Top 100 Lorraine Heath Quotes
#1. How could he give her so much, yet leave her so little.
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#2. You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing anything for her that I've not done for her before.
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#3. If it pleases you.
And in his wprds, as always, Kate heard the echo of I love you.
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#4. How long do you think it will take her to figure out who you are?" "She is blind." "Then that makes two of you." Alejandro
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#5. When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to
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#6. Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.
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#8. Come now, Olivia, where's your sense of humor?" Jack asked.
"It made a hasty departure when you entered my life.
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#9. Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.
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#10. I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.
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#11. A sound startled him, and to his everlasting irritation, his body jerked. The nurse was standing at the foot of the bed. Did they all have to creep around? He was going to insist bells be sewn onto everyone's clothes so he was aware of them approaching.
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#12. She tiptoed her fingers along his back. "Were you really making love to me?"
He rolled back over onto her. "If you have to ask, then I'm obviously not doing it well enough. Let me try a bit more diligently before I go searching for a dragon.
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#13. I'm never touching her again," Austin swore.
"You'll touch her," his brothers said in unison.
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#14. The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.
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#15. He didn't know how one's flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn't understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.
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#16. Ah, Loree," he whispered near her ear. "You should hear the music."
-Austin
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#17. So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..
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#18. Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.
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#19. As you don't have a lover, Miss Darling, I'd like to offer my services. As I believe we've just proven, we're quite compatible.
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#20. You know the legend, lady, but you don't know the man. And damn if I'm not tempted to introduce you to the man.
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#21. Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built
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#22. But life was precarious and opportunities were never guaranteed.
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#23. Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
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#24. You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."
"Had politeness beat into me.
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#26. He'd built a wall around his heart to protect it, and she was slowly brick by brick, smile by smile, laugh by laugh, kindness by kindness, tearing it down. Tomorrow he'd refortify it.
Tonight he simply wanted the haven she could provide.
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#27. Oh, Papa, I've done something terribly silly. I've fallen in love with someone, and he loves another. The strange thing is, as much as it hurts, I only want him to be happy. And if she'll make him happy, I want him to have her.
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#28. You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people ... you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.
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#29. At the end she'd be nothing more than a memory, if that.
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#30. I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.
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#31. Is there nothing you want so desperately that you'd be willing to do anything in order to acquire it?
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#32. Could love have only one side to it and still be love?
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#33. He wondered if his own child would like to
have a dog, then shook off the thought. He was years
away from having a child. He needed a wife first - and
obtaining her would be far more trouble than obtaining
a mistress. Here, he had yet to get a mistress.
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#34. Why did you tell me all this?"
"So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.
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#35. It's difficult when you love someone whom you know on some level is wicked.
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#36. Hell of a thing when a man's hatred for another is greater than his love for his grandchild.
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#37. Olivia dared not ask, but she had to know. It seemed unlikely her husband could have made a worse choice than Jack Dodger, but if he was her husband's first who would serve as his second? The devil himself? Who is appointed as my son's guardian in that will?
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#38. You managed to do the same with my heart, didn't you, Frannie? You stole it, and I didn't even feel it happening.
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#39. In time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting
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#40. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.
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#41. Wait here, Miz Meg, and we'll holler when we're undressed and under the covers. We know it don't bother you seein' our backsides since you're a widow and all, but it'd sure bother us ... even though you've seen em before. We kinda like to keep 'em to ourselves
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#42. Brittles stood at attention until Jack looked at him, then he bowed slightly. "I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but an Inspector Swindler from Scotland Yard wishes to speak with you. Are you home?"
"Of course, I'm home, man. I'm sitting right here.
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#44. In my world travels, I saw a good many varieties of butterflies. They're incredibly delicate creatures, but they shouldn't be underestimated. Observing them as I did, I learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes if you surround a butterfly too closely, it couldn't fly if it wanted to.
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#45. What's your conscience?" "It's a meeting place for the things your heart feels and the things your head knows.
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#46. Yes, well, I'm not at all surprised by that revelation, but you see I'm making love to her and that requires a certain finesse, which I doubt your father has the wherewithal to possess.
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#47. Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.
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#48. Gloating with witnesses is so much more enjoyable.
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#49. The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries.
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#50. Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.
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#51. It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.
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#52. Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?
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#53. If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.
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#54. Love isn't found in words, Kate. It's found in quiet moments, a look, a sigh, a smile, a gladness." She sighed. "And very often, it's shown with sacrifice.
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#55. It seems melancholy weather."
"I prefer to think of it more as weather designed for reflection."
"You are the eternal optimist.
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#56. Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.
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#57. This time James Swindler strode into the room. It had always irritated Jack that Swindler had the uncanny knack to give the impression he belonged, regardless of the surroundings. He'd probably look comfortable strolling through Buckingham Palace.
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#58. Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.
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#59. But in the moonlight they were
little more than silhouettes. A reflection of her life. A
mere shadow of what she'd expected it to be.
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#60. Closing his eyes, he saw every smile that Rebecca had ever directed his way and knew a pang of regret. He would have liked to have held her in his arms one last time before he died.
