Carla Cassidy > Quotes

“Why can I remember eggplant, when I can't remember my own name?!”
― Carla Cassidy, Pregnesia

“The good thing about being with a woman who has amnesia is that the conversation gets to be all about you”
― Carla Cassidy, Pregnesia

“He laughed, a low, sexy growl, as she moaned in obvious frustration. “Patience is a virtue,” he said.
“Torture is a federal offense,” she replied.”
― Carla Cassidy, Scene of the Crime: Deadman's Bluff

“Unrequited love sucks. It should be against the law.”
She brightened.
“If it was, then I could have Rick arrest me. I’d love to be handcuffed to him.”
― Carla Cassidy, Last Gasp

“In that instant of eye contact, in the mesmerizing depths of that sweet emotion, she felt bound to him in a way she’d never felt connected to another man. It was as if in that moment their hearts and minds, their very souls, were one.”
― Carla Cassidy, Last Gasp

“Getting involved with a victim was kind of like trying to find love on a reality show...rarely successful.”
― Carla Cassidy, Scene of the Crime: Deadman's Bluff

“I won’t let anyone talk to my wife that way, Gray said, his voice with a steely edge. I know that underneath that expensive tux you’re nothing but a mama’s boy sucking off your father’s money and looking for a wealthy woman to keep you doing nothing for the rest of your life. I just want you to understand that beneath my tux is a rough and tumble cowboy who will kick your ever-loving ass to hell and back if you ever talk about my wife in derogatory terms again.”
― Carla Cassidy, The Colton Bride

“I wish I would have been there for you.” He finally found his voice. “I wish I would have been there to beat up all the children who bullied you, to shoot your father dead the first time he broke one of your bones. I wish I would have been there to sweep you out of town and save you from the horrors you went through.”

Her eyes widened in surprise and then immediately narrowed as she shook her head. “I didn’t need to have a hero in my life, Mark. I needed to figure out how to be my own hero. I took the easy way out. I allowed small-town people to label me and then I did my very best to live up to the label they’d provided. It’s taken me thirty-seven years to realize I don’t need a hero. I’m all I need and I’m strong enough to build the rest of my life alone.”
― Carla Cassidy, A Profiler's Case for Seduction

“Time seemed to stand still as they remained embraced, him holding his body weight on his elbows as he looked down at her and grinned.

“Now that’s a vacation.” She laughed and then his grin fell and he shook his head.

“Like a couple of horny teenagers with no thought of tomorrow and no thought of protection. We should both be shot.”

“Can you wait until the glow leaves me before you shoot me?” she asked.

He smiled down at her. “You are glowing. You look gorgeous.” “It’s the look of a sated woman.” “I like it.”
― Carla Cassidy, Scene of the Crime: Deadman's Bluff

“Once she’d realized she’d never meet her mother’s expectations, it didn’t seem real important to meet anyone else’s.”
― Carla Cassidy, Without a Sound

“The person of interest in her sister's murder had become the cowboy of her heart”
― Carla Cassidy, Cowboy of Interest

“She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an adolescent boy for his first girlfriend.”
― Carla Cassidy, The Perfect Family

“mutt”
― Carla Cassidy, Confessing to the Cowboy

“I knew she wouldn’t remember me,” Della said as she and Jordan once again sat at the table. “She had her head so far up her ass in high school, the only thing she could recognize was her own colon.”
― Carla Cassidy, Up Close and Personal

“And there’s nobody there. But”
― Carla Cassidy, Are You Afraid?

“Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn’t it?”

Michelle said dryly.

“That the boy most likely to become the next Unabomber has a crush on you?”
― Carla Cassidy, Last Gasp

“It was a beautiful day and tomorrow was just a promise, and yesterday already a memory. The only thing to cling to was the present”
― Carla Cassidy, Cowboy with a Cause