Caitlin Crews > Quotes

“The only thing pretty about me is this godforsaken face. Everything else is rotted and ugly.”
― Caitlin Crews, Shameless Playboy

“Behave," he gritted at her as if he was in control of this, of her, of his own wild response, "and this will be your reward. Disobey me, and this will be nothing but a memory.”
― Caitlin Crews, Undone by the Sultan's Touch

“In contrast to your usual minions, I imagine, I’m a bit more awed by your conceit and arrogance than I am by your supposed magnificence.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Replacement Wife

“But happiness wasn't a screen of pretty pictures. Happiness was what happened when there were no screens around to record it.”
― Caitlin Crews, Just One More Night

“You like to hold things tight and hide them away until all the fault lines are gathered inside and you feel you have no choice but to make the earth move.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Pleasure Contract

“I have lived in many places, you understand. Not only different countries with different languages, but in many conditions. Rich, poor, and many shades between. And I have never met a person who introduced themselves to me by telling me how special they were who was, in any way, special.”
― Caitlin Crews, Just One More Night

“When failure wasn't an option, she liked to tell herself, the only remaining possibility was success.”
― Caitlin Crews, Untamed

“I’ve read that many major CEOs and assorted other captains of industry are sociopaths,” she replied, almost conversationally. “I imagine you fit right in.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Replacement Wife

“I think that a happy life is earned. ... Because life itself isn't one thing or another. It's not happy or sad. It just is. Like anything, it's what you make of it.”
― Caitlin Crews, Just One More Night

“He wanted the old Cleo back. His Cleo. That overawed girl who had danced with him in Paris not so long ago and gazed at him at as if he was the sun and she wanted nothing more than to burn alive in him.”
― Caitlin Crews, Undone by the Sultan's Touch

“Pa'a ka waha."
He knew the phrase, Hawaiian for observe, be silent and learn. "If words are exiting your mouth, wisdom cannot come in," the saying went.”
― Caitlin Crews, Untamed

“But Geraldine had decided that the situation called for a little bit of drama. Surely the man deserved it after what he’d done.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Spaniard's Last-Minute Wife

“You don’t actually want to get married, then. You want to inflict your wife on someone—the world, perhaps? As any girl would be, I’m of course delighted to be considered an infliction. It’s all my dearest fairy-tale fantasies made real, thank you.”
― Caitlin Crews, Expecting a Royal Scandal

“He hadn’t known how much he could feel, no matter how little he wanted to feel.
And it had never occurred to him that his heart might be involved at all until now, when it reminded him of its existence by aching like an open wound that would never heal.”
― Caitlin Crews, Pure Princess, Bartered Bride

“I’d say I’m flattered,” Brittany was saying coolly, “but I’m not. I’m not interested in being any man’s mistress. And not to put too fine a point on it, but your charms are a bit...” She raised her brows. “Overused.” He blinked, and took his time with it. “I beg your pardon. Did you just call me a whore?” “I’d never use that word,” Brittany demurred, and though her voice was smooth he was sure there was something edgy and sharp lurking just beneath it. “But the phrase rode hard and put away wet comes to mind.” She waved a hand at him. “It’s all a bit boring, if I’m honest.” “Do not kid yourself, Ms. Hollis,” Cairo advised her quietly. “I’ve had a lot of sex with a great many partners, it’s true.” “That’s a bit like the ocean confessing it’s slightly damp.”
― Caitlin Crews, Expecting a Royal Scandal

“Khaled's mouth was hard and perfect on hers, hot and wild.”
― Caitlin Crews, Undone by the Sultan's Touch

“Ew. What? No.”
― Caitlin Crews, Just One More Night

“I said it was simple. I didn't say it was easy.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Pleasure Contract

“Rich men like to play their games. They like to put a pretty girl on their arm and make a show out of it. They like to make sure everyone knows what a sacrifice they’re making, taking on a charity project like her, so young and so desperate. And then they make those girls pay for the privilege. They make them pay and pay and pay. You might end up with more money, but you better believe that man will take whatever’s left of your soul.”
― Caitlin Crews, Expecting a Royal Scandal

“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so hard to project the kind of snobbery that comes so naturally to their betters.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Replacement Wife

“Yes, some people have a calling. But everybody has a life. You are not required to choose your path once, long ago, and never deviate from it again. Maybe those who live that way are lucky. But then again, maybe not. Maybe it is better to try many things, so that when you choose, you know you chose well.”
― Caitlin Crews, Just One More Night

“He tasted like the night and all the tumultuous stars above.”
― Caitlin Crews, Undone by the Sultan's Touch

“Ambition is for people who don't like what they have.”
― Caitlin Crews, Just One More Night

“Maybe I dislike spoiled rich men who waste my time and think far too highly of their overexposed charms.” The edge to her smile and that glittering thing in her gaze grew harder. Hotter. “I’ve seen it all in the pages of every tabloid magazine every week for the last twenty years. It’s about as thrilling as oatmeal.” “I must have misheard you. I thought you compared me to a revoltingly warm and cloying breakfast cereal.” “The similarities are striking.”
― Caitlin Crews, Expecting a Royal Scandal

“Clearly you did not rise to your exalted position through sales,” she said after a moment, only the faintest catch in her dry voice. “Because your pitch could use some work.”
― Caitlin Crews, The Replacement Wife