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Christie Ridgway QUOTES

1 " Hadn’t retired reporter Stan warned him of how protective Cosimo was of his granddaughters? What if the Carusos had discovered his identity and wanted to rub him out as they’d rubbed out his father?

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and
at the hour of our death. "

― Christie Ridgway , An Offer He Can't Refuse (The Wisegirls, #1)

2 " Now what?” he finally asked.

Téa came to stand in the doorway of her office. “Now
what, what? Hey, is that you, Cal?”
“Affirmative.”

Affirmative? Was that the cutest or what? "

― Christie Ridgway , An Offer He Can't Refuse (The Wisegirls, #1)

3 " I'm blessed, for I have sinned with the best damned fuck in the universe. "

― Christie Ridgway , Crush on You (Three Kisses, #1)

4 " It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work "

― Christie Ridgway , Can't Hurry Love (Three Kisses, #3)

5 " You can't find what you don't go looking for. "

― Christie Ridgway , Can't Hurry Love (Three Kisses, #3)

6 " Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. “Pregnant, I tell you. I’m definitely getting pregnant.” Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother "

― Christie Ridgway , Beach House No. 9 (Beach House No. 9, #1)

7 " It takes courage to create your own identity, to stop believing old stories about who you are or that limit who you can be. "

― Christie Ridgway , Light My Fire (Rock Royalty, #1)

8 " Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep he from fracturing into a thousand little pieces? "

― Christie Ridgway , Unravel Me

9 " Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep her from fracturing into a thousand little pieces? "

― Christie Ridgway , Unravel Me

10 " blindfolded." "Tell me you're kidding," he said. But then came the screech of brakes on his left and the matching shriek of Yeager's heart. "Shit, Zoe! Open your eyes." He heard the grin in her voice. "Don't worry so much. That was just Mr. Curtis in his '72 El Dorado. He drives with cataracts, I drive with my eyes closed. I think that makes us about even." Yeager's self-pity evaporated as he imagined thousands of "

― Christie Ridgway , Nothing But Blue Skies

11 " hurrying "

― Christie Ridgway , Not Another New Year's (Holiday Duet #2)

12 " hurrying out the sliding doors pushing her purloined baggage cart—purse perched on top—hadn't been such a smart idea. But she'd only turned away for a moment to offer aid to a "mama"-wailing toddler, and when she'd turned "

― Christie Ridgway , Not Another New Year's (Holiday Duet #2)

13 " corners of her eyes, and she squeezed them tight, mortified that she might have to explain—again—a crying jag. It had just been so long since she’d snuggled up to something this big, this warm, this human. “You smell better than Grimm,” she said against Ryan’s mouth. He drew back a little. “What?” She discovered her tears had dried up and "

― Christie Ridgway , One Look (One & Only Book 1)

14 " You shared it all, and the other person took you in. Your partner was your shelter when you needed that, was your peace when that was paramount, was in your corner no matter how unwinnable the fight. This was what love was about. And love was exactly what Owen Marston realized he felt for his wife. "

― Christie Ridgway , Runaway Bride Returns! (Vegas Weddings, #2)

15 " herself she’d be picturing her grandparents making love or worse… She’d be picturing Bing. His mouth on her breasts and his hands "

― Christie Ridgway , Love Her Madly (Rock Royalty, #2)

16 " Knowing he couldn’t go back to "

― Christie Ridgway , One Look (One & Only Book 1)

17 " Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. “Contessa.God, Contessa.”

She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen. "

― Christie Ridgway , An Offer He Can't Refuse (The Wisegirls, #1)

18 " The
struggle to grow makes the vine work harder, extending its
roots and absorbing elements that make it produce a
more interesting fruit. "

― Christie Ridgway , Then He Kissed Me (Three Kisses, #2)

19 " Her eyes rounded. “They don’t open until eleven.”
“Unless you’re me, and you strike up a conversation with the prep cook who starts work at seven.”
“Ah.”
“Get your mind out of the gutter,” he said, uncurling his forefinger from around his own cup to point it at her. “His name is George and he has a wife and three kids.”
“My mind’s not in the gutter!” Well, not since she woke from a twenty-minute midnight doze during which she’d imagined herself stretched out on her bed, Gage standing at its foot, slowing stripping off his clothes.
He grinned at her, then reached into his front pocket to pull free a slim camera. Still juggling his coffee, he managed to bring the viewfinder to his eye and snap a shot. “I’ll call it ‘Guilty as Charged.’”
“That’s an invasion of privacy,” she said, frowning at him.
“I think that blush indicates that you’ve been mentally invading mine.”
“Gage! "

― Christie Ridgway , The Love Shack (Beach House No. 9, #3)

20 " Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. —OVID "

― Christie Ridgway , Crush on You (Three Kisses, #1)