Quotes from Stephanie Bond

All we can do is make the best decisions we can with the best information we have at that time and place. And learn how to rebound, reinvent, and regroup. Remember—people who seem to move through life with confidence aren't confident about the outcome of a decision; they're confident that they can deal with the outcome, good or bad.

If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.

So… this business trip of yours?" "What about it?" "Are you and Coop sharing a room?" She raised her eyebrows, then said, "Right back at you, Cowboy." "Liz and I are just friends." "Uh-huh. I hope your shots are up-to-date." "Meow.

Buckle up. It'd be embarrassing to die in a hearse.

Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.

How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?

There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.

I want to sleep in your bed." Her thighs tingled. "You must really like my mattress." He grinned. I never heard it called that, but yeah.

Fils de putain

She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings.

To recognize someone, you had to first know them.

She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.

A lot of good the door did. The man's pheromones oozed through the keyhole and the crack underneath the panelled wood.

She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind--she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.

You're my hero," he murmured. She grinned up at him. "What a coincidence. You're _my_ hero.

Fiancé. Americans had simply adopted a pronunciation from the French to sugarcoat the sticky implication of the word: Constrained. Bound. Trapped.

most people don't plan past the honeymoon. But reality sets in when it gets down to dirty socks and what's for dinner.

Isn't Glen an accountant? We're all frugal." These days, by necessity. "You might be frugal, but Glen is cheap. For Valentine's Day, he actually suggested that we go to a card shop, exchange cards in the aisle, then put them back because he didn't see the use in spending the money!" "Okay, that's cheap." Libby huffed. "I swear, if he cuts up my Bloomingdale's card, I'll cut off his pecker.

Well," Carole said, turning in her seat, "after being fingerprinted and being given a lie detector test, I'll never complain again about going to the gynecologist.

That's the most mysterious thing about love—it takes hold of you whether you're ready or not." She swallowed. "But it hurts." "It's supposed to. Otherwise, you wouldn't notice.

Everyone has the capacity to do terrible things. Put someone in the right situation, then offer the right incentive or trigger the right emotion, and that person will choose wrong over right, even if it goes against their nature.

People who seem to move through life with confidence aren't confident about the outcome of a decision; they're confident that they can deal with the outcome, good or bad.

She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to help himself to something in her refrigerator, he was history. ... Filching leftover was simply too domestic for her to stomach. A man might as well say, "I'm hungry and I'm taking your food, woman." First he'd be foraging for food in the fridge, next he'd be expecting her to cook for him, replace buttons on his shirt, and give up her job to have babies that looked like him.

When you care about someone, they have the power to control you.