Christina Dodd Quotes

Only those who row the boat make waves

~ Christina Dodd

I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. That's what I want today. That's what I'll want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.

~ Christina Dodd

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

~ Christina Dodd

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.

~ Christina Dodd

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

~ Christina Dodd

If ye canna see the bright side o' life, polish the dull side

~ Christina Dodd

Life is too short to dance with ugly men

~ Christina Dodd

A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them

~ Christina Dodd

He who lies down with dogs shall rise with fleas

~ Christina Dodd

She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.

~ Christina Dodd

The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.

~ Christina Dodd

I was out on a lonely road that stretched forever into the darkness. I wanted to run, to get away from him, but it was so dark, I was afraid of where I was going.

~ Christina Dodd

You and me-we've whored together. We've fought together.And I still dunna understand how ye always seems to know where the money is hidden and the liquor is stored and the scandals are richest.'It's a gift.

~ Christina Dodd

She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.

~ Christina Dodd

The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.The guy who said that was a wise man. He knew what most men don't - Women are powerful creatures who should be handled with care, or they can become very, very dangerous.

~ Christina Dodd

No matter how they fought they had always been like this: balanced between anger and passion, between hurt and glory. When they first got together, she didn't understand how two people who had so little in common could be so madly, passionately in love. When they split, she had realized madness and passion could never keep a couple together.

~ Christina Dodd

I thought society would do the right thing. Now I look around and I think -- society never does the right thing. Sometimes people do the right thing. Sometimes one person makes a difference. But civilization has rules, and I've learned them well -- never be helpless, never be sick, never be poor.

~ Christina Dodd

I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books.

~ Christina Dodd

I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.

~ Christina Dodd

Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization-Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne

~ Christina Dodd

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.

~ Christina Dodd

I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.

~ Christina Dodd

So you know you're a ghost? I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. Can you think of another explanation?

~ Christina Dodd

Women always said he was warm. They snuggled with him in bed, grateful for the heat. A couple of his lovers even claimed that, when he was inside them, he heated them from the inside out.A pleasant flattery, perhaps, but one Hope would discover the truth of. For when she touched him, he did burn.

~ Christina Dodd

So you know you're a ghost?I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. Can you think of another explanation?

~ Christina Dodd

Areila walked like she had somewhere to go. I stood by the fountain and watched her pass, but I didn't speak. It was the lady's prerogative to pretend she didn't see me. She got to the edge of the park; I swear, her foot hovered right over the line, when she turned with military precision and marched back. She stopped in front of me and said, Hello.

~ Christina Dodd

We're lucky. He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. Most couples have only one first kiss. We'll have two.

~ Christina Dodd

Fill me in on the details of your life.”“I thought you didn’t give a shit.”“It’ll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.

~ Christina Dodd

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.

~ Christina Dodd

Oh, God. Not again.”Not again? “Do you make a habit of driving into people’s houses?

~ Christina Dodd

He didn’t want to do this…He had come here to hide.

~ Christina Dodd

I'm sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him.

~ Christina Dodd

I didn't burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!”Maddie looked at Jacob.“You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

~ Christina Dodd

Miss Prendregast!” He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. “You were never in any danger!”“Except from the wild animals.”His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. “Alert me if you’re attacked by a rabbit.

~ Christina Dodd

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

~ Christina Dodd