C. G. D. Roberts Quotes

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Life has very little even ground.

Life is full of circles

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Things have a way of falling into place.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

Winning can be addictive

I loved the process of writing.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?" "Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.

It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie

He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see."

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Eve, we're going to be married in a few days." The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah." "If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.