Lori Wilde > Lori's Quotes

“Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion.
Of forgiveness.
Of coming home.”
― Lori Wilde, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long...

He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.”
― Lori Wilde

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”
― Lori Wilde, High Stakes Seduction

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“There are three ways to argue with a woman. None of them work. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“What scale do you rate them on?” “I don’t rate my lovers at all. Do you?” “You mean other than small, medium, and large?” she quipped.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Hurry and ketchup, tomato.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Hurry and ketchup, tomato. I’ve missed this something fierce.” Me too. “It’s impossible to keep up with you.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Comfort and a vast understanding that love couldn’t be killed. They would always love the people they’d lost, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t love each other as well. Love.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“found him in our bed with Mallory, wearing my favorite cowboy hat.” “Wait a minute, who was wearing your favorite cowboy hat, Mallory or the dude.” “The dude, but he was wearing it on his Johnson.” “Eww. Low class.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future.”
― Lori Wilde, A Cowboy for Christmas

“Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin’ like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“when he was a little kid he’d had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Too stale for the day-old bakery, so serve them to the wedding guests. Gotcha. My Big Fat Redneck Wedding.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“You can remember which one is which by thinking that stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, while stalagmites might rise up from the floor. Over time, the stalagmites and stalactites will meet and form a column, just like they did with old Cupid here.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Bloom where you’re planted and if you can’t do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“the same and you know it.” “Isn’t it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That’s life.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“ZOEY WAS SO absorbed in her digging and the artifacts she was unearthing that she didn’t hear or see a thing until a pair of cowboy boots planted themselves in front of her. Uh-oh. Busted. Pulse thumping, she slowly raised her head, taking in the tips of those dusty boots to the frayed hem of faded Wranglers to the longhorn belt buckle that crowned his zipper—she stopped there a minute to admire the package—then moved on up to sinewy arms folded tightly over a chest so honed she could see the definition of muscles through his white cotton shirt.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That’s life. That’s all it is. Loving, getting hurt, but daring to love again, even though you know you’re probably going to get hurt again. That’s the triumph of the human spirit. The infinite capacity to love.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“none of us are getting out this world unscathed.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“bonkathon.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar