Quotes from Jayne Ann Krentz

One of her black pumps had fallen to the floor, and Joel was outraged at the sight of her pretty little bare foot being exposed to all and sundry. "Would you mind putting the president of Thornquist Gear back on her feet?" J

A little tired," Diana admitted. "But mostly I'm frustrated. I've got a million questions, and every time I tried to get Colby to answer them last night he kept changing the subject." Brandon grinned. "He was more interested in making sure you and the baby were all right than in answering your questions. Besides, after we got you two down from that cave, you kept drifting off to sleep every few minutes.

Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life." "Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against the pillows. "Hurry up and tell me the rest. Once Colby gets back, he probably won't tell me a thing. All he'll want to discuss is breast-feeding techniques and how to change diapers.

Write Your Life group was a popular program at the Rainy Creek Gardens Retirement Village

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Panic attacks were like earthquakes. It wasn't a matter of if there would be another one. It was only a question of when it would strike. She had discovered the hard way that it might be weeks, months or even years between attacks. Or it could be tomorrow night.

There will be no change in this firm's concern for client confidentiality.' 'Good.' She relaxed a little. 'But I like to know as much as possible about what I'm getting into before I start an investigation.' It was her turn to raise her brows. 'I'm here because I was under the impression that one consults a private investigator when one does not wish to explain all the reasons why one needs that particular type of professional assistance.

She doubted that he had ever uttered the words Have a good day in his entire life. Even if he got the right words out, the chill in his hazel eyes would completely nullify the warmth of the sentiment. In his opinion, your failure to have a good day was your problem, not his.

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly." "By badly you mean unhappily, right?" "As far as I'm concerned, the two are synonymous.

And me?" Daphne prompted. "You go with Abe because you're the one who knows how to get a read on people based on their living spaces." "Oh, wow," Daphne said. "I get to play forensic designer." "I see a book and possibly a TV reality show in this," Madeline said. "Stick with me, kid." Daphne pushed herself up from the table. "I'm headed for the big time.

Travis looked up. He stared at the recorder and then he looked at Jack. "Everyone said you were just a small-time security company," he said. "I am a small-time security company," Jack said. "But I've got aspirations.

One thing I've learned over the years is that nobody really wants my good advice. They just pretend to listen to it." "Probably because most people just want to whine about their problems. They don't want to actually take the hard actions that will fix those problems.

Lucy frowned. "What's the Three-S rule?" "Shoot, shovel and shut up.

Run if you can because, in spite of how it looks on television, it's hard to hit a moving target. If you can't run, fight and fight dirty. Go for the eyes. Think of every object around you as a weapon. Strike fast and hard when you get the chance because you'll only get one chance.

When it comes to this kind of thing we can all hold out helping hands to each other, doctors can supply some very helpful medications, but in the end, each of us has to have the will to swim to shore on our own. No one can carry another person. Not for long, at any rate.

We all make the best choices we can with the information we have available at the time we have to make them. None of us ever has enough information to be absolutely sure we're making the right choice.

They said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Then why do you want to marry me?" she exploded. "For the usual reasons," he shot back. "Such as?" He slanted her a narrow look and made an obvious bid for his patience. "Such as the fact that we are very strongly attracted to each other, although I'll admit a casual onlooker might not think so if he saw us bickering like this.

But he knew that was his own fault. He hadn't asked the right question. Water flows in the channel that is provided for it. The wrong question created the wrong channel.

Oh, we're human, all right," she said. "Humans have always been very good at killing.

love is the strongest force on the planet and maybe in the entire universe.

Water never disappears forever. It flows back into the sea, becomes rain, forms a river, fills a pond, or cascades down a mountain. In one way or another, it always returns. —"On the Way of Water," from the journal of Hayden Stone

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.

The approaching storm turns the surface of the sea to steel and silver. Only danger reflects clearly from such a mirror.