32 Quotes by Caragh M. O'Brien

It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's still right between us, always.

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.

Dubbs frowns, and I expect her to keep arguing. Instead, she keeps petting the cat.

Home was more about people than a place.

My gaze drifts up again to the break in the wall and the night sky beyond it. 'So why call this the Keep of Ages?' I ask.'Maybe they hoped it would stand forever,' Linus says. 'It's about timelessness.''Immortality,' Burnham says.I smile. 'Ironic, isn't it, since it's crumbling?

I don’t know what I’d do without you, Leon.”And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.Marry me, he thought.

Please put your shirt on,” she said.He pulled it over his head, checking the buttons. “Better?”She looked exhausted, and happy, and too bighearted to believe. So why did he still feel anguished? He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her onto his lap.“Hey!” She laughed, hugging an arm around him.He snuggled his nose in her hair and kissed her neck. Mine, he thought.“They’ll see,” she muttered.They’d better. “Let them. It’s legal.”She laughed again and quickly kissed him. Finally.

Are we napping?” she asked.“For a little,” he said.He wasn’t napping. He concentrated every cell of his body on memorizing the weight of her against him, and the smell of her hair in the sun. His arms measured the slender curve of her torso. His fingers separated out a single strand of her hair. Her breathing slowed, easing, while his watchful heart chugged on, stupid and hungry, and the red bracelet stayed in his pocket.

—Yo no quiero a nadie, prefiero mis libros.