Eva Johansen Quotes

This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting hummingbirds and sapphire dragonflies. The sun-warmed sweet haze of the blossoms filled the air.
"When I was a kid," said Isabel, "I used to capture butterflies, but I was afraid of the bees. I'm getting over that, though." The bees softly rose and hovered over the flowers, their steady hum oddly soothing. The quiet buzzing was the soundtrack of her girlhood summers. Even now, she could close her eyes and remember her walks with Bubbie, and how they would net a monarch or swallowtail butterfly, studying the creature in a big clear jar before setting it free again. They always set them free.
As she watched the activity in the hedge, a memory floated up from the past- Bubbie, gently explaining to Isabel why they needed to open the jar. "No creature should ever be trapped against its will," she used to say. "It will ruin itself, just trying to escape." As a survivor of a concentration camp, Bubbie only ever spoke of the experience in the most oblique of terms. ~ Susan Wiggs

It's my place to stand beside you, and support you, and yes, just fucking look pretty on your arm sometimes. It's my right, my duty, and my privilege, Eva, just as it's yours in reverse. ~ Sylvia Day

Will you, Eva? WIll you risk everything to see David? Because that's what you'll be doing"
"I'm not risking anything. Theres nothing here I want if I cant have him. ~ Michelle K. Pickett

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all. ~ Eva Green

It's a real thing, glory. But it pales in comparison to what we sacrifice for it. ~ Erika Johansen

There's no other life for me. Anyway, clemency wouldn't begin to repay your debt. I've given you a greater gift than you know."
"What gift?"
"You'll find out. In return, I expect you to keep it safe."
Kelsea turned back to the mirror. "Great God, tell me you didn't impregnate me while I slept."
The fetch threw back his head and roared with laughter. He placed a friendly hand on Kelsea's back, making her skin prickle. "Tear Queen, you'll either be dead within a week or you'll be the most fearsome ruler this kingdom has ever known. I see no middle ground. ~ Erika Johansen

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once. ~ Eva Gabor

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate. ~ Eva Herzigova

At Auschwitz dying was so easy. Surviving was a full time job. ~ Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri

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. ~ Iris Johansen

I'm fighting here, with everything I've got. Fight for me too. ~ Sylvia Day

We have someone with us who is dying
someone whose spirit is ready to leave this world, she thought to the tree. But he wants to be with his clan. With his forest. Will you take us? ~ Tony DiTerlizzi

Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. ~ Eva Ibbotson

Daisy offered a mosquito which bit you and gave you yellow fever. 'You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die,' she said. ~ Eva Ibbotson

You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you? ~ Eva Longoria

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected. ~ Eva Ibbotson

But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting trees, all are harder and more enduring.
The stones have weight and mass, and agonised trees are rooted deep in the craggy soil. ~ Eva Figes

People make mistakes and some people can't seem to stop making the same mistakes over and over again. And somewhere along their line of messing up, you fall in and you become the victim of those mistakes. But mistakes, no matter how small or how big are just mistakes. And you have to forgive people for making them not just for them, but more importantly for yourself. ~ Eva Gutowski

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 ~ Iris Johansen

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there! ~ Eva LaRue

I've learned that I can only live for myself. I cannot be focused on the world's idea of who they think I am or who I'm supposed to be. I can only be the best me. And if that means that even though I seem eligible and should be in a relationship, maybe I shouldn't be right now, because I am not emotionally available. It's knowing yourself and being more in tune with who you are vs. who the world wants you to be. ~ Eva Marcille

We mustn't only remember the good bits," she said. "We must remember the bad bits, too, so that we know it was real. ~ Eva Ibbotson

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

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ... ~ Eva Ibbotson

Daddy!" Eva whirled around, glaring. "I've been fucking Deuce since I was eighteen! I wanted to fuck him when I was sixteen! Maybe I even wanted him when I was twelve too! Who knows! What I do know is I have been in love with him since I was five! So get over it! And don't you dare shoot him or I'll shoot you! ~ Madeline Sheehan

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children. ~ Eva Zeisel

But even Carlin's words had no weight when fury washed over Kelsea; it was a tide that cleared all obstacles. ~ Erika Johansen

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy. ~ America Ferrera

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides. ~ Eva Longoria

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 ~ Iris Johansen

Deuce," I whispered,
"You love me"?
His eyes went skyward, and he snorted.
"Babe.Yeah. Long time now". ~ Madeline Sheehan

I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say. ~ Eva Longoria

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 ~ Iris Johansen

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life. ~ Eva Mendes

I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there. ~ Eva Longoria

So if I can give anyone advice in this business on love and balancing, it's that you truly have to take a second, step back, to figure out who you are and what you want. And it is okay if those people around you don't fit into that. Because what you don't want to do is end up living your life for someone else. ~ Eva Marcille

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ~ Eva Ibbotson

I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby. ~ Eva Mendes

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable. ~ Eva Mendes

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes. ~ Eva Gabor

Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me. ~ Sylvia Day

That compromise means you don't always have to be the strong one, Gideon. You can do the heavy lifting on occasion, and you can let Eva do it sometimes. Marriage isn't about whether you're strong enough as an individual. It's about how strong you are together and the luxury of taking turns carrying the load. ~ Sylvia Day