Quotes

Favorite Quotes

Ann/Elizabeth’s writing has some truly memorable lines, and here you’ll find a list of our favorite quotes, compiled by A/E’s readers. Browse through and find a new book that sounds intriguing or remind yourself of a favorite you’d like to re-read. Please Note: The “add quote” feature has been disabled because of persistent spammers.

Quotes: (most recent first)

  • “You showed me ships made of stone and a dry rain,” Reno whispered, kissing her gently, taking her tears,”and then you showed me the light that casts no shadow.” Eve trembled and then went very still, looking at him with a silent question in her eyes. “Love is the light that casts no shadow,” Reno said simply. “I love you, Eve.” – Only You p.368 (posted by chocolate)
  • Today the mist parted for me. She waited within them. hair like fire, eyes like amethyst. When she saw her cloak held tenderly in my hand, the cloak brought to me by the daughter I never knew I had, she smiled despite the tears burning silver on her cheeks. I held out my hand, asking. She came to me, answering. The crystal bells of Silverfells sang around us. – Moving Target p.436 (posted by Andi)
  • He had sun-bright hair cut so that it would fit beneath a war helmet. His cloak floated on a breeze, revealing the chain mail hauberk beneath. A peregrine falcon rode his left arm. At his feet lay a staghound the size of a pony. He was watching a woman weave on a loom that was taller than a man. Her unbound hair tumbled in a fiery torrent down her back to her knees. She was looking over her shoulder at him with eyes the color of woodland violets. Instead of castle walls, they were surrounded by a rain-drenched forest, as though nothing on earth existed but these two people caught in the mists of time. – Moving Target p.437 (posted by Andi)
  • Not all male Middle Easterners blow up airplanes, but it’s beyond stupid to search everyone’s Caucasian grandmother in the name of political correctness. – THE WRONG HOSTAGE p.87 hc (posted by anon)
  • “Love is the light that cast no shadow,” Reno said simply.”I love you, Eve.” – Only You p.367 (posted by Gata)
  • Her (Grace’s) eyes opened. They were dark, dazed by spent passion and the new need building in her. In him. “Joe?” “Like I said. For some things, once just isn’t enough.” – THE WRONG HOSTAGE p.172 hc (posted by anon)
  • ‘I know you (Cat) hate me,’ Travis said in a ragged voice. ‘I came back to you too late. If you don’t want my baby, then another man’s. anything, Cat, anything, but don’t look like that. Scream and call me names. I deserve all of them. At least cry. Tears will heal you faster than anything else.’ – To The Ends of the Earth p.326 (posted by Regina T. Altovar)
  • ‘I (Travis) didn’t steal you out of pity or guilt. i stole you because i had to. i want to sink into your soul the way you sank into mine. you taught me how to love. and then i drove you away before i could discover how much I loved you. now i know. I’ll give you whatever you want, even a life without me. if that’s what you want. is that what you want.? (Travis to Cat) – To The ends of the Earth p.357 (posted by Regina Altovar)
  • “That her?” John asked. “The fool who’s going to go stomping around in the Quintrell minefield? Yeah, that’s her, one Carolina May, Carly to her friends.” “You check her out?” “What do you think?” “You did. And?” “Sweet Carly hasn’t a clue.” John grunted. “Too bad.” “Shit happens.” The gate clanged open and the ravens flew into the pale cottonwood branches to wait. – Always Time To Die p.8 (posted by Kat)
  • “Looks like Wolfe was wrong about you,” Reno said bitterly. “But as much as I’d like to beat the hell out of you for turning my sister into a–” “Don’t say it,” Caleb interrupted in a voice as savage as the light in his is eyes. “Don’t even think it.” With dawning horror, Willow watched the two men she loved. She tried to speak, but the words stuck in her throat. She had expected joy, not anger, when she met her brother once more. –Only His p.306 (posted by Kat)
  • “Ah, I bring color to your little cheeks.” (Geoffrey) “You bring vomit to my throat.” (Ariane) – Enchanted p.263 (posted by Taylor.R.)
