Top 36 Molly O'Keefe Quotes
#1. As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.
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#2. His hand touched my leg and I grabbed it. I held it with both of mine, like he was a lifeline and I needed saving. Or maybe I was the lifeline and he needed saving.
Was it possible we could save each other?
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#3. A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.
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#4. Despite all her efforts to not be one of those historical romance heroines, walking into the marble foyer and seeing the slick hardwood floors beyond, the glittering chandeliers and sconces, she felt like one.
She felt small and alone. And like maybe her dad lost her in a poker game.
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#5. I walked toward the bar where The Reader sat turning pages, a cup of coffee at his elbow. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing thick forearms covered in tattoos.
Oh. Sweet. Lord.
Really, he was all of my favourite things.
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#6. Family, Love. Forgiveness. Those were powerful things.
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#7. That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.
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#8. I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.
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#9. When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only bring Billy and Maddy together in terms of proximity and give them a common goal but that would also drive a wedge between them. And nothing fit the bill quite like the arrival of some children.
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#10. My son is getting close to the age that I remember watching Scrooge, and as he loves to be scared, I can't wait to start my favorite holiday tradition all over again with him.
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#11. Sometimes, maybe we don't know exactly what we have until someone shows us.
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#12. She was the miracle I was trying to hold on to.
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#13. I'm the fucking luckiest man on the planet tonight. The only thing I'm going to do is help you come.
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#14. She was saying words she didn't totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me.
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#15. For many characters, the prospect of having a child in their life brings up a lot of issues about their own parents. And who doesn't love that? Bad mommy or daddy issues are a delicious staple in romance novels.
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#16. It's about his family. It will always be about his family. And himself. Deep in your heart you know that and you're trying to convince yourself that you can save him. And you can't. There's no saving Dylan Daniels.
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#17. I wanted to fuck her and protect her all at the same time. I wanted to keep her and push her away. I was everything in opposites, and I felt torn apart by her.
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#18. I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storytelling. Incredible actors, story lines that weren't easy or predictable. It made me laugh, and it broke my heart over and over again.
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#19. I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.
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#20. Show me something you never show anyone. Give me a piece of your soul, because I just showed you mine and because I need to fucking live on something and I have nothing.
Give me something I can live on. For a minute. That's all I want.
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#21. Perhaps it's because I am reading romance differently than I did when I was younger, but I like my characters older. Grounded in reality. And nothing is more real than kids.
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#22. Listen to me," he said. "I will never hurt you or touch you. I won't put my hands on you unless you ask me. Beg me." I gasped and fell back against the door, strength leaving my legs. "And I want you to beg me," he said, still closer. "And I think someday you will.
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#23. She's the kind of girl any guy would want to have as a girlfriend."
"Sucks a mean dick?"
"Stop."
"Loves anal in the morning?"
"Max!
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#24. Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None.
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#25. It wasn't sex. It wasn't just sex. It was her.
I wanted her and I wanted the honor of being wanted by her.
And fuck if I hadn't made my whole life about getting what I wanted.
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#26. You're wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?"
"I want to be with you."
The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath.
The brittle silence told me I'd done something I couldn't ever undo. I'd changed everything.
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#28. I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.
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#29. When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.
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#30. Love is a knife that really only cuts one way, and that's deep.
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#31. I came into reality television with MTV's show 'The Real World,' specifically the 1994 season set in San Francisco. I was glued to the Puck and Pedro drama.
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#32. Sometimes you just had to feel it. Sometimes you had to let the terror and the anger and the fear tear you apart. So you could feel what came next.
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#33. We'd been fucking each other for months without touching. And the last few days had this thing between us strung so tightly it was amazing we could move.
He was going to wreck me. Break me.
And I'd never needed anything more.
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#34. It's a seduction, Annie. It's about want. Not need."
"You've already seduced me," she whispered. "All I want is you.
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#35. It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
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