Sapphire Beautiful Quotes

“Paul McNally is a prick,” he says. “You’ve met?” I raise an eyebrow. “Unfortunately. Usually the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but in Dante’s case it’s like somehow a rotten apple tree produced a wonderful orange.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“Ally seems like a spoiled brat who I seriously doubt has any idea what it truly means to have money trickle in.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“I’m a medieval scholar and his name is Dante. If I believed in a higher power I’d wonder if this was some kind of cosmic joke.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“I immediately get the impression that he was one of those kids who never quite fit in in high school. No matter how hard he tried he just wasn’t quite like everyone else. Not that I have too much room to talk. I wasn’t exactly Miss Popularity myself.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“I—um—have a congenital uterine anomaly. I also have hormonal issues. My physician told me the risk of serious side effects from the use of oral contraceptives was higher than my chances of getting pregnant, so he recommended not using them.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“I have some medical issues.” I explain. “I can’t use oral birth control methods. But I’m not able to have children either.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“I stare at her defiantly. After successfully defending a doctoral dissertation in front of a committee of hypercritical Ph.D.s it’s extremely difficult to intimidate me. Miss I-Just-Stepped-Off-The-Runway doesn’t intimidate me in the least.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“She was homeschooled and took enough dual high school and college credits as a teen that she only had to attend the university for two years to complete her undergraduate degree. Now that she’s in our graduate program she seems more excited about learning than anyone I’ve ever met in my life.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“Mallory’s eyes grow as wide as mine. “I could use the money. My dad lost his job three months ago. My parents are tapped out.” I could use money like that too, I think. Then wonder where that thought came from. Would I actually consider being someone’s mistress for money? Even if I was ten years younger and not a university professor applying for tenure is that something I could really do?”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“A look of disdain consumes Lucy’s round face. She works hard at hiding her contempt for the rich, but every once in a while it seeps out. Whenever she gets the opportunity she will tell anyone who will listen that she worked three jobs while she was in college and graduate school. And that she had to walk up hill both ways in the snow, barefoot, to get to school each and every day.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“Andrew is forty and already tenured, but he still retains a boyish charm.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“You’re the only faculty member in our department who has a chili pepper hotness rating on the Rate My Professor website.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“Being on The Late List is bad, especially when it’s faculty evaluation time. Being on the Late List when you’re applying for tenure is an even more serious problem.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful

“My hands begin to shake as I read the past due notice. The mortgage hasn’t been paid in two months. I had no idea Doug hadn’t been paying it. Add it to the long list of things my husband had been hiding from me.”
― Ren Monterrey, Sapphire Beautiful