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Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is pointless to complain about the problems of the world as long as we continue contributing to them.
— Auliq Ice
It's easier to get over a thing" Scobie said, "if you talk about it
— Graham Greene
PROBLEMS are like cold or hot water, how much you pack it tightly but its moisture comes outside
— Samar Sudha
SciFi: When there's a serious problem and everyone decides to solve it sensibly.
— Elaine Greywalker
When you think you have a big problem, step back. Envision yourself as a small dot on this blue marble we call Earth, that's orbiting the Sun at the centre of our Solar System, that also becomes a tiny dot our Milky Way galaxy, that is all but invisible in our vast Universe. How big is that problem really?
— M. James Airey
How I wished all my problems were just a piece of cake. Eat it entirely and then it's all gone.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
The smile of the morning doesn't judge the day.
— Auliq Ice
The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.
— Auliq Ice
Maintaining a long-distance relationship requires a lot of discipline,” surmised Duncan. “The loneliness that they experience is a formidable force to be reckoned with, and not everyone can withstand it. A physical entity is always more powerful than a voice distorted by static, more so when they encounter problems and want to share them with their partner in real time. In such cases, they usually turn to a third party, and that’s when the relationships fall apart like a house of cards.
— Alexis Lawrence, O.U.R. Café
So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.
— Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.
— Marty Rubin
Problems,” lamented Duncan. “They never seem to end.”“Do they even end in the first place?”Duncan grimaced, “If only we know when they begin, we might be able to nip it in the bud before it putrefies.”“Not everyone recognizes the bud when it manifests itself,” interjected Juliette.“Quite true,” agreed Duncan.“But what is life without hurdles?” Juliette remarked, philosophical.“Some of us simple folk prefer smooth sailing lives,” he deadpanned.“What can I say?” she smiled, shrugging. “To each his own.
— Alexis Lawrence, O.U.R. Café
Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind’s invention, your mind’s exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I wanted to thank you," I said.She wrinkled her nose and squinted like I'd said something funny. "Thank me for what?" she said."You give me strength I didn't know I had,"; I said. "You make me better.
— Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
The good thing about problems is that it seems like there's only one way to get into them, but there's usually lots of ways out.
— Lisa Van Allen, The Night Garden
It’s a pity that virgins can’t be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.
— Sara Craven, Ruthless Awakening
Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.
— Haruki Murakami
Real problems can't be fixed with a motivational poster, a cute quote or a pat on the back.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Fame, girls, fast cars, penthouses and what not; the whole problem is because everyone wants the same things from life.
— Daya Kudari
Most of your problems exist because your heart is hard and you are being arrogant.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
when you avoid one life question, you answer another life question. The question is : what life question do you want to answer?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.
— Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth's biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.
— Paul R. Ehrlich
Most people's lives are fuzzy. That's the problem with the world. No one stops to think.
— Jennifer Ott, Serendipidus
I don't need anybody to handle my problems, only I am capable of solving them my self.
— Britany Lopez
Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.
— David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don’t ignore problems. Don’t assume it will get better.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Sometimes the issue isn't that your problems are so big, it's that you see yourself as being so small.
— Steve Maraboli
Just run away from your problems if you want cause sometimes we need a time to think and cool down a bit before making a decision.
— Adel Sakura
It’s not my fault that these are the problems I’ve been put on this earth to deal with, right? They’re petty, they piss me off, and they’re all mine
— Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
Changing your location doesn’t necessarily mean losing your problems. They’ll show up wherever you are, changing to fit the situation. But until you break them down and deal with it, there is nowhere far enough for you to run away from them.
— K.K. Hendin, Heart Breaths
You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.
— David Foster Wallace
Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.
— Philip Sington
Count your blessings. Millions of people would love to trade their problems for yours.
— Joyce Fields, My Simple Quotes to Live by
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
— Hugh L. Dryden
Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.
— Anthony Liccione
When climbing, you don’t have to put your foot on every step, jump over some of them! When solving your problems, you don’t have to solve each and every one, jump over some of them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But we were talking about me and my problems."Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely."I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.
— Gail Carriger, Etiquette & Espionage
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
— John le Carré, The Russia House
Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.
— Sorin Suciu, The Scriptlings
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
He reminded me of all the questions I asked God years ago when God was too busy to answer."Try asking God. I think it helps especially if you have problems talking to adults.
— Juanita Ray, Battered
She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.
— William Gibson
While the sun is shining on you, solve all your problems or else you shall be lost forever in the darkness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A real problem only occurs when there are admittedly disadvantages in all courses that can be pursued. If it is discovered just before a fashionable wedding that the Bishop is locked up in the coal-cellar, that is not a problem. It is obvious to anyone but an extreme anti-clerical or practical joker that the Bishop must be let out of the coal-cellar. But suppose the Bishop has been locked up in the wine-cellar, and from the obscure noises, sounds as of song and dance, etc., it is guessed that he has indiscreetly tested the vintages round him; then indeed we may properly say that there has arisen a problem; for upon the one hand, it is awkward to keep the wedding waiting, while, upon the other, any hasty opening of the door might mean an episcopal rush and scenes of the most unforeseen description.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity
There are no problems.Just strange situations we have to deal with, as adults we are.
— Dionisis Agelakis
Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You will never solve problems unless you face them head on.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
We didn't have to go looking for problems.
— Mark Soluka
Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems.
— Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.
— Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity
Everyone is tied down in some way. Work, family, medical problems. It's what you make of it. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with the things that make you happy. If you have a bad day at work but get to come home to a woman you love or your favorite hobby, the rest doesn't matter as much.
— Nichole Chase, Suddenly Royal
This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions.""If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems.""Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.
— Jaclyn Moriarty, A Corner of White
June’s clients did not have the patience to deal with problems or the personal courage and energy to find solutions on their own. What they did have was an almost endless supply of capital. With that capital, June’s clients could hire people to solve any problem with minimal effort. That is what June did; she solved problems by the process of elimination.
— Clark Chamberlain, Loves Deception
Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.
— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.
— John Lanchester, Capital
To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.
— Ellen J. Barrier
The quickest solution to a problem is found on our knees". HS/el
— Evinda Lepins, Back to Single
You know, how I deal with all my problems in a daily life, I'm tweeting shit.
— Ariel Seraphino
I guess some problems were too big to fix and you just hoped they would take care of themselves.
— Ryan C. Thomas, The Summer I Died
So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.
— Shannon L. Alder
The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
— Tennessee Williams
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.
— Colum McCann, Fishing the Sloe-Black River
An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.
— Dennis E. Adonis
Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.
— Shannon L. Alder
a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.
— Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280
(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.) Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope - Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn't be able to detect my interest in your problem.
— George S. Kaufman
God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.
— Nancy N. Rue, New Girl in Town
Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.
— Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
There is no problem too large that God can’t handle,” Mamm assured. “Besides, God showed me a wonderful verse from His Word. Romans chapter eight verse twenty-eight: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Amish by Accident
A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.
— John Mortimer, Paradise Postponed
Childhood = No problems in life.
— ali shahrouri
It seems only easier when money is involved.
— Anthony Liccione
It is not about problems, it is about solutions
— Martin Hunter
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.
— Lisa Kleypas, Tempt Me at Twilight
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
— Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, The Great Escape
Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don’t feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God’s greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems.Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.
— Matt Patterson
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
— Olin Miller
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing.
— Kaya McLaren
I reviewed in thought the modern era of raps and apparitions, beginning with the knockings of 1848, at the hamlet of Hydesville, N.Y., and ending with grotesque phenomena at Cambridge, Mass.; I evoked the anklebones and other anatomical castanets of the Fox sisters (as described by the sages of the University of Buffalo ); the mysteriously uniform type of delicate adolescent in bleak Epworth or Tedworth, radiating the same disturbances as in old Peru; solemn Victorian orgies with roses falling and accordions floating to the strains of sacred music; professional imposters regurgitating moist cheesecloth; Mr. Duncan, a lady medium's dignified husband, who, when asked if he would submit to a search, excused himself on the ground of soiled underwear; old Alfred Russel Wallace, the naive naturalist, refusing to believe that the white form with bare feet and unperforated earlobes before him, at a private pandemonium in Boston, could be prim Miss Cook whom he had just seen asleep, in her curtained corner, all dressed in black, wearing laced-up boots and earrings; two other investigators, small, puny, but reasonably intelligent and active men, closely clinging with arms and legs about Eusapia, a large, plump elderly female reeking of garlic, who still managed to fool them; and the skeptical and embarrassed magician, instructed by charming young Margery's "control" not to get lost in the bathrobe's lining but to follow up the left stocking until he reached the bare thigh - upon the warm skin of which he felt a "teleplastic" mass that appeared to the touch uncommonly like cold, uncooked liver. ("The Vane Sisters")
— Vladimir Nabokov, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now
Spiritualism is not Religion: It does not divide, it unites; It advocates oneness of spirit with the universe; It involves knowing the ultimate truth; In such realization, one forgets the self and ego; One merges mind and body with the spirit... I would like to share with you, these and many other inspirational thoughts, to help you find your spiritual Self.
