Quotes from Christina Dodd

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Everyone thinks you're so strong and self-confident, but inside you're a frightened child, waiting to suffer betrayal again from those who should love you most.

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

But some vows are made for good reason, and some are made for pride.

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.

Elizabeth understood as she never had before. Everyone, all of them had lived secure in the belief that the earth was stable, unchanging, eternal. Now no one could trust the ground beneath their feet. Yes, the earthquake was the story of destruction, but not just of things. An earthquake destroyed security. It destroyed complacency. It changed the people who lived through it.

He who lies down with dogs shall rise with fleas

Honesty shakes the foundation of civilization.

Women always said he was warm. They snuggled with him in bed, grateful for the heat. A couple of his lovers even claimed that, when he was inside them, he heated them from the inside out. A pleasant flattery, perhaps, but one Hope would discover the truth of. For when she touched him, he did burn.

Caleb came to his mother's side and helped her to her feet. Besides, if you rest, then I am free to make love to Jacqueline. Caleb! Jacqueline had been worried she would say the wrong thing. Instead, Caleb had put his foot in it. But obviously all the cliches she'd ever heard about Italian sons were true. He really could do no wrong, for Mrs. D'Angelo shook her finger at him--but she said indulgently, You are incorrigible. Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.

Archaeologist, adventurer — I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.

For the first time, Jacqueline heard Charisma sound less like an enthusiastic girl and more like a woman whose hard won maturity had cost her dearly

Because when I pray, I say your name first, and I say your name last. When I breathe, I breathe for you. Every kind thing I say, every good thing I do, I do because I know you're in the world and I...I love you.

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.

No matter how they fought they had always been like this: balanced between anger and passion, between hurt and glory. When they first got together, she didn't understand how two people who had so little in common could be so madly, passionately in love. When they split, she had realized madness and passion could never keep a couple together.

For as long as I could remember, I had always been the girl who had watched her father kill her mother.

I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.

They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in.

I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.

She was no longer a coward, forcing bravery from herself—she was brave. "You're not going to kill me," she said, and with swift impatience, she jabbed her elbow in his gut.