Deborah Fletcher Mello > Quotes

“Of her six kids she’d buried all of her sons, the five young men having succumbed to the streets of Baltimore.”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Playing For Keeps

“Once upon a time there was a king and queen who thought they were sneaky.”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Playing For Keeps

“Did you play any sports?” Malcolm questioned as he took a bite of his salad. “Cheerleading!” “That’s not a sport!” he said with a laugh. “You wish!”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Playing For Keeps

“the woman he would grow old and cranky with.”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Playing For Keeps

“breath. “Tarah, under normal circumstances I would get down on one knee to do this,” he said, eliciting a few nervous chuckles from the crowd. “But since that’s obviously not an option for me...” He paused, tossing a quick glance over his shoulder. When he did, all the men in their two families dropped down to one knee for him. Tarah”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, A Stallion's Touch

“Then I made the cardinal mistake of showing and telling him and her how I felt. That pushed them closer together.”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Playing For Keeps

“He wasn’t moved by the profanity-laced diatribe, and he saw no reason to reply in kind. He himself didn’t cuss, his older brother Noah having told them time and time again that a man who needed to punctuate his point with obscenities really didn’t have a point to make.”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, A Stallion's Touch

“obsession with peanut butter cookies”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Brawn

“There is a wise saying that says those who forget their mistakes are doomed to repeat them.”
― Deborah Fletcher Mello, Playing For Keeps