Amy Plum quote: "I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away."

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be...
AMY PLUM

My pulse sped up as I opened our front door and stood in the hallway waiting for him. He was up the ...
AMY PLUM

He nodded. “That would work. It’s a date. So . . . I’m meeting the grandparents? What should I...
AMY PLUM

Natural talent!" crowed Vincent, sweeping my sweaty self up into his arms and pacing across the room...
AMY PLUM

Kate: “Oh, please, Vincent. We’re in the middle of a major tourist site. Père Lachaise cemetary...
AMY PLUM

The day I stop seeing you as one of the strongest people I know is the day I wake up human.
AMY PLUM

Let's just say that I'm not the kind of guy your mother would want you hanging around with" - Vincen...
AMY PLUM

Kate, I admit that we aren’t in the easiest of situations. But are you always this . . . complicat...
AMY PLUM

He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. ...
AMY PLUM

Well, spit on my empty grave--if it ain't the attack of the Disney princesses!
AMY PLUM

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my o...
AMY PLUM

If I should die...," I began to say.
Vincent cuts me off. "Stop, Kate!" And then he sighs and h...
AMY PLUM

We stood there for a moment, stunned. The crosswalk light turned green, and Georgia hooked her arm t...
AMY PLUM

As we neared the water, I pointed out an antique taxidermy shop. "My mom and I used to always go in ...
AMY PLUM

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or la...
AMY PLUM

Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went agains...
AMY PLUM

Just then the door flew open, and Ambrose burst through, yelling like a madman and swinging a battle...
AMY PLUM

Okay, Kate, first of all, you’re touching me,” Vincent said for the room to hear. “So I’m no...
AMY PLUM

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
AMY PLUM

Jules wants me to tell you that it's a shame you have to fall for someone as boring as myself. He wi...
AMY PLUM

Yeah, right, like Catherine Deneuve has her own hot-guy SWAT team trolling the neighborhood for cele...
AMY PLUM

Kate,

I'm not always the best at expressing myself to you, so I'm taking advantage ...
AMY PLUM

I spent the rest of my day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my ...
AMY PLUM

You told me this wasn't a formal date when you invited me to come. Why should I care if you have a g...
AMY PLUM

At lunch I turned my phone on to check my messages. Georgia always sent me a few inane texts during ...
AMY PLUM

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one
AMY PLUM

Thank you for being here, my beauty. Mon ange. My Kate. Your utterly, Vincent.
AMY PLUM

I saw a picture of you and Vincent in a 1968 newspaper that said you died in a fire," I said, turnin...
AMY PLUM

We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.
AMY PLUM

You've heard of vampires?"
I nodded.
"You've heard of werwolves?"
"Of course."
"...
AMY PLUM

So you’re making demands, are you? Well, let’s hear them.”
“I want unlimited access.”...
AMY PLUM

Lucky man,"Jules said to me, leaning over to kiss my cheeks. "What I wouldn't give to be in your hea...
AMY PLUM

So is this a habit of yours, leaving your bag behind in order te strike up a conversation?" He grinn...
AMY PLUM

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.
AMY PLUM

Stop flaunting your impeccable language skills, Vincent, help the girl to her feet and let her take ...
AMY PLUM

I can't promise you an ordinary experience, Kate. I wish I could transform myself into a normal man ...
AMY PLUM

I'm a revenant, not a vampire, chérie." ~ Vincent Delacroix
AMY PLUM

It's a great place to parade as well as graze. He can keep an eye on his harem, and he can see other...
GLENN PLUM

Maury Power walked down Atlantic Avenue with a top hat, coattails and a pig. We've worked diligently...
BILL PLUM

I see them on the street, I talk to them, I tease them.
BILL PLUM

Once a fish got on the line, they all worked together. I don't think they had any idea how strong fi...
BILL PLUM

It's something that adults dream about doing.
BILL PLUM

I like kids. I like to see them happy. I like to see them do things they don't usually get to do.
BILL PLUM

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fi...
PLUM SYKES

They're basically trying to send off a signal ... look at me, I'm here.
GLENN PLUM

That's a good question. I wish I knew the right answer to that.
GLENN PLUM

The elk rut is one of the most spectacular wildlife opportunities in the Rocky Mountains.
GLENN PLUM

Stocks with this kind of valuation cannot afford to disappoint.
PLUM SHIPTON

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT

I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT

I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT

I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE

I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE

These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING

I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING

It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING

Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING

Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL

I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER

The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK

Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT

We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT

but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT

They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT

All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS

Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE

When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL

All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL

There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN

Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL

Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT

Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL

Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE

I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN

I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA

Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY

Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER

When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT

When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA

I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER

When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
AMY TAN

I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.

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I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.

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