The Thing About Men Quotes

“had been a long time since he’d touched a woman like that It was that he’d never touched a woman like Claire at all. Not one who was all cool culture and calm comportment and classy custom.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“His faded jeans hugged his taut hindquarters and strong thighs with much affection, and his denim work shirt strained against the muscles of his broad back.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“It took only one, very quick, perusal of Ramsey Sage for Claire to know everything she needed to know about him. He was completely unfit to be anyone’s mother. Or father. Or guardian.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don’t just disappear. Not unless they’ve been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn’t there some kind of crop circle left behind or something?”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she’d experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah… that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“But a little perspiration never hurt anyone. Especially that sort of perspiration. And that sort of perspiration was definitely one of life’s simple pleasures. Well, maybe that sort of perspiration wasn’t so simple, she conceded.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“she’d never experienced for Chandler the kind of feeling a woman should have for a man she thought about marrying, that breathless kind of wanting, that aching sort of yearning, that endless, ferocious passion, that insistent, frenzied, needy demand, that hot, sweaty, wanton arousal that made a woman just want to rip off her clothes and wrap her naked body around a man and feed herself to him whole, that... that…”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“Really, she was going to have to learn to better organize her time. Maybe she should hire a lifestyle consultant…”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn’t exercise it very often.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“So even though, to the outside world, Claire Willoughby was Simple Pleasures, Inc., Claire knew she was actually little more than window dressing for the business. Truth be told, she was so organizationally challenged, she couldn’t arrange her own underwear drawer, let alone tell people how to arrange their lives.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“She stubbed out the butt on her clipboard, one marked by a variety of small black burn spots, and flicked it away heedlessly—beaning her production assistant in the side of the head in the process.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“eloped. Claire and Ramsey just did it in Acapulco, that was all. Anabel was the flower girl. Except that she ate all the flowers just before the ceremony. Then she broke the basket that was supposed to hold them. Then she knocked over the floral arrangements in the back of the church.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“And except for Francesca taking up with a rooster up the street—who knew chickens were such popular pets?—and leaving little chicks all over the backyard for a change. Last Claire heard—which was this morning—little Luigi and Sergio were learning to crow just like their papa. And doing much too fine a job of it, as Claire had been awake since daybreak.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“Even though he’d told himself all these things for years—over and over again, in fact, ad nauseum, in fact, world without end, amen, amen, in fact—hadn’t he proved just the opposite to himself over the past month and a half?”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“She’d read enough issues of Parents and Parenting magazines in recent weeks to understand that no matter when or how one became a parent, one had no idea what one was getting oneself into until it was too late. She’d learned, too, that no matter how chaotic and challenging the child, parents grew to love them unconditionally.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“Since then, he’d seen so many things that defeated and demoralized him. Nobody could change the world singlehandedly. Hell, nobody could change the state child welfare system. Not unless they were able to complete an overhaul of human nature. Not unless they were able to wipe out the blackness that lurked in every person’s soul.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“Diplomacy, after all, had kept the world a reasonably peaceful place, in spite of its being ruled by men.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“He’d never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don’t just disappear. Not unless they’ve been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn’t there some kind of crop circle left behind or something? Does this Ramsey Sage not have a crop circle? Because if he doesn’t, then he’s probably not been abducted by aliens, in which case, we’d have a good chance of finding him, I’d think.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“That had been last Thanksgiving. And it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she’d experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah…that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“And, really, she did like Chandler, too. She did. What woman wouldn’t? He was handsome and successful, a member of one of Nashville’s oldest and most prominent families. But she’d never felt anything more than a friendly sort of affection for him, and even that usually only came about after she’d consumed a good, dry Manhattan. Preferably during a two- for- one happy hour. At any rate, she’d never experienced for Chandler the kind of feeling a woman should have for a man she thought about marrying, that breathless kind of wanting, that aching sort of yearning, that endless, ferocious passion, that insistent, frenzied, needy demand, that hot, sweaty, wanton arousal that made a woman just want to rip off her clothes and wrap her naked body around a man and feed herself to him whole, that...that… Ah, where was she? Oh, yes. At any rate, she’d never experienced that sort of, um, feeling for Chandler that a woman should have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly , The Thing About Men