Noelle Adams Quotes

You've got your real face and then the face you show to the rest of the world. The face you show to the rest of the world is always a little... better than your real face. More pulled together, more smart or funny or nice or in control or whatever it is you want yourself to be. You might want that outward face to be you, but it never quite is.

Yeah, I can see how much you enjoyed it. Why did you go if it wasn't your thing?"
"I was dating him. It's polite to do things that the other person likes, to be supportive.

Jessica felt her heart thud back down to its proper location. She managed to murmur, "Never going to happen," in a casually teasing voice and started

showered and dressed in jeans and a white eyelet

Maybe he was manfully hiding his raging desire.

She saw it. Recognized it as kin. (...) Realized they really weren't that different after all.

something, and she was already running late. It had started as a bad morning, and

Today was different, however. It wasn't every day a woman popped the question to one of her best friends.

Her first step toward this end was to cook dinner on Monday evening. In all of her visions of herself as a wife, she would at least sometimes make meals other than canned soup and sandwiches.

This is the truth, Kate. I don't understand why every man in the world isn't in love with you.

suit with a fitted jacket and pencil skirt. It

and lost her courage before she could get out the rest of her planned words. She set her plate down, even though she'd only eaten half of it.

I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain things seriously - like marriage and sex and... and tradition. I know you don't. That's fine. You don't have to. But I hope you understand that I do.

a sheepish smile.

so much. I've wanted you for so long.

clothes looked good at all. So, after trying on half her closet, she settled for a pencil

I am not trapped," Deanna said sharply, surprised and worried by the turn of the conversation. Kelly was so self-possessed that it was sometimes difficult to know what was going on in her mind. "I love you all. I live here and help with money because I choose to, because it makes me happy. I'd be miserable if I just up and left you in the lurch.

Jessica Cameron had to propose marriage in a couple of hours, and she was a little nervous about it. Trying

There were five of them. 1. Never assume a man likes you unless he both tells you and shows you. 2. Never go out of your way to encourage a man to ask you out. 3. Never trap a man in a conversation about his feelings that he doesn't want to have. 4. Never analyze a man's behavior or read into his motivations and intentions toward you. 5. Never, ever, ever daydream about a future unless he's promised you a future. Those were her rules, and she was determined to keep them.

Before she could think of anything witty to say in

I'd never expect you to give me details about your personal life," he said at last. "And I know it's hard for you to share things that run deep. I know it might be easier if you had a mother you could talk to. But, if something has hurt you, you shouldn't try to carry it alone." He cleared his throat. "I'm your family, pumpkin. I'm the one you tell.

one of the top corporate investigators in the company and making a very good living. She was also in a hot and heavy affair with Baron James, the son of company's founder. It was simply unwise to have an eight-month-long affair with a notorious bad boy like Baron. As much as she tried to keep the relationship purely about sex, she'd fallen for him anyway. Their affair had ended messily,

his mouth again, flicking

I'm not concerned. You can date and marry and have babies with your muffin-lady, if that's what you want."

His eyes held mine, and his expression softened and heated up at the same time. "You said you didn't want to go out with me, so all I'm left with is my muffin-lady.

Better for things to fall apart a little now, while you can still put them back together, than for you to wait until there's no hope.

You're my hope for the future and my call to be a better man and I do hope one day you'll be my wife.

supposed to do, Lace?" he asked gruffly. "She's my sister. I

adult working in the field of science and doing lectures

Kelly," her grandmother said, "The Pride needs to be dusted." Deanna and Kelly looked at each other. "The Pride" was a collection of Mrs. Beaufort's dead Siamese cats, all professionally stuffed by a taxidermist to preserve them. They were prominently displayed in the parlor, along with a host of other family treasure including china and costumes from their Beaufort forebears.

About being brave", she explained at the question on his face. "I liked what you were saying. And it seems to me... it seems to me that it takes just as much courage to fight windmills as it does to fight the real giants or the monsters or whatever it was in the story.

What are you staring at? You saw me in my underwear just a few hours ago."

He made a choked sound and smiled - his characteristic grin transformed into something else. "And I almost dragged you into bed then too.