Top 61 Janzen Quotes
#1. I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that's what we've got going here. I was willing to die for you. I'm sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to live with you.
Tara Janzen
#2. Granny panties. White as a flag, but with no surrender.
Rhoda Janzen
#3. We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#4. It was after Nick had left me that I learned the lesson: its when you don't love somebody that you do notice the little things. Then you mind them. You mind them terribly.
Rhoda Janzen
#5. It was the most traditional wedding ring in the world. It reeked of stability and fiftieth wedding anniversaries. It proclaimed itself to the world as the rock upon which vows were never broken. It was a testament of his love. Proof of his commitment.
Tara Janzen
#6. Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his "Avoid at All Costs" list right under untimely death and a desk job.
Tara Janzen
#7. - Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about?
- The one in Washington, D.C.
Tara Janzen
#8. Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?
Rhoda Janzen
#9. We've got to stop meeting like this."
"No, we don't." He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it every day for the rest of his life. He just hadn't told her yet.
Tara Janzen
#10. She'd never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted.
Tara Janzen
#11. When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community.
Rhoda Janzen
#12. The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#13. All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.
Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.
Tara Janzen
#14. You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore.
Tara Janzen
#15. You stole my heart, Regan,"he told her. "And I don't particularly want it back.
Tara Janzen
#16. She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.
He really should marry her.
Tara Janzen
#18. He'd kissed her, and she'd been poleaxed, frozen in place, because his mouth had felt like coming home. The taste of him, the smell of him, the sound of his breath-the slow slide of his tongue over and around and down the lenght of hers, it had all said, Here's your place,girl,here with me.
Tara Janzen
#19. The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.
Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans?
Tara Janzen
#20. That meant Ms. Starkova was his. He'd found her; he'd tailed her; and he'd saved her from Reinhard Klein. By jungle law, even the urban jungle, that made her his.
Tara Janzen
#21. Fuck, Dylan said, then thought it, just for the hell of it.
Tara Janzen
#22. Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#23. He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn't.
Tara Janzen
#25. How good would a Good Samaritan be, if a Good Samaritan would only intend to do good?
John Janzen
#27. Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math
Rhoda Janzen
#28. Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#29. Excuse me," she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!
Tara Janzen
#30. Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#31. What I want to measure, what I can control, is my own response to life's challenges.
Rhoda Janzen
#32. This isn't about you, Skeeter. It's about me, and I need you here. If we lose Crutchfield, we'll get him another day. If I lose you...
Tara Janzen
#33. She could not leave him hanging like this. "If you were hurt, I need to know." It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.
Tara Janzen
#34. Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity
Do Justice
Learn from the World Community
Nurture People
Cherish the Natural Order
Non-Conform Freely.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#35. You can't possibly be afraid of trees.
Tara Janzen
#36. He looked around the room at all the stuff. But it wasn't just stuff and it wasn't just any girl grenade that had gone off in there. It was Nikki McKinney grenade.
Tara Janzen
#37. Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.
Tara Janzen
#38. He'd wanted to take her dirty and take her sweet, take her any way he could get her and every way he could dream up
Tara Janzen
#39. In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants.
Rhoda Janzen
#40. But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car.
If this was fate, she was buying.
Tara Janzen
#41. The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#42. She was in love. In love with the same man she'd always been in love with-God save her.
Tara Janzen
#43. I've come to believe that virtue isn't a condition of character. It's an elected action. It's a choice we keep making, over and over, hoping that someday we'll create a habit so strong it will carry us through our bouts of pettiness and meanness.
Rhoda Janzen
#44. The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's name as a gesture of symbolic oppression. It's like saying to the woman, 'Who you are as a person isn't as important as who I am.
Rhoda Janzen
#45. Do you still have Ms. Dekker?
Have her, had her, going to have her again-at least he'd planned on it until the troops had arrived.
Tara Janzen
#46. No. Thank you she said in a voice that said he could go to hell and take his jacket with him.
Tara Janzen
#47. He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat.
Tara Janzen
#48. Mission of mercy, he said, straightening up, his voice so cold, he could have owned the patent.
Tara Janzen
#49. Don't you want to be neighbors?"
"No." he said. "I want to be lovers. Sleep-together lovers. Wake-up together lovers. One bed."
Oh, God, she was going to fall in love. She could feel it happening.
Tara Janzen
#50. Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he'd spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.
Tara Janzen
#51. You're staring at my ass."
"Yes, I am." It's what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed.
Tara Janzen
#52. If it hasn't already done so, the church ... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society. In short, it will either recover the Christian doctrine of nonconformity or cease to have any authentic Christian voice.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#53. About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#54. I would rather get a PhD than stand to reach for toilet paper. Though some readers might emphasize the similarities between the two activities.
Rhoda Janzen
#55. He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot at again - and then throw himself at her feet.
Tara Janzen
#56. There was a lesson in here somewhere, he was sure. Or maybe he'd offended some ancient, pre-Columbian god while he'd been in South America -because this was a test.
Tara Janzen
#57. Hawkins's plan to be more careful was starting to include things like "carefully brushing her off," and "carefully take her home," where he could "carefully kiss her mouth" and "carefully take her clothes off.
Tara Janzen
#58. Renunciation of many good things is needed to break our bondage to the fragmenting forces of our society, which most of us have internalized, as if busyness on many fronts were a virtue instead of a vice.
David Janzen
#59. Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends flop like spaniel ears. I'm suspicious of unnaturally perky ribbon.
Rhoda Janzen
#60. I'm not really a chicken-patty kinda girl, I said.
Rhoda Janzen
#61. Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't," he said, his own jaw a little tight. "So I stole his car.
Tara Janzen
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