— Gian Kumar
No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.
— John Steinbeck
Beautiful is who you are
— Jessica Edouard
Surely, the Lord will save us in any situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The connection between spirit and other matter, or between the visible and invisible world of human beings, is at present little understood. I am of the opinion that the connection is far more intimate than is generally believed. Of this fact there is the most positive and convincing proof. Many may be so averse to receiving new truths, which set aside all their preconceived opinions, as to disregard the positive evidence of their senses.
— Eliab Wilkinson Capron
The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
You may be ableto fly to heaven with my love.But for real, my love is onlya cheap wine.Seriously,Only God’s love is the precious wine.And She evengives it to everyone.For free!
— Subhan Zein
I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.
— Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. 
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men. 
— Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
— Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes
I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first.It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you.I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.
— Julie Garwood, The Wedding
He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.
— Tessa Dare, One Dance with a Duke
Love will find a way against time itself.
— Sylvia Day, Catching Caroline
They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
— Lisa Kleypas, Married By Morning
Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Wicked Intentions
You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.
— Julianne Donaldson, Blackmoore
Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing," he said, "It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would just happen or that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I know moments of happiness just as most other people do. Perhaps I have learned to find it in ways that would pass some people by. I feel the summer heat here at this moment and see the trees and the water and hear that invisible gull overhead. I feel the novelty of having company when I usually come here alone. And this moment brings me happiness.
— Mary Balogh
With time, grief has a way of slipping down in the crevices of your heart. It never really leaves; it just makes room for more.
— Nancy B. Brewer, Beyond Sandy Ridge
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
— Anne Stuart, Ruthless
I don't care who he is. He needs to disappear." Ransom turned and called out the window. "For the love of G-d man. I have England's sweetheart bent over the desk and panting for me. Go away and come back tomorrow.
— Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke
I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.
— Nicole Luiken, Violet Eyes
If I could,” he went on, “I would remain like this indefinitely—clasped by you, held inside you, a part of you—without moving at all. When we make love, I fight climax with everything I have. I don’t want to come; I do not want it to end. No matter how long I make it last, it isn’t nearly long enough. I am furious when I cannot hold back any longer. Why, Jess? If all I seek is the physical relief of natural lust, just as I would seek sleep or food, why would I deny myself?”She turned her head and caught his mouth with hers, kissing him desperately.“Tell me you understand,” he demanded, his lips moving beneath hers. “Tell me you feel it, too.”“I feel you,” she breathed, as intoxicated by his ardency as she was by the finest claret. “You have become everything to me.
— Sylvia Day, Seven Years to Sin
I have wanted you for so long now,” he said roughly, “I’ve no memory of how it feels to be devoid of the craving. But you must know what you do. I need you to think of who you are and where you are and who I am. Think of how things will be once we’ve crossed this threshold. Think of how you will leave this cabin—disheveled and well fucked.
— Sylvia Day, Seven Years to Sin
Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our children who will come. I have seen a woman break her heart for love: my Queen Mary. I have seen another break her soul to avoid it: my Princess Elizabeth. I don't want to be Mary or Elizabeth, I want to be me: Hannah Verde Carpenter.""And we shall live somewhere that we can follow our belifs without danger," he insisted."Yes," I said, "in the England that Elizabeth will make.