  • “If my drugged memory serves, you sweated like a pig to rise even once. Your manhood was more like a beached seaweed than a ‘rod’ you speak of so proudly.” (Ariane) – Enchanted p.265 (posted by Taylor.R.)
  • A woman of intense feeling, head thrown back, hair, wild, lips open upon cry of unbelievable pleasure. The enchanted. A warrior both disciplined and passionate, his whole being focused in the moment. The enchanter. Now he was bending down to her, drinking her cries even as he drew more sounds from her. His powerful body was poised over hers, waiting, shivering with a sensual hunger that was as his restraint. Simon? –Enchanted p.36 (posted by Taylor.R.)
  • The wedding would begin before the sun set and end before the moon rose. Before the moon set once more, the bride must find a way to kill. Or die. – Enchanted p.19 (posted by Taylor.R.)
  • “Don’t worry sugar man. You’re safe. I’ve seen ships made of stone and dry rain, but even the smallest light casts a shadow.” (Eve) – Only You p.291 (posted by Brownsugar)
  • He watched Tory’s retreat with narrow, steel-colored eyes. When he looked down at his scarred leather gloves and saw her blood on them, he swore savagely. Abruptly he kicked aside the egg basket, climbed the stepladder and opened the henhouse door. As Tory soaked her hands in a pan of warm, iodine tinted water, she heard another wild squawking from the henhouse. It ended before she could see what was happening. An hour later Jed came into the kitchen, carrying the egg basket. “Boss says he wants chicken and dumplings for dinner.” – Too Hot To Handle p.86 (posted by Kat)
  • For a long seething moment Reever glared at Tory. Gradually he realized that he had been wrong in his assumption that she was one of Payton’s pretty toys. Tory wasn’t experienced. She didn’t understand what was happening between them, what her soft mouth was promising, what her sweet, wild whimper had revealed. She had gotten to him faster and deeper than any woman he’d ever known–and the longer Reever was around her, the more he was afraid she was a virgin. – Too Hot To Handle p.43 (posted by Kat)
  • “You were supposed to be tired,” she said huskily. “I was. Next time you get to do all the work.” (Archer said) She (Hannah) smiled against his neck. “You’ll have to show me how. In great detail.” – Pearl Cove p.230 (posted by Nikki)
  • “Damn it, Archer. What are you complaining about? Sex with no strings attached? Most men would be dancing a jig?” (Hannah said) – Pearl Cove p.232 (posted by Nikki)
  • “You don’t believe me now, but you will. The truth is that you only think you love me. In a few days or weeks you’ll come down off the adrenaline high. You’ll remember what we said, how we made love to each other, and you’ll blush to the soles of your feet.” – Tell Me No Lies p.550 (posted by Kat)
  • “…Are you going to let me kiss you? Or are you going to keep me out in the dark, watching everything beautiful that I can’t touch?” – Midnight in Rudy Bayou p.225 (posted by CJ)
  • Don’t cry for me”, Raven said quietly, stroking the burnished gold of Angel’s hair. “Even if I could, I wouldn’t change what happened in the past. I’m not the other half of your soul,and I never could have been. Hawk is. And, you aren’t the other half of mine. I know that now.” “But Janna is. She’s the other half of you.” Angel said. “I know, and I know that gratitude isn’t love.” You’re wrong about Janna,” Hawk said quietly. “I was raised on gratitude, not love. I know what gratitude is and what it isn’t. It isn’t a woman’s eyes following you everywhere, her fingers touching you when there’s no need, her voice softening when she says your name, her smile more beautiful for you than for anyone else on earth. Janna looks at you the way Angel looks at me. The way I look at Angel. The way you look at Janna. Not gratitude Carlson. Love! – love song for a raven p.245 (posted by regina)
