And Then He Kissed Her Quotes

“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do.”

“That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“Harry - “No plovers no pigeons no snipe. No oysters mussels clams or whole lobsters. No artichokes no savories no cheese.” He paused for breath then went on “Nothing too rich nothing too highly seasoned. And never more than one glass of wine. Did I miss any no-noes ”

Emma - She sighed. “When it comes to my work I do wish you would be serious.”

Harry - “I am serious ” he assured her. “After reading this I understand why women have such tiny waists and go about fainting all the time. I thought it was corsets but no. You’re all hungry .”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“If you’re not gratified, you should be,” he told her as he tucked the letter back in the breast pocket of his jacket. “All the other members of my staff were running around like panicked rabbits without you.”
“But not you, I am sure.”
“I was too astonished to panic.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“He likes you,” Miss Dove said, sounding surprised.
“Yes,” Harry answered with an unhappy sigh. He had long ago accepted the fact that cats adored him. The reason, of course, was because both God and cats had the same perverse sense of humor. When the animal buried its claws in his thigh and began to knead with happy abandon, he set his jaw and bore it. “Mr. Pigeon? Rather fitting for you to choose that name, Miss Dove. Both birds, you know.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“She met his gaze over the plums. “The point is, we all care, to some degree, what others think of us.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more. Robert Herrick, 1648”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“said. “She never understands Harry’s jokes. She just stares at him as if he’s a bit touched in the head and doesn’t laugh.” “And that’s important,” Louisa said. “Men do hate it when we don’t find them amusing. Especially Harry. It quite upsets him.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“The point is, all my life I’ve hung back, never going after what I really wanted, trying to be content with settling for less. Meanwhile, life went on all around me, but I was never really a part of it.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“She knew what had happened. In exchange for affection and approval, she had paid the price of losing herself, bit by bit, in thousands of tiny, imperceptible pieces taken out over many years, until she had become a woman half starved and half smothered and only half alive.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“This was the dawn of a new day, and a new Emma Dove. Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go. She had never been more scared in her life.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“Being good all the time was a bad bargain.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“Lizzie Darbury won’t do,” Vivian said. “She never understands Harry’s jokes. She just stares at him as if he’s a bit touched in the head and doesn’t laugh.” “And that’s important,” Louisa said. “Men do hate it when we don’t find them amusing. Especially Harry. It quite upsets him.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“No.” Harry shook his head. “I refuse to allow it.”

He might have been talking to the wind.

“All I can say is that losing his dear wife all those years ago has finally unhinged his mind,” Louisa went on”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“She had spent her entire youth waiting and hoping for things that never happened. Now she was thirty.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her

“Working for a handsome man is fraught with difficulties. To those girl-bachelors so employed, I recommend an unflappable temperament, an unbreakable heart, and plenty of handkerchiefs.”
― Laura Lee Guhrke, And Then He Kissed Her