Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

His mother? Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. But you're not a- She cut herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she'd almost let slip.Suzy's wedding ring clicked against the steering wheel as she gave it a hard smack. I'm going to kill him! He's been telling that hooker story again, hasn't he?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her. Dan: I won't. Viktor: You spoke a little too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you. Dan: I'm a man of my word, and I promise I won't hurt her. He flexed his hands. When I murder her, I'll do it real quick so she won't feel a thing. Viktor sighed. That's exactly what I was afraid of.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Not to get all Zen on you, but maybe you should love yourself more.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I’m not beautiful. My mother—”“I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don’t see it your way.”“That’s because you didn’t know her.”“Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?”“Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They’d do anything for her.”“This man will do anything for you.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Maybe some poor slob would take you to bed if you weren’t such a ballbuster.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He stopped to rest at a cart selling nuts and candy, bought himself some Jelly Belly's, flirted just enought with the Mexican cutie working there to convince her pull out the banana-flavored one. Although he liked his Jelly Belly's mixed up, he didn't like banana, but, since it took too much effort to pull them out himself, he generally tried to talk someone else into doing it. If that didn't work, he just ate 'em.- Kenny Traveler

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Who the hell is that?!Some call her Satan. Others, Beelzebub. She goes by many names.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she’d finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn’t seem to give it up.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?Her eyes bore into his without flinching. Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. I hope you choke onevery penny.Pick that up.She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight.Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests.Then why are you still trying to talk me into seeing Melanie again?Hunger makes me weird.You got rid of the last one in fourteen minutes. Well done. I'm rewarding you by letting you sit in on all the introductions from now on.She nearly choked on an ice cube. What are you talking about?Exactly what I said.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. You drive.She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips