Iris Johansen Quotes

How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it ... And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this. Garrett

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

Asked for an explanation. I've

Said we'll discuss it when I commit." She smoothed the area under the eye crevice. "I wonder who they think it is ... " He watched her for a moment without speaking. "Louisiana in October isn't too unpleasant. We could take

If you think me weak, bring forth your champion and let me do battle with him.
And kill in that childish way of the Franks? Full of pomp and bravado? We are masters of death here. We do not play at it. - Ware & Sinan

Find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules?

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy ... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

Certainly more dangerous

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

Etienne, didn't worry enough, Jules thought in despair. Ever since childhood it had been Jules who was the serious one, the one who had to accept the responsibility while Etienne ambled along through life with endearing blitheness. "You arranged for the men to be waiting at the church?" "Of course." "And you told them nothing?" "Only that they would be paid well for the work. And I parked the motorboat

I couldn't take you. So the violin will have to do." He smiled and moved over to the violin case on the bed. "The next time you play, it will be at Loch Gaelkar.

No, but I wish I did. I wish I believed in something," Bradford said wistfully. "It would be pleasant, don't you think?

By assuming a cheerful outlook you could sometimes fool even yourself into believing everything was all right.

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill

My feelings exactly. You should be here with me, not in that compound." "Go away, Joe. I don't want you here." "It's mutual. I'm staying. And Galen insisted on bringing everything from explosives to surveillance equipment so we can set up for the

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His arms
tightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as I
live.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect.

It's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it.

Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

Gradually, she had realized that this was just another wound that would heal if she didn't hold it close, but released the pain and not let it poison her.

Bedroom. "And, please, stay away from Venable, Jock. Don't let him talk you into doing anything like this again." He didn't answer, and she glanced back over her shoulder. He smiled, that beautiful, gentle smile that had first drawn her to him when he was a boy scarcely out of his teens. "Things aren't good for you, Jane. I have to make them better." She shook her head helplessly. In his way, he was an implacable force on the same scale as MacDuff. "Good night." She closed the bedroom door

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.

Didn't think of it. She supposed she should have

Alcohol is how boring people have fun.

corrections." "Global corrections?

And I'll be waiting for you to make

Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.

If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud

She gave him a cool glance over her shoulder. "May your balls wither away and you develope an allergy to Viagra and all its counterparts."
He looked at her, stunned. And then he suddenly exploded into laughter.
"God, you're a formidable woman"
"No, I'm not. I'm soft, remember?"
She slammed the door behind her.

You wore what you had the money to buy, and then, if anyone looked down his nose at you, you found a way to tweak that nose - again with the utmost style.

this before when they'd been together

Thank you," he said politely. "Though I doubt if such extreme measures were necessary in my case. I'm not a warlike man."

"Too much effort?" Lani asked.

He beamed at her. "Exactly. How pleasant to be understood.

My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd)

You look like the first breath of spring,

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.

known that he had to be careful

But now you have another problem. Keeping him from exploding like a live granade and blitzing all of us." He started walking down the hall. "I've already had a little taste of that and I'm not willing to stand for it again. I'm patient, I'm not a martyr. Fix it Eve.

He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace.

was everything. Eve

Bradford watched her leave the stable. "Unusual woman. I feel quite intoxicated." He laughed. "But then I felt intoxicated before I met her, so it's difficult to judge.