  • ‘You’re beatuiful’, she murmured. he laugh softly against hair. ‘you have strange ideas of beauty. I’m about pretty as a rock slide. ‘ I’m not talking about pretty.’ her eyes followed her hand down his body. ‘beautiful. the way mountains are beautiful. the way Dev is beautiful when he takes an impossible jump- rippling with fierce pleasure and power and purpose.’ –remember summer p.243 (posted by Regina Altovar)
  • Carly: “Focus, Dan. Focus.” Dan: “I am.” Carly: “Don’t focus on THAT.” Dan: “On What?” Carly: “Sex.” Dan: “I’m a man, honey. That’s like asking me not to breathe.” – Always Time To Die p.149 hc (posted by anon)
  • “That’s it, isn’t it?” Cat asked. “I’m passionate, poor, and sterile. That makes me great mistress material but not worth more than a few nights in the sheets, not worth really caring about, certainly not worth loving.” – To the Ends of the Earth p.228 (posted by Katrina)
  • He gathered Ariane’s living warmth into his arms, felt the strength of her arms circling his neck. “I give you the gift of the rowan,” Simon whispered against Ariane’s lips. And the gift was love. – Enchanted p.390 (posted by R. Mineo)
  • Cain laughed outright. “Only in the written description. The symbol itself is neutral. Male in the heart of all that is most female. Female in the heart of all that is most male.” – The Secret Sisters p.152 (posted by Becky M.)
  • “I’ll settle for finding the same kind of beauty in Lost River Cave that I remember. That’s all I want now. A memory that isn’t a lie.” – This Time Love p.120 (posted by Joyce)
  • No wonder she felt abandoned, betrayed. Life had turned her and knocked her flat – and then had rolled over on her again for good measure with a pregnancy she wasn’t emotionally or financially equipped to survive. – This Time Love p.115 (posted by Joyce)
  • He’d wondered many times what might happen if he saw Joy again. He’d imagined every emotion but the one he saw staring out of her eyes right now. Hatred. – This Time Love p.85 (posted by Joyce)
  • Somehow I’ll find you again, Gabriel. If it takes another seven years, so be it. Our love will be within you the whole time, growing like the Dreamer within stone, singing to us with a thousand voices. Even if you leave me again and again, our love will still be growing, singing in darkness, waiting to be discovered. Our love. Because you love me, too, Gabriel. Your love was written in the fury and despair on your face when you left me tonight. You felt betrayed, as I once did. To feel betrayed like that, my bittersweet lover, first you must give yourself to love. And lose. –This Time Love p.357-358 (posted by Joyce)
  • I love him. I never stopped loving him. I never will. He’s within me as deeply as water is within Lost River Cave, water dreaming through stone. Whether I’m here or not, whether i see it or not, the cave goes on living, changing, becoming more beautiful with every glistening drop, every instant of time. Like love. Growing whether I will it or not, spreading through me, destroying and creating me at the same sweet and terrifying time. I love him. – This Time Love p.357 (posted by Joyce)
  • You may hold my tears and live as you did before, trusting your soul to no one. Or you may release my tears and accept what comes. With a shudder, Simon opened his hands and let the Rowan’s tears drift over Ariane, giving everything to her, more than he had ever believed he could give. – Enchanted p.389 (posted by Regina M.)
