Tonya Burrows > Quotes

“I was born and raised in the South, honey, but I'm no Southern Belle. I shoot what I aim at.”
― Tonya Burrows, SEAL of Honor

“She might be frightened out of her wits and confused as hell, but she was a Southern girl, born and bred. Mama would fly down from heaven and tan her hide good if she wasn't polite.”
― Tonya Burrows, SEAL of Honor

“There are so many ugly places and people in this world, I've learned you have to grab hold of the places like this, the moments like this, and cherish them.”
― Tonya Burrows, Wilde Nights in Paradise

“I don’t do gentle, Mara,” he felt compelled to warn even as he worked his way down from her lips, over her chin, to the tender spot where her neck met her shoulder. He scraped his teeth over the frantic beat of her pulse and reveled in the delicate shudder that shook her body. “So if that’s how you think this is going to go, back out now.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“(Scene, not verbal quote)
He flung the door open…
And Jean-Luc popped through like a Whac-a-Mole.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“Don’t even try understanding the dumber sex. Just be happy they’re getting along now and not punching each other’s lights out.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“How can you have so much compassion? Isn’t it exhausting caring so much?” “Not as exhausting as pretending not to care about anything.”
― Tonya Burrows, Honor Reclaimed

“You’re so full of shit. You think you don’t deserve a woman like Libby Pruitt when you’re obviously head over heels for her. You think you don’t deserve to be happy—all because of something I said out of grief twenty years ago. How is that not ruined?”
― Tonya Burrows, Wilde Nights in Paradise

“Be advised, your objective is to raise a child from birth to adulthood so that she is a productive member of society. Minimum casualties.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“I knew you only saw part of me, the part I projected, but I was okay with that. I’m used to being that man and could have kept on being him for you. I’ve been playing the part most of my life”
― Tonya Burrows, Wilde Nights in Paradise

“One shot, one kill. Anything more is a waste.” He ejected the fired cartridge, chambered a fresh round. “Find the others.” The corner of Ian’s mouth kicked up in a sardonic half smile and he lifted the scope again. “This doesn’t mean we’re friends. I still think you’re window-licking insane, Hero.” “And I still think you’re an evil motherfucker, so we’re even. Now find me another target.”
― Tonya Burrows, Honor Reclaimed

“He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears. He was still human, and someone should prove it to him.”
― Tonya Burrows

“Ellis had jumped out of a plane before. He'd seen the ground rushing up too fast. Felt the wind ripping the air from his lungs. Saw his life flash before his eyes as adrenaline splashed through his system. Only difference was he'd had a parachute attached to his back and he wasn't in a tin can with a dead engine.”
― Tonya Burrows, Northern Escape

“You have me nailed down, Leah. I’m a coward. What else do you want me to say? I’m sorry? I’m not. I’m a drunk with enough baggage to fill a 747 and the sense of humor of a fifteen-year-old. I’m a fucking mess.”
― Tonya Burrows, Honor Avenged

“Christ, she was like his own personal drug, and he’d been jonesing for more of her since November. And now that he’d had her again, he didn’t know if he’d ever be able to quit her. Yeah. He was in trouble.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“It shouldn’t matter to him. He didn’t know her. Didn’t owe her anything. Let her figure out on her own that William destroyed lives. After all, he’d irrevocably damaged all three of his sons— Nate was practically a hermit, more interested in studying dead animals than interacting with the living, and Damian always acted like he had something to prove to the world. He had to be better, smarter, richer. He was never satisfied with the status quo.”
― Tonya Burrows, Northern Escape

“He’s more family to Gabe than you are,” Raffi said, all calm and reason. “And, as I told Audrey, you have no rights in this situation. At all. She has power of attorney. And, so you know, I called security on you about three minutes ago, told them you were causing a scene in a coma patient’s room. Might want to leave before they get here. Don’t want to publicly tarnish those shiny halos of yours.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“Quinn let him walk several steps away before calling, “Hey, Garcia. We’re big about second chances around here. Want to redeem yourself?”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“He’s just going to see a gorgeous woman, because she’s exactly the type he goes for. Curvy, smart, sweet, a little bit shy—I hate to tell you, but if you had asked”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“But if you fell in love with him as he is now, why do you want to fix him?”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn’t get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“You suck." "Only when asked, babe.”
― Tonya Burrows, Wilde Nights in Paradise

“What, you think I was celibate after we ended?”
― Tonya Burrows, Wilde Nights in Paradise

“All of the group were recovering addicts, so she’d made sure to beef up her non-alcoholic drink menu when they’d started using her pub as their meeting place”
― Tonya Burrows, Redwood Coast Rescue Box Set Books 1-3

“Is there another viable suspect we haven’t considered yet?”
― Tonya Burrows, Redwood Coast Rescue Box Set Books 1-3

“I’m a woman, duh,” she said. “And a Southern woman, to boot. Manipulation is what we do best.”
― Tonya Burrows, SEAL of Honor

“With my ass already on the line, kissing her would be playing with fire. I wouldn’t just risk a burn. No, if this thing exploded between us, my whole life was bound to go up in a fireball. A life I had scraped and lied and cheated to get. A life I finally loved. No woman was worth losing everything I have now. Sami is, a voice whispered in the back of my mind.”
― Tonya Burrows, Fragmented Loyalty

“One quick note: the blood Sheriff Jerry mentions did not actually match Donovan’s blood type—”
― Tonya Burrows, Redwood Coast Rescue Box Set Books 1-3

“shocking a gasp out of her. He lifted”
― Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor

“But he refused to throw away three years of sobriety.”
― Tonya Burrows, Redwood Coast Rescue Box Set Books 1-3