Quotes by Christina Dodd

Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass shed ever had the bad fortune to meet.

Ive been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.

So you know youre a ghost? I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. Can you think of another explanation?

Women always said he was warm. They snuggled with him in bed, grateful for the heat. A couple of his lovers even claimed that, when he was inside them, he heated them from the inside out.A pleasant flattery, perhaps, but one Hope would discover the truth of. For when she touched him, he did burn.

So you know youre a ghost?I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. Can you think of another explanation?

Areila walked like she had somewhere to go. I stood by the fountain and watched her pass, but I didnt speak. It was the ladys prerogative to pretend she didnt see me. She got to the edge of the park; I swear, her foot hovered right over the line, when she turned with military precision and marched back. She stopped in front of me and said, Hello.

Were lucky. He slipped his hand around her waist and splayed it in the small of her back. Most couples have only one first kiss. Well have two.

Fill me in on the details of your life.”“I thought you didn’t give a shit.”“It’ll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.

By the time it was over, we knew the dead were the lucky ones.

Oh, God. Not again.”Not again? “Do you make a habit of driving into people’s houses?

He didn’t want to do this…He had come here to hide.

Im sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him.

I didnt burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!”Maddie looked at Jacob.“You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

Miss Prendregast!” He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. “You were never in any danger!”“Except from the wild animals.”His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. “Alert me if you’re attacked by a rabbit.

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

“I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.”

“Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.”

“I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. I want to walk with you and, yes, I want you in my bed. Thats what I want today. Thats what Ill want in a hundred years. If you promise to be my wife forever, I will pledge myself to your happiness.”