Linda Howard Quotes

“What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information?"
"So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit.”
― Linda Howard, Dying to Please

“Before you know it, you'll be smiling at her across the breakfast table."

"I don't smile," Cahill said, though he was having to fight his amusement.

"So you'll be scowling at her across the breakfast table. That isn't my point.”
― Linda Howard, Dying to Please

“Okay, you're right; she's so hot I could walk on three legs every time I see her."

"Now you're talkin'."

"I'll break your back and chop off your legs if you call her."

"That's my boy!”
― Linda Howard, Dying to Please

“He looked lean and dangerous, his battered face hard, his yellow eyes narrow and gleaming; he was probably capable of things that would give her nightmares, but she didn’t fear him. She loved him too much; she had loved him from the moment she had first touched his arm and felt his will to live burning in him.”
― Linda Howard, White Lies

“He smiled, his red lips stretching over his teeth, and he said, 'Hello, Mother'.”
― Linda Howard, Mr. Perfect

“She had said a lot about his tomcatting reputation and the women in his checkered past; she had even called him a heartbreaker. But she was the true heartbreaker, with her sunlight hair and summer-green eyes, a golden woman who he never would have forgotten, even if she’d never come back into his life. Beckman had been obsessed with her, had gone mad when he lost her, and for the first time John thought he might understand. He wouldn’t have a life, either, if he lost Michelle.”
― Linda Howard, Heartbreaker

“She didn’t need to be working cattle any more than an expensive thoroughbred should be used to plow a field.”
― Linda Howard, Heartbreaker