Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I’m not sure he’d let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.
Aidan to Jude: What’s wrong with running away if where you were didn’t suit you? Doesn’t it follow you’re funning to something else? Something that does suit you?
Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.
Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.
Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.
Love birds don’t always sing pretty tunes.
A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
God is dead and I am his replacement.
I guess money can’t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
I’d rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.
Did they know – the young and fearless – what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?
What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?
Winning can be addictive.
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart – had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
If that isn’t typical male stupidity! If something doesn’t work, kick it or swear at it!
Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there’s always light and hope in the world.
Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.
When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That’s something you should remember.
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books – one I’ve read a dozen times – and still slide right into the story.
Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn’t destroy that. They couldn’t stop you from becoming.