Marton Quotes

#1. My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Michael Smith

#2. She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn't live without his heart.

Dana Marton

#3. I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.

Marton Csokas

#4. I hope we'll be friends." His grin was pure sin....
She stuck with the truth. "I hope we won't be enemies.

Dana Marton

#5. To the best of your knowledge, Charles, do villains ever permit themselves to be rained on?"

"Not to my knowledge, no, sir.

Sandra Marton

#6. The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

Marton Csokas

#7. She'd sighed the kind of long-suffering sigh he knew women gave when men were too thick-headed to understand the mysteries women were born understanding.

Sandra Marton

#8. each week, before they dealt the cards, my father presented his typed report on himself and my mother to Marika, who copied it in her hand, then burned the original.

Kati Marton

#9. She wasn't entirely sure if she was being rescued or kidnapped.

Dana Marton

#10. It's the ones who don't tell you they are informing," he said, "that you have to worry about.

Kati Marton

#11. Tomorrow, said the voice of fear in her head. It always said, tomorrow, whether it talked about going to the grocery store or starting a new painting. Tomorrow you'll be brave, fear whispered. Tomorrow you'll be normal. Just give me today. That was how fear stole whole lives away.

Dana Marton

#12. Her father didn't know the half of her problems. Nobody did. Nobody ever would. She couldn't let anyone find out just how crazy she was, the secret she kept. She would fight her way out of that dark hole somehow. She had to, or it would swallow her for good.

Dana Marton

#13. In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin Quarter, with empty sleeves pinned to the shoulder of their jackets, reminded me of the not-so-distant war.

Kati Marton

#14. I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.

Marton Csokas

#15. Time seemed to do that thing everyone knew was impossible.

It stood still.

Sandra Marton

#16. Quickly, Ian learned the danger of holding her. Once he allowed his arm around her, letting her go was nearly impossible.

Dana Marton

#17. Of all the shades of red, she hated the wet, sticky brightness of crimson the most.

Dana Marton

#18. Why did you do that?" she asked, weakly, but, hey, the fact that she could talk at all was a minor miracle.
"You needed to be kissed."
For some reason, the tone of masculine satisfaction in his voice needled her. "I needed it? Really?"
"Fine, I needed it.

Dana Marton

#19. I get it. Artists are introverts. If you were out there socializing all the time, you wouldn't have time to contemplate and create. I have artists who are social butterflies. I'm not making a lot of money off them." She paused.

Dana Marton

#20. The Potomac had taken away Linda and the boys.
The Rio Negro had given him Daniela.
One river had swallowed his heart; another river, halfway around the world, had gifted it back. A different heart, beaten up, scarred, but a beating heart at least.

Dana Marton

#21. he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea.

Dana Marton

#22. I love you more than piranhas love chicken wings.

Dana Marton

#23. For some, their endless potential can be more frightening than their shortcomings,

Dana Marton

#24. He kissed her dizzy, then lifted her. She wrapped her legs around his waisst as he kissed his way down her neck.
"Make love to me," she whispered. "Like I'm a full-grown woman."
He pulled back to look at her. "As opposed to...?

Dana Marton

#25. Nothing woke up a man as quickly in the morning as a scorpion in his pants.

Dana Marton

#26. The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.

Marton Csokas

#27. I can't find the words." She stared daggers at him.
"Don't hurt yourself trying.

Dana Marton

#28. Being the underachiever in a family of overachievers was hell.

Sandra Marton

#29. I am what you see. A woman. Flawed. Imperfect. You can't label me. I'm not any one thing. I'm many things and not all of them are good. The only certainty is that I love you.

Sandra Marton

#30. Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Marton Csokas

#31. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.

Dana Marton

#32. She growled.
He gave her a considering look. "That's almost sexy.

Dana Marton

#33. He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.

Dana Marton

#34. He smiled. "I bet the paper ran something about you once your hiring was confirmed. A new cop is big news in a small town. People were probably admonished to make you feel at home."
She shook her head with some amusement. "I would have felt more at home if they shot at me,.

Dana Marton

#35. I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

Marton Csokas

#36. If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS.
He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.

Dana Marton

#37. Outrage steamed her brain. "I've waited three days... Do you know what day it is?"
He gave a one-sided shrug, his massive shoulder muscles shifting. "Who has time to check the calendar when people are shooting at you and snakes are biting you in the ass?

Dana Marton

#38. Where did you grow up?"
He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?

Dana Marton

#39. And then we met." He wanted to laugh but his throat felt too tight for laughter. "The most wonderful woman imaginable, and a man who is a stubborn fool."

"You left out arrogant," Emily said. Her voice wobbled a little, just enough to give him hope. "A stubborn, arrogant fool.

Sandra Marton

#40. I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

Marton Csokas

#41. Bureaucrats do not, as a whole, like to make decisions. Decisions require a degree of courage and responsibility, qualities in short supply among public servants on both sides of the Great Divide.

Kati Marton

#42. Celeborn is more fixed in his beliefs and methods than Galadriel, which is his failing, perhaps. As a team, they work well, although apparently they only have sex once every 2,000 years or so.

Marton Csokas

#43. He was meant for mistresses.

Emily was a woman meant for one man, one love, forever.

Sandra Marton

#44. No matter what her father wanted, no way was Clara going to partner up with Light Walker. He'd suggested a tarantula for a snack, for heaven's sake.
The were never, ever, ever going to work together.

Dana Marton

#45. The muscle in Matthew's jaw contracted. First pirates, then this fop. Kathryn did not seem to be a woman of discriminating taste when it came to men.

Sandra Marton

#46. She could drive down Hadley Road until she reached the right spot, then walk in. Would have to drive by the reservoir. She didn't drive that road anymore. But even if she could, she wasn't going to chase some imaginary dead man, or almost dead man, around the countryside.

Dana Marton

#47. Have you found your Christmas spirit yet? he asked as they drove by Broslin Square.
The decorations were out of control. "This place would make Liberace feel underdressed.

Dana Marton

#48. She was trying to make him understand that she would never march to the beat of anyone else's drum again and he was arrogantly assuring her that she would if he were the drummer!

Sandra Marton

#49. It was Saturday night at the Tune-In Cafe and the only person inside its dingy walls who wasn't drunk was seriously starting to wish that she were.

Sandra Marton

#50. had a smattering of chest hair that looked

Dana Marton

#51. And wasn't it amazing that an imperfection could make a perfect thing even more perfect?

Sandra Marton

#52. His voice still had the rasp of desire as he asked, "If I disappear, will you come and find me?

Dana Marton

#53. Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. "I'm an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

Dana Marton

#54. What anger wants, it buys at the price of soul.

Dana Marton

#55. Given the choice between finding Godzilla and David Chambers on her doorstep, she'd have opted for the reptile, and never mind it wasn't the one who had the law degree.

Sandra Marton

#56. She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.

Dana Marton

#57. You're not horribly terrible."
He shook his head at her. "You say the nicest things." He held her gaze for a moment. "You're not trying to get into my pants, are you?

Dana Marton