Noelle Adams > Quotes

“Better for things to fall apart a little now, while you can still put them back together, than for you to wait until there’s no hope.”
― Noelle Adams, Stripping the Billionaire

“I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain things seriously — like marriage and sex and... and tradition. I know you don't. That's fine. You don't have to. But I hope you understand that I do.”
― Noelle Adams, Hired Bride

“You're my hope for the future and my call to be a better man and I do hope one day you'll be my wife.”
― Noelle Adams, Salvation

“You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul”
― Noelle Adams, Salvation

“This is the truth, Kate. I don’t understand why every man in the world isn’t in love with you.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with her Best Friend

“I know it’s wrong because it’s not what you want, but I can’t seem to talk myself out of it. Every time I look at you, I want you. Not as a friend. I want you in my arms. I want you in my bed. I want you all the time.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with her Best Friend

“I know there are no guarantees in love, in marriage, in life, in anything. But I want you anyway. I want you all the way. I want you exactly as you are.”
― Noelle Adams

“Diana, sometimes the loudest voices in our heads are telling us lies. Sometimes they tell us that we’re broken, that we’re not good enough, that we’re not worthy, and because of that we can never really be loved. Sometimes the lies are so loud they’re all we can hear, but that doesn’t mean we have to believe them. It just means it’s even more important for us to hear the truth.”
― Noelle Adams, Salvation

“You've got your real face and then the face you show to the rest of the world. The face you show to the rest of the world is always a little... better than your real face. More pulled together, more smart or funny or nice or in control or whatever it is you want yourself to be. You might want that outward face to be you, but it never quite is.”
― Noelle Adams, In Want of a Wife

“There were five of them. 1. Never assume a man likes you unless he both tells you and shows you. 2. Never go out of your way to encourage a man to ask you out. 3. Never trap a man in a conversation about his feelings that he doesn’t want to have. 4. Never analyze a man’s behavior or read into his motivations and intentions toward you. 5. Never, ever, ever daydream about a future unless he’s promised you a future. Those were her rules, and she was determined to keep them.”
― Noelle Adams, A Baby for Easter

“Kelly,” her grandmother said, “The Pride needs to be dusted.” Deanna and Kelly looked at each other. “The Pride” was a collection of Mrs. Beaufort’s dead Siamese cats, all professionally stuffed by a taxidermist to preserve them. They were prominently displayed in the parlor, along with a host of other family treasure including china and costumes from their Beaufort forebears.”
― Noelle Adams, Hired Bride

“But men… men sometimes take what we give them, just because it’s offered, without giving anything back in return.”
― Noelle Adams, A Baby for Easter

“emotion that threatened to choke me. “You wore a suit and tie!” I breathed when I could finally”
― Noelle Adams, A Princess Next Door

“Maybe he was manfully hiding his raging desire.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with her Boss

“Yeah, I can see how much you enjoyed it. Why did you go if it wasn't your thing?"
"I was dating him. It's polite to do things that the other person likes, to be supportive.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with the Best Man

“She saw it. Recognized it as kin. (...) Realized they really weren't that different after all.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with the Best Man

“Jessica Cameron had to propose marriage in a couple of hours, and she was a little nervous about it. Trying”
― Noelle Adams, Married for Christmas

“It’s clear that no one expected these words from Pop. Even I know he’s not prone to earnest confessions or sincere affection. His granddaughters are obviously surprised and touched. Sam wipes a tear from her eye. Chelsea hides her face briefly in her husband’s shoulder. And Trevor reaches over to cover Melissa’s hand on the table.”
― Noelle Adams, Purchased Husband

“Do you ever feel like you’re watching life from the sidelines? Watching everyone else have lives that you can never have?”
― Noelle Adams, Bittersweet

“For the past six years, my life has revolved around one man—Edmund “Worth” Worthing—and it’s time for that to change.”
― Noelle Adams, Restoration: a Shipwreck Romance

“About being brave", she explained at the question on his face. "I liked what you were saying. And it seems to me... it seems to me that it takes just as much courage to fight windmills as it does to fight the real giants or the monsters or whatever it was in the story.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with the Best Man

“Jessica felt her heart thud back down to its proper location. She managed to murmur, “Never going to happen,” in a casually teasing voice and started”
― Noelle Adams, Married for Christmas

“I’ve told you before not to call me prickly. That’s a word that men use about women who don’t cave to them, who don’t swoon before their manliness.”

“Damn it, Melissa. I don’t expect you to cave or swoon. I’d just like to occasionally be able to have a conversation without you acting like I’m attacking you.”
― Noelle Adams, Part-Time Husband

“I love the smell of his suit—clean and natural both. I love the urgency in his arms and the warmth of his firm body.
I love how safe I am wrapped up in this way. Safe and full and needy and strong.
All at the exact same time.”
― Noelle Adams, In Flight

“I guess the first thing I noticed about Chloe, other than how pretty she is, is how she throws herself all the way into everything she does. The first time I met her, those bookcases in her dad’s office had all fallen down, and I came over with the others to help. She was so worried about her dad and so grateful to us for helping, and then she took us out to dinner to thank us, and she laughed and laughed about how grouchy our server was. It was that… that ability to feel things so deeply—and not be afraid to express those feelings—that I first saw and… and wanted.” Once he’d started talking, he couldn’t seem to stop. He knew Chloe was staring at him, but he focused on Mima, whose face had twisted with emotion at what he’d said. “Yes. That’s exactly Chloe. Tell me more.” Brent’s eyes moved between Mima and Chloe, and then he stared down at the table again. “And there’s something about the way she sees the world. Like it’s… better than other people see it. It’s like she sees color in a black-and-white movie. Little details that other people don’t see. It makes her notice people who other people don’t notice. She noticed me. She went out of her way to get to know me. When no one else really did. She’s not afraid of what she feels. And she’s not afraid of saying what she thinks. She’s not always holding back the way I am. She’s… free. I love that. And I love her laugh and the way she tears up when she’s feeling vulnerable and the way she goes after what she wants. She’s so brave. Even though not everyone sees and appreciates who she is, she still stays true to herself. She’s completely genuine. She has such a big heart. I love that about her the most.”
― Noelle Adams, Living with Her Fake Fiancé

“Believe it or not, I’ve never been the most popular person at any party.” She tried for a wry smile and almost managed it.

He shook his head. “That’s only because you hide from people. You don’t let them get to know you. Claire, if you let them see who you really are, every person in that room would adore you.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with her Bodyguard

“What are you staring at? You saw me in my underwear just a few hours ago.”

He made a choked sound and smiled—his characteristic grin transformed into something else. “And I almost dragged you into bed then too.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with her Best Friend

“I don't mean my life sucks. It just feels like I'm always waiting, and I don't want to do that anymore.”
― Noelle Adams, Married for Christmas

“After a minute, she asked again, “So what did you want to do?”

“I’d like to have sex, if it’s not too much trouble.”

She burst into laughter and rolled over on top of him, loving the feel of his big, warm, strong body beneath her. “I guess I can muddle through such a thing, but it will be a real sacrifice on my part.”
― Noelle Adams, One Night with her Bodyguard

“I’m not concerned. You can date and marry and have babies with your muffin-lady, if that’s what you want.”

His eyes held mine, and his expression softened and heated up at the same time. “You said you didn’t want to go out with me, so all I’m left with is my muffin-lady.”
― Noelle Adams, A Princess Next Door