Island of Flowers Quotes

“I love you so much I`m barely able to do simple things like eat and sleep for thinking of you.I keep remembering how you looked with a shell held to your ear.You stood there with the water running from your hair,and your eyes the color of the sky and the sea, and i fell completely in love with you.I tried not to believe it, but i lost ground every time you got near me.When you left, it was like losing part of myself.I´m not complete anymore without you"

-Dillon Òbrian”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers

“I had every right,” he interrupted. “Just as Cap had every right to know.Laine, listen to me.” She had started to turn away, but his words and quiet tone halted her, “He loves you. He never stopped, not all those years. I guess that’s why I reacted to you the way I did.” With an impatient sound, he ran his hands through his hair again. “For fifteen years loving you hurt him.”
“Don’t you think I know that?” she tossed back. “Why must he be hurt more?”
“Laine, the few days you were with him gave him back his daughter. He didn’t ask why you never answered his letter, he never accused you of any of the things I did.” He shut his eyes briefly, and again she noticed fatigue. “He loved you without needing explanations or apologies. It would have been wrong to prolong the lies. When he found you’d left, he wanted to come to France himself to bring you back. I asked him to let me come alone because I knew it was my fault that you left.”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers

“It’s simply that I begin to see things more clearly. Much more clearly.” Laine set down her drink and folded her empty hands. “It appears that you are more my father’s son than I shall ever be his daughter.”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers

“But this paradise was not for her. Dillon and her father had banished her. It was the same story all over again. She remembered how often she had been excluded on her visits to her mother’s home in Paris. Again an intruder, Laneie decided, and wondered if she had either the strength or the will to pursue the smiling masquerade for even a week of her father’s company. Her place was not with him any more than it had been with Vanessa. Dropping to the sand, Lanie brought her knees to her chest and wept for the years of loss.”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers

“Love, she thought, should not come with such quick intensity. It should flow slowly, with tenderness and gentle feelings. It shouldn't stab like a sword, striking without warning, without mercy. How could one love what one could not understand?”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers