Mary Jo Shively Quotes

Part calico choir girl...........and part satin dance hall doll, with amber eyes and a dash of hellcat red in her hair --- the kind of woman that a man wants in his bedroom when he's sick.............and in his bed when he's not. ~ Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character."
"Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Competence is a great creator of confidence. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures. ~ Mary Jo Putney

There was deep truth in the fact that men spoke of Holy Mother Church, for the Church was the force of civilization and compassion among nations, just as women brought mercy and gentleness to men. ~ Mary Jo Putney

There is a moment each day when it is morning before it is morning. Darkness still hovers over the deep. Those who wait for the dawn can hear it even before they see it. ~ Mary Jo Leddy

Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws. ~ Mary Jo Putney

You were. You are
The brightest thing in the shop window
And the most beautiful seldom I ever saw ~ Mary Jo Bang

Building a neighbourhood takes a very long time. It takes at least twenty years and then some. Like a garden, a neighbourhood must be tended regularly and by many people. There are seeds to be sown, little plants to water. And yes, every day there are weeds to be pulled, small problems to be solved before they overwhelm what is good. It is a humble task, and it is never over. There are days when you think the slightest storm could blow all this loveliness away. ~ Mary Jo Leddy

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves. ~ Mary Jo Salter

In terms of the breadth of the threat of Al Qaeda itself - it's not the only terrorist organization, and it works with others as cells around the world in at least 60 countries. You potentially are talking about tens of thousands of followers who can be conscripted into service to carry out a terrorist plot. ~ Mary Jo White

All Adam needed was an answer, and 'no' would have worked just as well to set the pack back in order. I agreed because ... because he's Adam. Mine, whispered a voice in my head, but I was pretty sure it was my own voice. ~ Patricia Briggs

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Say to the darkness, "We beg to differ!" ~ Mary Jo Leddy

I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved ... well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of, ~ Mary Jo Putney

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home. ~ Mary Jo Putney

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on. ~ Mary Jo Bang

Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. ~ Mary Jo Weaver

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words. ~ Mary Jo Weaver

behind the anger, she saw that he loved her, ~ Mary Jo Putney

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile! ~ Mary Jo Putney

All due respect, Renny," said Mary Jo, "I have a pretty freaking good idea of your capabilities. And I think Mr. Traegar's decision to bring us in first was the correct one. We don't really know what we're dealing with when it comes to the fae - there is no way that the sheriff's office would. We had two werewolves, Mercy and the goblin king out there - and if it weren't for the goblin king we'd have failed to bring him in ourselves."

He gave her a look. "I am going to ignore - just for a minute - how much my geek side is loving that apparently there is a goblin king in the world. And that he is - again apparently - here in the Tri-Cities. Even knowing that David Bowie is gone, I am giddy about this." He said all that in a very dry, professional tone.

I was starting to really like this guy. ~ Patricia Briggs

bullet wound will do." Gordon ~ Mary Jo Putney

clinical picture ~ Mary Jo Wagner

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character. ~ Mary Jo Putney

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Not a savage - a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it. Peregrine's tone was distinctly ironic. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Just be careful, Mary Jo. Be very careful. You've made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. One you should not make is to imagine that Christy will ever be Adam's mate. He is mine, and unlike her, I don't throw away people who are mine. ~ Patricia Briggs

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman. ~ Mary Jo Putney

If he chose, he could help this girl, but what was the point of saving one little whore? It would make no difference to that vast, endless, tragic horde of broken children.
But as Jenny stared at him with great stark eyes, he knew that it would make a difference to her. ~ Mary Jo Putney

The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed."
"Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it. ~ Mary Jo Putney

The name Mary Jo Quinn was written neatly in faded blue marker on the front of the scrapbook, its gray edges frayed with age and wear, as though it had been handled often. Such a memento was a strange thing to find in a used bookstore, especially when one considered its contents. I'd discovered the handmade tome buried on the bottom shelf on the back wall of a little musty-smelling shop in the tiny resort town of Copper Harbor. This picturesque community is the gateway to Isle Royale National Park, an island in the western quarter of Lake Superior that beckoned to hikers, kayakers and canoers. Copper Harbor is the northern-most bastion of civilization in Michigan on a crooked finger of land called the Keweenaw Peninsula. Its remote, pristine shoreline provided an excellent respite from a hellacious year for my best friend from high school and me on a late September weekend. ~ Nancy Barr

I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery. ~ Mary Jo Bang

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help ~ Mary Jo Putney

Adam leaned down to Paul. That edge you lost in your fight with Mary Jo is what allowed me to take the time to find something that would hurt you instead of kill you. You can thank her for your life. ~ Patricia Briggs

Money is that dear thing which,
if you're not careful, you can squander
your whole life thinking of ... ~ Mary Jo Salter

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne. ~ Adam Clymer

I thought you were dead," he said, his voice a bare rasp while Samual moved from his hands to his feet. It didn't seem to hurt as much - at a guess there weren't a lot of nerves left. He jumped into a burning building barefoot to save me.
"Stupid," I said, blinking hard. "As if I'd die without taking you with me."
He smiled faintly. "Was it Mary Jo who betrayed us at the bowling alley?
" he asked, proven he hadn't been entirely unaware of what had been going on while he was changing.
Both of us ignore the pained sound Mary Jo made.
"I'll ask her later."
He nodded. "Better - " He quit talking, and his pupils contracted despite the morphine he'd been giving.
He arched up and twisted so he could press his face into my belly, making a noise somewhere between a screem and a growel. I held him there well Samual snared at Ben and Mary Jo to hold him still.
Another shot of morphine, and Samuel moved us all around. Ben across Adams legs - "And don't think I haven't noticed your hands, Ben. You're next up." Mary Jo on one arm, just above the elbow. Me on the other.
"Can you hold him?" asked Samuel.
"Not if he doesn't want me to," I told him.
"It'll be alright," Adam said. "I won't hurt her."
Samuel smiled tightly. "No, I didn't think you would."
When Samuel started on Adams face with the brush, I had to close my eyes.
"Shh," Adam comforted me. "It'll be over soon. ~ Patricia Briggs

And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower. ~ Mary Jo Putney

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either. ~ Jayne Ann Krentz

To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan ~ Mary Jo Putney

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt. ~ Mary Jo Putney