Brenda Rothert > Quotes

“This is the prize I want,” he said. “Let me spend tonight with your heart instead of your head.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“The two of us were bound together by the thread of grief, but it wasn't just our mutual losses that united us. We'd survived them, found each other, and discovered that sometimes, from darkness can come light.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“I wanted it back there, where I can’t see it, to remind me that …” He sighed and rubbed his jaw. “Sometimes even though you can’t see someone, they’re always with you.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“I thought losing Robert was the hardest thing I’d ever been through. But it wasn’t. Moving on from it was.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“Friends tell you what you want to hear,” Dani said. “Real friends tell you what you need to hear.”
― Brenda Rothert, Now and Then

“I like the way you look at me,” I admit. “Like I hung the moon.”
“To me, you did. And I like the way you look at me. Like I’m all right just the way I am.”
I balk at that. “You’re so much more than ‘all right.’ You’re perfect.”
“I’m not, though,” she says softly.
“Perfect in my eyes.”
― Brenda Rothert, Come Closer

“You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point where you’re ready to use that key to break out of the jail you’ve put yourself in. Only you can set yourself free.”
― Brenda Rothert, Captive

“She was like me; too wounded to be blindly optimistic anymore.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“A bitch is a bitch. I think that’s inscribed in hieroglyphics on a pyramid somewhere. And hotness does not make up for it.”
― Brenda Rothert, Now and Then

“Satisfying you is my job, and I take my job very seriously”
― Brenda Rothert, Captive

“Yes. And yes, the carpet matches the drapes. I’ve only been asked that like three dozen times by hockey players, so don’t consider yourself original.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“Admitting your fears to yourself is the first step in cleansing them from your body. And it’s the hardest part.”
― Brenda Rothert, Captive

“a low-cut sleeveless”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“Do what you want,” he says, shrugging. “But I tell Carrie how I feel about her all the time. Every day. Because I know if I don’t take care of her in every way, some other dude will knock me over for the chance to. I love her and if that makes me a woman, I don’t give a fuck.”
― Brenda Rothert, Hooked

“Can’t you just trust me? Let me hold you up when you hurt. Whatever I am, I want to share it with you.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“It made me wonder if home really was a place, or if it was more about who was there waiting for you at the end of the day.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“Because going out with an attractive intelligent man who is obviously ass over teakettle for you would be so awful?”
― Brenda Rothert, Deep Down

“And if you’re in trouble, say, ‘It’s hot in here.’
When we hear those words from either of you, we’re busting inside the place. So for fuck’s sake, don’t say that just because it’s warm in his house.”
― Brenda Rothert, Come Closer

“Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn’t get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you’d be flat on your back again.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn’t get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you’d be flat on your back again.”
― Brenda Rothert, Bound

“Let the anger and betrayal boil over and you’ll feel stronger. You’ll be stronger.”
― Brenda Rothert, Deep Down

“I tell everyone I’m okay,” she said. “I even tell myself that. But I don’t know if I am. I keep waiting for things to go back to the way they were before, and it never happens. I don’t really know what to do. I guess … that’s all.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“We’d learned the steps to this dance together, but we knew it better now. The clumsy teenager who had marveled at every inch of her body was now a stronger, wiser man who knew the pain of losing her.”
― Brenda Rothert, Exiled

“Emma bounded down the stairs with the Carson family dog, Hugo, on her heels. “Mom, can I go to the mall with Layla?” she asked, the words coming”
― Brenda Rothert, Now and Then

“You okay?” a silver-haired man asked, steadying her by the arm as she panted. “Yeah…thanks,” she said. “—sleeping together really implies exclusivity anymore, do you?”
― Brenda Rothert, Now and Then

“Are you nuts? He wants you to claim him, Emma. Men need that. Be proud he's yours. If I was with Cole, I'd be wearing a t-shirt with his picture on it while tap dancing his name in Morse code.”
― Brenda Rothert, Now and Then

“You know, some people say grief is like an ocean,” I said. “I think that’s true. It’s deep and dark and bigger than you can even wrap your mind around. It takes you to places that are scary and unknown. But none of it is wrong. If feeling angry right now helps you get out of bed in the morning and go on, then feel it. It won’t last forever.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“That man. I loved him fiercely, but he worried about me too much. I never brought it up with him, because I knew the death of his first wife, Maggie, had a lot to do with it. Just as I'd worried over my second pregnancy, he worried over his second wife.”
― Brenda Rothert, Captive

“Friends tell you what you want to hear...real friends tell you what you need to hear”
― Brenda Rothert, Now and Then

“My eyes filled with tears. Damn him for reeling me in and throwing me back like this.
“Don’t,” he said softly. “Just go. You’ve humiliated me enough.”
“You don’t know—”
“Then tell me!” I clenched my hands into fists at my sides. “Fu**ing tell me or don’t, but stop playing these games.”
― Brenda Rothert, Barely Breathing