, The Black Sheep and the English Rose

“You're something special, Darius, and I'm just...me. Hurt and hard and not ready for anything but a little peace."

"I'm not asking anything of you."

"That's the problem. If you were, it would be easy to deny you, but you never ask anything. You're just...there, and I need you to be, and that scares me.”
― Shirlee McCoy, Navy SEAL Rescuer

“She wondered what she'd call him if they ended up in the same bed. Mitch was a shorter name, and at moments like that, you didn't want to waste your breath on extra syllables.”
― Vicki Lewis Thompson, Nerd Gone Wild

“You can say no," he rasped, his breath warming her lips. "But you ought to know I've been thinking about this all day."

Crystal savored the heat that slammed through her body as she placed her palms on his chest. Rising on tiptoe, she said softly, "Just do it, Tanner.”
― Roz Denny Fox, Family Fortune: The Lyon Legacy

“She'd said she loved him, for Pete's sake. He couldn't sleep with a woman who loved him! That was just courting disaster.”
― Robin Wells, The Babe Magnet

“As long as Flynn kept his tie on, he wouldn't turn into Tony. Besides, most sexual encounters began when a guy loosened his tie. A loose tie led to everything becoming loose. Flynn wanted to stay tight.”
― Vicki Lewis Thompson, Gone With the Nerd

“Sierra laughed and looked so happy that it touched his heart. It didn't dawn on him until now that she always looked a little sad. And perhaps lost. Well, if she were lost, he had just found her, and he wasn't about to let her go.”
― Luann McLane, He's No Prince Charming

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Shhh. Stop trying to carry the whole world on your shoulders. Let someone hold you. Let me.”
― Donna Kauffman, Bounty Hunter

“I tried to tell my clients that flowers were intended to be random, dropped into place by birds and the wind. Flowers should be occasional, visual surprises, like a found conch shell on the beach.”
― Ad Hudler, Househusband

“You are riding for a fall, Your Grace,"
"I'll be riding you before Christmas.”
― Stephanie Laurens, Devil's Bride

“It was not the first time she'd been kissed, yet it was.”
― Stephanie Laurens, Devil's Bride

“What kind of a kiss was that anyway? It was the kind that sucked your soul out of your body.

Hey, she wanted to call out to the man who'd just left. You forgot to give my soul back.”
― Amanda Carpenter, Perfect Chance

“He slugged back the last of his coffee and stood. "Nobody gets me, sweetheart. And if I want anything you've got, you'll know the minute I come after it.”
― Peg Sutherland, The Lyon Legacy

“Some people catch all the breaks, and the rest of us eat too many tamales.”
― Rebecca Adler, Here Today, Gone Tamale

“You saw the star first," she whispered. "You make the wish."

"I wish for your wish. For whatever your heart desires.”
― Jillian Hart, The Sweetest Gift

“He dominated her, but she tamed him”
― Rexanne Becnel, The Mistress of Rosecliffe

“I'm not alone, Shelby,” she said patiently. I'm on my own – there's a difference...”
― Robyn Carr, Temptation Ridge

“Mick turned to face Kat. "I think when you love someone, you love them in spite of their flaws, but at the same time, it's their flaws that make you love them even more. It makes them real. Makes them yours.”
― Melonie Johnson, Too Wrong to Be Right

“You couldn't have ironed her voice any flatter.”
― Steve Hamilton, Night Work

“Jake Hunter scowling was enough to make a woman drool. Jake Hunter smiling made her want to climb right up all six feet four inches of him and settle in for a long visit.”
― Maureen Child, The Cowboy's Pride and Joy

“Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.”
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell

“He knew she had cried; her eyelids were swollen. She had cried, and he hadn’t been there to hold her.

He would be, he thought fiercely. From now on, he would be.”
― Linda Howard, Kill and Tell

“She’d erected so many emotional barriers during her marriage to Bobby; they’d closed around her like a steel cage. But Cole was like a superman. He’d grabbed those bars in tight fists and stretched them open. Married or not, he was setting her free again.”
― Jule McBride, Cole In My Stocking

“People who look like me don't get to write stories," she said.

They were on the front steps, and Saif paused before he pulled the large wooden doors open. His look was inscrutable. "And as long as we believe that, we never will," he said.”
― Uzma Jalaluddin, Three Holidays and a Wedding