Top 100 Susan Mallery Quotes
#2. I'm not sure you need protecting."
"Everyone needs protecting now and then.
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#4. That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more.
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#5. Zane liked her. At least Chase thought he did, and she was gone enough on the man to be willing to accept the gospel truth from a seventeen-year-old.
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#6. I thought I was looking for something. Now I get that I was looking for someone. You. I'll go back to school and get my degree because it will make you happy. But also because it will make me the kind of man you want. This all about you, Aurelia. Don't you get that?
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#7. Everyone has a past, she reminded herself. If only she could have a good one. One that was exciting and involved pirates or space creatures.
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#8. Life is short. You have to do what you can while you have the chance. His
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#10. She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.
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#11. If I start , I'm not going to stop," he said flatly.
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#12. Sometimes life was hard, she thought, walking across the grass to be with her friends. Just when you least expected it, you had to start over. There was pain in that, but also satisfaction. With or without her wanting it to, life moved on. And she would, too.
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#13. Love is very real and it's dangerous. People do crazy things in the name of love. Bad things. Love is powerful and shouldn't be played with.
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#14. He grabbed her and pulled her against him. "I've missed you," he said right before he kissed her.
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#15. The women had one of their get-togethers last night. From what I heard, it was lots of margaritas and ice cream and calling you a bastard. They're all hungover this morning, so
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#16. A lot of people think I chose these children because they have problems. That's not true. I chose these children because they touched my heart.
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#18. Life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.
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#19. It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.
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#20. It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.
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#21. To the stupidity of men, " Dakota said, raising a glass. "And my brother, who is their king.
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#22. She'd been so hopeful that people would forget her.
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#23. Why would men want to do without women? We adore women."
"Because they serve you," she grumbled.
"No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women.
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#24. You look good."
"You look like shit."
"That's how I feel."
"Good. What do you want?"
He gave her a faint smile. "To tell you how much I love you, Izzy. I probably have from the first moment we met.
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#25. Yet there was something about Phoebe Kitzke. An innocence, maybe. No, that wasn't right. It was how she seemed trusting. More fool her. Or maybe him.
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#26. Because his mother never met a boundary she didn't want to cross.
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#27. I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men."
"If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it?" Felicia asked. "If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.
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#28. I'm not sure I'm the marrying kind. I don't even know if I want kids. I'm still at the keeping-a-plant alive stage of my life. Next, I'll consider getting a pet.
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#29. He tucked her hair behind her ears and kissed her.
"I love you Gracie Landon," he said quietly.
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#31. You don't look like the librarians I remember," he told her.
"We've changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we didn't get much media coverage.
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#32. I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.
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#33. Welcome to the real world Kerri. Shit happens. You don't get to stop it by being a nun or telling the truth or turning counter clockwise three times while facing the sun and clucking like a chicken. It's a crapshoot and sometimes you lose.
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#34. The last time I dated, dinosaurs roamed the earth. We didn't even have electricity.
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#35. She breathed, she walked through her house and knew that nothing was ever going to be the same again.
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#36. I'm starting to remember that it's okay when things don't turn out right the first time. I can always try again and get it right.
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#37. He looked at her. I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.
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#38. Hi, Zane. How are the preparations coming?"
He gave her one of his grunts, then shrugged. She took that to mean, "Great. And thanks so much for asking.
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#39. Making a family work was about love and trust and knowing where to draw the lines.
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#40. I promised myself no regrets," she whispered into the darkness. "No what-ifs, no second guessing. I promised myself that I was going to live my life, instead of always taking the safe route.
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#42. They say people who
don't learn from history are destined to repeat it.
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#43. I think you're attracted to me and you don't know how to handle it." She
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#45. She looked both hurt and broken. As if her spirit had received one too many mortal blows.
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#46. Darlin', if we only married who we deserved, then the world would be filled with single women, an older woman said.
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#49. It's not getting it right the first time
it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.
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#51. Did you bring your camera? Gracie grabbed her trusty Polaroid from under her arm and held it out. Light from the streetlamp glinted off the narrow lens.
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#52. Angel was different in every way possible. When he looked at her with those cool gray eyes, she had no idea what he was thinking. That was kind of fun, She just hoped it didn't mean he was a serial killer.