  • “A red tube dress hugged Lianne like a hungry lover. Long sleeves and a V neck called attention to the shape of her breasts. The skirt cupped her rear and barely teased the top of her thighs. Smoky stockings made a long, sexy mystery of her legs. Faith’s deft touch with makeup turned Lianne’s eyes into a tawny challenge and gave an X-rated pout to her lips. She flipped back her curly, shoulder-length, frosted bronze hair, put one dagger-nailed hand on her hip, and said, “Ready when you are.” “Holy Christ,” Kyle murmured. “That’s the last time you go shopping with my sisters.” – Jade Island p.325
  • “Where were you going when I stopped you a few minutes ago?” he (Wolfe) asked finally. “To the wind.” (Jessica) – Only Mine p.253 (posted by lilacandlace)
  • Do you harbor a secret desire to be arrested for lewd and dissolute conduct in a public place.” “Not until I met you.” “Shane.” “What?” “Shut up.” – Running Scared p.333 (posted by Brittni)
  • Only the good die young. Now get me a frigging beer. – The Color of Death p.158
  • It was a long time before Case had enough breath to speak. “We keep this up,” he whispered, “and you’re going to get pregnant for sure,” Eyes closed, Sarah shook her head languidly, clinging to the wonderful dream. “Can’t,” she murmured. “Why not?” “Already am.” “What?” Her eyes flew open. “Oh, God. It really wasn’t a dream, was it?” He stared at her. “Are you sure?” he demanded. “Almost. I’m so darned sleepy all the time, just like my mother was.” A long shudder racked Case’s strong body. Slowly he lowered his face to her breasts. Her heart turned over when she felt the heat of his tears and his laughter combined. “You make me whole,” he said huskily. – Winter Fire p.389 hc (posted by KittyAnna)
  • Duncan cupped the pendant in his hands, trying to find her once more. He found nothing but the tears that blinded him. He buried his face in his hands, knowing his own truth too late. He wanted the very thing he had driven away from himself, and he wanted it more than he wanted life itself. “Amber! Come back to me!” – Forbidden p.389 (posted by Carol)
  • “Come witch. Ride the dragon you have summoned from mortal flesh.” “How does a maid ride a dragon?” “Like this.” – Forbidden p.266
  • “Last time I heard that,” Sam said to Kate as they jumped back out of the way,”itt was in a men’s room with all the stalls occupied.” – The Color of Death p.222 hc (posted by Becky M.)
  • Sam made an encouraging sound. At least he hoped it was encouraging rather than the throttled growl of a frustrated male. – The Color of Deathp.163 hc (posted by Becky M.)
  • “A seagull manager is one that flies in from nowhere, squawks a lot, craps on everything and flies off.” – The Color of Death p.149 hc (posted by Becky M.)
  • “I sure as hell do.” Kyle looked at Lianne. She was watching both of them the way she would watch poisonous snakes. ” Want some food with your coffee?” “No,” she said. “You sure? Archer makes a mean omelet.” “I’d be astonished if he could make a friendly one.” Archer laughed,drawing another surprised glance from Lianne. His laughter was as genuine as his anger had been. And, like anger, laughter transformed him. ” – Jade Island p.268-269 hc
  • “So does a muddy hound.” – Enchanted p.211 (posted by G Santiago)
  • “Ty?” Janna whispered softly. Her body was shaking. So was her voice. Though she made no more noise than a sigh, Ty heard her. He heard every breath she took, saw every time she licked her lips, tasted her in his memory. He didn’t know how much longer he would be able to admire her without touching the easy sway of her hips as she led him along the plateau’s secret byways. “Ty?” she said, a bit more loudly. “What?” he groaned, wondering how much longer he could lie next to her without grabbing her. “There’s a snake crawling along my leg.” – Reckless Love p.125 (posted by Angela)
  • “First my jacket, now my jeans,” he {Ian} said against her {Lacey} hair. “Hope you have a washing machine around here. Or at least a dryer.” She took a breath. “You bragging or complaining?” “Bragging. You mind?” “I’d need a brain to mind. I must have lost it with my dress.” “Your dress is around your neck. Kind of.” She blew against his chin. “How about my brain?” He tipped her mouth up and gave her a gentle, thorough kiss. “Sexy. Female. Really fine.” “My brain?” “Yeah.” She tilted her head back and smiled up at him. “I like you a lot, Ian Lapstrake.” Amused, he glanced down to where they were still interlocked. “I figured that out.” “No, I mean even after, uh…” “The itch is scratched?” She nodded. – Die in Plain Sight p.217 (posted by Rachel Alexis)