— Philippa Gregory, The Queen's Fool
Count this as a mere taste, sweetheart, of all the pleasure I can give you. Marry me and let me show you more. Be mine, and I'll take you on a journey the likes of which you've ever only imagined. ~~ Adam to Mallory
— Tracy Anne Warren, Wicked Delights of a Bridal Bed
Miss Edmonton: I don't even know where to start. It's too horrifying to even speak of.Jenny: Nonsense. Let's start with the basics. What did your aunt tell you?Miss Edmonton: My aunt said that my husband will come into my room and pull my skirt up. And then he'll put himself inside of me. She said it hurts. She suggested I hold my tongue and pretend I am somewhere else until he is done.Jenny: Yes. I should think it would hurt if you did it that way. Good heavens.
— Courtney Milan, Proof by Seduction
He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?" "You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.
— Vicky Dreiling, How to Marry a Duke
Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself . . . keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth." - St. Vincent
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Yes, my boy, you are indeed much faster, bigger, and stronger than me and an altogether superior speciman of God's creation, but I have seen your like before. Only one of us can be master, and it won't be you.
— Emery Lee, The Highest Stakes
He wondered where the difference was between the good guys and the bad guys if their means were all just born out of perceived necessity and their goals by the unquestioned orders they had been given.
— Osiris Brackhaus, Lovers in Arms
So when I saw you lying in the shed there, I thought that even God couldn't be that cruel. You were everything I ever asked for – so maybe you could also be the love of my life...
— Osiris Brackhaus, Lovers in Arms
I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.
— Steven B. Weissman, Bountiful Creek: a legendary love story
I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.""Why not? Because I'm a woman?""No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.
— Tessa Dare, A Night to Surrender
This explains so much," she said, clucking her tongue in mother-hen fashion. "You're compensating for this withered appendage."Withered appendage? What the devil was she talking about? He shook his head, trying to clear it. Colin's dire predictions of shriveled twigs and dried currants rattled in his skull. Wide awake now, he fought to sit up, wrestling the sheets."Listen, you. I don't know what sort of liberties you've taken while I was insensible, or just what your spinster imagination prepared you to see. But I'll have you know, that water was damned cold."She blinked at him. "I'm referring to your leg.""Oh." His leg. That withered appendage
— Tessa Dare, A Night to Surrender
Do I perceive a softening in your heart for me, damoiselle?" He laughed at her scowl. "Beware maid. I will tell you true. After you will come another and then another. There are no strings that can tether me to any woman. So guard your heart.""My lord, you greatly exaggerate your appeal," she replied indignantly. "If I fell anything for you, 'tis hatred. You are the enemy and you are to be despised as such.""Indeed?" He smiled slowly into her eyes. "Then tell me, damoiselle, do you always kiss the enemy so warmly?
— Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, The Wolf and the Dove
This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse.
— Constance O'Banyon, Moontide Embrace
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
— Mary Balogh, The Temporary Wife / A Promise of Spring
Never judge yourself by the narrowstandards of others. What we do together here is ourbusiness, nobody else's. Never, never doubt what we havejust done is anything but love. Never let yourself be restrictedby thoughts of what society would have you do, what it wouldaccept or condemn. Please promise me that.
— Lynne Connolly, Venice
You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play."(Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel?
— Eloisa James, A Duke of Her Own
From my friend, Brig. General Ezell Ware, Jr., CA Nat'l Guard, Dec.Keep on going till you get there, then keep going.
— Tracey  Richardson, Florestine
Her,” he said. “I’ll take her.
— Tessa Dare, Any Duchess Will Do
We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.
— Tessa Dare, A Night to Surrender
Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that." "Do you have some better suggestion?" "Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?
— Tessa Dare, A Night to Surrender
I love you," she murmured. The words ... it was as though an entire sun had exploded in his chest.He'd been ridiculous. His thrashing thoughts, his grand confusion and torment and helplessness -- it was only love, had always been love, he supposed. It was no precipice he stood at, or rather precipices have little meaning when one finally acknowledges that one has wings. Connor stepped off."I love you, too."Such grave, inadequate words for what it was he felt.
— Julie Anne Long, The Runaway Duke
Yes. She got into a right state when she realized no one could read them, though. She's setting up some sort of literacy curse. Some of the boys want to know--is that like gypsy magic? Can you curse someone to read?
