Elizabeth Bevarly > Quotes

“People talk about how sad it would be to die before they've done everything they want to do or seen everything they want to see. But I think it would be worse to live life and have there be nothing left that you want to see or do.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly

“Virtuoso? Are you serious? What kind of code name is that? Who's assigning code names these days? They should be shot. How can anyone feel threatened by someone named Virtuoso?”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Overnight Male

“tidying with what a couple of the other pianists had called her obsessive-compulsive neatness. Well, could she help it if she liked the sheet music alphabetized? And then put in numerical order according to the year it was written?”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Express Male

“eloped. Claire and Ramsey just did it in Acapulco, that was all. Anabel was the flower girl. Except that she ate all the flowers just before the ceremony. Then she broke the basket that was supposed to hold them. Then she knocked over the floral arrangements in the back of the church.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“herself—as if he wanted to chase her, seize her, fell her, then consume her, methodically and thoroughly, enjoying every moment of the hunt and the pursuit, and savoring every last mouthful once he caught her. And my, but it seemed warm in her office today. Hannah was going to have to talk to the custodian about her thermostat. The school one, she meant. Her personal thermostat was something to discuss with her doctor at her earliest convenience. Almost thirty-six was way too young for a woman to be experiencing hot flashes. Even if the woman in question had just had a man like Michael Sawyer enter her orifice. Office, she quickly corrected herself. Enter her office.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Just Like a Man

“Diplomacy, after all, had kept the world a reasonably peaceful place, in spite of its being ruled by men.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“It couldn’t possibly be a good idea to touch him, she told herself as she eyed the proffered hand. Not when the summer night got more sultry and the red high heels started to tango and the saxophones began murmuring “I Got You Under My Skin,” which sounded way too much like “I Got You In My Orifice.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Just Like a Man

“His faded jeans hugged his taut hindquarters and strong thighs with much affection, and his denim work shirt strained against the muscles of his broad back.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“That had been last Thanksgiving. And it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she’d experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah…that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“figure out if he knew her from somewhere. But he didn’t, she was sure, unless it was just in passing at the mall. She would have remembered a man like him. For a long, long time. And then she would have dreamed about him. A lot. Probably without clothes. On either of them.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Express Male

“Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn’t exercise it very often.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“She stubbed out the butt on her clipboard, one marked by a variety of small black burn spots, and flicked it away heedlessly—beaning her production assistant in the side of the head in the process.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“In spite of his name, Bob Troutman wasn’t much of a catch.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Express Male

“What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don’t just disappear. Not unless they’ve been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn’t there some kind of crop circle left behind or something? Does this Ramsey Sage not have a crop circle? Because if he doesn’t, then he’s probably not been abducted by aliens, in which case, we’d have a good chance of finding him, I’d think.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“But a little perspiration never hurt anyone. Especially that sort of perspiration. And that sort of perspiration was definitely one of life’s simple pleasures. Well, maybe that sort of perspiration wasn’t so simple, she conceded.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“she’d never experienced for Chandler the kind of feeling a woman should have for a man she thought about marrying, that breathless kind of wanting, that aching sort of yearning, that endless, ferocious passion, that insistent, frenzied, needy demand, that hot, sweaty, wanton arousal that made a woman just want to rip off her clothes and wrap her naked body around a man and feed herself to him whole, that... that…”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“After all, it had been…how long since his last sexual encounter? He did some mental math: carry the one, make the seven an eight…multiply by pi…add the square root of sixty-two…do the hokeypokey and turn yourself around…When he saw the final number, he immediately erased the blackboard. No way could it have”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Express Male

“He’d never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“It took only one, very quick, perusal of Ramsey Sage for Claire to know everything she needed to know about him. He was completely unfit to be anyone’s mother. Or father. Or guardian.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“After all, not even mobsters fixed their kitchen sinks with handguns. They could blow their drains out.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Undercover with the Mob

“door,”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Unforgettable Heroes II Boxed Set

“The car guy. She formed a quick impression of a wizened, little old man of German descent who knew auto mechanics backward and forward, and who tinkered under the hoods of everything on wheels, murmuring things like, “Hmmm... Hmmm... Ah hah! De problem, you see, iss viss da discombobulator intravector svitch, vich hass gone kablooey.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Ring on Her Finger

“old ladies who remembered when cotton briefs only cost ten cents a pair.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Express Male

“She hurried down the stairs on the side of the carriage house, but when she rounded the corner and saw Max standing beside the roadster wiping his greasy hands on a rag, she stopped. She couldn’t help herself. He just had a presence—or something—about him that made it impossible for her not to notice him. Be distracted by him. Respond to him. Succumb to him. What was it she had just been planning to do...?”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Ring on Her Finger

“he found himself wanting to learn more. About her brain and her bra.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, You've Got Male

“And, really, she did like Chandler, too. She did. What woman wouldn’t? He was handsome and successful, a member of one of Nashville’s oldest and most prominent families. But she’d never felt anything more than a friendly sort of affection for him, and even that usually only came about after she’d consumed a good, dry Manhattan. Preferably during a two- for- one happy hour. At any rate, she’d never experienced for Chandler the kind of feeling a woman should have for a man she thought about marrying, that breathless kind of wanting, that aching sort of yearning, that endless, ferocious passion, that insistent, frenzied, needy demand, that hot, sweaty, wanton arousal that made a woman just want to rip off her clothes and wrap her naked body around a man and feed herself to him whole, that...that… Ah, where was she? Oh, yes. At any rate, she’d never experienced that sort of, um, feeling for Chandler that a woman should have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly , The Thing About Men

“had been a long time since he’d touched a woman like that It was that he’d never touched a woman like Claire at all. Not one who was all cool culture and calm comportment and classy custom.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“She’d read enough issues of Parents and Parenting magazines in recent weeks to understand that no matter when or how one became a parent, one had no idea what one was getting oneself into until it was too late. She’d learned, too, that no matter how chaotic and challenging the child, parents grew to love them unconditionally.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, The Thing About Men

“Hoo-kay, Marnie thought. Whoever this guy was, he’d caught the express train from la-la land and hopped off at weirdsville. And now he was looking around for the platform for his connection to loonytown.”
― Elizabeth Bevarly, Express Male