Gwen Cooper Quotes

#1. To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

Gwen Cooper

#2. The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

John Steinbeck

#3. Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

Gwen Cooper

#4. He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.

Gwen Cooper

#5. Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

Gwen Cooper

#6. Have you never seen something so mad, so extraordinary, that just for one second you think that there might be more out there?

Catherine Tregenna

#7. If I had learned one thing from Homer over the years, it was that just because you couldn't quite see your way out of a difficulty, that didn't mean a way out didn't exist.

Gwen Cooper

#8. Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Marguerite Duras

#9. Have you ever eaten alien meat?

Gwen Cooper

#10. Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.

Gwen Cooper

#11. In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.

Sarah MacLean

#12. Hide nothing from your confessor ... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.

Margaret Of Cortona

#13. There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.

Gwen Cooper

#14. Years don't begin and end because everybody gets together at the same time and says they do. Years really start when important things happen to you. When you're born. When you find the human you're going to live with forever. Your life begins when it becomes important.

Gwen Cooper

#15. As long as he's eating and he's happy.

Gwen Cooper

#16. Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

Tess Gerritsen

#17. I'm ruined," she confided miserably. "Everyone hates me." "I don't," Caleb pointed out. Lily was not consoled. "You're a man," she retorted, "and that doesn't count." Caleb arched his eyebrows at that but said nothing.

Linda Lael Miller

#18. My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.

Gwen Cooper

#19. Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

Denis Healey

#20. But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply allowing herself to feel bad would have been.

Gwen Cooper

#21. That was something else I'd learned from Homer - sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.

Gwen Cooper

#22. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

Iris Murdoch