Jaclyn Roche > Jaclyn's Quotes

“The dying: he sensed them all around him. Through the stink of mud and smoke rolled the smell of blood, heavy and sweetly enticing. His thirst rose, independent of his horror. Thirst and revulsion. The powerful tang of death and blood congealed in the back of his throat.”
― Freda Warrington, A Taste Of Blood Wine

“Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy

“People don’t cry because they’re weak. They cry because they’ve been strong for too long.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“The trouble with waking up in the morning is that you look like who you are. That’s great if you like who you are – not so great if you don’t.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Hope is the future lined in gold, my mother used to say, but I didn’t agree. Hope wasn’t the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Parents can be narrow-minded when it comes to the dreams they have for their kids.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Silence had pounded a nail in the coffin of my marriage. But communication was key.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Men weren’t always a solution. There were times when they made things worse.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“What if the past won’t stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“There are always hurdles in life. Getting over them is how we move forward.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“When you lose the most precious thing in your life, how do you go on? How do you not?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“If you no longer have a child, are you still a mother?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Confrontation was a great idea – unless the odds were so stacked against you that it was pointless.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Just when you thought you’d reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Sarcasm is the language of the devil.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Searching for self implied either not liking who you are or wanting to escape who you’ve been.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Which is more abiding – a mother’s love or a child’s need for it?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I’m tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“It was too early in the day for this kind of discussion – but really, was it ever too early to discuss matters of the heart? What if the moment passed and never returned?”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“People don’t get what they deserve; they get what they work for.”
― Barbara Delinsky, Before and Again

“The hair beneath was baby blond, the face under the grime so young; too young... yet old enough to die in war.”
― Freda Warrington, A Taste Of Blood Wine

“The skin of the boy’s neck tasted foul, bitter with ingrained filth. The hot pulse of blood laced the foulness, drawing the vampire on until the skin broke and fluid burst onto his tongue. Crystal sweetness. A ruby light that out-dazzled the battle flares, the two-edged ecstasy of feeding: a compulsion so strong that it almost sickened. Wrong to take pleasure in this death, impossible not to... The vampire closed his eyes in bliss as he drank, but the bitter taste remained.”
― Freda Warrington, A Taste Of Blood Wine

“The air crystallised in the image of a stained glass angel, stark black and white. Stepping from a hidden dimension, this apparition became flesh and blood: an immense, forbidding man with dark hair and waxen skin. The face, too angular to be handsome, radiated the solid conviction of a born leader. There was a mole on his left cheek, a black singularity against the whiteness.”
― Freda Warrington, A Taste Of Blood Wine

“Karl stood up slowly. He was caked with filth, but the dirt was nothing to him. He felt divorced from the squalor. He and Kristian were spectres glimpsed only by the dying.”
― Freda Warrington, A Taste Of Blood Wine

“That's the trouble with gathering truth. It's never neat and tidy...”
― Emma Jane Holloway, A Study in Silks