Quotes from LaVyrle Spencer

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

At night in bed, they talked. He, of the bees. She of the birds. Never of the birds and bees.

strong circle of his own. He leaned to kiss her neck. Her eyelids remained closed as she dropped her head to the side. "Don't," she whispered raggedly. But his lips moved to hers while he held her with one arm, peering past her cheek as he turned off the oven. Continuing to control her movements with his own, he opened the oven door while pulling her two steps away to make room for its downward swing. "Don't.

La relación entre ambos se basaba en la admiración y el respeto mutuos y en el amor

Todas las preocupaciones de su vida pasada le parecían insignificantes e intrascendentes en comparación con el carácter definitivo de la muerte. Era una sensación sobrecogedora que quitaba la facultad de pensar, de moverse, de dirigir las extremidades para avanzar hacia la siguiente eventualidad

De pronto, mientras miraba por la ventanilla, se sintió engañada y enojada. Todo ese tiempo y ese amor invertidos en la vida de otra persona, y ahora él se había ido, y con él gran parte de su futuro

Diablos, no era necesario ser Freud para comprender que había desarrollado un complejo de Edipo con esa mujer

Al besarse, eran sólo un hombre y una mujer

Para que una persona mereciera el título de "padre" era necesario mucho más que llevar a un niño en el vientre y parirlo

Hace unos minutos comprendí que cualquiera puede observar a una persona mientras se desviste, pero observarla cuando se viste es mucho más íntimo. Aprendés el orden en que hace las cosas

bring in a magnificent income that would assure her

the wilderness. Who in his right mind would not want someone to take care of these unpalatable household tasks?

Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you.

Will asked Miss Beasley what kind of man Glendon Dinsmore had been and she answered, as different from you as air is from earth. He asked which he was, air or earth? She laughed and said, "That's what I like about you—you really don't know.

Y cuando nos separamos, es otoño en mi corazón.

You...you loved her, didn't you, Pa?" Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps. "Oh, I loved her, all right," he answered. "A man sometimes can't help lovin' a woman, even if she's the wrong one.

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.

Entonces, dijiste algo que nunca olvidé. Dijiste que estar con él hacía la vida más significativa, y que cuando se iba, llegaba el otoño a tu corazón.

Happy people got something to fight for.

Dímelo otra vez —pidió, insaciable. —¿Qué? —lo provocó. —Ya sabes qué. Dímelo. —Te amo. —Otra vez. Tengo que oírlo una vez más. —Te amo. —¿No te cansarás nunca de que te pida que me lo digas? —No tendrás que pedírmelo. —Ni tú a mí. Te amo.

Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, "If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window!