Lori Wilde > Quotes

“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

“Madison even made a spreadsheet and gave them all copies, just in case spontaneity broke out and it had to be wrangled into submission. Excel, oh ye purview of the anal retentive, Shelley thought but did not say.”
― Lori Wilde, The Moonglow Sisters

“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

“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

“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

“All her life, loneliness had weighed against her like a heavy coin tucked into a breast pocket, small but constant.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Wasn’t that just the theme of her life? Marginalized on the outskirts.”
― Lori Wilde, Back in the Game

“She had closed him up in a mental box and he was supposed to stay there, dammit. Nothing more than a lovely fantasy she pulled out along with her vibrator from time to time.”
― Lori Wilde, Rules of the Game

“Use your memories to create something that keeps you warm at night, instead of clinging to worn-out emotions that tie you to past mistakes. We are all flawed, but we are also all perfect in our humanity.”
― Lori Wilde, The Moonglow Sisters

“But the only thing she’d ever wanted was to run the Cupid Botanical Gardens and spend her life studying the mesmerizing plants of the Trans-Pecos region. Her roots ran deep in this arid soil, and family was important to her,”
― Lori Wilde, All Out of Love

“Peacemaker. Guilty as charged, but not happy about it. She’d much rather be a warrior like Madison or a swashbuckler like Shelley. Peacemaker. Boring as white cotton panties.”
― Lori Wilde, The Moonglow Sisters

“Heated estrogen cruised Breeanne’s veins,”
― Lori Wilde, Back in the Game

“There’s such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.”
― Lori Wilde, Christmas at Twilight

“You can’t please everyone, Gia. At some point you have to please yourself or your life will never be your own.”
― Lori Wilde, The Moonglow Sisters

“He took hold of her chin with a thumb and forefinger. “Hold still. It will be over in a sec.” “That’s what she said,” Kasha deadpanned. Chuckling, Axel shook his head. “You look all serious and quiet and then you drop these little humor bombs so unexpected that they sail over most people’s heads.”
― Lori Wilde, Love of the Game

“No way was he going off to D.C. leaving Taylor in Texas to finish up her odd double major in theatre and human biology without at least getting engaged.”
― Lori Wilde, The Right Stuff

“Live passionately or not at all.”
― Lori Wilde, Love of the Game

“the dude who worked for his would-be father-in-law for seven years to marry the woman he loved and the guy pulled a bait and switch and made him marry the older, ugly daughter first and then he had to work for the guy for seven more years before he got to marry the one he really wanted.” “That’s a twisted version of the chain of events, but you mean Jacob.” “Yeah. That’s the one.” She shook her index finger at him. “You’ve got the patience of Jacob. I mean besides all that waiting, once he finally snagged Rachel he had to put up with two wives. Can you imagine that honey-do list? ‘Hey, Jake, you brought camel dung in on your sandals, clean up your mess.’ Or, ‘We’re having date cake for dinner, shimmy up that date palm and get us a bushel,’ or ‘I don’t care if you visited her tent last night, it’s my turn for a little pinch and tickle.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Ooh conflict, the heart of any juicy story.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Dude, chillax.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“There in the middle of the rooftop—in a circle of lighted candles scented with the smell of vanilla—sat a four-poster bed adorned with throw pillows.”
― Lori Wilde, The Right Stuff

“Except he hadn’t fully appreciated what he had until it was gone.”
― Lori Wilde, Love of the Game

“Not to sound like Donald Trump or anything, but you’re fired.”
― Lori Wilde, Love with a Perfect Cowboy

“Century plants bloom only once just before they die.” “So they go out in a flame of glory.”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“As enduring as the ocean waves, unconditional love was the cornerstone of transformation.”
― Lori Wilde, The Moonglow Sisters

“Memories pummeled Mariah as she climbed up the precarious wooden porch riddled with termite holes.”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride

“Tall, dark, and handsome, well built, easily topping six feet. Gorgeous. A bone-melting smile. Pearly whites. But of course he had perfect teeth. Oh crap. She was a sucker for tall, dark, and dashing.”
― Lori Wilde, Rules of the Game

“wished”
― Lori Wilde, Somebody to Love

“Don’t judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan”
― Lori Wilde, The Cowboy Takes a Bride