Shelley Gray > Quotes

“Oh, Van. Don’t you know? Home is where your mind goes when the night is black and your heart is hurting. Home is where you go when things are happening that you can’t control but wish you could. Home is where the person you love is waiting for you.”
― Shelley Gray, A Texan's Promise

“Is there anything you can’t do?”

“Plenty, Mrs. Proffitt. I just don’t dwell on them.”
― Shelley Gray, A Texan's Choice

“The job is hard enough when the victims are men. But when I see violence done to the innocent, to women or children? It is never easy to observe, or investigate for that matter.”
― Shelley Gray, Deception on Sable Hill

“What are you doing?" she asked.
"Nothing too terrible. Just feeling you."
"That's it?" she raised her eyes.
"Truth?"
"Yes."
"I'm trying to get up the nerve to kiss you."

*swoon*”
― Shelley Gray, A Texan's Honor

“I know many a hardened man at the precinct who would’ve flinched at the sight of a lovely young lady bleeding on the ground. Violence has a way of preying on a person’s soul, I fear.” He grimaced. “All I can say is that I haven’t become so jaded by my job that I have forgotten about the sanctity of a life.”
― Shelley Gray, Deception on Sable Hill

“And that, she realized, fully encompassed the Carstairs family’s last and most important rule of life: no matter what, never forget that everything generations of their family had accomplished could vanish in an instant.”
― Shelley Gray, Deception on Sable Hill

“She and I are as far apart as the stars in the sky and the soles of my feet." Detective Sean Ryan ~Deception on Sable Hill by Shelley Gray”
― Shelley Gray

“Maeve’s expression soured. “I don’t dislike you, Miss Carstairs. It’s simply that I have no use for young ladies like you.” Her tone hardened as she continued. “I have no desire to be a part of your miniscule effort to do charity work, to temporarily fill some gap in your life, deal with something that’s been missing.”
― Shelley Gray, Deception on Sable Hill