Annette Blair > Quotes

“Being nice to that woman is like feeding a baby shark so it can grow big enough to eat you.”
― Annette Blair, The Kitchen Witch

“It was scary to need another person as much as you needed your next breath. It implied a need for unlimited faith and trust. You had to believe your love would be there for you always.”
― Annette Blair, Never Been Witched

“Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind.—GAIL RUBIN BERENY”
― Annette Blair, A Veiled Deception

“I feared they’d never have that special connection. The covenant between a mother and child is powerful, but if it’s broken....”
― Annette Blair, Sea Scoundrel

“Beauty,” he said, looking into her eyes, “resides where gentleness and love are the most wondrous of gifts.”
― Annette Blair, Unforgettable Rogue

“Grace, dear, go and fetch tea and toast for us, will you?”
― Annette Blair, Sea Scoundrel

“Here on earth, discover what you are, what your existence is, and how swiftly flees your span of life from time to eternity. For after you are gone, your deeds will speak louder than when you lived.”
― Annette Blair, Jacob's Return

“Amazing how shared laughter could sweeten life, make it seem worth living.”
― Annette Blair, Undeniable Rogue

“From my own experience, after my time in the colonies, I know that a man home from war has much to deal with that is not within sight of his family, but in his head and his heart. The demons of war can be dark and tenacious, distorting even the obvious goodness in life. Past and present become entangled with a soldier’s confusion and self-reproach for living when others perished, and with his need to make life as it once was. Except he cannot go back, because time has passed and people have changed and learned to live without him.”
― Annette Blair, Unforgettable Rogue

“The room was silent but for the gentle snore of a beast at rest.”
― Annette Blair, Sea Scoundrel

“Patience marched over to his chair and nudged Grant’s supporting arm out from under his head with great satisfaction. With quick, muddled movement, he regained his balance and regarded her with sleepy confusion, looking dearer than”
― Annette Blair, Sea Scoundrel

“his”
― Annette Blair, Scandalous Brides

“unnoticed”
― Annette Blair, Proper Scoundrel

“she felt more alive than she had ever imagined anyone could feel. When they were apart, it now almost felt as thought she were , but half alive.”
― Annette Blair, Fabulous Firsts: A Boxed Set of Eleven Full-Length Series-Starter Novels

“Home, Sabrina thought, was not a place, but a state of being, a meeting of minds and hearts. Home was the one’s strength balancing the other’s weakness. Home was the instinctive knowledge of when and where to listen or speak, to hug or hold, to stroke or kiss. Home was the person who completed you in the way only heaven could ordain.”
― Annette Blair, Undeniable Rogue

“Did she need succor so badly that she bore a keen sense when others needed it?”
― Annette Blair, Unmistakable Rogue

“My mother will hear you.”
― Annette Blair, The Butterfly Garden

“You bastard! You get drunk as a sailor—” “Am a sailor.”
― Annette Blair, Sea Scoundrel

“She refused to consider what losing him forever might do to her.”
― Annette Blair, Fabulous Firsts: A Boxed Set of Eleven Full-Length Series-Starter Novels

“WHEN THEY SAT down to dinner, Hawksworth looked twice into his soup bowl—belly up, soft and white, tiny little feet, spiny back, sleepy eyes. “Excuse me,” he said. “But there seems to be a hedgehog in my soup.” “There you are, you naughty—” Beatrix’s expression melted with love, and she smiled. “Oh, how cute. Nanny is having a nice warm soak.”
― Annette Blair, Scandalous Brides