Top 100 Mary Jo Quotes
#1. Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#2. I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
J.R. Moehringer
#3. Just be careful, Mary Jo. Be very careful. You've made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. One you should not make is to imagine that Christy will ever be Adam's mate. He is mine, and unlike her, I don't throw away people who are mine.
Patricia Briggs
#4. Adam leaned down to Paul. That edge you lost in your fight with Mary Jo is what allowed me to take the time to find something that would hurt you instead of kill you. You can thank her for your life.
Patricia Briggs
#5. Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.
Adam Clymer
#6. Auriele stepped in front of Henry when he would have gone to her. Her lips peeled back. "Hijo de perra!" she said, her voice alive with anger.
Henry flushed, so the insult hit home. Calling someone a son of a dog is a good insult among werewolves.
"Hijo de Chihuahua," said Mary Jo.
Patricia Briggs
#7. What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.
Laura Kinsale
#8. Men are imperfect creatures, aren't they? But they are the only opposite sex we have, so we must make the best of them.
Mary Jo Putney
#9. Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.
Mary Jo Putney
#10. You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.
Mary Jo White
#11. I think what I brought from the private sector was a real appreciation of how much leverage - respect, if you will - that the SEC has. Major companies, in particular, really don't want to be at war with their primary regulator. The SEC may not have appreciated just how great our leverage is.
Mary Jo White
#12. But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.
Mary Jo Putney
#13. The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy ... She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.
Mary Jo Putney
#14. T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and crazy enough to hide behind.
Mary Jo Bang
#15. What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows.
Mary Jo Putney
#16. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.
Mary Jo Putney
#17. Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning.
Mary Jo Putney
#18. But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.
Mary Jo Putney
#19. Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet.
Mary Jo Putney
#21. She made a purring sound in her throat and pressed into his palm,
Mary Jo Putney
#22. Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a man's back. Books revealed their treasures to all who took the effort to seek.
Mary Jo Putney
#23. Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.
Mary Jo Weaver
#24. [On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.
Mary Jo Putney
#25. She always imagined the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Blessed Mother as points of light in the center of her heart, and as she prayed, the light expanded, flowing through her body and soul, smoothing away knots of guilt and sorrow and fear until her whole being glowed with harmony.
Mary Jo Putney
#26. I don't usually look back. When I make foolish decisions, I file the consequences under lessons learned and tell myself not to be stupid in the same way again.
Mary Jo Putney
#27. Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.
Mary Jo Putney
#28. I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.
Mary Jo White
#29. I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.
Mary Jo White
#30. Not a savage - a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it. Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic.
Mary Jo Putney
#31. Michael is easier to understand - he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable - to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy
Mary Jo Putney
#33. All Adam needed was an answer, and 'no' would have worked just as well to set the pack back in order. I agreed because ... because he's Adam. Mine, whispered a voice in my head, but I was pretty sure it was my own voice.
Patricia Briggs
#34. A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Lucien Fairchild
Mary Jo Putney
#35. The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
Mary Jo White
#36. Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, Kirkland said.
Mary Jo Putney
#37. If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.
Mary Jo Putney
#38. I love you," he gasped. "For always." "And I love you," she whispered as tears filled her eyes. He rolled on his side and drew her close, his arms sheltering against the storm that pounded on London. The sky itself wept because they loved each other, and it wasn't enough. As
Mary Jo Putney
#39. Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
Mary Jo Putney
#40. I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved ... well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.
Mary Jo Putney
#41. Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of,
Mary Jo Putney
#42. He'd known the headland was undercut from years of waves and weather, but he hadn't expected to trigger its complete collapse. Shoving the wall over had been merely an attempt to complicate the situation. He'd never imagined ... this.
Mary Jo Putney
#43. I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.
Mary Jo Putney
#44. Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.
Mary Jo Putney
#45. yolks well and add milk and cream. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add to first mixture. Fold in egg whites which have been beaten until stiff. APPLE SAUCE CAKE 1 Cup Sugar ½ Cup Shortening 1 ¾ Cups Flour 1 Cup Warm Apple Sauce 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda ½
Mary Jo Montanye
#46. A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.
Mary Jo Bang
#47. Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan.
Mary Jo Putney
#48. If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.
Mary Jo Putney
#49. The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.
Mary Jo Leddy
#50. Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.
Mary Jo Putney
#51. Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.
Mary Jo Putney
#52. To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan
Mary Jo Putney
#53. We all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.
Mary Jo Putney
#54. I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.
Mary Jo Bang
#55. Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.
Mary Jo Weaver
#56. You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.
Mary Jo Bang
#58. My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character."
"Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.
Mary Jo Putney
#59. And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.
Mary Jo Putney
#60. As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
Mary Jo White
#62. Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.
Mary Jo Bang
#63. The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.
Mary Jo Bang
#64. Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman.
Mary Jo Putney
#65. And certainly unchristian, to hate someone for the color of his skin, yet such trivial things can change the pattern of a life.
Mary Jo Putney
#66. Male philosophers coin phrases
'virtue is its own reward'
and female workers embody them.
Mary Jo Weaver
#67. Money is that dear thing which,
if you're not careful, you can squander
your whole life thinking of ...
Mary Jo Salter
#68. If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.
Mary Jo Putney
#69. Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.
Mary Jo Putney
#70. Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.
Mary Jo Putney
#71. Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.
Mary Jo Putney
#72. A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
Mary Jo Putney
#73. I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare
Mary Jo Putney
#74. What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Mary Jo Putney
#76. What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
Mary Jo Bang
#77. Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
Mary Jo Putney
#78. I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear.
Mary Jo Putney
#79. There is a moment each day when it is morning before it is morning. Darkness still hovers over the deep. Those who wait for the dawn can hear it even before they see it.
Mary Jo Leddy
#80. Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop?
Mary Jo Putney
#81. And now the question: what do we do with the longing
for what can destroy us?
Mary Jo Bang
#82. You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw
Mary Jo Bang
#83. There was deep truth in the fact that men spoke of Holy Mother Church, for the Church was the force of civilization and compassion among nations, just as women brought mercy and gentleness to men.
Mary Jo Putney
#84. The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.
Mary Jo White
#85. Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.
Mary Jo Putney
#86. You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help
Mary Jo Putney
#87. If he chose, he could help this girl, but what was the point of saving one little whore? It would make no difference to that vast, endless, tragic horde of broken children.
But as Jenny stared at him with great stark eyes, he knew that it would make a difference to her.
Mary Jo Putney
#88. The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed."
"Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.
Mary Jo Putney
#89. I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
Mary Jo Putney
#90. Mikhal - ... most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you
Mary Jo Putney
#91. But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very fragile and precious in the idea, though she didn't really understand it. Maybe someday she would.
Mary Jo Putney
#92. Where you live determines what you see. The people you listen to influence what you hear.
Mary Jo Leddy
#93. And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.
Mary Jo Salter
#94. To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.
Mary Jo Bang
#95. Form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of
Mary Jo Putney
#96. Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
Mary Jo Putney
#97. But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!
Mary Jo Putney
#99. Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She
Mary Jo Putney
#100. Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.
Mary Jo Salter
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