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#61. She indicated that she fantasized about men. Now I'm left to wonder if women would pay to have their fantasies realized. Perhaps we should expand our business to include offerings for ladies.
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#62. He wondered briefly what it was like to dream. He never did. Possibly because he so seldom slept. He was obsessed with obtaining all the wealth he could, burning the midnight oil as often as possible. It protected a person from having to do things he didn't want to do.
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#63. Where do you find your faith in me, Catherine?"
"From coming to know you.
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#64. Really?" Catherine didn't look at all appalled. "What was it like to wear trousers in public?"
"Quite ... liberating, actually."
"I daresay, I think we wear far too many layers of clothes."
"I agree," both men said at once.
Olivia and Catherine giggled like young girls.
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#65. You are now in league with the devil, my lady. May you rest easier at night than I
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#66. The price you pay for waltzing with the devil is residing in hell.
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#67. He wanted to change her past, but even as he thought it, he realized
it was her very past that had shaped her into a woman who fascinated
him.
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#68. Why couldn't women understand that hate could not hurt if there was no semblance of love?
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#69. Expectations were never in
short supply.
"Do you want to know?" he asked.
"I suppose it depends on the answer."
"Which answer would you prefer?"
"I'm not really sure. Both leave a lot to be desired.
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#70. I've never claimed not to have interest in you, Your Grace. As a matter of fact, considering our encounters, I believe it fair to state that I've undoubtedly expressed an interest in you.
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#71. You'd think wouldn't hurt a little one, but the pain is a great as if they'd been with yoy all your life. You can't remember what it was like before they touched your heart and you can never forget them
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#72. I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.
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#73. From the corner of her eye, she watched Clay walk to his wagon, where he'd find no shade.
Isolated.
Alone.
How simple it would be to prepare him a plate and walk to the wagon to give it to him.
How difficult to step into his world of loneliness.
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#74. He brought you back. He can steal anything he wants.
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#75. I want to see you again," Greystone said quietly.
"I'm not certain that's wise. We are of different worlds, Your Grace. In
yours, I am but one night and in mine you are destined to be merely a
memory.
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#76. Why did you think my reason for being here had something to do with Frannie?" Luke asked. "Because she's what we all have in common." "No, Feagan is what we all have in common." "But Frannie is the one we all circle around to protect.
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#77. I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her a cocky grin. "I want to know the price before I have to pay it.
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#78. Her eyes shot up to his, expressing gratitude. He ignored the pain her obvious relief brought him.
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#79. I'll make some inquiries, but I won't do it for you. I'll do it because Frannie would want me to."
"You love her, don't you?"
"Go to hell."
Jack laughed. "You're too late with that command, mate. I've been there since I was born.
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#80. Nature could be both wondrous and cruel, creating immense beauty and then offsetting it with ugliness.
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#81. Words on paper are not the same as blood on hands.
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#82. A friend who had a very charming and dangerous brother.
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#83. I have come to discover men are such prideful creatures."
"And we're not?"
"Of course we are. But we are more capable of bending. Men tend to break.
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#85. There's no such thing as mostly. It's either true or it ain't.
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#86. Maybe only those who faced death daily were able to recognize that courages could be as quiet as a man's thoughts
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#87. I don't think it's as bad as all that." Bill pressed against the duke's chest and Greystone sucked in air through his clenched teeth. "Did that hurt, Your Grace?"
The duke glared at him.
"Yes, I suppose it did. Silly of me to ask.
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#88. He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past.
He had his own wounds that refused to heal.
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#89. She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl.
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#90. No matter how bad things get, Frannie darling, they can always get worse and they can always get better. Expect worse and you'll never be disappointed.Expect better and you'll always have something to look forward to.
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#91. There's a difference between being good and doing bad things. Sometimes, a person does something because he doesn't have a choice. He might not like what he did ... but it doesn't make him bad.
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#92. With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.
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#93. You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.
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#94. It was much less frustrating being the pursued rather than the pursuer.
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#95. Sighing, she looked out at the fog. It was like life, preventing her from seeing what was beyond reach. She wasn't unhappy. She simply felt that something important was missing from her life
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#96. Would you rather leave?"
"Absolutely not. I may be bloodied, but I can still carry a sword.
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#97. But you also admitted to her being in the shadows and not having a clear view of him."
"What would be his motive?"
"Perhaps he saw me kissing Mary."
"Killing the man for kissing your betrothed seems a bit drastic."
I would, he thought, surprised by the vehement behind the words.
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#98. I'm so skilled at convincing people of lies, but I don't know how to convince you of the truth. I love you with all my heart and all of my soul. I will love you until I draw my last breath.
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#99. Ainsley cleared his throat. "Allow me to apologize for my brother. He's not been himself since he returned home."
"With all due respect, Your Grace, I suspect he's being exactly himself. He's just simply no longer the person you knew before he left.
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#100. Her delicate brows drew together. "As a rancher, surely he knows how to ride a horse."
"He can ride just fine. He took it into his head that he could break this rangy mustang, and it broke him instead."
-Houston and Amelia
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