Top 100 Lorraine Heath Quotes
#1. If you ever put yourself in harm's way like that again, I'll put you over my knee."
"And do what?" she asked indignantly.
He lifted his gaze to hers, and she saw the worry in his eyes, before he smiled.
"Kiss your bare bottom.
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#2. In my world travels, I saw a good many varieties of butterflies. They're incredibly delicate creatures, but they shouldn't be underestimated. Observing them as I did, I learned a valuable lesson. Sometimes if you surround a butterfly too closely, it couldn't fly if it wanted to.
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#3. In all likelihood he would eventually destroy her, unless he found the strength to let her go.
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#5. Brittles stood at attention until Jack looked at him, then he bowed slightly. "I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but an Inspector Swindler from Scotland Yard wishes to speak with you. Are you home?"
"Of course, I'm home, man. I'm sitting right here.
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#6. Wait here, Miz Meg, and we'll holler when we're undressed and under the covers. We know it don't bother you seein' our backsides since you're a widow and all, but it'd sure bother us ... even though you've seen em before. We kinda like to keep 'em to ourselves
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#7. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.
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#8. I think your
mother loves Leo."
"I don't know if she loves him enough."
"What would be enough?"
"To give up on the promise of love from another.
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#9. In time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting
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#10. You managed to do the same with my heart, didn't you, Frannie? You stole it, and I didn't even feel it happening.
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#11. There's no greater gift than a love returned in equal measure.
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#12. Olivia dared not ask, but she had to know. It seemed unlikely her husband could have made a worse choice than Jack Dodger, but if he was her husband's first who would serve as his second? The devil himself? Who is appointed as my son's guardian in that will?
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#13. Hell of a thing when a man's hatred for another is greater than his love for his grandchild.
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#14. You think the only battles fought are done so with rifles, and the only wounds that kill draw blood. You think courage is loud, boisterous, and proud. Mrs. Warner, I don't think you have a clue as to what this memorial truly represents.
-Clay to Meg
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#15. It's difficult when you love someone whom you know on some level is wicked.
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#17. Why did you tell me all this?"
"So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.
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#18. He wondered if his own child would like to
have a dog, then shook off the thought. He was years
away from having a child. He needed a wife first - and
obtaining her would be far more trouble than obtaining
a mistress. Here, he had yet to get a mistress.
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#19. Could love have only one side to it and still be love?
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#20. And what about you, Frannie? he wanted to ask. Who will save you?
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#21. He doesn't need to know the path to adventure. He simply needs to recognize that it awaits.
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#22. Is there nothing you want so desperately that you'd be willing to do anything in order to acquire it?
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#24. I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.
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#25. Because I would very much like to kiss you, Miss Darling, and unlike you, I'm not in the habit of taking what rightfully belongs to someone else.
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#26. Honeysuckle. She smelled of honeysuckle. He thought about her pert little nose. He'd wanted to smile every time she tilted it to demonstrate her disdain toward him. If her obvious hatred for him hadn't been so great, hadn't hurt so badly, he might have smiled.
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#27. She indicated that she fantasized about men. Now I'm left to wonder if women would pay to have their fantasies realized. Perhaps we should expand our business to include offerings for ladies.
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#28. Closing his eyes, he saw every smile that Rebecca had ever directed his way and knew a pang of regret. He would have liked to have held her in his arms one last time before he died.
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#29. But in the moonlight they were
little more than silhouettes. A reflection of her life. A
mere shadow of what she'd expected it to be.
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#30. Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.
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#31. This time James Swindler strode into the room. It had always irritated Jack that Swindler had the uncanny knack to give the impression he belonged, regardless of the surroundings. He'd probably look comfortable strolling through Buckingham Palace.
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#32. E are not a reflection of others' behavior, only our own.
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#33. Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.
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#34. It seems melancholy weather."
"I prefer to think of it more as weather designed for reflection."
"You are the eternal optimist.
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#35. Love isn't found in words, Kate. It's found in quiet moments, a look, a sigh, a smile, a gladness." She sighed. "And very often, it's shown with sacrifice.
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#36. If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.
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#37. Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?
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#38. It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.
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#39. At the end she'd be nothing more than a memory, if that.
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#40. Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.
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#41. She thought her world had stopped
falling apart, but she was wrong. It had simply become
isolated, her focus narrowed to struggling not to
continually grieve for all that had been irrevocably lost
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#42. The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries.
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#43. Much ado was always made about secretive meetings.
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#44. I am the bookkeeper, after all, and as a rule the numbers don't behave too badly.
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#45. They were bound together by the things they'd done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do
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#46. Gloating with witnesses is so much more enjoyable.
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#47. Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.
