The Proposal Quotes

“walked in slowly, trying to maintain her balance and keep to a straight line but Nadine knew the telltale signs. She watched her sister with trepidation.”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“She”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“Why’re you stuck in here, sis?”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“background she could hear everyone at Russell’s house party screaming and hooting for joy. She blinked in confusion. Had she heard him right? Maybe the Robitussen was”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“enamored”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“Noah's visits for his morning shot of caffeine begin to hold more allure when he notices Melissa and the sadness that seems to surround her.”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“More of a wallflower and not one to seek attention, she soon finds her relationship with Matt heading into murky waters. What once seemed wonderful, turns out to have darker undertones. Noah's visits”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“Divorced. Embittered. Eager for escape.”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“table lamp in the far end of the room had been switched on. Her normally cream-colored warm sanctuary of rest had been transformed into a seedy, dimly lit den of vice. The girls were spread out”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“over with scorching disdain for people, processes and systems. Yet on the other hand, when he had”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“other hand. If there was one good outcome from this whole shoddy episode, it was that Sandra Donnelly had accepted his offer of taking time off with immediate effect. The woman was”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“tomorrow. He felt reassured. She was someone whom he could rely on all the time, without”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“secrets between us.” He rested his hands on the table behind him, and her gaze flickered across his broad and powerful shoulders. She longed to rest her head against his chest and to let him hold her tight, as she knew he would. But they needed to talk,”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“of the damaged side, you could say.” Nadine’s eyes remained fixed on the model as she tried to come to terms with the idea that”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“meets and falls for the tall, dark and handsome Nico Cazale. To make”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“father that he is capable of running the family business, Nico also faces difficult challenges himself. Just when”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“sculpture”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“It felt like coming home, to be with him again.”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“watched her face, looking deep into her eyes, “and secondly we don’t have any protection.” Her body was on fire and here he was, the voice of reason. She”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“Ethan!” she wailed, her desperation for him driving her insane with desire as she tugged at his t-shirt, trying to lift it up and over his chest. But he was too broad and the t-shirt was too tight to come off easily.”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“racing with thoughts of anything and everything that could have gone wrong. Dear”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“Not having a date to take with her, and wanting to present the image of a settled and happy woman in a relationship, Nadine”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“head throbbed with shooting pain and she wanted to close her eyes and drift off to sleep, but she couldn’t. Damn this flu. Connor would”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“enough she would choose one fabric and this would signal the start of the wedding favors sub-project. For now she was too congested to think straight. Wearily she grabbed the television control. When Harry Met Sally was on and she flicked back and forth between live coverage”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“Connor would be here soon, she thought, with some consolation. Wincing in pain, she blew her nose yet again and sank back onto the couch, dragging the chenille blanket up to her neck.”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“and the coolest girls in school picked on her for looking like a freak. Then as now, she felt her body shaking all over, except that it didn’t really feel as though she was inside it. The next moment she collapsed backwards onto the couch and let out a gut wrenching scream, flinging her arms out and sending the swatches of organza and silk fabric hovering”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“pushed him too much? After all, he was a corporate lawyer and he had great demands. Had she driven him to this? Ava”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“seemed so clear now that she looked back, with the great gift of hindsight. Because even though they had been together for nearly three years, if Ava really analyzed”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“and deep in her very core her soul had known that somehow, maybe, something wasn’t quite right. She had seen Connor become something that he had never been in all the time she had known him: distant. And the distance had increased the closer the wedding date loomed. Now”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal

“She lay on the couch, sniffling into her Kleenex, her mind a whirlwind of despair, she kept thinking back to the past few months. They hadn’t been all warm and happy. They’d had constant rows, many to do with the wedding”
― Lily Zante, The Proposal