Family Saga Quotes

“The music felt like a special gift from Ted, a view into his soul.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“The bouquet of assorted meats, onions, garlic, thyme, bay and parsley wrapped around her like a warm, familiar quilt.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“The text still made little sense to her, but as she turned the pages, she heard his voice and felt his enthusiasm, as if his breath warmed the words.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“She understood that Aimée’s passion for preparing fine food, her mother’s passion for literature and her father’s passion for the cosmos matched her own passion for music.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“With the thunderous boom of each firework, Isabela’s heart sank further and further. She loved Papi, and she loved Marco. She could never choose between them.”
― Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

“Elbows touching, minds entwined, lost in musical abandon, it didn’t matter which hands were hers.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“A beautiful violin has no value unless someone who loves music plays it.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

“There will come a moment when you will look at your child, your firstborn, and realize there isn’t anything you would not do, would not suffer, would not sacrifice, for that child’s well-being.”
― Candace L. Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalized persons who resent encroachments on their property.”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga

“... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.”
― Amin Maalouf, Orígenes

“Love is the net profit on life.”
― Sharon L. Reddy, Paradox Equation: Parts 1 & 2

“Payton “Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with some of the biggest and most recognizable athletes in sports and business, he had to be able to read the smallest nuances of others. That ability was just one of the unique attributes that set him apart from the competition and made him the go-to person when corporations wanted to align themselves with the top professional athletes in the country.”
― Francis Ray, A Dangerous Kiss

“Are you all right,” he whispered, his lips brushing the tips of my spiky hair. Granted, I knew he was only being discreet so as to save poor Hillary from being reamed again, but my knees didn’t know the difference. They betrayed me, buckling under his hot breath on my ear and the deep whisper that tickled my senses.”
― Gwenn Wright, Filter

“It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown where shiny cars wink at you in the sunlight. If a car winks at you in this area it’s being driven by a person you would be best to avoid.
My side of downtown is crumbling and skirted by chain link fences.
--Rocky Evans”
― Gwenn Wright, Filter

“I knew, deep down, that I was different from my family. I knew just by looking in the mirror.”
― Alex Dalton, A View From The Mountain

“Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his eyes linger over me, stopping here and there in the most uncomfortable places, I know he isn’t really even seeing me as I am. The bloodshot eyes staring out of the alcohol-flushed face are seeing a girl, nearly of age, who owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude.--Rocky Evans”
― Gwenn Wright, Filter

“Non capì, comprese. Perché comprendere era di più, era un abbraccio, era prendere con sé, era farne parte.”
― Cetta De Luca, Nata in una casa di donne

“We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“Tethered to the universe by tendrils of history, with threads of continuity descending to God knows where, I see that I'm more than the dust I'll become.”
― Carol Kenny, Whispers from St. Mary's Well

“I have one night to myself to do whatever I want, and what I want is to do Liam Bradley. All night. Maybe twice.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“I’m falling for my best friend’s little brother, and seeing how good he is with my kids is pushing me past the falling stage and into a territory I’m definitely not ready for.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“I can’t just move into a twenty-six-year-old’s bachelor pad. Especially not when all I want to do is fall back into his bed with him.”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“I will do literally anything to get out of that house with my soon-to-be ex-husband…even if it means shacking up with my best friend’s little brother.
Correction: my best friend’s cute little brother. My best friend’s pro football player little brother, who really isn’t so little, and has he always been so attractive, and I just didn’t notice because I wasn’t looking?”
― Lisa Suzanne, Backup Plan

“She had imagined this moment so many times, and in every version, her mother had been easy to hate.”
― Annika Foxe, The Truth About Gracyn Lane

“The kind of man a smart woman should recognise as trouble and avoid. He was exactly what she needed. Hot. Temporary.”
― Annika Foxe, The Truth About Gracyn Lane

“She had come looking for something to harden her resolve… Instead, she had found acceptance and belonging.”
― Annika Foxe, The Truth About Gracyn Lane

“People disappear every day, Gracyn.”
― Annika Foxe, The Truth About Gracyn Lane