Lynsay Sands Quotes

“It takes courage to live, Terri. To really live. To follow your dreams, to love someone, to face each day.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you'd like.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Everything seems more vibrant and interesting now. I find myself seeing things anew, seeing them as Kate must see them, rather than with the jaundiced eye I've cast over everything for ages. It makes a nice change.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“You started up the hall smiling, then began to whistle about halfway along. You were also jingling the change in your pocket. A classic happy-go-lucky, man-in-love action.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“The sun is shining. Birds are singing. I love the springtime.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Some people just weren't happy unless they had something to bitch about.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“She'd handled the woman with class and much more kindly than most would have. Others would have got huffy, or just plain freaked. Someone else might have complained to management and had the girl fired. Terri had merely given her a gentle set-down. And she felt bad for it.! Incredible.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Sometimes the smallest cuts are the most painful.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Some men, smart men, recognize the value of a good life mate. A partner to share life's sorrows and joys with.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Hospitals meant illness and death to her. The two most important people in her life had gasped their last breaths in hospitals: her mother and Ian. And both had been nightmares to endure.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“I like talking about her. I like being with her better, but the next best thing is talking about her. And it's always nice to have your hopes bolstered.”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“Look at the man. So far he's been to the hospital twice in less than a week - once for a toilet falling on him, once for a bee sting. Are you willing to risk letting him play with fire and sharp objects?”
― Lynsay Sands, Tall, Dark & Hungry

“He had often thought it must be hard for mortals to give up on their families and friends to claim the immortals they loved. They gained a lot in return, of course: eternal youth and a love and passion most mortals could only dream of. Still, family was important to his clan, and to his mind it spoke well of Sam and her sisters that they deemed family important as well.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“If they have a man in their lives, it's because they want him there, not because they need him to take care of them.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“Cooking isn't in your soul, but your blood.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“He was an answer to a prayer. He gave her hope that this having two restaurants would work out after all.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“She'd noticed that you're handsome and is attracted to you, but it's like seeing a lovely dessert you've never tried before when you're on a diet. It may look delicious, but because you don't know for sure how delicious, it's easier to deny yourself. Whereas, if it were a lovely slice of cheesecake that you have tasted and do know will be delicious, it would be harder to resist.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“I like you. I've loved people I couldn't stand to live with, my sisters for instance. Sibling rivalry was hell... But I like you, Cale. You're funny and smart and considerate and sexy as hell, and I really like you.

I like you too. You're sweet and intelligent and ambitious and an amazing cook.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“With my life, my body, and my heart. I really do love you, Cale.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“I believe you are afraid, but only of Cale, and not that he would hurt you physically, but that he could emotionally. You've come to love him, dear. I can read and feel it in your memories and thoughts. You recognized from the first that he was special, that you could come to care for him. You used needing to keep a professional footing between you as an excuse to protect yourself but couldn't make yourself stay away as you felt you should and found excuses to see him every day. But you find it impossible to believe that he could love you. For all that you are an attractive, intelligent, and successful woman... for some reason you don't think you are worthy of love.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“A life mate is that one person that an immortal can live out his or her very long life with happily. Neither will ever stray from the other, never betray the other, never stop loving each other. An immortal would sooner cut out his own heart and eat it than cause harm to his life mate... and you are mine.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“They are usually perfect for each other, suiting or complementing each other in temperament and taste. The nanos seem to recognize like souls and match them up. And we do complement each other, Alex. You're more creative to my more logical mind, we've worked together very well since I arrived.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“The three of us with men who love us and whom we love.

Immortals who love us and whom we love.”
― Lynsay Sands, Hungry for You

“Eshe means life and d'Aureus means gold. You're my golden girl who saved my son's life and gave me back my life as well. I'm very very grateful.”
― Lynsay Sands, Born to Bite

“Father Time over there just likes to carry the weight of the world - not to mention passing time - on his shoulders like a vampiris Atlas. Me? I enjoy life to the best of my abilities and leave Lucian and others like him to be the grumpy masters.”
― Lynsay Sands, Born to Bite

“You start out upset about something, confront her on it, and somehow by the end of the argument you're the one apologizing.

An angry male can be intimidating, especially when he's stronger, as men generally are even when it comes to immortals. I think women have had to develop the intelligence to deal with our anger. So, while we stomp around roaring liek wounded lions, they use their heads as a sort of defense.”
― Lynsay Sands, Born to Bite

“Different times, different places, different people. It's useless to regret things you didn't think of at the time. Everyone has a path and that wasn't their.”
― Lynsay Sands, Born to Bite

“Women are in every field and in charge more often now.
Actually,” he added with amusement, “more often than not, the only ones who give her a hard time are your kind.''
A lot of immortals are older; from a time when women weren’t in power positions. They aren’t always comfortable with her being in charge. Like you weren’t when
you slammed the door in her face. Jackie often works twice as hard to earn their respect.”

Jackie often won’t allow his help.”
Vincent could be Jackie seemed the
stubborn, hard-headed sort, determined to do it on her own. He supposed she’d had to be. Despite what Tiny said, he knew
there was still sexism in the business world today and not just among his kind.”
― Lynsay Sands, A Bite to Remember

“Men are more visual by nature and rarely listen to conversation they find boring. Their minds drift and they focus on something else, usually what they’re seeing. They learn to
simply respond in a way that seems appropriate to tonal changes.

Women pay more attention to conversation.
Communication is more important to them, so—while men will be satisfied with a vague memory of my blathering on with some boring subject—women would fret over not recalling what it was about. It’s easier to approach them face to face and embrace them as you bite, then give them the vague
memory of a passionate moment.”
― Lynsay Sands, A Bite to Remember

“Vincent wanted a life mate. He wanted someone to share his hopes and dreams and even his sorrows with. His parents’ relationship had been full of love and support and caring. They’d been true life mates, bonded and inseparable until his mother’s death. He wanted that. He wanted someone
to laugh with and cry with and to hold close in the dark of night and the harsh light of day. It was why he’d traveled so far and wide during his life. Vincent had been actively seeking his life mate.”
― Lynsay Sands, A Bite to Remember