Nancy Herkness > Quotes

“Money doesn’t buy courage or compassion or strength. You would have those qualities whether you lived in a hovel or a palace.”
― Nancy Herkness, Second to None

“She slanted him a warning glance, but the corners of her mouth twitched.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“You have a key project floundering, and you’re the person best qualified to rescue it.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“Luck is the residue of design,”
― Nancy Herkness, The All-Star Antes Up

“Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” —Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey”
― Nancy Herkness, A Bridge To Love

“What he really wanted was to have her lying beside him naked while he fed it all to her with his fingers. A man could use his imagination.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“I reminded myself that I was writing about love and, therefore, hope. Because falling in love is an act of hope, and we all need to hold on to that comfort as we stumble into the strange and uncertain future.”
― Nancy Herkness, The Agent

“vellum, and blotted it. “Why not just shred it since you’ve won?” Chloe asked, a little miffed that the bet would linger on. “We want to destroy them—or reveal them—all at the same time.” He took Chloe’s hands in his and faced her. “We were gambling with the most important of our possessions: our hearts.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“I’d tell you not to cry but I think you deserve the privilege,”
― Nancy Herkness, The Hacker

“How could her sister have lost her sense of identity to the point that she stayed with a man who treated her with such emotional and physical violence?”
― Nancy Herkness, Take Me Home

“though her insides would burst”
― Nancy Herkness, The All-Star Antes Up

“usurper. But the bride’s”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“to? A vision of Nathan feeding her chunks of lobster from his fingers while they were lying in bed naked danced through her mind.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“Experience is an excellent instructor.”
― Nancy Herkness, The Money Man

“But it was his eyes that knocked her sideways. Their gray depths held brilliant intelligence, banked desire, and a focus that was entirely on her.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“Ha! Don’t you know that writers are control freaks? We make our characters dance to our own weird tunes. That’s half the fun.”

She angled his head ever so slowly to the right. “What’s the other half?” Just as the position became uncomfortable, she reversed the motion.

“Rewriting,” he said. “You know how you think of a brilliant response to an insult six hours later when it’s utterly useless? A writer has a time machine. I can go back to the moment the insult was hurled and parry it with my slow but rapier-sharp wit.”

“Relax. I’ve got you,” she said, rotating his head gently to the right. “I guess us nonwriters think you just sit down at your computer and the book comes out the way we read it.”

“We foster that myth. It makes us seem more like creative geniuses and less like mere craftsmen.”
― Nancy Herkness, The VIP Doubles Down

“Nathan nodded. “Luck is the residue of design.”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“Luck is the residue of design.” “We’re”
― Nancy Herkness, The CEO Buys In

“her a “gal” one more time, Kate Chilton was going to pour her ice cold beer over his patronizing blond head. “What does a gal like you want with an engineering degree from M.I.T.?” Kate gritted her teeth and kept her beer under control. So Cliff hadn't been staring at her chest for the usual reasons. He had been reading her name tag. And since”
― Nancy Herkness, A Bridge To Love

“into the quiet dark”
― Nancy Herkness, A Down-Home Country Christmas