Top 100 Linda Howard Quotes
#1. Okay, you're right; she's so hot I could walk on three legs every time I see her."
"Now you're talkin'."
"I'll break your back and chop off your legs if you call her."
"That's my boy!
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#2. I personally don't think a woman should ever live with a man unless they're married. I guess there are some really great guys out there who wouldn't take advantage of having a live-in cook and maid, but guess how those arrangements usually turn out?
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#3. Jason is one of those people who is like a Slinky; you always smile when you think of watching him fall down the stairs.
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#7. It's not the heat," came his return mutter. "It's a critical buildup of sperm".
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#8. A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.
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#9. I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.
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#10. He had destroyed her, so why couldn't she destroy him in return?
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#11. Do you know why men name their cocks?"
"No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter.
"So most of the major decisions in their lives won't be made by a total stranger.
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#12. I don't argue, waste of time and effort. I listen to opinions, though
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#13. Are you making fun of my hero complex?'
Yeah.
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#14. Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?
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#15. You look like you're about to puke," he observed, pushing his cart forward.
With a quick, inner shake she gathered herself and cut him off to take her rightful position as lead cart. "I was trying to imagine you as a kid. It was horrifying.
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#16. It's daylight. Shouldn't you have burned to a crisp, or something? Don't you have to crawl into a coffin? Where do you keep it stashed, anyway?"
"I've never owned a coffin," he admitted, unable to hold back a smile.
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#17. She had learned never to look back, never to give fate a second chance to kick her in the teeth.
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#18. Love! Who ever said that love
made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she
knew that she wouldn't have it any other way.
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#19. If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.
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#20. The old ladies were dressing up, she thought; the clouds draped around the mountains' shoulders like a dirty boa, with the snowcaps jutting above and the broad green bases below.
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#21. What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information?"
"So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit.
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#22. She was holding her breath, waiting to start living.
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#23. The only choice you have right now is the color you want the house painted, and your choices are white and white." She was yelling by the time she finished, her face flushed.
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#24. Why is it when a man gets mad, he's aaangry, but when a woman gets mad, it's just a tantrum? She paused, struck by what he'd said.
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#25. You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.
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#26. Chloe put aside worries about her job, her life, and turned to face him. "Sex can't be the answer to everything," she said as she draped her arms around his strong neck.
He bent his head to hers. "For now, it can," he said and kissed her.
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#27. I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.
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#28. How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again?
You just do it...Because you have no choice.
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#30. Hurry," Hector urged, and his voice changed as his power surged, his tone and cadence sliding into the rhythm that said he was seeing the future. "Battle is in the air. I smell it. I can almost touch it. Death is coming Death is coming for us." With a click, the call disconnected.
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#31. A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.
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#32. I don't have casual sex," she said.
He almost smiled. It was merely an expression in those pale eyes, rather than an actual movement of his mouth. "My dear, I promise you there wouldn't be anything casual about it.
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#33. Know why PMS is called PMS?" "Don't you dare," she threatened. "Only women can tell PMS jokes." "Because 'mad cow disease' was already taken.
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#34. The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.
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#36. She went through the days silent and numb, coming alive only with hatred...
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#37. I'm calling the police," she said, showing him the phone in her hand.
He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. "You don't need the police."
No, of course she didn't How silly.
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#38. You have underwear."
"I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you try it on?"
"Nah. Just rubbed it against my face.
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#39. And if you do anything to hurt my mom's cat, I'll take you apart cell by cell. I'll mutilate your DNA so it can never reproduce, which would probably be a good thing for the world.
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#40. Think of it as therapy," he encouraged. "A sort of repayment for your own therapeutic knowledge. You gave me a reason to live, and I'll show you how to live.
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#41. His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.
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#42. Before you know it, you'll be smiling at her across the breakfast table."
"I don't smile," Cahill said, though he was having to fight his amusement.
"So you'll be scowling at her across the breakfast table. That isn't my point.
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#43. He snorted. "They were probably scared."
"Scared!" For some reason, that hurt, just a little. She felt her lower lip wobble. "I'm not that bad, am I?"
"Worse," he said cheerfully. "You're hell on wheels. You're just lucky I like hot rods
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#45. She felt oddly safe with him, though not safe from him.
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#46. Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.
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#47. You remember the 'be quiet' part of the rules? Embrace it.
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#48. So it isn't that the act is awful, but sometimes the man is."
"Exactly. One's modesty is useless and it's painfully intimate, but not awful." She took a deep breath.
"The opposite, in fact.
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#49. Just how many pairs of black shoes do you need?" he finally asked, staring at them lined up on the floor. Okay, shoes aren't a laughing matter. I gave him a cool stare. "One pair more than I have." "Then why didn't you get them?" "Because I would still need one pair more than I have.
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#51. because there may be a few coincidences in life, but none in crime. Everything has a motive.
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#52. What are you doing?" she cried in protest.
"Playing," he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.
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#53. You're a demon, you know that?" he said with feeling. "When your feet hit the floor every morning, I'll bet the devil shudders and says 'Oh shit, she's awake'" Cael to Jenner
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#54. You see?" he asked, his voice softening to a velvety punas he felt her tremble. His warm breath stirred her hair. "All I have to do is touch you. It's the same for me, Faith. I don't like this worth a damn, but by God, I want you, and we're going to do something about it.
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#55. Orgasms, for her, had been what she faked with a man and provided herself when she was alone,
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#56. Sudden, hell. I've been hard for two months.
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#57. I have brain damage, remember? I'm not responsible for my actions
or for the actions of my hand, which acted of its own volition and without my knowledge.' Cam to Bailey
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#58. He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.
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#59. It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.
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#60. Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.
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#61. Don't kiss me," she said warningly.
"I don't intend to," he replied, smiling a little. "I don't have my whip and chair with me.
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#62. excitement of it. He'd been the golden boy,
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#63. What?" he demanded testily.
Trammell raised his eyebrows. "I didn't say anything."
"You're thinking something, though. You've got that shit-eating smirk on your face."
"Why would anyone smirk while they eat shit?" Trammell asked rhetorically.
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#64. Anything over eight is strictly for show-and-tell
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#65. Unfortunately, what should or should not be had no relation to what was.
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#66. That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.
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#67. Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.
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#68. Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together.
Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.
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#69. No matter how many orgasms you have, if you have any common sense to begin with, it always comes back.
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#73. When we're married and he looks at me sitting beside him at the table, he should feel as if he's fought a great battle and accomplished something - namely, winning me. He'll treasure me more. I like being treasured.
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#74. Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked just right.
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#75. Everything feels like the end of the world, and you can't reason with someone who can't see tomorrow.
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#76. An accident of birth had signed her death warrant.
He could mark her name off his to-do list.
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#77. The lessons learned hardest were the lessons learned best.
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#78. You don't just... just float someone in the air like that!" she shouted, so beside herself she was almost frenzied.
"Why? Is there some human law against it?
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#79. The magazine said to blend. Daisy blended for all she was worth, trying to spread that dark stuff around.
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#80. Love by itself isn't enough; it's never enough. There had to be other things, such as liking and respect, or love would get worn away by the realities of everyday life.
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#81. The bad thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. The good thing about living in a small town was that everything became a personal issue. During times of trouble, the support system was massive.
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#82. XEROX AND WURLITZER HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY
WILL MERGE TO MARKET REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
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#83. Pleasure was a siren, luring her to experience more
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#84. Plans?" he snorted. "I'm ninety-three years old! Who in tarnation makes plans at my age? I could stop breathin' any minute now.
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#85. I was raised by a woman who knows her own worth, and her daughters firmly believe that life is much better for a woman when a man has to work really hard to get her. It's human nature to take better care of something you've worked for, whether it's a car or a wife.
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#86. Minor detail. I'm going to kiss you, Marlie - "
"I'll bite you again," she swiftly warned.
He shrugged. "I always have had more guts than sense," he said, and very gently brushed her mouth with
his.
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#87. Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.
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#88. One morning just after Joe had left to drive to his class, Mary walked out to the barn and reflected on her state of hussiness. All in all, she was satisfied with it. Being a hussy had its advantages.
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#89. I have a rule: Walk out, crawl back. If a man does the first, then he has to do the second to get back on good terms with me.
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#90. He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.
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#91. There was no going back...because some roads you just couldn't travel again.
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#92. Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.
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#93. I'm Sam Donovan."
"I know who you are. Mrs. Kulavich told me. I'm Jaine Bright."
"I know. She told me. She even told me how you spell your name."
Now, how on earth had Mrs. Kulavich known that?
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#94. If only gossip weren't so titillating. Sweeney tried to control an avid desire to know more, to dig for all the dirty details.
The temptation was great. Dirt was like fat; it made life more delicious.
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#95. I have a blanket behind the seat, a thick wool one. We can cuddle on the bleachers, and with the blanket wrapped around us no one will know if I sneak a feel every now and then."
"I'll know."
"God, I hope so. If you don't, then I've either lost my touch or my aim.
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#96. At the moment, he kinda knew how the male praying mantis felt when he
was approaching Ms. Mantis, knowing the sex was going to be great but he was going to gethis head bitten off.
Ah, well. Some things were worth losing your head.
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#97. She should have remembered her past experiences in the relationship wars and not let herself get so excited. Evidently her hormones had overruled her common sense and she had become drunk on ovarian wine, the most potent, sanity- destroying substance in the universe.
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#98. She had always enjoyed her sense of being alone, envisioning herself as a ball that rolled through life, bumping into other lives but not stopping.
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#99. REQUIRED TO TAKE A COMBINATION OF GINKGO AND VIAGRA, SO YOU CAN REMEMBER WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING.
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#100. Nice is good. It doesn't sound exciting, but think about it. I think Mr. Perfect would be kind to kids and animals, help old ladies across the street, not insult you when your opinion is different from his. Being nice is so important it's close to being number one.
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