Smooth Talking Stranger Quotes
"I'm not running away from my fears, I'm running away from my relatives."
"Yes, but I prefer to ignore mine and let them fester."
"In the space of thirty seconds, she could say something that would send me back to therapy indefinitely."
"We had been storm chasers, trying to stay close to the twister without getting swept up in it."
"I'm not a carnivore, I'm an opportunistic omnivore."
"I gave up the best years of my life taking care of you."
"We were each other's only link to the past... that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness."
"The urge to protect and care for Tara had never left me."
"It's like she was trying too hard. Laughing too loud. Constantly nervous."
"I'm sorry. I wish I could take your word about not having slept with Tara. But if you did, you don't have much incentive to admit it, do you?"
"I like the health benefits. My cholesterol and blood pressure are really low."
"You can't always protect the people you love."
"I think the busiest people are often the loneliest."
"You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools."
"Sometimes, Ella, you can relax and let someone do something nice for you."
"We like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position."
"You get a lot more credit for trying to save the world. And it's easier."
"The blues is all about a good man feelin' bad."
"You say tomato, he says tomahto. Let it happen, Worried. Dive in headfirst. We usually learn the most about ourselves from people who are different from us."
"Once you started to realize that you had a right to your own privacy, you became rabidly protective of it."
"You carried him for nine months, Tara. He knows your voice. Your heartbeat."
"This was so different from what I was accustomed to, it seemed like something other than kissing."
"I'm doing that. I'm finding out a lot I didn't know. I'm getting better."
"I'm not buying that Luke came from the cabbage patch, Tara. I mean, someone participated."
"I think this situation is more permanent than you'd like to admit. You're a new mother, whether or not you had a chance to get ready for it."
"Everyone should listen to me," I said, and Haven laughed, lifting her glass.
"The revelation was that even knowing this, I could be so attracted to a man like Jack Travis."
"Feelings are never wrong, they're just feelings."
"But even when we're disagreeing on something, there's a weird kind of harmony in it."
"Do you think she loved you? I mean, sincerely loved you?"
"You can never promise to love a person forever. Because everything changes."
"I'm not good about that stuff, but you are. In a hot librarian kind of way."
"Your guilt threshold's always been pretty low."
"You forget how little they are at the beginning."
"The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display."
"I've had it, Liza. I'm tired of Tara's messes, and I wish Mom was even half as concerned about her grandson as she is about my sex life!"
"That advice she gave you was crap, by the way."
"The only certain thing in a romantic relationship is that you will both change, and one morning you will wake up, go the mirror, and see a stranger."
"I'm making a special toast," Gage said, lifting his glass.
"If you want to get to know the real Ella, you need to talk to me."
"Every time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished."
"I thought it was too late . . . I thought you'd never know, because I was a coward, and I'm so—"
"I knew." Jack sounded shaken. "I figured I couldn't love you as much as I do, without you feeling something for me, too."
"My mother's awful," I whispered. "She makes me so angry."
"No one had ever looked at me with such tender concern."
"You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for me, too."
"I realized I haven't felt this good since I left him."
"I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools."
"I love you, just let go, Ella, let me have you."
"That's the last break you'll get for a while."