  • “I didn’t believe you could walk away from what we had together. I knew you were furious. I knew I’d hurt you. But I thought if you’d just let me touch you, love you, I could make you understand that I never meant to deceive you…And then you ran from me, leaving me nothing.” – Lover in the Rough p.325-326 (posted by jfairman)
  • “I want to know the dimensions of the fool’s paradise I’ve been living in,” she corrected. “‘Fool’s paradise.’ Is that how you thing of our time together?” “Spare me the fake sentiment,” Lara said, clenching her hands together. “I can take the rest but not that. Not that!” – Sweet Wind, Wild Wind p.286 (posted by jfairman)
  • “I know you hat me,” Travis said in a ragged voice. “I came back to you too late. If you don’t want my baby, then another man’s. Anything, Cat, anything, but don’t look like that. Scream and call me names. I deserve all of them. At least cry. Tears will heal you faster than anything else.” There was no answer, no movement, nothing. – To the Ends of the Earth p.326 (posted by jfairman)
  • “You sold your cameras to keep my baby and never called me, never spoke to me, never asked one thing of me.” – To the Ends of the Earth p.352 (posted by jfairman)
  • “You sold your cameras to keep my baby and never called me, never spoke to me, never asked one thing of me.” – To the Ends of the Earth p.352 (posted by jfairman)
  • And then she could only stare. She had forgotten Archer’s dark male beauty, the intelligence in his light, changeable eyes, his height and physical power, the sensual promise of his mouth. Her husband had been a wild blond Viking. Archer was a dark angel who made a woman want. . . .everything. – Pearl Cove p.39 hc (posted by Nan)
  • He was right. It took attitude. That’s what turned her on in a man. Brass balls and the arrogance to make them clang. But damn, it made them hard to live with. – Die in Plain Sight p.287 hc (posted by queenofdarkness)
  • You are my life,my soul,everything I wanted and feared I would never have,’ Nevada whispered, bending down to Eden. Fairy-tale girl,I love you. – Warrior p.188 (posted by sassyopto77)
  • You are my life,my soul,everything I wanted and feared I would never have,’ Nevada whispered, bending down to Eden. Fairy-tale girl,I love you. – Warrior p.188
  • He pulled back and looked at her brilliant, earnest eyes.” You’re going to drive me crazy.” She blinked. “Because I lose my temper?” “Because you don’t seem to realize that someone could put a bullet in you and I’d spend the rest of my life wishing it had been me.” – Running Scared p.410 (posted by Niknok)
  • From Dominic’s shoulder, the wolf’s eye gleamed as though alive and watching the Glendruid witch from whose body the future would come. “You may go about your business lord,” the midwife said. “I will care for her now.” “Nay,” Dominic said flatly. “My lady has been by my side through peace and war, through sickness and health. I will not abandon her in her pain.” – Untamed p.407 (posted by Niknok)
  • “I will not let you go,” Dominic said harshly. “Don’t worry, Glendruid Wolf. The people will accept you. Blackthorne is yours for as long as you live. Nothing can change that now”. “Without you, the land and the people are a feast for a dead man. Look at me. Look into me.” – Untamed p.403 (posted by Niknok)
  • Life is change. That’s how we know we’re not dead. – Moving Target p.125
  • “If she (Meg) isn’t returned to us alive and laughing,” Dominic sid, “there will be a harrowing of a north such as will never be forgotten.”… “I will hunt down the Reevers and their families one by one, and I will kill them where I find them, man woman and child.”…. “I will burn their homes, slaughter their stock, and poison their wells. I will tear down their stone fences, slay their game, and salt their fields until nothing can live therein.Then I will leave the cursed land to the unshriven ghosts I’ve made!” – Untamed p.391 (posted by Nikki)
