Sarah > Sarah's Quotes

“Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.”
― Tessa Dare, Any Duchess Will Do

“It was awful, this love.”
― Eloisa James, My American Duchess

“We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.” —Luciano de Crescenzo”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Blackberry Summer

“Love's a gift, and can certainly be refused. Refusing doesn't destroy the gift, it simply puts it aside. You're free to do that. I'm not expecting a gift in return. Take what's offered, especially when it's offered so generously and without expectations.”
― Nora Roberts

“What if I told you I know the risks, and I'm willing to take my chances?"
"It wouldn't change a thing. Those walls, as you call them. . . They're apart of me now, and they are iron strong." He lifted a hand to her face, skimming his thumb over her lower lip. "Even if I wished to, I wouldn't know how to dismantle them."
"I know," she said quietly. "I know." She wreathed her arms around his neck. "That's why you need me. I'm going to burn them to the ground.”
― Tessa Dare, Do You Want to Start a Scandal

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.”
― Elizabeth Boyle, Along Came a Duke

“My type has a romantic soul. He’ll make my brain and my heart fight over who gets him first. He does what’s right, even when it’s not easy—actually, especially when it’s not easy. He knows the value of discipline, education, honor, and restraint. And his strength of character is the only thing that outweighs the strength of his love for me.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache

“My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities."
"Perhaps she will teach him-?"
"Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe? Mother, Elin deserves better. Every woman deserves better.”
― Cathy Maxwell, The Match of the Century

“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Well, then either you wait for a week, or you chase him down. We’re past the days of having to get dolled up for men.” Gran rolls her sleeves up and flexes her shiny new nails. “Get dolled up for yourself and go after what you want.”
― Lily Kate, Birthday Girl

“With you there are only two distances that matter:  Here. Not here. You are not here.”
― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache