Hardy Cates Quotes

Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube."
The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done.
"That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me. ~ Lisa Kleypas

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most."

~ Hardy Cates ~ Lisa Kleypas

I thought you were the ghost of yourself. ~ Thomas Hardy

I don't want my offer to be tempting. I want it to be irresistible, so tell me what it will take for you to say yes." She studies me and grins. "I need time, and I need to know you better. ~ Georgia Cates

I know you're there. I can smell your filthy cigars! ~ Thomas Hardy

Truth like a bastard comes into the world Never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth ~ Thomas Hardy

She wasn't really aware of the song as she sang it. Rather, she slipped through song's tunnel, down its corridor of reality, until she landed in the seat of the music. It was strangely healing; addictively powerful. She hadn't expected to become so engulfed by the notes. ~ Dianna Hardy

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play ~ Thomas Hardy

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age ... The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria. ~ H. Bentley Glass

I want to fuck on the bonnet, but it might be a little warm for that bum of yours." He pops his button and unzips. "So I'm gonna fuck you on the boot and save the bonnet for another time. ~ Georgia Cates

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world. ~ Frank Hardy

The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!'
And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why? ~ Thomas Hardy

And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore. ~ Thomas Hardy

They make a mess," Jared told her. "Tulip foliage dies and turns an ugly yellow. Pansies aren't hardy. The bloom stalks on lavender drop their buds. Violets seed themselves." His tone of voice made it clear that seeding oneself was a perversion. ~ Sheri S. Tepper

I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him ... he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?"
"For you, honey ... I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy ~ Lisa Kleypas

She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write ... ~ Thomas Hardy

But it is without a doubt a misfortune for a man who has a living to get, to be born of a truly noble nature. A high soul will bring a man to the workhouse ... A Pair of Blue Eyes ~ Thomas Hardy

There would be many that would take back the experience of falling in love if it meant also carrying the pain associated with losing them, but I couldn't agree less. To feel the pain of loss is to know you once had something worth losing and I would always carry the memory of how the world was once right, when I laid on a couch, holding the woman I loved in my arms while she slept. ~ Georgia Cates

You are the one who takes care of you, I tell myself. ~ Nicole Hardy

It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself. ~ Darren Hardy

That's who he was - not who he is now - and it sounds like you need to decide if you can deal with what he used to do. ~ Georgia Cates

God, no. I don't want to tame her, I want to watch her. I just want to watch her be herself – it turns me on like nothing else. ~ Dianna Hardy

I'd love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy. ~ Lauren Socha

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible. ~ Tom Hardy

The figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire. ~ Thomas Hardy

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. ~ Emma Thompson

Deep down we're all the same. When life's storms threaten to drown us we just do our best to keep calm, carry on, and breathe. If I've learned one thing along the way it's that learning to breathe again is a team sport and we all need a little help along the way. ~ Niki Hardy

Storms were created when love was bound; set it free, and it could break barriers, and pave new paths. ~ Dianna Hardy

Yes. I - I can't help liking her - just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have all suddenly ended." She explained how Arabella had been summoned back, and would be enabled to retrieve her position. "I was referring to our old question. What Arabella has been saying to me has made me feel more than ever how hopelessly vulgar an institution legal marriage is - a sort of trap to catch a man - I can't bear to think of it. I wish I hadn't promised to let you put up the banns this morning! ~ Thomas Hardy

I developed a constitution that could only ever be described as able and hardy. ~ Kate Mulgrew

Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line - less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all. ~ Thomas Hardy

Am I crazy for thinking I could have a chance with her? ~ Georgia Cates

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain. ~ Tom Hardy

I loved Laurel and Hardy and TV shows like 'Robin Hood' and 'Rama of the Jungle'. ~ Stephen Lang

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out. ~ Dianna Hardy

He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then. ~ Thomas Hardy

The sight of a sullen teenager is common no matter where you go. Teenagers want things so powerfully and can never seen to get them, and to add insult to injury, people make light of your feelings because you are a teenager. They say time will mend a broken heart and they're often right. But not where my feelings for Hardy were concerned. ~ Lisa Kleypas

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. ~ Thomas Hardy