We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

All you require is adore. But just a little chocolate at times will not damage.

I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.