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Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1) QUOTES

Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1) QUOTES

1 " Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

2 " I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

3 " ...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

4 " Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you? "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

5 " Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life? "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

6 " If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

7 " Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.
--Prince Carrick "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

8 " He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?"

"No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special."

"If they're not special, what would the point be? "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

9 " They never see what you are." Shocked, Jude glanced around to see who'd spoken, then realized she had.

"Don't they?" Brenna wanted to know, lifting her brow as she topped off Jude's glass yet again.

"They see a reflection of their own perception. Whore or angel, mother or child. Depending on their view, they're compelled to protect or conquer or exploit. Or you're a convenience," she murmured.
"Easily discarded. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

10 " Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

11 " Love, even when pledged, isn't enough. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

12 " O amor, qualquer que seja o tempo, quaisquer que sejam os obstáculos, dura sempre. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

13 " Come away! O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. —W. B. YEATS "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

14 " You’re well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

15 " She started to speak, to ask politely for a glass of white wine. Then he smiled, a slow, lazy curving of lips that inexplicably set her insides a fluttering and turned her mind into a buzzing mess of static. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

16 " The words weren’t so important, Aidan thought. It was just so soothing to listen to her. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

17 " It’s odd that I never realized this is so much what I want. A home. A place where people I enjoy and who enjoy me will come when they like. Will feel comfortable and easy. Maybe it wasn’t solitude I was looking for after all when I so rashly flew to Ireland. It was what I’ve had over these last hours. Companionship, laughter, foolishness, and well, romance. I suppose I didn’t realize it because I never let myself really wish for it. Now without even the wish, here it is. "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)

18 " The woman’s managed what hasn’t been done in thirty-one years. She’s broke my god dawn nose "

― Nora Roberts , Jewels of the Sun (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #1)