Suzanne Brockmann > Quotes

“You love me,” he said. “That’s all I need to know.”
“You always say the right thing,” Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. “Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control

“...there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Dark of Night

“When you sit that way, you look kind of like a beach ball with a head,” he continued. “Your haircut is really, really bad, I’m probably going to lose my job for helping you this way, and I’m dying to fuck you.”

He glanced at her. “That honest enough for you?”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Bodyguard

“I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control

“My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Into the Storm

“Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.”
― Suzanne Brockmann

“Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!"
Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Into the Storm

“Sam found a chair under Robin’s butt and evicted him from it, bringing it over to his pregnant wife.“Sorry, I wasn’t thinking,” Robin apologized.
“Thanks,” Alyssa said to Robin as she sat down, even as she gave Sam a darkly amused look.
“What?” he said. “I was just helping him think.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, All Through the Night

“Savannah, I’ve been talking my ass off for more than an hour now, telling you shit no one’s ever heard anything about, hoping that I’ll say something, Jesus God, anything that will convince you to have sex with me.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control

“I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work.

~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero”
― Suzanne Brockmann

“My favorite color is you.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Born to Darkness

“Go fuck yourself!—Dan said genuinely pissed off.
Izzy---I’ve found that I’m a little shy for such blatantly public display of self-affection. Besides, I like to be wined and dined before I have my way with myself. I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Breaking the Rules

“Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.”
― Suzanne Brockmann

“That leaves Decker and what's his name, Mr. I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Flashpoint

“He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Hot Target

“If you want, I can carry you—”
“I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.”
He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control

“He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Over the Edge

“Mol, it's not probably nothing if they fucking want you to go to Germany."
She winced, and he turned to the people-mostly women- who were filling most of those waiting room seat.
"Excuse me. This doctor thinks my wife, whom I love more than life, has breast cancer, so I'm going to say fuck probably about ten more times. Is that okay with all of you?”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Breaking Point

“This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control

“Do you think,” she said, “instead of having sex, we could make love?”
“I’d love that,” Ken whispered.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Out of Control

“She smiled at him, the way she always did, even when he woke up at oh-what-the-fuck-hundred.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, All Through the Night

“Damn, this op has been like a fucking Love Boat episode.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Over the Edge

“You can't choose who you love, Kelly, but you can waste it. Why on earth would anyone want to waste it?”
― Suzanne Brockmann, The Unsung Hero

“If he's at this party, I want you to stay far away from him."
"Shouldn't that rule apply to you, and Jules, too? Unless your penises make you magically bulletproof.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Force of Nature

“-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship…
-In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?”
― Suzanne Brockmann

“Although my elephant is different than yours. Mine's bright purple and I like to lead him around on a leash and introduce him to people by name.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Gone Too Far

“As long as I’ve got a book, it doesn’t matter where I am. I can instantly be a million miles away, in a completely different place, on a different planet even. I can be someone else, you know? When it gets too complicated to be myself.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, The Unsung Hero

“Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Heartthrob

“Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.”
― Suzanne Brockmann

“No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Dark of Night