Chesapeake Blue Quotes

“I want to come home. Not just for a few days or a couple weeks. I want to stay. Can I stay?"
Cam drew off his sunglasses, and his eyes, smoke-gray, met Seth's. "What the hell's the matter with you that you think you have to ask? You trying to piss me off?"
"I never had to try, nobody does with you. Anyway, I'll pull my weight."
"You always pulled your weight. And we missed seeing your ugly face around here."
And that, Seth thought as they walked to the car, was all the welcome he needed from Cameron Quinn.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Within months, Ray Quinn had died, but he'd kept his word. He'd kept it through the three men he'd made his sons. Those men had given the scrawny, suspicious, and scarred young boy a life.
They had given him a home, and made him a man.
Cameron, the edgy, quick-tempered gypsy; Ethan, the patient, steady waterman; Phillip, the elegant, sharp-minded executive. They had stood for him, fought for him. They had saved him.
His brothers.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Can't choose where you come from, Seth. My boys and you know that better than anyone. But you can choose where you end up, and how you get there.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“You don’t treat your family like this. Like a goddamn convenience.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Love doesn’t require payment. Cam’s right about that. There are no checks and balances here.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Jake eyed his brother. "I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay."
"You 're such a geek."
"Thesbo."
"That's Jack's latest insult."
Seth gestured with his wine-glass. "A play on thespian, since Kev's into that."
"Rhymes with lesbo," Jake explained helpfully while Anna stifled a groan. "It's a slick way of calling him a girl.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Finally, he's back in the little blue-and-white house where there's always a boat at the dock, a rocker on the porch, and a dog in the yard.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“I wouldn’t have a now without you.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“Temper was a vicious dog that snapped at both their throats.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“You drag us all out of bed at two in the morning, you’ve got a reason.”
“You kill somebody? Because if we’ve got to dispose of a body this time of night, we’d better get started.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue

“thespian, since Kev’s into that.”
― Nora Roberts, Chesapeake Blue