Quotes from Judith McNaught

Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.

Where is your home? she asked after a long, comfortable silence. Wherever you are.

Do you know why I married you, Philip? Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer. She chuckled at that and shook her head...I believed, she confessed somberly, I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was? I can't imagine. I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life. Philip and Caroline

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.

I'm familiar with the myth, I'm merely surprised that a female would be familiar with the classics. You must have a very limited experience with my sex, Alexandra said, surprised. My grandfather said most women are every bit as intelligent as men. She saw his eyes take on the sudden gleam of suppressed laughter and assumed, mistakenly, that he was amused by her assessment of female intelligence rather than her remark about his inexperience with women.

Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.

The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

You can't stand clutter, and you have an obsession with orderliness. The furniture in here is centered exactly on the walls; the files on your desk are arranged in precise corners. If I had to guess, I would say you are probably a control freak, and that is usually symptomatic of a man who feels powerless to control his own life, so he tries to control every facet of his surroundings.

I'd like to shower and change clothes, she said. Would you mind waiting for me a half hour? The question seemed to amuse him. Not at all, he said with exaggerated formality. Please take all the time you need. Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.

Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

And in that unlikely moment, as she held his dagger poised high, ready to strike, Royce Westmoreland thought she was the most magnificent creature he'd ever beheld; a wild, beautiful, enraged angel of retribution, her chest rising and falling with fury as she courageously confronted an enemy who towered over her.

there is the door,use it....

What possessed you? Lauren demanded of Jim the next morning. He grinned. Call it an uncontrollable impulse. I call it insanity! she burst out. You can't imagine how furious he was.He called me names! I-I think he's insane. He is, Jim agreed with complacent satisfaction. He's insane about you. Mary thinks so too. Lauren rolled her eyes. You're all insane. I have to work up there with him. How am I going to do that? Jim chuckled. Very,very cautiously, he advised.

Grow up! Lauren felt as if he had slapped her. Infuriated past reason, she struck back at his ego. You're absolutely right! she blazed. That's what I should do.Beginning today I'm going to grow up and start practicing what you preach! I'm going to sleep with any man who appeals to me. But not with you. You're much too old and too cynical for my taste.Now get out of here!

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

Christmas came three days ago.

I think, Nick snarled, that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.

In one of her more philosophical moments, she decided that the reason virginity was so prized for a bride was because early man must have realized that a bride who knew what was in store for her on her wedding night, would not be smiling quite so radiantly when she walked down that aisle!

Panicked, she dropped the suitcase and started edging away. In her haste she caught the backs of her knees on the arm of the sofa, lost her balance and landed flat on her back on the cushions. His eyes gleaming with amusement, Nick looked at the delectable beauty sprawled invitingly across the sofa. I'm flattered,honey, but I'd like something to eat first.What are you serving-besides baked shoes?

As Ian's father had once jokingly remarked of their gifted son, "Ian permits us to raise him because he loves us, not because he thinks we're smarter than he is. He already knows we aren't, but he doesn't want to wound our sensibilities by saying so.

Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women's games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do at such times: She would deny that anything was wrong, then continue acting as if something was wrong, in hopes that he would do what men always do at such times -beg for an explanation, agonise over the answer, ask for hints, and agonise a little more.

Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears. She shook her head, remembering. He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this - She made a motion as if she were pulling on rubber band. But he wanted you to have the best pears. For you, only the best would do.