Sandra Brown Quotes

#1. The F word turns me on, she whispered.
The F word?
Food
He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn't tinged with bitterness and cynicism.

Sandra Brown

#2. Put your hands on me. Pretend this means something - Lee Coburn

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#3. I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

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#4. contract. I'm trying to get us through this alive, and I don't want my strategy compromised by an amateur with

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#5. In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

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#6. I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

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#7. People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

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#8. While we try to find out what happened to her, there's something you should keep in mind."
Jess arched a brow. "Oh?"
"If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.

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#9. When the retching stopped, he assisted her to stand upright and backed her into the car

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#10. She shook her head slowly. "I don't believe you. You can't be a cop."
"Not a cop."
"Federal agent?"
"FBI."
"Even more unlikely."
"J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that's the way it is.

Sandra Brown

#11. If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

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#12. You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

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#13. He also knew that whenever he recalled her kissing his cheek with such unqualified trust and acceptance, it was going to ache just a little in the vicinity of his heart.
It ached now.

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#14. That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.

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#15. But I'm not a hearts and flowers guy. I'm not even an all-night guy. I don't hold hands. I don't cuddle. I don't do any of that stuff. - Lee Coburn

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#16. He braced himself for happiness like he'd never known in his entire life.

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#17. I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids in L.A. County is white, so when you're looking out there, it's a very brown city.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#18. He had to admit: She'd got to him. This demure second-grade schoolteacher, who'd been faithful to her husband, but who had fucked him with the same fervor with which she'd fought him two days ago, had crawled under his mean ol' hide.

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#19. ...He called up the numbness with which he armed himself to get through each day.

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#20. Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

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#21. For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there.

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#22. You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

Sandra Bullock

#23. Did you find Jesus?

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#24. An affair? Jeff?"
"You think it's beyond him?"
"No, I just can't imagine him working up enough emotion or blood flow to get hard.

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#25. But owning the pain, running through it, overcoming it, was a matter of self-will and discipline.

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#26. I have a healthy respect for gravity. The ground is always there, trying to pull you down. It's the most important thing to keep in mind.

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#27. Whatever else you were about to say, don't. Don't look at me all calf-eyed. Don't nurse any romantic options about me just because I told you that you're pretty or related a sob story about some old horse. - Lee Coburn

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#28. I've got your back, Doc. You can count on it. I would kill them before I let them touch you.

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#29. She kissed his eyebrow. "Not I.

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#30. I loved Eddie. You know that, Stan. He'll be enshrined in my heart until I draw my last breath. But he can't be enshrined in my life. I've got to let go and move on. So do you.

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#31. Fine. He had let her indulge in her hobby, while he'd indulged in his, and right now his was clenching her soft thighs against his pumping hips. He gave one last push and came. He wasn't sure Alice did, but she was better than Emory at faking it.

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#32. Dodge, I'm going to tell you something."
"Judging by your tone, you're going to have to kill me after. Frankly, I'd just as soon not known.

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#33. Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

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#34. He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

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#35. Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

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#36. died. But he couldn't take the

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#37. Women readers aren't turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.

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#38. I'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

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#39. A double-minded man is unsure in all his ways.

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#40. Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

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#41. Doesn't it bother your conscience to know that thousands of trees give up their lives just to keep you in reading matter that you dont read?

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#42. If she commits to something, it's forged in steel.

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#43. You don't have to give me flowers, Coburn. You don't even have to hold me. Let me hold you. - Honor Gillette

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#44. People reveal as much by their silence as they do by what they say.

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#45. People don't care how smart woman is as long as she's charming and gay and pretty.

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#46. During the opening credits, he said, "We're in the back row. Want to just mess around instead?" She looked across at him, and he grinned. "It's been hours, after all."
"Half that time you've been furious with me."
"Doesn't mean I don't want to jump your bones.

Sandra Brown

#47. From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.

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#48. If I could have you after every nightmare, I'd have ten a night.

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#49. It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future.

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#50. Can we talk?"
"Fuck off."
"Good. You're willing to cooperate.

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#51. The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

Sandra Bernhard

#52. Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it's incurable. I've just learned to live with it.

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#53. gave a sharp cry of realization just as hands, which she had

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#54. He gave, took, told her with every stroke what he hadn't been able to convey with words, communicated what he'd felt from the moment he saw her enter the courtroom, and knew, in that instant, that he'd been blessed and doomed in the same heartbeat.

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#55. He took a long time to answer. I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either.

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#56. What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

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#57. I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

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#58. Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

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#59. I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

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#60. I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.

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#61. From that she went directly into two minutes

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#62. And the longer she holds out, the more you want it, and the more you want it, the blinder you get. There is a direct correlation, you know, between a stiff dick and blind stupidity.

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#63. Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

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#64. I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

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#65. Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.

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