Contemporary Western Romance Quotes

#1. Material Witness - book 1 (**Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012) Nothing But Trouble (Contemporary Western Romance)

Lisa Mondello

#2. Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many, she said.

Carolyn Brown

#3. I hope you brought your handcuffs," she added. "I won't go quietly."
"I might use them anyway, for fun," he answered, remembering the sensation of her warm lips against his.

Roxanne Snopek

#4. Full of intrigue, tangled pasts, and raw emotions, [Gambling On A Secret by Sara Walter Ellwood] is guaranteed to keep you turning pages from start to finish and then wishing for one more chapter!

Carolyn Brown

#5. A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?

Carolyn Brown

#6. Horses ... horses made me happy, complete. Then and there in the middle of some state, in a wild state of being, I vowed I would own a horse again.

Carly Kade

#7. Lovemaking is more than sex, it's a connecting of hearts, meeting of minds, & touching of souls." ~ Dr. Scott Hensley

Pamela S. Thibodeaux

#8. Great. He had a ranch with no power, a burgeoning blizzard, animals depending on him and now, a frightened, felonious elf to look after.

Roxanne Snopek

#9. Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.

Roxanne Snopek

#10. Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.

Roxanne Snopek

#11. Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.

Roxanne Snopek

#12. She pulled her arm free from his grasp and stood back, her arms crossed. "So, what then? You're holding me hostage? Are you even really a sheriff?"
"I am," he said, highly amused at her attempt at bravado. "You wanna see my badge?

Roxanne Snopek

#13. I know what it's like to be different. I'm a Native American in a white world.

Tamara Hoffa

#14. Whatever it was that came over him that night pulled a cord - her laugh, or her surprise gasp slipping out to think he'd do something so bold.

Mary J. McCoy-Dressel

#15. I'm named after my father, Rudolph," he said, then shot her a stern look. "But if you connect that with my red nose --

Roxanne Snopek

#16. Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She'd made the right decision, hadn't she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She'd made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.

Tamara Hoffa

#17. When I'm away from you I am lost.
But when I'm with you, I am lost in you.

Eliza Freed

#18. First of all, I'm not a 'military type.' Second, I never proclaimed to be a gentleman of any kind. I just like the facts straight up. There's no bullshit to wade through to get to the truth." Dylan

Sara Walter Ellwood

#19. This is Bourbon Street, isn't it? Where's the freakin' bourbon?

Eliza Freed

#20. Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

Roxanne Snopek

#21. The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish

Tamara Hoffa

#22. Let's just say Noah and Flynn enjoy the chase, and when they catch their woman, they keep her tied so she stays caught when they play.

Fiona Archer

#23. There's something about a cowboy...

Kathleen Ball

#24. People don't really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I'm lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty." - Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls

Kimberly Lewis

#25. The bats stop flying above and the moon stands still. He commands the air and the sky and my body.

Eliza Freed

#26. She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.

Melissa Cutler

#27. She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God's gift to her, and she wouldn't trade him for the world.

Tamara Hoffa

#28. I think of it like a caterpillar
a wrinkly, ugly worm with traces of dull colors on it. But when the worm metamorphoses, it becomes something truly beautiful. Charli

Sara Walter Ellwood

#29. Mistletoe was her new favorite holiday decoration. She would have to hang some in the kitchen. All over the house. And keep the green stuff hanging until Easter. Or Thanksgiving.

Melissa McClone

#30. He sauntered across the kitchen, six feet of male hotness and charm, heading in her direction like a drone missile locked on a target.

Melissa McClone

#31. You're pretty low maintenance, as women go."
"I am, am I?" She sounded amused.
"Yeah. Like a cactus.

Roxanne Snopek

#32. She tossed a handful of snow at his face, then shrieked as the wind whipped it back into her own.
Red hooted. "Karma's a boomerang, sweetheart. Don't forget it.

Roxanne Snopek

#33. Leah looked up and didn't even have time to moisten her lips before Rhett's eyes shut and his mouth was on hers. It had the sweetness of ice cream, the fire of a double shot of Jack Daniel's, and the steam of a hot Texas summer night all rolled into one.

Carolyn Brown

#34. Damn, she better get her imagination under control or she was going to be in trouble. She stole another glance in his direction, her eyes locked onto the bulge in his lap. Well lookie there. Maybe I'm not the only one having carnal thoughts

Tamara Hoffa

#35. What kind of woman am I?" she asked.
"My kind." He grinned.

Carolyn Brown

#36. It's hot enough to make a woman want to go skinny-dippin' in the Red River. You want to join me to cool off?

Carolyn Brown

#37. Once in rur-al Flathead coun-ty
Stood a cru-wel Christmas scene
Dumped for slaugh-ter were the rein-deer
When an elf did intervene.

Roxanne Snopek

#38. Screw you, cowboy!" she yelled after him, saying the word exactly as she had before. "And that horse you rode in on."
And - Whoops! - now everyone in the diner had turned to look at them.
Zane turned around to her with amusement on his face. "Very original, princess.

Kimberly Lewis

#39. She loved her son and wanted him to make a fresh start here. Her ex-husband always tried to pass Aaron off as normal, not wanting anyone to know his son was different. She wasn't going to go down that road.

Tamara Hoffa

#40. I'm resourceful," she called after him.
Resourceful, he thought, rinsing his hands with the ladle she'd left in the bucket. "A euphemism commonly used by successful criminals," he called out to her.
"If I were so successful," she called back, "I wouldn't be talking to you.

Roxanne Snopek

#41. Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

Carolyn Brown

#42. He was breathing a little faster himself, his heart pounding as he leaned in a tiny bit more. He hovered just shy of her lips before braving the final space between them and pressing his mouth to hers. He knew immediately from the first taste of her that one tiny kiss wasn't going to be enough.

Cat Johnson