— Anne Mallory, In Total Surrender
Over time, this unspoken attration continued to blossom, refusing to dwindle or fade, though they had little opportunity to foster or nourish it. Slowly and patiently, Robert's sheer persistence in the chase had revealed his heart, and Charlotte came to realize the nameless thing between them was love.
— Emery Lee, The Highest Stakes
Have you always been this skilled with women?" - Joseph to Iain
— Pamela Clare, Surrender
Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.
— Sarah Sundin, A Memory Between Us
Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff.
— Tessa Dare
The sun glanced off a long, wicked looking knife in the Comanche's grip. At least Cash wouldn't have long to mourn. The other Indians held similar weapons, but they hung back as their leader knelt next to Sullivan. He muttered something, low and guttural, a single syllable that sounded like an insult, then picked up a lock of Sullivan's hair. The knife descended toward his scalp. "No!" Reese shouted. "Me." The Comanche paused and stared at him with a spark of interest, almost admiration. But that couldn't be since the Indian had no idea what Reese was saying. He continued to try anyway. "Me first." He struggled, wishing he could use his hands to point at himself. "Shut the hell up, Reese," Sullivan said. "What possible difference does it make who they kill first?" "Who knows what might happen. While they're working on me, anyone could show up and save the rest of you." "In that case, me first," Cash drawled. "Me." "No. Yo primero!""Kid, I'm the only one without a wife and far too many children. No one would miss me." "I would." The words were punctuated by the distinct sound of a rifle being cocked. All eyes turned toward the man who had appeared at the edge of the clearing. Cash's sigh of relief was in direct contrast to the sneer in his voice. "About damn time, Rev. We've been waitin' on you.
— Lori Handeland, Nate
Son of a bitch!" Cash erupted. "He's wearing Nate's guns." Reese had been too occupied gazing into those eyes to notice the oddity of a gun belt strapped around a naked waist. Cash was right. Those were Nate's pretty pearl pistols. Reese had never liked those guns. He liked them even less now. "Sullivan, ask him where he got those," Cash demanded. "What gave you the idea I can speak Comanche?" "Because you are one?" "You're a jackass, but I don't expect you to talk to a donkey." "This is no time to be funny, breed." "Then quit trying so hard.
— Lori Handeland, Nate
Masquerades are frivolous, scandalous—” “Scandalous?” “People in costume lose their minds completely. The ‘ladies,’ if there are any, have been known to be free with their favors and dampen their gowns to make them more transparent—” “I did bring a bowl of water, in case you wished to blend with the masses.
— Erica Ridley, The Viscount's Christmas Temptation
When she shines we all bask in her happiness, but when the thunderstorms come in, let me warn you, find a faraway hiding hole." Dorothy Broadbelt, lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth 1.
— Suzanne Crowley, The Stolen One
Just say, dakhilak.”Without hesitation, “Dakhilak.”He nodded. Her accent was getting no better. “Now, you can never take it back.”“Well, what does it mean? Thank you?”She should have asked sooner. He didn’t turn to meet the gaze he felt on him, his voice full of sand, his stomach sick. “It gives me charge of your life.
— V.S. Carnes
I bid you welcome to a new Utopia where men may be free of the so-called moral subjugations and constraints, and where for a time we may shake off those bonds of servitude wherein we are so tyrrannously enslaved." "You are the humanist,George, not I- what the deuce does he natter on about?" "Mostly whores and Booze," George replied with a grin.  Sandwidh contined while rapping once more upon the door, "Man is led into vice only when he is denied, my friends; for it is his nature to long after things forbidden and to desire most fervently what is denied." "Another translation?" Philip asked George. "Whores and booze... in boundless supply." "Ah,"Philip said. "I stand in renewed appreciation of the philosophers.
— Emery Lee, Fortune's Son
...Ethan, but I'm certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid.""And you're not stupid.""Not as far as I can tell"...
— M.K. McClintock, Gallagher's Pride
To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.
— P. McCree Thornton, The Star Spangled Son
Enjoy the ride!
— Emery Lee, The Highest Stakes
No book is written
—  it's always re-written
Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets!"...Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the grey repeated the offense. "He wants another go at it. Be a sport ol' man!" Robert chortled. The indignant Scotsman threw the reins in his face, tromping off to collect the major's horse."I wonder was it reward or punishment Winthrop had in mind in allowing you to keep that brute?" Drake innocently inquired."He only eats Scotsman," Robert quipped.