  • (Kyle)”What do you want from me, Lianne Blakely, and what makes you think I can you help out?” (Lianne) “You’re big.” (Kyle) So is a stuffed elephant. Want me to call a taxidermist?” – Jade Island p.34 (posted by Beth Lynn)
  • “You showed me ships made of stone and a dry rain, and then you showed me the light that cast no shadow” –Reno – Only You p.368 (posted by Mariel Sicar)
  • “Glendruid witch, you healed my body, my heart, and my soul…and then you stole them from me one kiss at a time. With or without heirs, I will have no other wife but you.” – Untamed p.403 (posted by Jayde)
  • “I (Eden) wear Aurora’s ring to remind myself that love is never wasted, never futile.” – Warrior p.138 (posted by LTD)
  • “You try seeing your woman in handcuffs, scared bloodless, and then tell me how tender you feel toward the world,” Kyle retorted. “But hey, I’m all for intercultural sensitivity…” – Jade Island p.299 hc (posted by Ashlee)
  • “Ive wanted to do this since I washed your hair” Cord said in a low voice. “Why the hell did I wait so long?”……”Ill play your silly game. Why did you wait so long?” “Stupidity. Sheer criminal stupidity” – Remember Summer p.317 (posted by Tania)
  • He walked down the gravel path to the dock. Every step of the way he congratulated himself on what a fine, honorable, noble, dumb son of a bitch he was, going off alone to a cold bed – Amber Beach p.174 (posted by Tania)
  • I warned you, until neither one of us has enough strength left to lick our lips. -Reno Moran – Only You p.280
  • ”three,” she corrected. ”I can shoot.” ”Have you ever shot a man?” Hunter retorted. ”No, but I’ ve been real tempted lately.” – autumn lover p.172 (posted by meghan spencer)
  • you’re damn attractive and you know it, so unless you’re planning to follow up on all the lip-licking and the sideways looks, save them for a boy who cares – Amber Beach p.54 (posted by shorook al fara)
  • “Sugar, if I take anything else off, I’ll be wearing you real quick.” –Midnight in Ruby Bayou p.264 hc (posted by Kris Kellt)
  • “Haven’t you figured it out yet, sweetheart? …Men know right away when they find their mate. Its women who need time to be convinced. How much more time do you think you’ll take to add one and one and get two?” – jade island p.370 (posted by icewoman)
  • “Yes,” Shannon said calmly. “I could have died. But so what? The stars would have come out tonight and the sun would have risen tomorrow morning. The only difference would be that I wouldn’t see it.” She smiled oddly. “Not much difference, really…………….” Shannon to Whip. – Only Love p.325 (posted by Arpita)
  • “Any man worthy of the name knows his own strength,” Wolfe continued. “He knows that women are more delicately made, more slow to burn with passion; but once a woman burns, there is no fire to equal it, not even a man’s. She will share that fire generously with a careful partner.” – Only Mine p.258 (posted by Arpita_ghosh63)
  • Lacey sighed. “But La Susa has taught classes and done videos, so I guess she’s usd to awed students getting clumsy around her.” “After ten minutes, you’ll never think of her as La Susa again. She’ll just be Susa, a wife and mother and woman with a great sense of humor and a mind like a steel trap.” “You left out the part about being beautiful,” Lacey said, thinking of Susa’s petite elegance. “She’s happily married to a man who would clean my clock if he caught me flirting with her.” – Die in Plain Sight p.74-75 hc (posted by JoanS)
  • “Susa wants you to come and paint with her out on the Savoy Ranch.” Lacey stared at him. “What?” “My poster,” he said, beginning all over again. “You know, the one that–” “Not that,” she cut in. “Susa wants me to pain with her?” “Yeah.” He tilted his head and took in her shocked brown eyes. “Something wrong with that?” Lacey took a deep breath, then another. “Susa is a goddess.” “I’ll have to tell her sons. They haven’t figured it out. Archer is sure she’s a mortal in need of tender loving care.”‘ Ian smiled slowly. – Die in Plain Sight p.74 hc (posted by JoanS)
  • “When it’s you, Hannah, I’ll want until I can’t. And then I’ll still want” –Pearl Cove p.363 (posted by Maggie M.)
  • “Sex can wait until hell freezes over”….”Making love, now, that’s different”, he (Archer) said. “That can’t wait a minute longer.” – Pearl Cove p.230 (posted by Maggie M.)
