Sweet Quotes - Page 25

• Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.

  Maya Banks

  Baby, Lakes, Negative

  Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.101, Penguin

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• Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Waiting, Sun

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• 'Dear Mr. Argeneau,'" she began. " 'I haven't read Love Bites, One, but I will, I guarantee it. I just finished Love Bites, Two, and thought it was wonderful. Etienne was so sweet and funny and sexy that I fell in love with him even as Rachel did. He's my dream man.'" Kate paused and glanced up expectantly. "What would you say to those letters?" That was easy enough. "Etienne is taken." -Kate and Lucern

  Lynsay Sands

  Sexy, Dream, Taken

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• I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

  Roger Zelazny

  Good Night, Hands, Thrones

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”

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• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  Sarah Dessen

  Night, Eggs, Voice

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 1999.

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• I didn't want to be a sweet boy's sweet girlfriend. I wanted to be Fawn's equal, the kind of girl who stood up for herself and took care of business, who cut guys loose when it was required.

  Paula McLain

  Girl, Cutting, Boys

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• He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

  Cassandra Clare

  Smell, Morality, Corruption

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• And then something truly bizarre happened. I could feel his touch through our eyes. I couldn't look away from him. The girl in front of him seemed to disappear, and all there was in the hallway was him and the sweet, beautiful smell of his blood.

  P. C. Cast

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.43, Macmillan

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• ...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Powerful, People

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.138, Hot Key Books

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• Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!

  Edmond Rostand

  Heart, Self, Unseen

  Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I wrap my arms around his neck, feel his arms hesitate before they embrace me. Not as steady as they once were, but still warm and strong. A thousand moments surge through me. All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone for ever.

  Suzanne Collins

  Strong, Memories, Gone

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• I miss him, my lady.” “Well, he is now living adjacent. You can hardly miss him all that much.” “True. But we are no longer compatible—I am a werewolf; he is a vampire.” “So?” “So we cannot dance the same dance we used to.” Biffy was so sweet when he tried to be circumspect. Alexia shook her head at him. “Biffy, and I mean this in the kindest way possible: then you should change the music.” “Very good, my lady.

  Gail Carriger

  Mean, Missing, Vampire

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

  Jane Austen

  Kindness, Grateful, Heart

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.700, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Heard, Lunatic

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• So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.

  Jeff Buckley

  Waiting, Too Late, Return

  Song: Lover, You Should've Come Over, Album: Grace, 1994

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• With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Winter, Night, Discovery

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.91, Penguin

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• I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

  Ilona Andrews

  Self, Shade, Killers

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.96, Penguin

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• My captivity with Dimitri. The way his mouth—so, so warm, despite his cold skin—had kissed mine. The feel of his fangs pressing into my neck and the sweet bliss that followed... He looked exactly the same too, with that chalky white pallor and red-ringed eyes that so conflicted with the soft, chin-length brown hair and otherwise gorgeous lines of his face. He even had a leather duster on.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Hair, White

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.89, Penguin

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• They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Faces, Strange, Excitement

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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• You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.

  Charlaine Harris

  Knows

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1167, Penguin

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• And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.

  Delphine de Vigan

  Thinking, Giving, Calm

  Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.96, A&C Black

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• How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

  Graham Swift

  Rushing, Sometimes, Everlasting

  Graham Swift (2012). “Tomorrow”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Song, Stars, War

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.213, tredition

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• Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Wall, Flower

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.898, Delphi Classics

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