— Emery Lee, The Highest Stakes
He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he’d read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn’t have to. He could turn about this moment and ride away. Yet that would mean leaving her forever.
— Celeste Bradley, One Night with a Spy
Ye’re wet,” he groaned.	“I’m underwater.”	“I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
Ye might not know this about me…”
— “But I prefer my women… a wee bit dirty.
Experience should have taught ye by now that denying me what I want only makes me more relentless.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
And you dare to wear the golden spurs of a knight? You dare to call yourself a Marshal of France and carry the fleur-de-lis on your coat of arms? The meanest lackey in this hall knows more of honour and loyalty than you! Hang and burn my servants and kill me - kill too, now that you have handed your companion-in-arms Arnaud de Montsalvy, to your cousin. With my last breath, I shall call on Heaven to witness that Gilles de Rais is a traitor and a felon!
— Juliette Benzoni, Belle Catherine
Medicine is a bit like love," Aunt Gertrude began. "There are the theatrical outer forms gone through by the players-the bandages and injections and extractions, the flowers and love notes and dances-but the real work is always happening out of sight. In here," she added, tapping herself on the heart.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn't that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values?
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
What Mrs. Schuyler is saying," General Schuyler added, "is that it is the Schuylers who would be honored by a union woth so brilliant and noble a personage as Colonel Hamilton.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around her neck. Her letters were full of love and anticipation, matching his for enthusiasm and tenderness. He was the luckiest man in the world.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
silly man. I know the man I am marrying is destined for great things, as the many remarkable things he has done thus far have brought himto such a high oint already. Mark my words, Alex. You are a man whose future lies before him for all to marvel at one day. And you, Colonel Hamilton, are mine, and I am yours always.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
Altogether, the first glimpse of his bride-which should have come as no surprise to Alex, standing there looking so lean and handsome himself-nearly brought him to his knees.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifetime of doubts and depression about his own dubious birthright.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
I shall love you and give myself up for you, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up"- then Alex looked into Eliza's shining eyes and added a twist of his own-"and I shall serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop the gifts that God has given you.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
Eliza had never seen Alex quite so happy and relaxed. She shook her head and laughed at the incongruity of it all: Imagine General Washington's famous aide-de-camp taking the time to stop and admire the birds."One day, Alex, when you tire of being a soldier, we will spend all of our days just like this, watching birds and taking in the sun, surrounded by children of our own. You'd like that, wouldn't you, my love?""Eliza, you and the Pastures have already taken a perfectly fine soldier and turned him into a lovesick pup. And at this moment, on this very day, there's nothing and nowhere I'd rather be.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less than a love story for the ages found the lifelong romance she had yearned for all her life.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza
Ye might no know this about me…”
— “But I prefer my women… a wee bit dirty. I’ve imagined more than once what yer foul mouth could do to me.
Magdalen, the girl with pretty green eyes. Magdalen, who was smiling so warmly right now at Lenhart, who was attentive to Katrin even when she talked too much. She had been so gentle and concerned about his wounds, washing his face and bringing him fresh water to drink.
— Melanie Dickerson, The Noble Servant
Narrow-minded historians will say there's no proof that [Meriwether] Lewis was dude-loving. Another telling indication was that his Newfoundland dog was named "Seaman". Talk about a Freudian slip. What straight man like to go around saying "Seaman, come! Seaman, come!" amid a group of strapping beefcake?
— Bob   Smith, Treehab: Tales from My Natural, Wild Life
I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.
— Lise Arin, Matilda Empress
Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.
— Jean M. Grant, A Hundred Kisses
Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.
— Eden Butler, Infinite Us
This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.
— Joanna Shupe, A Daring Arrangement
Let me touch you, Ivy. Let me have you...let me love you. This is madness, what is between us...a fire that cannot be extinguished. A thirst I cannot seem to quench. Somehow, you've destroyed me and I cannot bear it. God, I've missed you so terribly." --Sebastian Cain
— April Moran, Taming Ivy
There shall be no need to pretend. You shall be replaced. Indeed, I will erase you. Quite easily, I assure you. --Ivy Kinley
— April Moran, Taming Ivy
A sudden yearning to hold Artagan close overtakes me, to smell the scent of his skin and run my hands through his tousled black hair. He will soon ride into peril again as he has many times before. No matter how often he rides away, I never get used to it.
