Alisa Adams > Quotes

“He envisioned days spent with Alexa riding in the countryside, hunting, and cold winter evenings sitting by the fire enjoying warm spiced ale. They could go to church together,”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Fate

“captain”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander’s Winds of Hope

“Take it,” he said. “As a token of my faith. And I ask that if ever I prove false to you, strike me down yourself as a faithless and untrustworthy coward, not worthy of the respect of men, or the love of a woman.”
― Alisa Adams, Seduced By Her Highland Prisoner

“But what Louise had noticed even before their color had registered in her mind was that this man’s eyes exuded honesty. Looking at him, she decided that there was not a deceitful bone in his body.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“For all his faults, Seamus actually seemed to respect her as a person, unlike Thomas who only wanted to use her as an assassin.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Veiled Assassin

“Lyle watched them grimly, wondering how he could find out what was going on and if he could somehow warn Davina.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander’s Dark Enemy

“Davina led them all in prayer. “Lord God,” she began, “you have called your servant Ruaridh home to be with you. We who love him and are left behind mourn his loss, but although we are saddened by his death we know it is your will, and your purposes are beyond our understanding. Please comfort us in our time of sorrow and help us to bear it until we are reunited in Heaven. In your holy name, Amen.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander’s Dark Enemy

“Father, imagine a world without women!" He laughed, "why, it would not be a world worth living in. Who would bear our children, wrap us in their arms and ease our sorrows? I don't think God meant us to understand them, only to love them, and have them love us.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Secret Nun

“She closed her eyes and exhaled softly, feeling nausea rise within her stomach. She hammered the fragile shell of an egg and breathed in the scent of the runny yolk inside.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Scandalous Lasses

“A burn is a small river, and a loch is a lake,” he said, recomposing himself, and allowing her to continue her feeding.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“He pressed his lips together. “All right, let’s try. It is not every day that a man gets to be rescued by an angel.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“All the world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crash of the waves or up high in the sky like an eagle flies. Through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's everlasting beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Wife

“Told ye the mingin numptie was with a lass,” said Mungo to Murtagh.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“It would have been the easiest thing in the world for Sarina to plunge the knife into his chest or to slit his throat. This was the man who had killed her father, after all,”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Veiled Assassin

“tears.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Betrayed Princess

“You have met my brother, Doogle?” “Yes, I can say that I have had that honor,” replied Father Mortimer with a large smile on his lips. “By God, Father! Tis wonderful news. I nearly lost all hope,” said Mungo, his blaspheming making the priest wince.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“Shona slept in a small room next to Ishbel's so that she could constantly be on hand to do her bidding, but she was so excited that she could hardly sleep that night.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlanders to Fall For Collection

“Time passed Mary by in the Highlands as if she was in a dream. Sometimes, she felt the same as during that night when sleep could not find her. It was a state of almost wakefulness. The place where a person was present physically but abroad in mind.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Wife

“She knew then that she couldn’t kill Seamus. The thought was as clear as the ringing of a bell in her mind. She simply didn’t have it in her to commit such a heinous act. She wasn’t like her brothers or her father in fact. They had abandoned her to this fate,”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Veiled Assassin

“a row of cells. Each had sturdy iron bars and huge locks, but all their doors were open except one. Donalda's heart was thumping out of her chest as she approached it. He's going to keep me here and make Iona come back, she thought miserably. When she saw who was in the cell she wondered if there was a way of killing herself.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Secret Nun

“alisaadams.com/ free”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander’s Fearless Bride

“her.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Lionheart

“If beauty is God’s mark, then the rain is his final embellishment,” he said, staring into the flames.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“He lunged at her and grabbed it anyway, then dragged her across the stone-flagged floor. She screamed at the pain in her wrist, but when she saw where she was being taken her screams became deafening. The stairway down which she would be led had thirty steps.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Secret Nun

“He did not mind the rain. To him, it was a part of life and the nectar of God and the serum of the sky.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“Have you thought how closely the words 'widow' and 'window' resemble each other, Mother?" Davina asked, kissing her mother. "You”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander’s Dark Enemy

“Thank you, Bettina, my dove,” he whispered, looking down at the little face and smiling tenderly. Then his expression changed to one of concern. “Mother, he is a bit... ugly. Do all babies look like this?”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Burning Desire

“Lord God,” she began, “you have called your servant Ruaridh home to be with you. We who love him and are left behind mourn his loss, but although we are saddened by his death we know it is your will, and your purposes are beyond our understanding. Please comfort us in our time of sorrow and help us to bear it until we are reunited in Heaven. In your holy name, Amen.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlanders To Surrender To Collection

“The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; he is their refuge in the time of trouble.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Stolen Love

“However, this matter was close to her heart and she couldn’t believe that anyone who still had parents with them would neglect them so readily. She would have given anything to see her father again.”
― Alisa Adams, Highlander's Scandalous Lasses