Tamlyn > Tamlyn's Quotes

“Happiness. That’s what books smell like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a bookshop. What better life than to trade in happiness?”
― Sarah MacLean, The Rogue Not Taken

“How dare you touch my cookies, you bastard!” Jason said in utter disgust before popping the cookie into his mouth and heading back to his house.
“Damn those looked good, too,” Brad grumbled.
Haley sighed. “Don’t worry I have a second plate on my counter.” The words were barely out of her mouth when Jason abruptly changed course and headed towards her house.
“Well, there was,” she said, watching Jason walk into her house like he owned it. A minute later he walked out of her house, carrying both plates and the gallon of milk she had in her fridge. He headed back to his house, but not before he glared at Brad. “You cookie thieving bastard,” they heard him mutter.
Brad rolled his eyes, chuckling. “And people wonder how I lost weight rooming with him in college.”
― R.L. Mathewson, Playing for Keeps

“I'm always brilliant after the fact.”
― Shelly Fredman, No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

“Chain of command, Synthia. I say it. You do it. End of chain, am I clear?”
― Amelia Hutchins, Escaping Destiny

“Something not from earth,” Jean Luc said. The setup was too perfect. Misha looked at me, and I sighed, dreading what he would be unable to stop himself from saying next. “Live long and prosper.”
― A.E. Jones

“I don’t need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?” “Hardly,” Talia scoffed. “This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff.”
― A.E. Jones, Sentinel Lost

“Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward to a change of pace. He has no family himself, so he has never experienced anything like a Bridgerton family dinner.” “God help us.” Violet’s face went utterly pale.”
― Julia Quinn, The Duke and I

“I ran into Nicholas in the parking garage.” “With your car?” Misha asked.”
― A.E. Jones

“Just out of curiosity,” she says, “after you wake up in the morning, do you admire yourself in the mirror for one hour or two?”

“Two,” I reply cheerfully.

“Do you high five yourself?”

“Of course not.” I smirk. “I kiss each of my biceps and then point to the ceiling and thank the big man upstairs for creating such a perfect male specimen.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Gideon: We've established some talking points: we have an intense sexual attraction and neither of us wants to date. So what do you want – exactly? Seduction, Eva? Do you want to be seduced?

Eva: Sex that’s planned like a business transaction is a turnoff for me.

Gideon: Establishing parameters in a merger makes it less likely that there’ll be exaggerated expectations and disappointment.

Eva: Why even call it a fuck? Why not be clear and call it seminal emission in a pre-approved orifice?”
― Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages lives my only true freedom.”
― Sherry D. Ficklin, Queen of Someday

“When lovely woman stoops to folly And finds too late that men betray What charm can soothe her melancholy What art can wash her guilt away?”
― Julia London, Wicked Angel

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” ~Winston Churchill After”
― J. C. McKenzie, Shift Work

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.” This”
― Soraya Naomi, For Fallon

“Just because you smile and act free doesn’t mean the cage doesn’t exist. It merely means you lowered your standards for how far you’ll allow yourself to fly.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“Loneliness is a liar,” Graham told me, sitting down on the edge of his bed as he spoke. “It’s toxic and deadly most of the time. It forces people to believe they are better off with the devil himself than being alone, because somehow being alone means a person failed. Somehow being alone means a person isn’t good enough. So, more often than not, the poison of loneliness seeps in and makes a person believe that any kind of attention must stand for love. Fake love that is built on a bed of loneliness will fail—I should know. I’ve been alone all my life.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“But, you are my heart, Mari, and I know I’m yours. So, when they hurt you, find me. Find me and I’ll put your heart back together, and then maybe you can help me fix the cracks in my own.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“I thought I’d been in love before. I thought I knew what love was. I thought I understood its curves, its angles, its shape. But then, I kissed you.” “And?” I swallowed hard. “And I realized you were the first and only thing that ever made my heartbeats come to life.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“Maktub,” I whispered, holding her close. The word was tattooed on both of our wrists, meaning ‘it is written.’ Everything in life happened for a reason, happened exactly how it was meant to, no matter how painful it seemed. Some love stories were meant to be forever, and others just for a season. What Mari had forgotten was that the love story between a mother and daughter was always there, even when the seasons changed.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“If you needed the pat for a good deed, you weren’t doing it for the right reason.”
― Erin R. Flynn, Upended Life

“I like three fingers of Irish and it ain’t whiskey.”
― Erin R. Flynn, Thwarting Cheaters