Sea Swept Quotes

“Please let me go."
"Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy."
Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. "You're uglier."
"I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on."
"I didn't really want you to go," Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart.
"I know.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Cut it out!" Phillip exploded. "Cut it out right now or I swear I'm going to pull over and knock your heads together. Oh, my God." He took one hand off the wheel to drag it down his face. "I sound like Mom. Forget it. Just forget it. Kill each other. I'll dump the bodies in the mall parking lot and drive to Mexico. I'll learn how to weave mats and sell them on the beach at Cozumel. I'll be quiet, it'll be peaceful. I'll change my name to Raoul, and no one will know I was ever related to a bunch of fools."
Seth scratched his belly and turned to Cam. "Does he always talk like that?"
"Yeah, mostly. Sometimes he's going to be Pierre and live in a garret in Paris, but it's the same thing."
"Weird," was Seth's only comment. (...) Getting new shows was turning into a new adventure.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“You did that on purpose."
"Did what on purpose?"
"Wore the don't-touch suit and the sex goddess perfume at the same time just to drive me crazy."
"Listen to the suit, Quinn. Dream about the perfume.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength."
When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. "You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman."
"She was," Anna murmured, near tears again.
"So are you.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Sometimes it’s all you can do,” he murmured. “Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out.”

“Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“You don’t want to get in the habit of overusing the word “fuck” as an adjective. You’ll miss the vast variety of its uses.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives.
And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“The kid's driving me bat-shit," Cam complained as he stalked into the kitchen. "You can't say boo to him without him squaring up for a fight."
"Mm-hmm."
"Argumentative, smart-mouthed, troublemaker."
"Must be like looking in a mirror."
"Like hell."
"Don't know what I was thinking of. You're such a peaceable soul.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“She stared at him. "You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically?"
"Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and again, you should try to stop to appreciate the little things. They'll build up if you do.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Don’t mix up who I am and what I am,” she told him quietly. “You have to be honest with me, or the rest of it means nothing.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“I'm wanting the hell out of you. Day and night."
Her voice was throaty now, dark with need. "I guess that makes it handy, since I want the hell out of you too."
"It doesn't scare you?"
"Nothing about you and me scares me."
"And what if I said I want you to let me do anything I want to you? Everything?"
Her heart fluttered to her throat, but her eyes stayed steady. "I'd say who's stopping you?”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“I've got something for you inside me, Anna." He forgot his hands were grimy and laid them on her shoulders. "I haven't used it up yet. This thing with you, it's one of the first times I haven't wanted to rush to the finish line.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“She hoped the Quinns would allow her a few moments alone with Seth, so she could judge for herself, without influence, how he was feeling.
She hoped she could steal a few moments alone with Cam, so she could judge for herself how she was feeling.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Sometimes, she thought, you had to go with your instincts, with your cravings. At that moment hers, all of hers, centered on him.”
― nora roberts, Sea Swept

“How do you feel about me?"
"Tired of you!" she shouted. "Tired of me, tired of us. Sick and tired of telling myself fun and games
could be enough. Well, it's not. Not nearly, and I want you out"
He felt the temper and panic that had gripped him ease back into delight. "You're in love with me, aren't
you?"
He'd never seen a woman go from simmer to boil so fast. And seeing it, he wondered why it had taken
him so long to realize he adored her. She whirled, grabbed a lamp, and hurled it.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“He felt as if he’d tumbled off a cliff and fallen hard on his heart. Now his heart was swollen, exposed. And it was hers.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“It’s not a matter of jealousy. It’s a matter of courtesy.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“We’ll be okay. Luck’s starting to move in our direction.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Look, pal, he who goes to the store buys what he damn well pleases. That’s a new rule around here.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“When a woman had eyes that big, that brown, that beautiful, she probably got whatever she wanted without saying a word.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“His eyes were anything but friendly, the color of bitter storms.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Life's a gift. It doesn't always fit comfortably, but it's precious. I wouldn't have hurt you and your brothers by throwing mine away.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept

“Cam gave him a halfhearted boot on the top of his head with the heel of one hand. "Why don't you shut
up until I say what I have to say?"
The painless smack and impatient order were more comforting to Seth than a thousand promises.”
― Nora Roberts, Sea Swept