Top 100 Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes
#2. Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.
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#4. As for your back rubs ... Study an anatomy book, pal, because what you've been rubbing isn't my back.
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#6. I don't need anybody here."
"Sure you do. Who's going to answer the door while you're asleep in your casket?
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#7. There was a sweetness about her that was as unexpected as it was disturbing because it made her so much more vulnerable than he wanted her to be.
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#10. Someone's moved these crates away from the wall. Go up to the house, will you, and see if you can find a flashlight? I want a better look."
"Here." She pulled out the small flashlight she'd stuck in her pocket. "Do you have any idea how annoying that is?"
"I'll try not to do it again.
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#11. Sometimes I think bimbo is just another word men made up so they could feel superior to women who are better at survival than they are.
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#12. He wanted to shake her until every one of her chattering teeth hit the ground. "What the hell are you trying to say? Why did she choose me?"
Jodie eyed him warily. "Because she thinks you're stupid.
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#13. Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor.
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#15. She'd told herself she wouldn't get involved, yet here she was. Typical of those who didn't know how to deal with their own problems. They poked around in other people's troubles so they could feel better about themselves. She pocketed the key.
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#17. Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?
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#18. My wife is so much a part of me, she's like the breath coming into my body. I love her very much.
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#19. You make me see the world in new ways. You're the first thing my heart greets when I wake up in the morning. You're the last thing I see in my mind before I fall asleep.
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#20. And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.
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#21. Her throat tightened as she reminded herself that she might have been making love, but he had been having sex. She
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#24. I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe)
I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)
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#25. Coop introduced her as Ingrid, his massage therapist. "Piper Dove," she said. "I'm actually Mr. Smith's sobriety coach." "Well, God bless you," Marilyn said with a cheery smile. "There's no shame in admitting you need help, Mr. Smith.
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#27. Everything was dirty and beautiful and wonderful. If she wasn't so terrified, New York City would have felt just right to her.
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#28. He tunneled his dirty hands through her hair and kissed her breathless. Her neck, her eyes, the corners of her mouth. He kissed her lips as if his life depended on it. Kissed their future into her. All they could have and all they could be.
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#29. It's not your fault that you're slow. I'm sure it's hard to recover from being hit on the head with a silver spoon.
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#30. I can't chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you're a lot better-looking.
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#34. Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?"
Her eyes bore into his without flinching.
"Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?
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#36. - Don't you own anything pink?
She looked down at her bike shorts and camouflage T-shirt. - What's wrong with this?
- Nothing, if you're planning to invade Cuba.
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#40. If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.
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#42. Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished.
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#43. You never get mad," she said when their server left the table. "Except at me."
"That's not true," he said tightly. "Torie can get me going."
"Torie doesn't count. You were obviously her mother in a previous life.
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#45. Everybody won't like everything you write. Some people won't like anything you write. Get over it.
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#46. Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce."
She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away.
"I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.
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#49. Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.
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#50. In Dallie's mind that was one of the world's stupidest questions, right up there with: was it as good for you as it was for me?
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#51. I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics."
"Former Sunday School teachers don't go around without their underwear."
"You show me where it says that in the Bible.
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#52. Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter!
Gracie: One and the same.
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#53. His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.
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#54. The love radiating from Mariah's face, her hand curled protectively across her belly, all of it so tender. These sketches were Annie's true legacy. They were concrete evidence that Annie had been created in love. Maybe that's what her mother had wanted her to see.
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#55. Their kisses had gone on and on - cheeks, neck, mouth, and tongue. Seconds ... minutes ... hours. Then they'd start all over again. Adults were too fixed on the final goal to take that kind of time. Only teenagers afraid of the next step exchanged kisses that lasted forever.
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#57. She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on
every penny."
"Pick that up."
She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.
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#58. Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player," Nita said, "I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.
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#59. A rubbish word. One he hardly ever used. The word had no moral weight. A person didn't need courage for "nice." "Nice" called for no sacrifice, no strength of character. If only all he'd ever had to do was be nice . . .
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#61. I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.
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#62. I'm just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I've got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I've written one paragraph, and I've been at the computer for four hours.
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#63. Eventually Theo would pick up their daughter, kiss the top of her head, and carry her to an old spruce stump. He'd crouch down, gather up the beach glass that was still scattered there, and whisper in her ear. "Let's build a fairy house.
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#66. Piper wasn't used to anyone intimidating her, but being in the presence of Phoebe Calebow was being in the presence of greatness.
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#67. Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long?
Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.
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#68. There's nothing more boring than listening to successful adults whine about how mistreated they were as children, is there?
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#69. In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.
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#70. There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.
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#71. I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle.
-Heath Champion-
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#73. Bobby Tom told me he's not afraid of the Chargers' defense."
"Bobby Tom'll tell you he's not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn't put too much stock in his opinion.
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#74. Well alright then," His eyes glittered. "I get my kicks whipping woman I have sex with and you're next on my list. Now I'm going to take a shower.
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#75. She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.
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#76. I love being inside you, and touching your face, and opening my eyes so I know it's really you. And after we're finished, I go into a fever thinking about a day when I can leave myself inside you. When I'll steal the soap and turn off the water so I stay there... inside you... part of you.
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#77. And put me down right this minute or I'll scream bloody murder, then do the job for real!"
"I already hid all the electrical appliances, and I'm not taking a shower without locking you in the closet first.
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#78. I feed off men. I lure them with my sexual tricks, then bite off their heads while they sleep."
"Ain't She Sweet?.
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#79. But I don't love you, Daisy, and you can't begin to know how sorry I am about that because if I could chose anyone in this world to love, it'd be you.
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#80. You let us out right now, o r Gabe is going to shoot you with his gun! I mean it! He's got a million guns, and he'll shoot you, then cut you up with a knife!
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#82. They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter."
Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird."
Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.
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#83. If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.
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#84. It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.
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#85. It must be hard being you," she said. "Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside."
"It's not that hard. The rest of the world isn't as insightful as you.
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#87. At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled
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#94. In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?
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#95. You're the most important thing in the world to me. I know you don't believe it, but I'm going to prove it to you.
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#96. As she reached for the plates, she wondered if her life could get any weirder. Her life savings had been handed over to a band of South American guerrillas, she had a phony engagement to a famous football player, she was homeless and jobless, and she was making breakfast for Mad Jack Patriot.
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#97. Are you demented, you stupid badger ? Is that your problem ? Or are you just an idiot ?"
"As to that, I ... Did you just call me a badger ?"
"A bastard. I called you a bastard.
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#99. A coaster gives you hope. You can pretty much ride a good one through the worst tragedy life throws at you. You can even ride it through somebody dying, I guess.
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#100. It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.
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