Laura Lee Guhrke Quotes

This was why I did what I
did," she whispered. "I looked at those men at the ball, and I thought of that night in the carriage when
you touched me, and I knew I could never let any of them touch me." She tilted her head back and
closed her eyes, pressing his hands to her breasts. "Only you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

The human heart must be a strong and resilient thing, Daphne decided when she awoke the following morning. She was surprised to find that she was no longer in the throes of wrenching heartbreak and pain. Instead, in a strange way, she felt as if she had been reborn. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Ian!" she cried, afraid to believe it. "I don't want you to ever regret that you married me."
He smiled, and his fingertips caressed her cheeks. "Regret it? How could I?" You are my passionate
Italian wife. You are the woman who is going to give me children and whose bed I intend to sleep in
every night. You're the reason I'll wake up every morning with a smile on my face. I love you, I will be in
love with you every day of my life, and the only day I'm leaving you is the day they put me in the ground. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

It never does any good to dwell on what could go wrong. There is risk in everything. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

As far back as I can remember, whenever you used to look at me, your face would light up as if someone had lit a candle inside you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Viola started for the door, but turned in the doorway to look at her one more time. "By the way, Daphne, beauty does not mean a thing, you know."
Daphne watched as her new friend vanished through the doorway, and she smiled a bit ruefully. "Beautiful women always say that," she murmured to the empty doorway. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

If I'm to be damned, I'll be damned as a lion, not as a lamb. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

You're killing me," he told her, panting, his palms sliding down over her ribs to explore the rest of her
shape - her waist, her hips, her thighs. "Killing me by inches." He lifted his body from hers enough to
yank up her skirt. "But it's a damn fine way for a man to die. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward? ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

We're your friends. Our job is to tease you mercilessly about your foibles, rag you about your upright, honorable nature, and point out to you when you're being a complete dolt. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Forgive me if your contempt from on high always brings out the worst in me. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Madness comes to us all. Even you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Life is like a picture, you know. It's all in the way you frame it. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Marry me and make an honest man of me in my butler's
eyes." He kissed her. "Marry me and save me from having to chase loose women for the rest of my life."
He kissed her again. "Marry me, darling," he said once more against her lips. "Because I adore you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

There was fear, of course. That was always with her, something she'd accepted and learned to live with a long time ago. But, right beside it, other emotions were pushing up, fighting for space and light and air. Things like excitement and desire, longing and hope. Agony and uncertainty. Things that made fear seem almost comfortable, like broken-in pair of leather shoes or a perfectly fitted glove. Fear, at least, was familiar. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Oh, that anything could feel like this. It was wicked and wanton.
It was wonderful. That Philip, whom she always thought so proper, should know of such things as this. It amazed her. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Pardon me for not being willing to commit my entire future to you based on two kisses and a blueberry muffin. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

No one judging her by her appearance would dream that Miss Daphne Wade had a rather salacious habit of staring at her employer's naked chest whenever she had the chance, although most women would have agreed that Anthony Courtland, Duke of Tremore, had a chest worth looking at. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

It's time love," he murmured, nuzzling her throat, kissing her ear.
"I've waited so long. I can't wait any longer have you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Marriage is a partnership Phillip, not a feudal kingdom. Until you can accept that I have the right to dictate the course of my on life, I will not marry you. Until you can accept my wishes and my opinions are just worthy of consideration as yours, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that what I would give up to be your wife is just as important as what you offer in exchange, I will not marry you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

I shouldn't wish to be a tease. To ... lead you on."
He smiled. "That's my look-out, not yours."
She considered that, doubtfully. "There are some men who would disagree."
His smile vanished. "Then they are worthless curs, not men. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Resolved untested was moot. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Neamh," he murmered. '"Tis Neamh, you are, Olivia. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

If Flynn's as you say, the boy - Simon, you called him? - Simon should be all too happy to come away with us. I've no ill will toward him."
"You might remember Simon's the one who gave you a great clout on the head," she said.
David waved it away. "And why shouldn't he? He likely thought I was about to maul your unconscious person. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

She met his gaze over the plums. The point is, we all care, to some degree, what others think of us. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

I suppose you have already informed God that you will require at least three sons to ensure the Tremore line? ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

She gave him a dubious look, as if he wasn't quite right in the head. "Sometimes, Englishman, I do not
understand you. I love you, but I do not always understand you."
She turned and started across the meadow. He remained where he was and watched her walk away,
with her skirts in her hand and the sun on her hair.
"I love you, too," he said, but only after she was too far away to hear. "I always have. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

He could feel the only woman he had ever wanted slipping away for the third time, and he knew that this time, the pain of losing her would annihilate her. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?"
For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime."
I can live with that," he said, and kissed her. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Olivia watched him through a blur of tears, despising the futility of it. For there was nothing she could say to comfort a man whose family was long dead; there was no balm to heal wounds that scored a man's soul; and there was no way to make a man believe in the ties that bind. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

