Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?
Jude DeverauxYeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.
Jude DeverauxI would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.
Jude DeverauxYou'd think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people's lips. Ah, how nice. Love. Making love. Laughter. Kissing.
But no, the world is upside down as far as I can see, and romances and their writers are ridiculed, hisses and generally spat upon.
For what reason? One of my favorites is that women who read them might get mixed up about reality and imagine a man is going to rescue them from Life. According to this theory, women are so stupid that they can't tell a story from reality. Is anyone worried that the MEN who read spy thrillers are going to go after their neighbors with an automatic weapon? No, I don't remember anyone thinking that. Nor do I remember anyone worrying about murder mysteries or science fiction. It just seems to be dumb ol' women who might think some gorgeous, thoughtful, giving hunk is going to rescue them.
Honey, if any woman thought a gorgeous hunk was going to rescue her, romance novels wouldn’t be forty percent of the publishing industry.
Stichwörter: romance
I'm an American and I want instant gratification.
Jude DeverauxHe was the most perfectly formed man she'd ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who'd whistled at her but she'd pretended she hadn't heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.
Jude DeverauxStichwörter: romance jude-deveraux sweet-liar
Cassie's first thought when she saw the old woman was, What a marvelous thing plastic surgery is. The woman was younger than Althea, but looked fifty years older
Jude DeverauxStill smiling she carried the TV through the doorway; then she gave it the strongest heave she could manage... When it hit Alan's oversized brick barbecue and the glass front of the TV smashed, Leslie didn't think she'd ever heard a more satisfying sound.
Jude DeverauxStichwörter: revenge
Love can make even nice people do awful things.
Jude DeverauxStichwörter: an-angel-for-emily emily-todd
I like you angry better than weepy.
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