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Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2) QUOTES

Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2) QUOTES

1 " The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

2 " Love isn’t a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there’s a mistake. It’s a gift, as much for the giver as the one who’s given it. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

3 " It’s the heart that gets us through the hard times, and gives us joy. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

4 " As long as there’s choice, the end is never set. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

5 " The world needs lovers who fit, or how would we go on? To be only one of one for a life? That’s a lonely life. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

6 " She wanted him happy, more even than she wanted happiness for herself. And yet, knowing he was on his way to finding what he didn’t yet know he wanted made her feel so painfully alone. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

7 " Nature was as full of cruelty as of beauty, he knew all too well. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

8 " As she rubbed, as she crooned, Connor’s eyes fluttered open. He found himself staring up into Meara’s pale face and teary eyes. “What? Why am I on the floor? I hadn’t gotten drunk yet.” He reached up, brushed a tear from Meara’s cheek. “Don’t cry, darling.” He struggled to sit up, teetered a bit. “Well, here we all are, sitting on Fin’s kitchen floor. If we’re going to spin the bottle, I’d like to be the one to empty it first. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

9 " You’re thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It’ll amaze you. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

10 " A FINE THING IT WAS TO GIVE SOMEONE THE LINGERING glow of memories. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

11 " It’s different with a parent, isn’t it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You’ll only have to love, and they’ll soak all that up like sponges. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

12 " Love isn’t a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there’s a mistake. It’s a gift, as much for the giver as the one who’s given it. The day you’ll take it, hold it, you won’t be afraid. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

13 " else I’d be having myself a good shag.” “If a shag’s so bleeding important, go get it done.” Eyes narrowed, she fired right back at him. “I’d rather work alone than with you pacing about horny and bitter.” “It’s that it wasn’t so bleeding important, hasn’t been so bleeding important since before the solstice that worries me.” He stuffed one cookie in his mouth, wagged the other in the air. “I’m making you some tea.” “I don’t want any fucking tea. Yes, I do.” He dropped down onto one of the stools at her work counter, rubbed Kathel when the dog laid his great head against Connor’s leg. “It’s not the shag or the woman or the hawk. It’s all of it. All of this. All of it, and I let it bite me in the arse. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

14 " it, and that somehow matched the thick socks on "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

15 " They could be trained and tended. But they were of the wild, and the wild they needed for their spirit. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

16 " Connor stared at his arm, at the huge black burn, the peeling and bubbling skin. He felt oddly detached from it all, as if he looked at some little wonder behind glass. “Would you look at that?” he said, and passed out. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

17 " That’s the best, isn’t it? It’s just a matter of taking time to cool it down, think clear so we’re not leaping into an impulse we could regret. We’re both smart and steady enough to do that.” “Then that’s what we’ll do.” He offered a hand to seal the deal. Meara took it, shook. Then they both simply stood, neither backing away, moving forward, or letting go. “Ah hell. We’re not going to think at all, are we?” He only grinned. “Not tonight.” They leaped at each other. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

18 " Connor Sean Michael O’Dwyer! Get your arse down here "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

19 " The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)

20 " That’s fine then, as I need to call Roibeard in and get on to work.” He got his jacket from the peg, and a cap while dishes clattered. “I do love her,” he said as the words felt so fine, “I love her absolutely.” “Ah, Connor, you great git, so you always have.” He went out into the rain thinking his sister was right. So he always had. "

― Nora Roberts , Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)