Amanda And Jack Quotes

#1. I was ripe ten years ago. Now I'm merely preserved, and before long I'll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.
-Amanda to Jack

Lisa Kleypas

#2. Sweet," he whispered, and stole a kiss from her lips. "Sweet ... let me stay with you a little longer."
-Jack to Amanda

Lisa Kleypas

#3. His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. "Why can't you see yourself as I see you?"
-Jack to Amanda

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Are you just gonna stare at Jack or are we gonna go? Milo asked, poking his head into the bedroom.

Amanda Hocking

#5. Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

Groucho Marx

#6. Amanda hated it that Jack smelled so much better than any other man she knew. If only she could bottle the essence and pour it on some other man.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. We must let go of those things that don't serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them.

Clifton Anderson

#8. The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night

Otto Von Bismarck

#9. It has to be now," he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. "After all, you can't allow me to go around like this all day."
"From what I've learned so far, this is your natural condition," came her pert reply.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said.
Hm, I'd never thought of that possibility' Jerry said. He paused. 'They wouldn't be allowed to vote but they could cook and clean for us. Afterall, we're not extremists.

Louis Theroux

#11. It's damp outside, and I'm always cold. Most days I wear a cap and shawl indoors."
"I could suggest other methods to keep yourself warm.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. Do not mistake my compassion for injured creatures as any kind of personal interest, Mr. Devlin. I once bandaged the paw of a stray dog I found in the village. I would place you in the same category as he."
"My angel of mercy.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

Robert Walpole

#14. The skin of his torso was smooth and golden, rows of hard silken muscles contracting at her timid touch. His body radiated heat, luring her like a cat to a patch of sunlight.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. God, and not woman, is the heart of all. But she, as priestess of the visible earth, Holding the key, herself most beautiful, Had come to him, and flung the portals wide. He entered in: each beauty was a glass That gleamed the woman back upon his view.

George MacDonald

#16. Kissing Jack was dangerous, like drowning in something that tasted good. He was like the artery-clogging chocolate cake she couldn't resist, heaven in her mouth but hell on her heart.

Amanda Usen

#17. How did I look at you? I asked thickly. Like you had to, like I was a magnet you were pulled to. There was no choice, he said. And when you look at Jack, it's because when he's around, why would you want to look at anything else? You love him the way you could never love me.

Amanda Hocking

#18. Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Rob Sheffield

#19. No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. An oblique angle," Jack said, and his bout of jealousy was quickly replaced with glee. "Ha! I told you I would work that in!

Amanda Hocking

#21. Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.
And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Lisa Kleypas

#22. The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.

Amanda Peet

#23. I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her."
"Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

Amanda Hocking

#24. He took his mouth from hers and stared down at her with eyes so dark they no longer looked blue. "Amanda, do you trust me?"
"Of course not," she said. "I don't know the first thing about you."
Laughter rustled from his chest. "Sensible woman.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Amanda Hocking

#26. I am on my way, and tell him he better watch his ass!" Jack shouted, and I held the phone away from
ear so it wouldn't damage my eardrums.
"Real mature, Jack," Peter scoffed

Amanda Hocking

#27. Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad

Amanda Hocking

#28. And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

Philip Larkin

#29. It's important to test your nerve occasionally,' she said. 'It keeps you young.

Paula McLain

#30. Instead of saying "I can't do that," I want you to start saying "I can't do that, yet!

Bruce Van Horn

#31. Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

Baron De Montesquieu

#32. I saw you first," Jack mumbled.
"You cannot use that as an argument," I rolled my eyes. "I'm not the last piece of pizza. I'm a perso.

Amanda Hocking

#33. Dress for success. Also arm yourself for it.

Jesse Petersen

#34. A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me."
"I would hope so.

Amanda Hocking