— Mark Noce, Dark Winds Rising
My blood runs cold. Her savage stare and bloodied hands leave no doubts in my mind as she glares up at us from across the battlefield. This must be the fabled Queen of the Picts.
— Mark Noce, Dark Winds Rising
Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.
— Mark Noce, Dark Winds Rising
If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.
— Lise Arin, Matilda Empress
The lass was no damsel.	He’d prepared himself for a hard sell, one that might require a few extra knee-weakening smiles, perhaps so much as a seduction, but he’d never in a million years expected the disaster that landed his arms.	The disaster named Alison Ross.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
Doona fash, Sam.” Calybrid, spying her scowl, hurried to balm the wound. “Ye’re plenty fair.”	“Aye,” Locryn agreed.	“With eyes the color of the Alt Dubh Gorm.”	“Sure, that too.”	“Just… no one will write odes to yer breasts is all.”	“On account of ye not having any,” Locryn supplied, rather unnecessarily, in Samantha’s opinion.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
Though her muscles went rigid, her tongue sparred with his, as he might have guessed it would. Each lick and swirl, each plunge and retreat became a point counted for or against.	Gavin had never enjoyed a woman’s mouth so much in his entire life.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
This blood feud is a bit too Shakespearean, if ye want the truth. I’m no Montague, and ye’re no Capulet.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
It occurred to Gavin that the first thought a groom had upon spying his bride shouldn’t be to wonder whether or not she wore knickers.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
So does it still count if he doesna kiss the bride?
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
If you love no one, no one can hurt you,” she whispered.
— Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife
She straightened and crossed her arms. “I can’t sleep with you,” she blurted.… “As you please.”“As you please?” She stepped back, the rough wood of the bench bumping her upper calf. She’d braced herself for a battle and now felt oddly deflated. “You aren’t going to try to talk me into it?”“I need not talk women into lying with me.
— Angela Quarles, Must Love Chainmail
Ah, cariad, finally I have you to myself, with a bed behind me, and what do I do?
— Angela Quarles, Must Love Chainmail
Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.
— Angela Quarles, Must Love Chainmail
A love so true, so consuming, so good.
— Melissa Jagears, A Love So True
No man returns from Satan’s fire read to dance a reel.
— Amy Jarecki, The Highland Duke
The ruddy chieftain snorted. “You’ve not noticed? I reckon he’s as smitten as a bull in a paddock of heifers in spring.
— Amy Jarecki, The Highland Duke
The fairies will work their magic. They always do.
— Amy Jarecki, The Highland Duke
She moved her hips, his manhood sliding between her wet thighs, rekindling the hot craving at her very core. “How can I bring you pleasure?
— Amy Jarecki, The Highland Duke
I will always find you. You are in my soul.
— Amy Jarecki, The Highland Duke
Geordie stepped forward and took her hand. “I hope you’re not tired, because I intend to keep you on my arm until the music stops.
— Amy Jarecki, The Highland Duke
I would take the solace of a forest over the hustle of London’s streets any day. Just listen to the silence. My father always said that if the mind is too cluttered, you will never hear your soul’s whispers. –Owen Locke, A Stranger at Fellsworth
— Sarah E. Ladd
She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.
— Elizabeth Boyle, Along Came a Duke
Let every lady in Camlochlin swoon over a charming smile. She had won the love of a man who shared his most intimate smiles for her alone
— Paula Quinn, Ravished by a Highlander
She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved.
— Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes
Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you.
— Janell Rhiannon, Song of Princes
She needed a distraction. “Was that your mother?” The splashing stopped. “Are you going to converse while I bathe?” “Why not?” “Feels rather unseemly.” She laughed, picturing him sitting there, shocked and indignant. “We’re supposed to be married, right?” “You have a point, however I would rather not discuss her right now.” “I think you’re evading me.”“Mayhap. Is it working?
— Angela Quarles, Must Love Chainmail