Quotes from Susan Elizabeth Phillips

my awful wedded husband.

Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living?" "I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet?" "I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she'd spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.

Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player," Nita said, "I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.

If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I'd find a more appetizing buyer.

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

He smiled. "You are one beautiful bitch." "Thank you.

Thanks to April," she whispered, "you have the wedding you've dreamed about ever since you were a little girl." Dean's boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.

For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

He mounted the stairs. "You're a romantic, Daisy. It's not that I think I'm so irresistible—God knows, I don't—but over the years it's been my observation that the minute any man puts a red flag in front of a woman, she changes it in her mind to a green one.

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he's won this round. I'll marry him. But I don't take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.

I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You. Me. Lucy." She stabbed the stick into the dirt. "These are powerful women. They're sane, they're smart, they rule their worlds, and they love us ferociously. A potent combination that makes it touch to pretend they're normal mothers.

He wanted to protect her and fuck her and comfort her and destroy her all at once. The chaos of his emotions coiled around his pain, deepening the agony.

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain in her mouth.

In case you haven't heard, the brain is the most important sexual organ, and my brain isn't interested in having anything to do with you.

You don't live life. You act it.

El orgullo la mantuvo en pie cuando el amor la traicionó.

His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.