Lisa Valdez > Quotes

“Passion: "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin."
Mark: "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.”
― Lisa Valdez, Passion

“My Sleeping Beauty ~ I kissed you, but you did not wake. I find this strange for I know I am your prince.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“Patience--"It's just that you needn't have gone to all the trouble." Matthew--"Trouble? What trouble is that, Patience?" His eyes dropped to her mouth. "Don't you see? You're no trouble to me." He lifted his gaze back to hers. "And even if you were, I would go to the ends of the earth to be troubled by you.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“God gave woman a clitoris--a small little bit of flesh with only one purpose--transcendent sexual pleasure. So how is it that some people believe God and sex shouldn't be in the same sentence? ”
― Lisa Valdez

“Polite applause punctuated the end of the clockmaker's speech. But Passion continued to stare. Her
words came before she thought to hold them back. "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin."
He bent his blue gaze upon her. "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.”
― Lisa Valdez, Passion

“Be she alewife,
fishmonger, washerwoman, or whore; the woman who fucks my whole cock shall I take to church's
door.”
― Lisa Valdez, Passion

“However, I am accustomed to not having what I want.”
― Lisa Valdez, Passion

“Rodrigo tried to draw a deep breath, but his chest was too filled with anguish, rage and guilt. He kissed his ash-coated fingers. “I love you,” he whispered. “I love you more than life itself.” Curling his fingers into his fist, he pressed it against his chest. So, I will surely see you soon…and then, my love, we shall be together in our forever now.”
― Lisa Valdez, Rapunzel

“I want you to know that you will not be alone in your loneliness,” he said.
Her tear-filled eyes welled over. “You will be surrounded by your court…and all the beautiful ladies there.”
Rodrigo shook his head. “I’ve never cared about any of them. I shall be lonely for you. Lonely in the midst of a crowd…surrounded by a hundred faces, none of them yours.” He held Rapunzel’s tearful gaze, and tried to swallow the lump in his throat. But he couldn’t. “And as everything and everyone is spinning around me, I shall be thinking of you and longing to be here…” he brushed the backs of his fingers against her wet cheek, “…here in the tower, with my Rapunzel.”
― Lisa Valdez, Rapunzel

“She didn’t call him Prince or Royal Highness. She called him Rodrigo. And while she very clearly wanted him, she wanted him only for what he brought to her as a man.
It felt strange to simply be a man.”
― Lisa Valdez, Rapunzel

“Upon occasion, we misunderstand ourselves, or we lose faith. Whichever the case, we say things we think are true, only to find they are not.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“Then she will do so, without question, because she knows that whatever the reason for his bidding, even if it be to punish her, it comes out of his love for her.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“I think justice is blind so that she needn’t see how massively ineffectual she is.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“He must do the work for which he is suited—work that will provide a life of safety and security.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“He must care for her and show her affection.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience

“Ah, so you want her to remain your mistress while you marry and impregnate her cousin.” Matt’s fingers were white on his coffee cup. “Have I got it right?” “Not exactly,” Mark ground out. “Oh, good. For a moment there, you had me concerned for your sanity.”
― Lisa Valdez, Passion

“If she is his old whore, then you are his new one.”
― Lisa Valdez, Passion

“he must cherish his wife and strive to make her happy, just as she so strives for him.”
― Lisa Valdez, Patience