Kate Eckman Quotes

You'll lose."
"What makes you so sure?"
"You have no discipline. All you do is tear down shit down. My father is a bastard, but at least he builds things. You turn cities into smoking ruins and blunder about like some hyper child, smashing anything you see. And then you sit here and wonder, 'Why did all of my children turn out to be violet idiots? It's a mystery of nature,'. ~ Ilona Andrews

Luce closed her eyes,trying to remember exactly what he'd looked like. There were no words for it.It was just an incredible, joyous connection.
"I saw him."
"Who,Daniel? Yeah,I saw him,too. He was the guy who dropped the ax when it was his turn to do the chopping. Big mistake. Huge."
"No,I really saw him. As he truly is." Her voice shook. "He was so beautiful."
"Oh,that." Bill tossed his head, annoyed.
"I recognized him.I think I've seen him before."
"Doubt it." Bill coughed. "That was the first and last time you'll be able to see him like that.You saw him, and then you died.That's what happens when mortal flesh looks upon an angel's unbridled glory. Instant death. Burned away by the angel's beauty."
"No,it wasn't like that."
"You saw what happened to everyone else. Poof. Gone." Bill plopped down beside her and patted her knee. "Why do you think the Mayans started doing sacrifices by fire after that? A neighboring tribe discovered the charred remains and had to explain it somehow."
"Yes,they burst into flames right away. But I lasted longer-"
"A couple of extra seconds? When you were turned away? Congratulations."
"You're wrong.And I know I've seen that before."
"You've seen his wings before, maybe.But Daniel shedding his human guise and showing you his true form as an angel? Kills you every time."
"No." Luce shook her head. "You're saying he can never show me who he really is?"
Bill shrugged. "Not without ~ Lauren Kate

Louisiana stood up again. She was holding Bunny close to her chest. She faced forward. 'Go faster,' she said.
'Are you kidding?' said Beverly. 'Who do you think you are? Some kind of queen? We're pushing as hard as we can. This grocery cart is worthless. It's like the wheels aren't even wheels. It's like they're squares or something. ~ Kate DiCamillo

Son of a bitch. She was blackmailing him. He had to hand it to her, she was clever.

"How about one interview?"

"How about you get rid of what's-her-name without my help?" Kelly replied sweetly.

"Fine," he gritted out. "But you'd better make this good."

"Kayla isn't the only actress in the family." She reached up and patted his cheek with her key card. "I've dabbled in the performing arts myself. I played Kate in Taming of the Shrew when I was in college."

"I can't think of a better part for you," he snapped. "Let's get this over with. ~ Alison Packard

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money. ~ Kate Reardon

Happy is a poor word for someone who's trying to live a rainbow-colored life in a black-and-white world. ~ Kate Bornstein

I stare at the man who spent months capturing my son's heart and wholly taking mine in the process.
"You've bared yourself to me in a hundred ways since you came into my life. I've fallen for every side of you, good and bad, I want it all. ~ Kate Stewart

Under patriarchy the female did not herself develop the symbols by which she is described. As ~ Kate Millett

There was a pessimism in his soul, a darkness in his outlook, that always left her somehow more aware of hard edges than she had been before. ~ Kate Morton

They rolled up the maps of their bodies until they were two continents of interlocking roads and rivers and dreams, and she thought, 'This is how I will learn to live again'. ~ Kate Scelsa

Bran grabbed my hand,pulled me to a chest, and swung the heavy lid open. A white cloth covered the contents. He jerked it aside. Human heads filled the chest.
"Oh God."
He scooped a mummified head from the chest by a scalp lock and thrust it at me. "All of them are mine."
This was officially the weirdest version of "come down to my place and I'll show you some etchings" I've ever been hit with. ~ Ilona Andrews

A crossroads can be something special, a compass with arms reaching to places you might never find the way to again; places that might exist, or might have existed once, or might exist someday, depending on whether or not you decide to look for them. ~ Kate Milford

