Quote

Meg! I love you! I want to marry you! That's weird, she said without stopping. Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart. I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Love
Weird
Six
Telling
Meg
Week
Lucy
Brain
Stopping
Wrong
Marry
Without
Weeks
Heart
Broke

More quotes by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Image
If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Celebrate the success of others. High tide floats all ships.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Everybody’s afraid of something.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Get inside before I spank you in public. There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married. I'm not getting rid of Pooh. See, there you go being antagonistic. Marriage means learning to compromise. I didn't say I wouldn't compromise. I promise to take the ribbon out of her topknot before you walk her.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
No marshmallows. I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control? I'm sure it's just a fluke Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people? I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Before you lost your mind, how did you make a living? I was a hitman for the Mafia. Are you done crying yet? I wasn't crying! And I wish you were a hitman because, if I had money, I'd hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
She glared at him. You're doing it again. What? That thing that irritates me. Smiling? Yes. That.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of her car. Stop it, Kristy! You're overreacting! Let's talk about this. That was when she did the unthinkable. She rolled down the window, thrust out her hand, and gave Reverend Ethan Bonner the bird.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
Thanks to April,” she whispered, “you have the wedding you’ve dreamed about ever since you were a little girl.” Dean’s boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Image
When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips