Lara > Lara's Quotes

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

“Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”
― Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed

“People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

“Sunshine is one note. Rain is a symphony.”
― Georgia Dunn

“Boxes are never empty because they're always filled with adventure.”
― Georgia Dunn, Breaking Cat News: Cats Reporting on the News that Matters to Cats

“What's that?"
"That's my attack poodle.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds

“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?"
"Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, CryoBurn

“Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies.”
― Penny Reid, Attraction

“...don’t let life be something that happens while you’re looking in the other direction.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Playing in the Rain

“I was old enough to know that magic didn’t exist, and young enough to hope that I was wrong. I was sure that if magic belonged anywhere in the world, it was living and breathing right across the road in Mr. Peterson’s field.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Man

“He could breathe fire, he could eat flames, but the word ‘love’ burned on his lips.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Man

“It’s hard to explain what those two weeks every summer meant to me. I lived for them, I breathed for them, and the rest of my life seemed to be spent waiting.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Man

“I make mistakes and I move on. That’s what I do, that’s what I’ve always done. I leave, and other people leave. You’re the first person in my whole life who stayed. And then you were taken away. But now you’re here again … and you’re trying to leave me. That fucking hurts, too.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Man

“Kes grinned, his eyes sliding to mine. “Jealous?”
I huffed a little, but then admitted the truth. “Yes, I’m jealous.”
His gaze softened. “You don’t need to be,” he said softly. “Sorcha’s just a friend.”
“That’s what you call me,” I said, stupid tears making my eyes prickle.
Kes shook his head slowly. “No, you’re my girl.”
…
He reached out and brushed his thumb along my bottom lip.
“You’re my girl, Aimee. No one else.”
Then he leaned forward and pressed his lips against mine.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Man

“I’ve dreamed of this so many times, I can’t believe it’s real—that you’re real. You were always there, just out of reach, and I’d wake up and find my bed empty. But now you’re here.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Man

“But my beautiful boy was broken. I eased my hand free from his and leaned down to brush a kiss across his lips, sealing a promise that I’d made to him. “I love you so much. So much. You brought magic into my world the first day I saw you, and every day since—even when we were apart and I didn’t want to remember. I won’t let them take the magic away, Kes. I won’t.” I kissed him again, feeling the soft prickle of stubbled cheeks. “I’ll be back tomorrow, because you’ll never be rid of me. Not ever.” And if I listened very carefully, I could hear his heart beating out a message, Love you more.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“When he performs, he is all of us, the person we wish we could be. He is the hero in all of us.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“What am I going to do with you?” I smiled as he kissed along my neck.
“Marry me,” he said. “You could marry me.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“Maybe magic happens when you let it.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“One track mind,” I muttered.
He shook his head. “I’m eating, taking and thinking about fucking – that’s called multitasking.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“You’ve always been my girl, Aimee. The only one who ever mattered. You know that, right?”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“There were so many things Sebastian and I had to work out: we'd both been single for so long that blending our lives together wasn't going to be easy.

I'd promised Sebastian we'd find a way. He deserved to be loved for everything he was. And for whatever crazy reason he had, he loved me, too.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Education of Caroline

“I felt like my lungs weren’t big enough to breathe her in, and my heart couldn’t beat fast enough to love her the way I wanted to.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Dazzled

“There’s nothing to forgive … We fell in love: it’s not a crime.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Education of Sebastian

“Saying that he’s cute is like saying that it’s dark at night.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Lifers

“I’m just allergic to cheating trollops – it makes me break out in sarcasm.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Dazzled

“I’m so fucking happy you’re here,” he said, resting his forehead against mine.
“I’m not just here,” I whispered. “I’m home.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, The Traveling Woman

“I’d do whatever it took to hold onto her. Even if that meant letting her go.”
― Jane Harvey-Berrick, Battle Scars