I have never thought you weren't good enough for me. The fear I always had, deep down in my heart, is that I'm not good enough for you."
Murmurs of astonishment rippled through the room but he didn't seem to notice.
"You see, I was never the one who could make you laugh." He glanced at Lawrence, then back at her.
"I was never the one who made coronets of rosebuds for your hair and told you that you were pretty."
He swallowed hard, and his chin lifted a notch, telling her as clearly as any word how difficult it was for him to reveal himself this way.
"I always wanted to say those things, do those things, but I couldn't, for a gentleman is not supposed to behave that way. A gentleman is not supposed to fall in love with the chef's daughter. But right now, today, I don't give a damn what gentlemen do. I'm just a man, and the only thing I care about is you. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Even out of bad things, good things can happen. Even things that are sordid or painful can lead to things that are beautiful. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Lizzie Darbury won't do," Vivian said. "She never understands Harry's jokes. She just stares at him as if he's a bit touched in the head and doesn't laugh." "And that's important," Louisa said. "Men do hate it when we don't find them amusing. Especially Harry. It quite upsets him. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Came to her, not the athletic, graceful leopard of the ballroom at Hanford House but her very own wounded animal. Her husband. Her lover. Her best friend. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

This was the pain of being happy, something she hadn't felt since she was a girl, when the future had been full of hope and the world had been wonderful and all life's possibilities lay ahead. This was the pain of light and beauty and a man's tender kiss. It was the burn in your eyes when you looked into the bright, shining sun, and the pinch in your chest when you saw the first green shoots of springtime, and the lump in your throat when you heard the sound of a newborn baby's cry. It was life, life, life. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

He turned out the lamp and left the room, his body in agony. Sometimes, it was absolute hell to be a
gentleman. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations. ~ Laura Lee Guhrke

This world ain't about how how big you are, or how little. It's about how every little thing touches every other thing in creation. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

I think I was born with my eyes facing the wrong way. Because they're always looking into my head rather than looking out. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there. ~ Caterina Murino

Will, what do you see when you look at that?"
"A fence"
"Yeah, a fence. Used to contain something, keep it trapped. A prison, perhaps." *Bends her head* "But when I look at it like THIS... to me it looks like a ladder. Which is the opposite of a fence. A ladder means escape, freedom. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

Whether it's death or life or a fence, you see things how you choose to see them. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

My heart didn't even write a farewell note ... It was a goner. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

Surviving isn't living, Kat. ~ Laura Lee

It's like she wears an "I'm-always-happy" mask. I used to play along. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

Oh honey, who cares if your blood is basically like vampire crack? Hello? Did you not get the memo? Vampires are hot! ~ Laura Lee

I suppose all moms have an idea who they hope their daughters will be. Like a connect-the-dots picture where you think you know what shape it will become. But then it's the daughter who draws the lines, and she might connect the dots you didn't intend, making a whole different picture. So I've gotta trust the dots she's given me, and she's gotta trust me to draw the picture myself. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

We're human. All we are are beautiful contradictions. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

To slay a demon, you have to face it. ~ Laura Lee McKellips

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears. ~ Laura Lee

I want to get to know this other me, but I don't know her well enough yet to be her all the time ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming. ~ Laura Lee Gulledge

I want to be in your orbit every second of every day. ~ Laura Lee

One does not love breathing. ~ Harper Lee

Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read? ... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants. ~ Stan Lee

Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here - just what works for you. ~ Lee Strobel

Were you so scared that she'd hurt you, you ran, a big buck like you?"

"No suh, I's scared I'd be in court, just like I am now."

"Scared of arrest, scared you'd have to face up to what you did?"

"No suh, scared I'd hafta face up to what I didn't do. ~ Harper Lee

When you freely express, you are the total style. ~ Bruce Lee

A strong man sails by ash breeze! ~ Jean Lee Latham

When you nurture and prioritize relationship for the volunteers, the volunteers become the ministry's greatest recruiting tools, because they tell others. ~ Amy Fenton Lee

With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relative, my children, my home. I have, therefore, resigned my commission in the Army ... ~ Robert E.Lee

The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing ... Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance. ~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else."

"What's that?"

"Waiting. ~ Laura Dave

Sylvain flung out his hands. "You think my father never screwed up with me? You think I never screwed up with him? You don't get only one chance, for God's sake. You get five million chances, second after second every day. You don't have to get every single one of them perfect. Merde. It's not chocolate. ~ Laura Florand

Your body captured my attention, but it was your soul that held my gaze. ~ Melody Lee

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance. ~ Bobby Lee

How can you leave someone if you let them this deep inside you? It's so much harder that way. Messy. Complicated. No Band-Aids. ~ Laura Zielen

I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk. ~ Laura Innes

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. ~ Bruce Lee

If I'd been a cowboy, it might've ended well.
Somewhere on the ramble, I'm sure I'd have to sell
My guns along the highway. My coins to the table
To make a gambler's double, I'd double debts to pay.
Prob'ly shrink and slink away, It mightn't've ended well.

What If I'd been a sailor? I think it might've ended well.
From August to May
For a searat of man drifting through eternal blue, aboard the finest Debris.
I might've called the shanties. From daybreak to storm's set, lines stay Taught, over rhythm unbroken.
But, oh, there's a schism unspoken, a mighty calling of the lee.
An absentminded Pirate, unaccustomed to the sea;
To the land, a traitor. I think it mightn't've ended well.

What might've worked for me? What might've ended well?
Soldier, to bloody sally forth through hell?
Teacher of glorious stories to tell?
Man of gold, or stores to sell?
Lover to a gentle belle?
Maybe a camel;
A seashell.
What mightn't've been a life where it mightn't've ended well? ~ Dylan Thomas

I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco. ~ Anthony Mackie

Your slides should be a billboard not a document! ~ Lee Jackson

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young, ~ Laura Marling