Lori Wilde > Quotes

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”
― Lori Wilde, High Stakes Seduction

“Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion.
Of forgiveness.
Of coming home.”
― Lori Wilde, Once Smitten, Twice Shy

“Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton drawer, retrieved a pair of Nighthawk binoculars, fixed the scopes on him, and fiddled with the focus. Gotcha. Hair the colour of coal. Chocolate brown eyes. A five-o'clock shadow ringing his craggy jawline. Handsome as the day was long...

He sauntered towards her, oozing charisma from every pore. Charlee forgot to breathe. And then he committed the gravest sin of all, knocking her world helter-skelter. The scoundrel smiled.”
― Lori Wilde

“Cowboy!" she hollered.
Every man on the street turned to stare at her.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“the same and you know it.” “Isn’t it? So you had your heart broken. Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That’s life.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Hurry and ketchup, tomato. I’ve missed this something fierce.” Me too. “It’s impossible to keep up with you.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“found him in our bed with Mallory, wearing my favorite cowboy hat.” “Wait a minute, who was wearing your favorite cowboy hat, Mallory or the dude.” “The dude, but he was wearing it on his Johnson.” “Eww. Low class.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Too stale for the day-old bakery, so serve them to the wedding guests. Gotcha. My Big Fat Redneck Wedding.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Don’t blame the stream. Blame the dumbass who climbed into a laundry cart when it was parked at the top of a hill.”
― Lori Wilde, Rules of the Game

“Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future.”
― Lori Wilde, A Cowboy for Christmas

“You can remember which one is which by thinking that stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, while stalagmites might rise up from the floor. Over time, the stalagmites and stalactites will meet and form a column, just like they did with old Cupid here.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Bloom where you’re planted and if you can’t do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“biggest troublemaker you’ll ever meet stares you in the face when you brush your teeth. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Comfort and a vast understanding that love couldn’t be killed. They would always love the people they’d lost, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t love each other as well. Love.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Good sense comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from actin’ like a damn fool. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“bonkathon.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“The cabin leaned like a drunken cowboy.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Hurry and ketchup, tomato.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“What scale do you rate them on?” “I don’t rate my lovers at all. Do you?” “You mean other than small, medium, and large?” she quipped.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“none of us are getting out this world unscathed.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“ZOEY WAS SO absorbed in her digging and the artifacts she was unearthing that she didn’t hear or see a thing until a pair of cowboy boots planted themselves in front of her. Uh-oh. Busted. Pulse thumping, she slowly raised her head, taking in the tips of those dusty boots to the frayed hem of faded Wranglers to the longhorn belt buckle that crowned his zipper—she stopped there a minute to admire the package—then moved on up to sinewy arms folded tightly over a chest so honed she could see the definition of muscles through his white cotton shirt.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“There are three ways to argue with a woman. None of them work. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“when he was a little kid he’d had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Any of us that have been around for any length of time have had our hearts broken. That’s life. That’s all it is. Loving, getting hurt, but daring to love again, even though you know you’re probably going to get hurt again. That’s the triumph of the human spirit. The infinite capacity to love.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“His father wore a paper-thin hospital gown the color of misery.”
― Lori Wilde, All Out of Love

“For one amazing moment, the entire world made sense. It was as if she understood the meaning of everything. And love was all that there was.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“He’d left her stranded in front of three hundred wedding guests, wearing a white dress and glass slippers like some deranged Cinderella, while he caught a plane to the Cayman Islands with a knock-kneed stripper named Chrysanthemum Greene and several million dollars embezzled from the Stardust Savings and Loan.”
― Lori Wilde, Rules of the Game

“pouch,”
― Lori Wilde, All Out of Love

“some things are just beyond our control and the heart wants what the heart wants whether it makes logical sense or not.”
― Lori Wilde, Rules of the Game

“Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. —A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI”
― Lori Wilde, Back in the Game