  • Benny is genius. No matter how simple or complex a technical problem might be, he will discover a solution to it that is both elegant and direct. The direct part was C-4 moldable plastic explosive; Benny always has the stuff around because he uses it to start his barbecue. (The barbecue part is the part that just gets me…I can’t begin to imagine how one goes about starting a barbecue with C-4 or even entertains the thought in the first place! Must be a guy thing!) – MONEY BURNS p.297 (posted by Ema)
  • *Cord thinking about leaving the agent business* “Maybe it was time to let someone else take his place in the thin bloody line standing against the barbarians.”  – Remember Summer p.48
  • “This one will be better,” Honor said confidently. Nobody does salmon like Jake. And i did hate to fish before i met him.” “I always wondered about that,” Kyle said, turning to his brother-in-law. “How did you convince her that fishing wasn’t slimy, scary, and disgusting?” (Jake) “No problem. I let her use my rod.” – Jade Island p.170 hc (posted by Candace Madden)
  • “This one isn’t by the same hand as the other,” Susa said. Ian looked from one painting to the next. Flowers. Lots and lots of flowers. “How can you tell?” “A century of experience.” “Bull. You haven’t been around longer than forty years.” “Flatter me some more. I’m amenable. I’m also old enough to be Lawe’s mother, remember?” “I’m working on it So tell me, is the Donovan as tough a bastard as his sons say?” “Absolutely.” She set the second picture on the table behind her, with the few she had decided merited more study. “Better looking, too.” “Well, dang. How am I going to win you away?” – Die in Plain Sight p.56 hc (posted by JoanS)
  • Susa half smiled. “My son Lawe said you were bright. What’s more important, so did Dana.” “I’m flattered.” The sideways glance she gave him was amused. “I don’t believe you.” “Lawe said you were quick.” She laughed out loud. “I like you, Ian Lapstrake.” “Now, I’m flattered.” She stood, gave him the kind of quick, smacking kiss she bestowed upon her family males, and sat back down to study the paintings left by the matron, who was still wondering how she ended up at the back of the line again.” – Die in Plain Sight p.56 hc (posted by JoanS)
  • Ian Lapstrake hadn’t been raised by fools. When Dana Gaynor, copartner of Rarities Unlimited, started in on him with a voice like an ice-tipped whip, he stood up straight and paid attention. “Listen, boyo,” she said, borrowing one of her partner S.K. Niall’s favorite nouns, “I’m getting damn tired of you ignoring your e-mail. How are we supposed to keep you up-to-date on your projects?” “I always have my pager turned on.” “Screw your pager.” “I’m not that desperate yet, but thanks for the thought.” – Die in Plain Sight p.8 hc (posted by JoanS)
  • “Ms. Donovan?” The pilot’s voice came over the intercom. Susa flipped a switch on the seat arm. “Yes?” “The Donovan requests that you ‘turn on your goddamned cell phone.'” “Oops,” Susa said, reaching for her purse…..I’m calling him as we speak.” – Die in Plain Sight p.35-36 hc (posted by JoanS)
  • “Last night the potatoes were scorched on the outside and raw in the middle. Tonight they have no middle. No top, bottom, or sides, either.” (Wolfe, after looking into the pot)”I had no idea potatoes were such perverse vegetables”(Jessica) “No wonder people leave out milk and cookies for elves. The silly bastards would starve to death otherwise.” “What have you done to the canned cherries? Buried them in salt or soda?” (Wolfe) “It’s unreasonable to expect me to learn in three days a skill chefs spend years learning on the Continent” (Jessica) “A frightening thought. What happened to the cherries?” (Wolfe) – Only Mine p.116-117 (posted by Jessica)
  • “‘I wasn’t searching for sunrises,’ Whip said softly. ‘I was searching for something I couldn’t name, something unbearably beautiful, something unspeakably perfect that was waiting for me to discover it.’ Whip bent and kissed Shannon with a gentleness that brought tears to her eyes. ‘I found it in you,’ he said simply. ‘I love you, honey girl. You’re the only sunrise I’ll ever need.'” – Only Love p.409 (posted by Skye)