He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT The peach gown she'd chosen was the color of the sunrise, the rippling watered silk seeming to subtl...
ELIZABETH HOYT She moaned, long and low, wanting to arch, to thrash, to scream. Instead she opened her mouth and bi...
ELIZABETH HOYT His nostrils flared just a little bit, and the lines bracketing his mouth grew deeper. He snarled wi...
ELIZABETH HOYT I want to make you weep. I want all your pleasure, Iris, all your pain, everything you are. Come for...
ELIZABETH HOYT Her gaze dropped to the right side of his mouth, to the corner of his lip that was permanently pulle...
ELIZABETH HOYT Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
ELIZABETH HOYT What,” Mick said softly, “is Lad doin’ in me bed?”

Hearing his name, Lad opened s...
ELIZABETH HOYT She'd never find another man like him as long as she lived. He was ruining her for any other, and th...
ELIZABETH HOYT His heart stilled at the mere thought of her hurting herself.
'He was a fool.' Of course this d...
ELIZABETH HOYT You've used me to punish yourself, haven't you?"
He watched dawning realization spread over her...
ELIZABETH HOYT Lazarus had never thought of himself as lovable. Therefore it should come as no shock at all that Te...
ELIZABETH HOYT I love you," she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was so...
ELIZABETH HOYT For a moment she studied the sketch. It had been done in pencil and the artist was very skilled. The...
ELIZABETH HOYT It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f...
ELIZABETH HOYT She smiled as she poured tea into his cup. “I hope you find your rooms comfortable?”
“Qui...
ELIZABETH HOYT She stepped toward Anna.
“I can get you a night with an accomplished male whore or a virgina...
ELIZABETH HOYT But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation ...
ELIZABETH HOYT I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you."
He closed his eyes.
And when he opened th...
ELIZABETH HOYT Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady,” one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veri...
ELIZABETH HOYT There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the Whi...
WAITE HOYT Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next...
WAITE HOYT The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
WAITE HOYT You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you...
WAITE HOYT When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, wh...
WAITE HOYT I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wag...
WAITE HOYT I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. T...
WAITE HOYT Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth; May breathing swe...
J.K. HOYT Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there; Temple, mountain, monument, spi...
J.K. HOYT There are 83 species of whales and dolphins (and porpoises) we know almost nothing about.
ERICH HOYT The raises in interest rates will reduce the willingness and ability of consumers to continue their ...
SCOTT HOYT This is my favorite part of the day, talking to people (before the start). It loosens us up a bit.
DICK HOYT The buildings were shaking, I think, when we came down that street. The crowds just picked us up and...
DICK HOYT It's very special. When we first started we never knew we would be running marathons, never mind 25 ...
DICK HOYT When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, 'Dad, when I run it feels li...
DICK HOYT When we first started running, I was getting calls and letters from people with disabilities that we...
DICK HOYT We're trying to raise a lot of money for Easter Seals and the reason why we're doing it is when Rick...
DICK HOYT We will never forget this evening, Thanks to you, I have the nicest van that I have ever had.
DICK HOYT I think whale watching provides a great incentive for communities, and in some cases island communit...
ERICH HOYT We've seen phenomenal growth over the world since whale watching began in California in 1955 to the ...
ERICH HOYT They wanted to use this as a wedge issue, perhaps for their presidential campaigns.
JOSHUA HOYT Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it... But if it ge...
TYLER HOYT It's pretty much a must-win situation for us. There is still some scenarios that can take place, so ...
HOYT WOODLE We feel fortunate we've put ourselves in there, but the toughest stretch of the season is coming up ...
HOYT WOODLE I really feel bad for Brittany. She was beginning to come around offensively a little bit. She's alw...
HOYT WOODLE I didn't expect to play as bad as we did. We didn't do the things that we talked about that we neede...
HOYT WOODLE I'm running to serve the citizens of the communities from Bluff City to Kingsport and the areas in b...
HOYT DENTON In my own mind I think it would be appropriate for me to resign from the BMA. I expect that to be ha...
HOYT DENTON As a county mayor I'm going to continue to encourage and support (NETWORKS). I think my influence as...
HOYT DENTON I'm so grateful to my mother for helping us out while we went through all of the paperwork. We would...
LUZ HOYT The kids already had an idea of us as parents. They already saw pictures of us and our house, so the...
LUZ HOYT We were only authorized to adopt two children by the government. But the three of them were sisters....
LUZ HOYT This place would be very nice to take your children, but it is also a good place to take visitors an...
JOANNE HOYT My sister and brother-in-law were very impressed with how the cows were milked.
JOANNE HOYT I've lived here for awhile and I didn't know anything about the agriculture in the area. Since agric...
JOANNE HOYT Anybody who looks at all these rallies has to be asking, 'What's the political impact? Some politici...
JOSHUA HOYT The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.
JOSHUA HOYT We don't have a leader like Martin Luther King or Cesar Chavez, but this is now a national immigrant...
JOSHUA HOYT This is a justice issue. You can't have 11 million vulnerable people being exploited and not have th...
JOSHUA HOYT Nothing like this has been seen in this country. And if it continues moving forward, it's the beginn...
JOSHUA HOYT There has never been this kind of mobilization in the immigrant community ever. They have kicked the...
JOSHUA HOYT We are a dream of inclusion, of education.
JOSHUA HOYT It's an entirely predictable example of the law of unintended consequences. The Republican party mad...
JOSHUA HOYT This is a justice issue: You can't have 11 million people being vulnerable and exploited.
JOSHUA HOYT I have a lot of freedom. I can go anywhere I want. It's fun.
MELISSA HOYT Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because co...
SCOTT HOYT If consumer spending falls, the probability of the economy slipping back into recession is very high...
SCOTT HOYT Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.
SARAH A. HOYT Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize ei...
SARAH A. HOYT If this kept up much longer, I was going to happen to someone.
SARAH A. HOYT Marry me, Thena, please.

I tried to sigh and would have managed it, had he left me enough...
SARAH A. HOYT We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
ELIZABETH SCOTT The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny...
ELIZABETH GILBERT How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary wa...
ELIZABETH WEIN I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear--who cares?
ELIZABETH GILBERT I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wo...
ELIZABETH WEIN Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming her...
ELIZABETH SCOTT People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT