Maggie Shayne > Quotes

“It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.”
― Maggie Shayne, Colder than Ice

“Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She
shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?”
― Maggie Shayne, Night's Edge

“Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did.”
― Maggie Shayne, Colder than Ice

“<...> I’ve
never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.”
― Maggie Shayne, Killing Me Softly

“You think I don't know what you're doing? This is a typical guy stunt. Protect the helpless female, lead the bad guy away and send her scurrying for help." He put a hand on her cheek. "If he caught up to us and something happened to you… I don't know what I'd do." Her lips trembled, though she tried to look angry. "Macho garbage.”
― Maggie Shayne, Colder than Ice

“It's you Tempest I told her. Not her. It's been you all along. I'm sorry it took me so long to tell you.... I made her trust me to save you.”
― Maggie Shayne, Prince of Twilight

“I love you Utanapishtim. Ziasudra. And if I die tonight, my only regret will be that we didn't have more time together. And if I die a thousand years from now, my only regret will be exactly the same.
I love you, I love you. I love you”
― Maggie Shayne, Twilight Fulfilled

“You've felt guilty ever since, haven't you? That's why you're such a rogue reporter, with your exposés and your inside dirt. It's all backlash."
"You see right through me, Jones. I'm just a tortured soul, in search of redemption. So you wanna have sex with me now?"
The look on her face went from one of sympathetic understanding to one of disgust faster than his Porsche could go from zero to sixty.
"You are such an asshole."
"Ah, come on. I'm sure with the love of a good woman I could be whole again."
"Go to hell, MacKenzie."
"Been there. They threw me out 'cause I made the devil look good.”
― Maggie Shayne, Thicker Than Water

“You should slow down. Learn to enjoy the journey.
You never really get where you're going, anyway.”
― Maggie Shayne, An Enchanted Season

“(That was sarcasm. I cannot read tea leaves. I mean, not unless someone lines them up in the shapes of letters.)”
― Maggie Shayne, Innocent Prey

“She's got a hair-trigger temper and paper-thin patience and a black panther for a pet.”
― Maggie Shayne, Demon's Kiss

“Keeping a professional distance had never been what Vince O'Mally did best. Hell, it was the one thing he wished he could do”
― Maggie Shayne, Gingerbread Man

“I loaded on enough sarcasm to clog up a black hole.”
― Maggie Shayne, Sleep with the Lights On

“that experience of getting it wrong that makes me know what’s right.”
― Maggie Shayne, The Brands Who Came For Christmas

“God, Brigham. You never told me you were a goddamn goddess.”
― Maggie Shayne, Night's Edge

“Do not cry for me, Raven. Dying is part of living, a birth into a new life. You know this.”
― Maggie Shayne, Eternity

“I don't like you, Jack. You know that, right ?"
"Right. No more than I like you, Brigham."
"And I'm not afraid of this thing. I'm not afraid of anything. You know that, too, right ?"
"I've never seen you scared. I can give you that."
Till now, he thought, but he didn't say that part aloud, mostly because it would piss her off and he was dying to see where the hell she was going with it.
"Good, just so we're clear on it. I wouldn't want you to take it the wrong way when I ask you to spend the night with me.”
― Maggie Shayne, Night's Edge

“Eat dessert first in case you’re going to choke to death on your b”
― Maggie Shayne, Wake to Darkness

“In some previous lifetime, my daughter, you died while attempting to save the life of another witch. Because of this, you were born into this lifetime with the gift of immortality. But this is only one of two ways that gift can be passed on.”
― Maggie Shayne, Eternity

“the rage she’d stored up back then would be all she’d need to keep her going now. Just long enough to unleash it on a worthless, abusive pig.”
― Maggie Shayne, A Brand of Christmas

“I’m not sorry it happened. Now that I really think about it, I’m not sorry at all.” She reached for a tall glass, poured him a sweet tea and set it on a coaster in front of him. “I was at first, but I gotta tell you, this ‘everything-happens-for-a-reason thing’ is starting to make sense to me. I’m starting to feel excited to see what the reason was for this. This whole thing woke me up, Darryl. It showed me I was in the wrong relationship with the wrong guy, and apparently in the wrong city, in the wrong state, working in the wrong job.” She bit her lower lip, then said, “I knew it, too. I knew it way down deep. I’d been feeling restless and grouchy and tense. I just couldn’t put my finger on why. But that was why. I ignored my feelings until the problem got so big I had no choice but to make a change.”
― Maggie Shayne, Oklahoma Christmas Blues

“And in spite of herself, Maya sniffed the Christmassy scent of them, and felt her spirits rise. “Smells good, doesn’t it?” Caleb asked. “Smells like a memory in the making,”
― Maggie Shayne, A Brand of Christmas

“wondered if”
― Maggie Shayne, A Brand of Christmas

“Caleb knew he was running away. Shirking his responsibilities, worrying his father sick, more than likely, and letting a lot of people down. He knew that. And he knew it couldn’t go on.”
― Maggie Shayne, The Brands Who Came For Christmas

“Cops coming and going, keyboards clicking, phones ringing. She looked haggard. Hard. She hadn't always, Vince figured. The worry lines bracketing her eyes, her mouth, the dry skin, the chapped lips, the sense that she really didn't give a damn what she looked like—those things had been strangers to her that first day. The day her kids hadn't come home from school. Now those lines, that hardness, had made themselves at home. It looked as if they planned to stay awhile. This shouldn't have”
― Maggie Shayne, Gingerbread Man

“the kitchen”
― Maggie Shayne, A Brand of Christmas

“The frivolous can waste more by the teaspoon than the frugal can bring home by the wheelbarrow.”
― Maggie Shayne, Colder Than Ice

“Maggie lives in a beautiful, century old, happily haunted farmhouse named “Serenity” in the wildest”
― Maggie Shayne, The Brands Who Came For Christmas

“But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
― Maggie Shayne, The Baddest Virgin in Texas

“I took Amy’s advice and resisted the urge to start snooping around in Nurse Boobsalot’s life beyond my earlier cursory and unsuccessful internet search.”
― Maggie Shayne, Deadly Obsession