Linsey Lanier > Quotes

“numb to it all—except the winning. How else could”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“out of you, its spiky needle grass and cacti, its scorpions and vultures, its occasional cattle”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“wanted”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“Jessica Simpson”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“But, Miranda, you’ve just come to Pittsburgh. Don’t you want to settle down here?” She scoffed. “Settle down?” What was that? “Perhaps you could meet a nice young man. You could fall in love and have—” she stopped herself. “Children of my own?” It wasn’t the first time Miranda had heard that. “Amy is my child, Barbara.” And as far as falling in love, it would be a cold day in Hades before she let herself be so vulnerable again.”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“Perhaps”
― Linsey Lanier, Heart Wounds

“body. Close enough for it to be found, anyway.”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“getting looks like that in a bar. She’d never thought she’d get them in a fancy ballroom. Parker’s arm was firm around her. “As I’ve said before, you sell yourself too short.” She forced a laugh. “Guess this gold-digger act is going over pretty well.” His smile turned grim. He pulled her close. “You’re not the only one who’s been acting lately.” So he had been aloof on purpose, just as she’d suspected. She could see it in his face. Tonight his eyes said I want you and I’ll have you, one way or the other. Once more, he was making her long to give in to him. She felt her resistance weaken. He took her breath away. No one had ever made her feel the way Wade Russell Parker the Third did. She almost hated him for it. “Excuse me,” snapped a voice.”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“The silence of the desert is all around me, the dry sand in the wind caresses my face. How did Shakespeare put it? The road to dusty death? Something like that.”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“walked”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“Miranda shook her head. A woman desperate for attention”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“The suspect was dealing drugs, running weapons,”
― Linsey Lanier, Fire Dancer

“pulled into a dark tunnel. I found myself hurtling down an almost vertical dirt path, skipping over rocks and dirt patches like Indiana Jones until I hit bottom with a thud. Six years as a private investigator and I’d never fallen down a tree before. I caught my breath, got to my feet and dusted myself off. Good thing I never dress up for work. My old jeans and boots were none the worse for wear. I was wondering how I’d get back up to the surface when I noticed the flicker of golden sconces on”
― Linsey Lanier, The Clever Detective

“Even the best things are not equal to their fame.” Henry David Thoreau”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“Some women sit around in bars after they get dumped, complaining about the jerks who treated them like yesterday’s dog squeeze. Miranda Steele didn’t go to bars. She didn’t have friends to complain to. But she did have the dog squeeze beat out of her regularly by the jerk she was married to.”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“young”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“~Nobody deserves to die that way~ The Las Vegas desert. A once famous pop singer lies dead. The only clue to her murder a bizarre disfigurement.”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“The popular Miranda Steele stories from”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“because I’ve lived in it so long, I’ve become numb to it all—except the winning. How else could”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“know what happened, but the plastic is gone.” Chapter Fifteen On West Flamingo, they headed east”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“She should have known Leon would do something like this. He’d been pressuring her to give the baby up for adoption since she got pregnant. She should have known he’d meant it when he said he couldn’t live under the same roof with “it” any longer. He always referred to Amy as “it.” He hated her. He said Miranda had no right to keep her.”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“said.”
― Linsey Lanier, The Boy

“with”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“alarm and break in.”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“tumbled”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“still”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“return”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“He told her she was stupid. He called her a whore. He said she was ruined. He told her he’d given away her three-week old baby to strangers. “I got rid of her,” he said. “You’ll never find her again.” And then he beat her and threw her out into the snow. But Miranda Steele wasn’t defeated yet. Yes, she suffered a mental breakdown. Who wouldn’t? But after a time, somehow she pulled herself together and made herself strong. Inside and out. And then she went on a thirteen-”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me

“Don’t worry. They assured me she’d go to a good home. A”
― Linsey Lanier, Someone Else's Daughter

“fudged”
― Linsey Lanier, All Eyes on Me