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person. ~ Kate Bush

James is why I never left. I should have left. ~ Kate Avelynn

When you give everything, you have nothing to lose. ~ Kate McGahan

Something inside Dolly curled up and died. Things could not have been worse. Except that suddenly they were. ~ Kate Morton

I'm falling for Kate. How could I? My best friend is in love with her. And she with him. You must never let them know - the words sizzle through my mind, and I feel like I am bleeding internally. ~ Amy Plum

We're born, we live, we die, he says and the choices we make in the middle, all those things we agonize over day after day, none of those matter in the end ~ Kate Elizabeth Russell

She was a great wife ... and a wonderful mother, a good daughter, a devoted sister and a truly nice person, which doesn't sound like much but it was one of her ambitions, to be a nice person, and she really got there, I think. She was always there. Or close, anyway.
Of course, she did spend her first thrity-nine years worrying too much and waiting for rotten things to happen to her. Then when they did, and some of the things were obviously, really, truly rotten, she realised she could have a lot more fun not waiting for them.
So you know what she did then? She just stopped seeing the rot. ~ Sarah-Kate Lynch

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything. ~ Mary-Kate Olsen

The first magic wave kicked the world in the face. ~ Ilona Andrews

You've honey on your tongue, ma fifille," Maman once said. "If you'd lived in earlier times, you could have been a troubadour."
" ... There aren't any troubadours any more, are there, Maman?" Marie said. "And if there were, girls wouldn't be allowed to be one."
"Probably not," Maman agreed sadly.
"I'll be one anyway," I said with determination.
Maman smiled and gently pulled on my hair. "I'm sure you will, ma fifille, a clever girl like you. You can do whatever you like in this world if you just have courage enough. ~ Kate Forsyth BITTER GREENS

Alec Baldwin made us all feel like [we could] pal around with him and come up with the best scenarios or scenarios if you're a f - king asshole. So working with him was Alec Baldwin does it the best. ~ Kate Hudson

Oh, my goodness," said Louisiana. "I'm just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears. ~ Kate DiCamillo

smiled back. Winn-Dixie ~ Kate DiCamillo

He's probably never ridden a horse in his life. He's likely never experienced that moment of euphoria when you and an animal move completely as one, the indescribable sensation of grace and power running through your bones and settling forever in your heart. He probably won't have felt a pony's warm breath on his neck on a cold winter's morning, or run his hand proudly across the soft sheen of a well-groomed coat. And he's surely never rested his head against a pony's warm neck, wrapped his arms around it and closed his eyes, and held on tightly to the one thing in his life that would stay solid and constant and true. So he couldn't understand, not really, but I did. ~ Kate Lattey

Stories matter in an enchanted forest. ~ Kate Coombs

She told me she believes that sometimes she comes close to waking; if she sits very, very still, she says she can glimpse beyond the veil; she can see and hear her family going about their usual business, oblivious to her standing on the other side, watching them. At least now I understand why the child exhibits such a profound quiet and stillness. ~ Kate Morton

Let your love be stronger than your fear. ~ Kate McGahan

Nothing's ever going to change my love for you. Well, at least as long as I keep wanting what I can't have. ~ Kate McGahan

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading. ~ Kate Mosse

Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those. ~ Lauren Kate

I love judging men," Shannon mused. "Objectification is an essential element in taking down the patriarchy. ~ Kate Canterbary

What are you doing to me?" he whispered. "Strike that, I know what's happening here."
I let myself ask the question. I had to know. "Do you want it to happen?"
"More than anything. I hope you believe me."
"I'll believe you if that what you want."
"Good. Because I want you."
"You have me."
"Then I'm falling in the right direction. ~ Kate Stewart

I don't know how I'm supposed to act around you. Sometimes I don't care but then other times I get so afraid that I'm doing something wrong I just want to run. I don't want to feel split in two. I don't want to feel broken over you. But I am. ~ Kate Roth