Quotes from Susan Mallery

To be successful at something, you have to want it for yourself, not someone else. You have to be willing to do the work. You have to see the benefit in the hours of practice and you have to be willing to fail over and over again. You need determination and an iron will.

Couldn't sleep?" he asked as he approached, then stopped by the railing next to her. She shook her head. "I guess I'm too excited about the cattle drive." "It's keeping me up, too, but not from excitement.

Winemaking should be a mystery with a hint of magic.

He must be really smart. That must make you proud. I certainly couldn't design a website and entice people to sign up for a cattle-drive vacation." Zane's ever-so-perfect mouth tightened. "He lied, stole and committed fraud. Pride doesn't much enter into it for me." Phoebe hunched down in her seat. "If you're going to put it like that," she mumbled and turned her attention to the scenery.

How do you know that?" "I read a brochure. Someone dropped off a whole folder filled with brochures on the various town festivals. Some of them look fun.

Men get over things. Women remember forever.

Destiny turned and saw a gray-haired lady in a track suit walking toward them.

You do realize that bunny butt is just a polite way of saying rabbit ass.

I think you're attracted to me and you don't know how to handle it." She

Did you tell him you love him? My mom says men have trouble with that sometimes because they're emotionally immature.

some quality time with a good book. Trying to

The person you love is supposed to be the one place where you can relax. Where you can completely be yourself without being judged or pressured. Loving someone, committing to someone, means giving them a break, taking care of them more than they take care of you because if both people are doing that, then it's marriage at its best.

We run several thousand head of steers. Those are the ones that end up on your barbecue. I have another few hundred head of cows for breeding purposes." "No bulls?" she asked, unable to keep from grinning. He sighed the sigh of the long suffering. "A dozen or so.

I'm not attracted to you." He winked. "It's okay. You can tell me. I'll keep your secret. You want me." "Only

Felicia Boylan. I run the festivals here in town." The woman paused. "Interesting that we're all natural redheads. Only about two percent of the population has red hair. The gene itself is recessive. I believe the color is caused by a mutation of the MC1R. That's a gene that—

He was curious about how much of her indignation was real and how much was self-protection.

His mouth turned up at one corner. His face was transformed when he smiled, even when it was a half-smile given halfheartedly. Wow. A sexy cowboy with a sense of humor could be dangerous. And while she'd always avoided danger in the past, for some reason, she found herself wanting to move just a little closer. Play with fire, she reminded herself. Only getting burned seemed like a small price to pay.

If you hang on too tight, sometimes things get broken. If you don't let go sometimes, the bad stuff can't get out and the good stuff can't get in." He

Brides tended to travel in packs.

Alone by herself or alone in a crowd, it still came down to lonely. She

We have to talk. She paused in the act of sweeping up hair from the floor and glanced at him. I don't think so. Maybe I'm here to tell you what you want to hear. You look way too angry for that to be true. I'm guessing you want to threaten me. I don't accept threats during work hours and I'm on the clock for another hour. He swore silently. Jason was right - she had balls. Giant ones.

down the hall toward the meeting rooms. At the far end, she saw a familiar figure wrestling with a vacuum. As she watched, Courtney tripped over the cord and nearly plowed face-first into the wall. A combination of love and frustration swelled up inside her. There was a reason the phrase was "pulling a Courtney." Because if someone was going to stumble, fall, drop, break or slip, it was her baby sister.

Evening," Zane said. It was a pretty wordy opening for him.

her body was stirring as heat sparked and her girl parts woke up. No