Iris Johansen Quotes

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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 ~ Iris Johansen

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. ~ Iris Johansen

Asked for an explanation. I've ~ Iris Johansen

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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. ~ Iris Johansen

was everything. Eve ~ Iris Johansen

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

Certainly more dangerous ~ Iris Johansen

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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 ~ Iris Johansen

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

Alcohol is how boring people have fun. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

known that he had to be careful ~ Iris Johansen

corrections." "Global corrections? ~ Iris Johansen

Taking a life diminishes the taker. - Kadar den Arnaud ~ Iris Johansen

And I'll be waiting for you to make ~ Iris Johansen

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

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

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. ~ Iris Johansen

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

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

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 ~ Iris Johansen

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

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill ~ Iris Johansen

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

You look like the first breath of spring, ~ Iris Johansen

this before when they'd been together ~ Iris Johansen

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. ~ Iris Van Herpen

His duchess caught the tip of her tongue between her teeth as she carefully poured warm water over his hair. Her lips were very pink. Plump, with a prominent Cupid's bow on the upper one. Her mouth gleamed softly with moisture.
His eyelids dropped as he considered what he wanted to do with that mouth.
She was working soap into his hair now with strong, slim fingers that massaged his scalp.
He clenched his jaw to keep from groaning.
She scrubbed backward through his hair, stroking, pressing, and he found his eyes closing like a lazy cat's. He'd not been touched like this by another since...
Well. Not for a very long time. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

You know what. You've killed me and sent me to hell, and you must descend to the underworld to find me and make me live again. If you don't come for me, I'll become a demon and drag you down into the dark. ~ Iris Murdoch

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment. ~ Jon Johansen

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife. ~ Iris Murdoch

The sun shone calm and bright on the grass, refreshed by the rain, on the border of pretty stones, on the sparkling yellow rocks. It was a caricature of a happy scene. ~ Iris Murdoch

Once she was gone, Pen bowed and said, "Good night, Lady."
"You don't have to bow to me, Pen."
Humor sparked in Pen's eyes, but he said nothing, only bowed again before retreating into his anteroom and drawing the curtain. ~ Erika Johansen

It's not my fault! It can't make any difference, can it?"

"You understand nothing. You are a destroyer, a black spiteful destroyer. You are the sort of person who goes around in a dream smashing things . . . You aren't really here at all. ~ Iris Murdoch

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected. ~ Iris Murdoch

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ... We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. ~ Diane Ackerman

Religion is having an intense attitude and no time off... religion is about those awful deep things. ~ Iris Murdoch

I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art. ~ Iris Apfel

Dora watched him for a while, nervously, and then returned to scanning the whole group. Seeing them all together like that she felt excluded and aggressive, and Noel's exhortations came back to her. They had a secure complacent look about them: the spiritual ruling class; and she wished suddenly that she might grow as large and fierce as a gorilla and shake the flimsy doors off their hinges, drowning the repulsive music in a savage carnivorous yell. ~ Iris Murdoch

His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled with his beautiful, twisted lips and she thought, half on the edge of falling again, she thought he looked like a demon making love to her. A demon fighting for his life or light or possibly redemption. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

It's better to be happy and comfortable than well dressed. ~ Iris Apfel

I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed. ~ Iris Apfel

It's better to be happy than well-dressed. ~ Iris Apfel

There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so - crucial. ~ Iris Murdoch

Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. ~ Iris Murdoch

White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards. ~ Iris Murdoch

I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened. ~ Jon Johansen

Goodness appears to be both rare and hard to picture. It is perhaps most convincingly met with in simple people - inarticulate, unselfish mothers of large families - but these cases are also the least illuminating. ~ Iris Murdoch

Frank stared at her. "But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters."
Iris looked horrified. "Oh, they're not Ding Dongs."
She rummaged under the counter and brought out a package of chocolate covered cakes that looked exactly like Ding Dongs.
"These are gluten-free, no-sugar-added, vitamin-enriched, soy-free, goat-milk-and-seaweed-based cupcake simulations."
"All natural!" Fleecy chimed in.
"I stand corrected." Frank suddenly felt as queasy as Percy. ~ Rick Riordan

Controlling for a large number of additional variables, they found that firms with at least one woman among the first hires were more successful and stayed longer in the market than all-male start-ups. ~ Iris Bohnet

There's danger in the system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance. ~ Erika Johansen

Iris arched her back, pushing her breast farther into Wyatt's hungry mouth. Water from the giant marble-tiled hotel shower rushed down over them, the sound of it hitting the glass door seeming loud in the enclosure. He lightly pressed down with his teeth and tugged her nipple, sending a pulsing sweep of need through her. The man was too talented with his tongue. ~ Katie Reus

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. ~ Iris Murdoch

Being attractive lasts longer than being pretty. ~ Iris Apfel

I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy. ~ Iris Murdoch

Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. ~ Iris Murdoch

I have always attributed a great importance to eyes. How mysteriously expressive those damp orbs can be; the eyeball does not change and yet it is the window of the soul. And colour in eyes is, in its nature and inherence, quite unlike colour in any other substance. Mr Osmand had grey eyes, but his eyes were hard and speckled like Aberdeen granite, while Tommy's were clear and empty like light smoke. ~ Iris Murdoch