Barbara Elsborg > Quotes

“Kate, I need to use the toilet,” he called through the door.

“You’ve just had hours in the sea. Couldn’t you have gone then?”

“Mum told me to get out of the water first.”

“What, even the ocean?”

“It’s wrong to pollute.” He tried to sound serious. ”
― Barbara Elsborg, Strangers

“Better not to have anything. Not even love. If you got attached to something, it only got taken away. Child or adult. Toys or people. No difference”
― Barbara Elsborg, Strangers

“Stop changing the subject," Taylor snapped. "And think before you speak."
Roo pressed her lips together and then sighed. "How long do you want me to think?"
Niall let out a snort of laughter.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Worlds Apart

“...do me the very great honor of becoming...the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it...”
― Barbara Elsborg, Strangers

“Books to read. Bitches to push out of the door.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Susie's Choice

“I want you so much I’m scared,” he whispered.

“I’m scared I want you so much,” Kate whispered back.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Strangers

“ 'Everything is temporary. Nothing lasts. We're born. We die. Life's all about loss and change. Things happen, we learn to adapt or we don't, but we move on in some way or another. Sometimes that's hard and takes longer than we'd like.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“I love you because I can be honest with you. I trust you. I love you because you've made me see I'm more than I thought.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Strangers

“Why would someone want to kill you?" Logan asked.
He shrugged. "I piss most people off sooner or later. Usually sooner."
"To the point they'd shoot you down in a London street?"
"I can be very annoying.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“Why didn't you call?" Taylor asked.
"I did. No one answered." Roo bent to refill her handbag.
Ah. "So how were going to get in the house?"
"I thought I'd just wait for you to come back." She started to tap her foot.
"Why didn't you go home and call a locksmith?" Taylor asked.
Roo glared. "What is this? The Spanish Inquisition?" Then she grinned. "Oh, I've waited years to say that."
Taylor bit back his laugh.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Worlds Apart

“While you let those scars affect what you do, you’re allowing your punishment to continue. It’s done. You need to move on. Shit, that was brilliant advice. I just wish I could follow it myself.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“ 'It's okay. I understand that you're tempted and know you shouldn't grab the apple, and when you did you wanted to drop it. But I'm not good at resisting temptation. I'd rather eat the fucking thing, and enjoy it, even if I end up in hell.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“Oh God, can I keep you? You don’t need batteries, do you?”
― Barbara Elsborg, Saying Yes

“You know why doctors slap babies on the bottom when they're born? So the dicks fall off the smart ones."
He laughed. "You know why women don't have dicks? So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.”
― Barbara Elsborg, The Small Print

“ 'I've been privileged to occasionally hear you sing in the shower and thought--what a voice. With a reasonable amount of training, it might actually be a voice I could listen to for more than a few minutes without getting a migraine.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“Taylor and Niall are watching their personal assistant prospects waiting to be interviewed.
"Leave them sitting there until one of them shows some initiative." Niall said.
Ten minutes ticked slowly by.
"I give in," Niall said. "They're all idiots."
Taylor laughed. "I'm intrigued now. How long are they going to sit there?"
"I suspect until they drop dead."
Five more minutes before Taylor heard Niall exhale in frustration, and then the door of the living room flew open and a chicken burst in.
"What the f**k?" Taylor gasped.
"Hi, everyone," the chicken said in a perky voice. "Thank goodness, I'm not too late. I had difficulty getting across the road." She laughed and then sighed when no one else joined in. They sat staring at her in mute shock.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Worlds Apart

“You hurt me more than that bullet. Not by lying about who you were but by not coming to see me. You’re supposed to be an expert at working out the most efficient path to get to where you want to be. Since for the last three weeks that path didn’t lead to me, you left me thinking you didn’t want me at all.” He glared. “But I got over my sulk and started to wonder if I was wrong. I think you do want me but you’re afraid. My big, rough, tough bodyguard is scared shitless.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“Look at me, Kate."
She raised her eyes to his.
"What do you see?"
She thought for a moment. "You've got a spot."
Charlie gave a snort of laughter. "You're not supposed to tell the fifth-sexiest man in UK, he's got a spot."
"Who voted? Senior citizens?”
― Barbara Elsborg

“Hey, you’re not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Susie's Choice

“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like the piece of trash he was. He’d never be loved. He didn’t deserve that either.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax.”…“Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Susie's Choice

“I don’t feel part of the world. No one needs me or wants me or even likes me very much. I don’t like myself. The world will keep turning without me. I’ll be no great loss. I’m just a temporary misuse of a minute amount of carbon.”
― barbara elsborg, Strangers

“ 'How long do you want me to stay in there so you can talk about me behind my back?' Zak called.

'A couple of hours. I could write a book about you,' Logan shot back.

'Make sure you make it clear my dick's bigger than yours.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“He loved the raw strength of Haris, his edge of desperation, the need he couldn’t hide.”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him

“Don't you watch any cop shows?" Logan asked. "You're supposed to wait until I've made sure there are no guys with submachine guns and machetes waiting in the shadows."
"Was that a joke?" Zak asked”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“You have some lovely books," she said. "I like the one with the pictures of polar bears."
"The books with words too tricky?"
She released a strangled laugh.
"Would you care to explain the system?" Turner stared at the shelves.
Matty moved in front of him and pointed. "They're sorted by color."
"Ah." Dear God.
"And by size."
"Mmm." Turner felt his mouth start to twitch. "It didn't occur to you to shelve them alphabetically by author name or even title?"
"Well, yes, but no."
"The thing is, you have so many. I organized one boxful only to find the next box wrecked what I'd done so I thought they'd look nicer if all the same color spines sat together. I tried to follow the colors of the spectrum. Look, the books go up and down in waves."
He'd noticed. It made him feel seasick.”
― Barbara Elsborg, The Small Print

“ 'How big's your dick?' Zak blurted.

His father gave a roar of outrage.

'How good's your dental plan?' asked Number Five.

Zak laughed.

'You can't ask that,' his father snapped at his side.

'My favorite composer is Rachmaninov. My last client moved to New Zealand. There's nothing stuck to my shoe. I had fruit for breakfast and I don't waste my time worrying. I make sure there's never anything to worry about.' He walked across the room and put his mouth close to Zak's ear. 'In answer to your last. How responsive's your gag reflex?' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, Every Move He Makes

“I want to know him. I want to know what he likes, what he doesn’t like. I want to know what kind of man he is. I want to know if he could like me for more than sex.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Drawn In

“The power that was your father's." He looked at her bewildered face. "To get it, I need to take you away."
"Where to?"
"A vacation to somewhere warm and cozy."
"Florida?"
"Nearly. Hell."
Piper glared.
He shrugged. "I don't know why people are so down on hell. It never rains; it's always hot; you can get a nice tan; there's plenty to do.....”
― barbara elsborg, Fight to Remember

“ 'Time to live dangerously. We're having pancakes.' ”
― Barbara Elsborg, With or Without Him