Quotes from Linda Howard

Think of it as therapy, he encouraged. A sort of repayment for your own therapeutic knowledge. You gave me a reason to live, and I'll show you how to live.

Lady, what you do to me is almost criminal," he groaned in a shaky voice. An odd tightening in her breasts made her close her eyes. "I've got to go," she said weakly, but for the life of her she couldn't make herself move. "No, don't go," he pleaded. "Let me touch you… my God, I've got to touch you!

I'm calling the police, she said, showing him the phone in her hand. He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. You don't need the police. No, of course she didn't How silly.

Syria was one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

No!" he roared. "I've had enough for today! A little of you goes a long way, lady!" "Please, call me Dione," she murmured. "I don't want to call you anything! My God, would you just leave me alone!" "Of course I will, when my job is finished. I can't let you ruin my record of successful cases, can I?

No matter how much damage he had done, he hadn't won.

He was gone, but she wasn't free of him.

So do I, Mrs. Hardy. Six o'clock, then.

As the morning wore on, she was grateful

She knew better than to lose her head over a man. That was what was so humiliating: she knew better. Three broken engagements had taught her that a woman needed to keep her wits about her when dealing with the male species, or she could get seriously hurt.

It's daylight. Shouldn't you have burned to a crisp, or something? Don't you have to crawl into a coffin? Where do you keep it stashed, anyway? I've never owned a coffin, he admitted, unable to hold back a smile.

The bar lights glittered on the wet pavement, and jazz wailed out of the open doors of the bars, collinding with the more discordant, driving beats coming from the strip joints, where bored-looking dancers, both male and female, gyrated their hips and humped poles and pretended to be sexy.

I won't be talked around as if I'm invisible. This is my house, and let me remind all of you that I'm well over twenty-one. I'll go where I want, when I want. Let them make of that what they would! She hadn't lived with Aunt Ardith for nothing; Aunt Ardith would have died, just on principle, before she would have let a man tell her what to do.

Chloe put aside worries about her job, her life, and turned to face him. Sex can't be the answer to everything, she said as she draped her arms around his strong neck. He bent his head to hers. For now, it can, he said and kissed her.

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible. He'd been wrong.

Then I added a dash of salt, which counteracts the natural bitterness of coffee

Chloe said the first thing that popped into her head., I don't sleep with dead guys... Luca gave her an amused look. Good. I'm not dead. Never have been.... I'm immortal.

That was the thing about cats; even the scruffiest one was convinced of its innate superiority.

Dar mai exista o particica a mintii ei care crezuse intotdeauna ca a iubi inseamna a renunta la o parte din controlul asupra propriei tale persoane, iar ea pretuise acest lucru mai mult decat orice om pe care il cunoscuse

Once outside, the man stopped, lifted his head, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, as if the air smelled wonderful to him. Then he turned to Jimmy, his expression hard and serious. We will need an army. Uh, I don't exactly have one of those handy.

Love! Who ever said that love made the world go round? Love was a killing pain, an addiction that had to be fed; yet even in her pain she knew that she wouldn't have it any other way.

You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

Luca had many strengths and powers; as a rare blood born, conceived and born to a vampire mother and father, he was much stronger than those who'd been turned to the life.

Good God. he said incredulously. You've got a black belt in purse attack, that's for damn sure.