Suzanne Brockmann
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!Collection: Friendship
Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!Collection: Faith
Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.Collection: Equality
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.Collection: Romantic
Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.Collection: Waiting
If he's at this party, I want you to stay far away from him." "Shouldn't that rule apply to you, and Jules, too? Unless your penises make you magically bulletproof.Collection: Party
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.Collection: Hurt
Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.Collection: Writing
Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.Collection: Writing
I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!Collection: Hero
My favorite color is you.Collection: Color
You love me,” he said. “That’s all I need to know.” “You always say the right thing,” Savannah told him, her eyes so filled with love that he almost wept. “Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.Collection: Eye
This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.Collection: Growing Up
He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.Collection: Twenties
That leaves Decker and what's his name, Mr. I'm Too Sexy for My Shirt.Collection: Sexy
No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.Collection: Doubt
...there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne BrockmannCollection: Dark
I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung HeroCollection: Baby
If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.Collection: Should Have
I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.Collection: Moving
You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.Collection: Love You
Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.Collection: Halfway There
Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.Collection: Done
That's actually kind of scary. Sex with a mime. Do I have to pay extra to make sure you don't do the trapped-in-a-box thing while we're doing it?Collection: Sex
I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.Collection: Book
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.Collection: Events
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.Collection: Intelligent
What do you think, Ronnie? Do you think we could stop after just one kiss?Collection: Kissing
My glass is not only half-full, it holds five-hundred-dollar-a-bottle Dom Perignon champagne.Collection: Glasses
-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?Collection: Strong
Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.Collection: Odds
He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.Collection: Stupid
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.Collection: Romance