Quotes About Engagement

because he was going to marry her. "It is customary to ask," she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she'd licked and sucked and kissed not long ago. "Why?" He shrugged. "I'm not giving you a choice.

Hello," he said, on his best behavior now. "I just wanted to smell you." "Oh." Lines between her eyebrows, the tone of her voice making him want to close his eyes and just listen. "Do you sniff everyone you meet?

Thick lashes lifted, a moment of pure clarity in the dark gray as Noah wrapped his arm around her waist. "Meant to ask you to marry me, put the ring in the plant soil, but gardener made me drunk. He's so small. What happened?"

You wanted to play, baby." Soft words that had her freezing in place. "So we'll play.

You have no life, Drew." "Then you won't mind if I stick my nose into yours.

Gabriel found himself interested, and he'd never before found a mouse interesting.

Will you wear my ring, Ivy?" Will you permit me to wear yours?

So there's a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn't about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)

Thou shalt make sure thy first sentence is a grabbah!

Stepping outside your comfort zone to reach out can have tremendous payoffs. Whether you are building your network of media contacts, writing an opinion piece for a newspaper or blog, arranging a meeting with your local Congressman, or engaged in a media blitz around your latest paper, you'll generate ripples that can lead to surprising and gratifying results.

It is the professional's responsibility to reach out and make the extra effort to connect with parents who seem resistant to becoming involved.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…

History is not a bedtime story. It is a comprehensive engagement with often obscure documents and books no longer read—books shelved in old archives, and fragile pamphlets contemporaneous with the subject under study—all of which reflect a world view not ours.

More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.

The telephone is your theater, your stage. Your receiver is your curtain. When it goes up, make yourself a star.

Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.

Ours is an active faith. It is made alive and appealing only when our nouns turn into verbs.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.