Emma Barry > Quotes

“It was always open season on the admiral’s eldest daughter. Too bad the prey couldn’t fire back.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Your goodness is intentional. It comes from discipline and values.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“It’s a long-ass book.”
― Emma Barry, Private Politics

“he watched her closely, precisely as a man might a dog he was thinking about acquiring.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“The meaning of art was in making it. The meaning of life was in living it.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“That was the thing about being in love: you had a person who was ready to slay dragons—or reveal his personal life to the press and unleash his scary lawyer on jerks—to take care of you.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“they might have gotten married out of inertia, which would’ve been tragic.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“Sheep are very nimble. They’re basically puffy goats.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“He liked her fortress side, but he wanted her soft underbelly for himself.”
― Emma Barry, Private Politics

“The woman was on the north side of ninety, had outlived three husbands and two world wars, and she still terrified her family and her neighbors. There wasn’t much more to want in life than that.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“When was the last time the American electorate had listened rationally to a debate and decided it on the merits? This wasn’t Canada.”
― Emma Barry, Party Lines

“But in the end, love is a practice. An ethos. Not a product or something you can buy.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“that if she could embrace it, then she had more energy for the stuff she could control. Seeing her limits, affirming them, it increased her power.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“You couldn’t give facts to someone whose argument was built on a foundation of bad faith. They didn’t want them.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“My gluteus maximus is pleased to be of service.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“I want to fly. Not like you fly, not literally, in a plane. I want… freedom. Not to be without obligations, but to find freedom within them, somehow. And this must sound insane.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“In the next room, the streetlight coming in through the windows outlined the bed. It looked massive. Monumental. As if it should have been a stop on the hop-on, hop-off bus for tourists.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“Sometimes, you got everything you ever wanted—and wasn’t that a kick in the pants?”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“She needed to pick through everything that happened and to figure out how she felt about it, to see if Greg’s kiss could stand up to the morning light, if it was strong enough to hold the weight of her dreams.”
― Emma Barry, A Midnight Clear

“So you see, Midshipman, I don’t think Frances even knows what would make her happy. She’s never had the time to find out.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“The Betty he knew was flighty, simpering. But this woman, with the fierce light of battle in her eyes, was no pallid maiden. Betty had somehow transformed into an Amazon.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Honestly, after nineteen years of living in a tiny farmhouse with Granny, Betty had some good material. They should let her get through some more of it.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“What was the point of having dough if he couldn’t buy justice with it?”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“Are corn dogs and beef Wellington in the same food group?”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“But in fairness, your ass is totally revolutionary.”
― Emma Barry, Bad Reputation

“He watched her for several beats, and she could almost sense the gears whizzing away inside his head.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Her grief was tidal, and even now, there were days when it swept her out to sea.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Do you really think we’ll crash?” “Of course not. It’s just this pilot is carrying the most precious thing in the world to me.” He never tore his gaze from the front of the plane. Her mouth opened, but not even breath escaped. He did that sometimes—said the most romantic things out of the blue as if they were perfectly matter-of-fact. It still occasionally threw her for a loop.”
― Emma Barry, A Midnight Clear

“He wasn’t quite certain how a person could “completely die”—was there such a thing as incomplete death?”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight

“Her dress of black velvet had roses climbing up the skirt, making her appear as if she were a nymph who’d stumbled into their party. A wood nymph bent on raising hell.”
― Emma Barry, Round Midnight