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- Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and…
- I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
- When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.
- Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept…
- Eve: "Was that like a cookie?" Roarke: "Hmmm?" Eve: "You know, have a cookie. You'll feel better. Were you making me feel better?" Roarke: "I…
- There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were…
- A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and…
- Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting…
- Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you…
- Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator…
- And don’t worry.” Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the…
- Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car…
- If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my…
- I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to…
- Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
- Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day."…
- Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions…
- When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way.…
- There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That…
- She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he…
- You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself…
- Don't give up on your own happy-evers.
- Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people…
- If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.
- It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.
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