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#53. You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.
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#54. You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet.
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#55. Greatness is measured by how one faces adversity. Everyone can be committed when things are going well.
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#56. Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
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#57. This is bullshit. You think I care what other people think? What does age have to do with it? Why can't you be that girl? As for what I want to do with my life, why can't I figure that out with you?
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#58. Fifty dollars can't change a life, but when everyone gives a little, we can change the world.
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#59. Doing what's right isn't supposed to hurt someone you care about.
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#60. I'm very comfortable being right," she admitted.
"We all are. But sometimes it's a lonely place.
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#61. Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.
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#63. She'd often thought that was what a good marriage would mean. Sometimes she would take on all the burdens, and sometimes her husband would. Most of the time they would share them.
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#64. Better to keep trying until you find something that makes you happy rather than choose something now and hate your job for the next twenty years
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#65. When did you get all insightful?" he asked.
"I have no idea," Josh admitted.
"I don't like it."
"Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone."
(Ethan and Josh)
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#66. I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt
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#67. You're not someone I could forget," he murmured.
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#68. Talking to the animals? Is that really how you want to start your day?"
"Manny was helping me get my life back on track. We're discussing life goals and career choices."
Maya held up her hands. "Not before coffee, I beg you.
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#69. She still wanted to slap something. Or throw something. The fish offered a tempting target but, before she could figure out who would fly across the room best, she heard the front door open and a man speaking to Tina.
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#70. Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.
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#71. Nothing is free. If you stay safe, the price is never knowing love. Because to receive love, you have to give love. And to give love is to be vulnerable. You can build walls and be lonely or you can tear them down and hand over your heart." "What
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#72. I'm going to walk you home."
"I know the way."
"Maybe, but the streets are dangerous. I don't want anything to happen to you."
"My door is about five feet from yours. What could happen?"
"You never know.
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#74. This isn't Twilight. I don't have to pick a guy.
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#75. Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden
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#76. Tucker: There are beautiful women everywhere, or are you so married you've forgotten?
Ethan: Just not interested. Why go looking when you have the best of everything waiting at home?
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#77. Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.
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#78. Love me. Be with me."
"That's enough?"
"That's plenty.
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#79. Too bad Justice refused to let him toss live grenades to the side of the course. That would add motivation. He knew from personal experience. His personal best time for a quarter-mile run had been in Africa - while being chased by an angry rhino. Imminent death made for a great workout.
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#80. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
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#81. It was heaven. Pure and simple paradise. Even as he kissed his way along her neck, his palms circled, his fingers kneaded, and she sent up the white flag of surrender.
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#82. I'm a forever kind of guy," he murmured, right before he kissed her. "That's how long I want.
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#83. I don't know why she picked me, but she did and I'm not letting go.
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#84. That was the thing I hated, that I'd made such a lousy choice. But I didn't. You set out to convince me you were exactly what I was looking for. I had no reason to mistrust you. You lied, I didn't.
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#86. He was funny and charming, but also kind. It seemed the older she got, the more she appreciated kindness in people.
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#87. She didn't know the going price of cattle on the hoof, or the per acre value of land in this part of the country, but from what she could tell, no Nicholson was ever going to die poor.
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#88. She hesitated before opening the envelope, telling herself there was nothing he could say that would change anything. But she opened it anyway and read the note.
I'm not very good at this. I'm sorry.
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#90. Want to get Chinese?"
"I though you cooked."
"Like I know how."
"That's my girl.
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#91. Charity Jones loved a good disaster movie as much as the next person - she would simply prefer the disaster in question not be about her life.
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#92. The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.
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#93. Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.
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#94. You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.
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#95. Trust others to do the right thing. If you can't do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.
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#96. Unfortunately, you're going to have to face the consequences of what happened. Your friends got you into trouble, and you're going to have to pay the price for that. You knew it was wrong to take the clothes, but you did it, anyway. She
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#97. You were supposed to love me. You convinced me it was safe to love you back. Liz Sutton to Ethan Hendrix
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#98. And demand an answer." "She didn't have as good a time
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#99. I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker.
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#100. Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.
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