“Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Montana Sky
“Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Montana Sky
“Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Montana Sky
“Why are you carrying me?”
“Well, it didn’t seem neighborly to drag you by the hair.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Montana Sky
“I thought he waited for you at the side door every night, then walked you back at dawn because you were holding a secret canasta tournament. You mean you’re having sex? I’m shocked.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Montana Sky
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Death of Kings
“Staying home ended up being easier said than done. Kate had spent the first days after Amelia’s death surrounded by her three closest friends from college. They’d swooped in and propped her upright, had seen to it that she ate and bathed and breathed.”
― Kimberly McCreight, quote from Reconstructing Amelia
“A quarterstaff is not very subtle. Or handy. If an kidnapper comes at me, what am I supposed to do? Say, 'Excuse me, my lord, while I pull my enormous quarterstaff out of my bodice?”
― Rae Carson, quote from The Crown of Embers
“I forgot to mention,” Father Christopher said, smiling seraphically at Sir Martin, “that I am also a priest. So let me offer you a blessing.” He pulled out a golden crucifix that had been hidden beneath his shirt and held it toward Lord Slayton’s men. “May the peace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ,” he said, “comfort and sustain you while you take your farting mouths and your turd-reeking presence out of our sight.” He waved a sketchy cross toward the horsemen. “And thus farewell.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Azincourt
“Don't pout that way, my child, you'll give yourself a blister.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from The Castle of Llyr
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