Dream High

I guess life always doesn’t turn out the way you think it will.

I want to know that dreams are made of, so as to be able to grasp it.

A Rogue By Any Other Name

It was that she thought highly of the promise of more.

I know enough about women to know that sighs are never simply sighs.

But pleasure is fleeting, Lord Bourne—fleeting enough that it is not worth the pain of being used.

“You have nothing I want.”
She hated the words, and him for saying them. She had herself. She had their marriage. She had their future, none of it of value to him.

Jodi Picoult's Collection of Quotes

 Love was that way.  You could not render it in black or white.  It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.


Compiler's Note: I came across these beautiful quotes but I am not sure which novels they are from. So if anyone has any inkling and would like to help me categorize it properly, please leave a comment with the name of the book you think the quote is from. (please include few lines from the quotes to make it easier for me to identify it). Thanks!

Silk Is For Seduction

- Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was so lucky at it.
Life was not a wheel going round and round. It never, ever returned to the same place. It didn't stick to simple red and black and a certain array of numbers. It laughed at logic.
Beneath its pretty overdress of man-imposed order, life was anarchy.

- She swallowed it. So bitter.
"Vile," she said. "Vile."
"I know, but it helps. Trust me. I know."
"Trust you," she said. "Hah."
"Clearly you are not dying."
"No. Devil won't take me."
The low chuckle again. "Then we're all safe."

- "No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her. "Your ducal self assurance. Everything will give way to you. Even Satan's own storm."
"You are definitely improving," he said. "Full mocking sentences."

- "Get off," she said. "Get off now."
Before its too late, and I decide to celebrate a narrow escape from death in the traditional manner of our species.

- Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered.
Then he recalled who it was who had a child.
A child, Noirot had a child!

- She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart.
But now she couldn't speak, because it was too much, whatever it  was.

- "I have a plan," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Let's get married," he said.
"Yes," she said.
"Let's conquer the world," he said.
"Yes," she said. No one in her family had ever been accused of dreaming small.
"Let's bring the beau monde to its knees."
"Yes."
"Let's make them beg for your creations."
"Yes," she said. "Yes, yes, yes."
"Is tomorrow too soon?" he said.
"No." she said. "We've a great deal to do, you and I, conquering the world. We must start at once. We've not a minute to lose."
"I love hearing you say that," he said.
He kissed her. It lasted a long time.
And they would last, she was sure, a lifetime. On that she'd wager anything.

- "I'm no good at being good."

- "I'm in a mood to knock someone down, and you'll do very well."
"Don't tell me," Longmore said. "The dressmaker doesn't want you, either. By gad, this isn't your day, is it? Not your week, rather."

- Hell, what was one more scandal?

- ...it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.

- "Oh, it's ridiculous. I ought to laugh. But I can't. You won't believe it."
"Of course we will," Sophye said.
"He offered you a carte blanche," Leonie said.
"No, he asked me to marry him."
There was a short stunned silence.
Then, "I reckon he's in a marrying mood," Sophy said.

- "I expected a good deal more from you," Marcelline said, "You bungled it."
"Yes," he said. "What else could I do? I was asking the wrong woman to marry me."

- "I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.."

- He'd forget all that, just as he would forget this night.
The memories would linger for a time, but they'd grow dull. The ache he felt now, the frustation and anger and sorrow - all those would fade too.
She'd given him a night to remember, but of course he'd forget.  

The One

You gotta give for what you take.

A Lady's Guide to Improper Behavior

How many of us have gazed at a man and thought, "yes, him," only to have him pay his attentions to someone else? And how many of us have sighed and waited for some other gentleman to come forward? All I wish to ask is, why? Why not strike up a conversation? Why not determine for ourselves whether "he" is the one? Why leave it to fate?

Angel Heart

I've always lived diligently, pursuing the ideal life. With the way things are, I'm pretty sure I've reached that goal. But then, I was afraid that if I deviated from that path I might lose everything I've worked for. But I was wrong. When I saw you guys, I felt that I can do what I want, that I can make stops along the way, that people can live their lives that way too. Riding on the wind, changing one's form freely, traversing the open skies endlessly. I felt that I wanted to be just like those clouds.

Confession of a Teen-Nanny

     The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along!
     Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.

Fierce Wife

I like you. So I hope that, in the future when you face any difficulties, you will know that there is someone who cares about you silently. At times when you are afraid that no one loves you, you know should know that someone likes you. And gives you strength. I hope that this love, won't become your burden. Take it like it is just a gift. Like when you tear open a wrapped box, a gift that will make you happy like that.

Do you know I came from my house but I am going to a different house, then going to another different house. I am just being thrown out from one place to another. When a family doesn't welcome me anymore, can I not go? When other people dumped me, can I not leave? 

Every Breath You Take

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

A Valentine Wedding

But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.