A Reckless Note Quotes

“I don’t have a lot of friends walking around I might borrow clothes from. And with good reason: the people I care about disappear.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I’ve avoided the auction houses to stay out of the spotlight, but no more. We have to pay the bills.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I scan our customer book, and the list of outstanding items they hope we’ll locate for them.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I grab our leather-bound book where we log our customers’ special requests, and hurry forward, walking past rows of books and trinkets that don’t move fast enough to pay the bills. We count on being contracted to locate high-end collectibles.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“The sun is setting when I arrive back at Accent Collectibles,”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“Stradivarius”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“No,” I answer in English. “The musician, the player, makes all the difference, which is why he should have an instrument worthy of him.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“It means, “the melody changes, but the song remains the same,” but directly translated it’s: “the players change, but the music is always the same.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“His eyes, those famously blue eyes, narrow and his lips quirk slightly.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“Kace August,”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“he’s made the violin cool and sexy.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I’m standing across from the thirty-four-year-old rock star of violins. A man who uses his good looks, denim, leather, and arms tatted up with random colored musical notes to create an image.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I know my limits,” he assures him. “You just don’t like that I know yours.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“Mark Compton,”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“My brother is looking for a violin. He has to believe this one is special, perhaps one of the three our father owned, one of which our mother claimed hid a secret—the “recipe,” as Sofia had said, writing in obvious code, to make the renowned Stradivarius violin worth tens of millions of dollars. But I don’t care about the recipe. I care about finding my brother.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“It’s Tuesday. Friday night is forever away when my brother’s missing and that violin is absolutely what my brother was after.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“No one here has to know who I really am. Ever. They can never know. We disappeared with my father, our historic bloodline ended forever.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I’m Aria Alard,” I say, speaking my mother’s maiden name”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“We’d had money in Italy before we’d fled after my father’s disappearance, and did so with nothing.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I approach the double glass doors of the world-renowned Riptide Auction House. Nerves flutter in my belly with the idea that I’m about to do everything my mother warned me never to do—I’m about to place myself in the middle of the world that destroyed our family. But I’m also trying to save the only family I have left.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“only person I have left in this world is also missing. Gio”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I refuse to believe Gio is dead. He’s protecting me. It’s the only acceptable answer.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I’d been eleven when my father disappeared and eighteen when my mother was murdered. Now, I’m twenty-eight”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“My mother used to say that to me and my brother, Gio, and even in the years since she passed, the words echo in my mind, as I know they must in my brother’s. After all, we heard those words on nearly a daily basis from the moment our father disappeared until the moment our mother died seven years later.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“One reckless note can change everything.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“Sofia”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“I couldn’t know that we’d meet and the world would spin beneath my feet, and somehow ignite a million shades of beauty in my life. I couldn’t know that I’d change how you saw, well, everything.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note

“Gio”
― Lisa Renee Jones, A Reckless Note