250 quotes found
Author · American · 1950
American author (born 1950)
“Love runs the engine”
“You can't edit a blank page”
“People in hell want snowcones.”
“Knowing isn't always believing.”
“The wounded recognized the wounded.”
“He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certa...”
“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves youeven with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if ...”
“Ive never been the one. Not for anybody.He closed the distance between them. Youll get used to it. He tipped her face up to his, kissed her.Why? Why am I the one?Because my life opened up, and it f...”
“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the e...”
“Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and ...”
“Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.”
“That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.”
“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
“ A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”
“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no...”
“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
“I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford....”
“He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.”
“I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now...”
“As a rule of thumb, I'd say one clich per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the m...”
“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”