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#48. Yes, well, I'm not at all surprised by that revelation, but you see I'm making love to her and that requires a certain finesse, which I doubt your father has the wherewithal to possess.
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#49. How could my heart be so wrong?"
"Because it was such a young heart.
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#50. What's your conscience?" "It's a meeting place for the things your heart feels and the things your head knows.
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#51. What the devil is that? Jack asked.
Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone's back bore a painting of an unusual creature with fire coming out of its mouth and wings spread wide.
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#52. The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.
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#53. I'm never touching her again," Austin swore.
"You'll touch her," his brothers said in unison.
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#54. You deserve better than a man who requires reforming.
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#55. She tiptoed her fingers along his back. "Were you really making love to me?"
He rolled back over onto her. "If you have to ask, then I'm obviously not doing it well enough. Let me try a bit more diligently before I go searching for a dragon.
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#56. A sound startled him, and to his everlasting irritation, his body jerked. The nurse was standing at the foot of the bed. Did they all have to creep around? He was going to insist bells be sewn onto everyone's clothes so he was aware of them approaching.
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#57. I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.
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#58. Gentlemen, if I truly want something, you do not have it within your power to stop me from obtaining it.
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#59. Has any woman ever touched you?" she asked as she splayed her fingers over his thigh.
"No."
"Do you want a woman to touch you?"
"No."
She stilled, and Clay pushed himself up. He cradled her check in his palm. "I want you to touch me.
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#60. Come now, Olivia, where's your sense of humor?" Jack asked.
"It made a hasty departure when you entered my life.
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#62. Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.
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#63. When someone harms those whom we love, we must do as we must. And I had always loved Frannie.
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#64. He didn't know how one's flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn't understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.
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#66. Then he began tearing at his clothes. She heard the linen rip and the buttons ping as they scattered over the floor. She thought she should be frightened by the frenzy, but instead she was fascinated that she could elicit such a reaction from a man. That he was fairly mad with wanting her.
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#67. When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to
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#68. How long do you think it will take her to figure out who you are?" "She is blind." "Then that makes two of you." Alejandro
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#69. I think it's just a gash. Hurts like bloody hell, though. Remind me ... to never try to rescue you again."
"I can't believe the timing, that you stepped in just when I was thrusting. I didn't see you."
"I didn't see the knife, so we're even.
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#70. Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I'd ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was passionately in love with a woman who possessed the wisdom to adore him as he deserved.
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#71. And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was.
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#72. If it pleases you.
And in his wprds, as always, Kate heard the echo of I love you.
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#73. You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing anything for her that I've not done for her before.
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#74. I knew what I possessed was exactly what I wanted, that I desired no more than what I had.
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#75. How could he give her so much, yet leave her so little.
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#76. But life was precarious and opportunities were never guaranteed.
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#77. I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?
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#78. Have you ever loved anyone?"
"You mean besides my mum?"
Luke was dumbfounded as he stared at Jack. He knew his friend's story. "She sold you when you were five."
Jack shrugged. "Doesn't mean I didn't love her. Just means she didn't love me.
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#79. You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people ... you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.
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#80. Dallas to Cordelia:
You were my dream, Dee. I just didn't know it.The part of me that I was always searching for.
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#81. There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.
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#82. Oh, Papa, I've done something terribly silly. I've fallen in love with someone, and he loves another. The strange thing is, as much as it hurts, I only want him to be happy. And if she'll make him happy, I want him to have her.
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#83. He'd built a wall around his heart to protect it, and she was slowly brick by brick, smile by smile, laugh by laugh, kindness by kindness, tearing it down. Tomorrow he'd refortify it.
Tonight he simply wanted the haven she could provide.
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#84. If I go to hell for this - "
"I'll be there as well. I'll dance with you," he promised.
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#86. Once they were beyond hearing, Miss Darling said, "The upstairs is rather boring. It's only bedchambers."
"I've never found bedchambers to be boring.
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#87. You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."
"Had politeness beat into me.
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#88. Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
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#89. I almost envy your horse," she said, "because these thighs hug him all day."
-Rebecca to Jake
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#90. Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built
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#91. He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.
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#92. You know the legend, lady, but you don't know the man. And damn if I'm not tempted to introduce you to the man.
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#93. As you don't have a lover, Miss Darling, I'd like to offer my services. As I believe we've just proven, we're quite compatible.
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#94. Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.
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#95. I know you don't think he's good enough for me, but then you don't think any man is good enough for me.
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#96. So he held the words tightly inside, safe from ridicule, safe from harm..
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#97. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts.
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#99. What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly.
He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.
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#100. Ah, Loree," he whispered near her ear. "You should hear the music."
-Austin
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