172 Quotes by Susan Mallery

"You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself."

"All righty, then. They both liked the kissing and touching. An interesting fact that should have absolutely no bearing on their lives. Really."

"It’s okay to screw up. It’s what we do afterward that defines us."

"Yet there was something about Phoebe Kitzke. An innocence, maybe. No, that wasn’t right. It was how she seemed trusting. More fool her. Or maybe him."

"Glasses hid his eyes, which were his best feature. Her ex-husband was pale, slightly flabby, at least he had been the last time she’d seen him naked, and had the beginnings of a bald spot on the top of his head. His chest was furry to the point of making her wonder if his family tree held the evolutionary missing link."

"Did you tell him you love him? My mom says men have trouble with that sometimes because they’re emotionally immature."

"Trust others to do the right thing. If you can’t do that, trust yourself to survive what happens."

"To be successful at something, you have to want it for yourself, not someone else. You have to be willing to do the work. You have to see the benefit in the hours of practice and you have to be willing to fail over and over again. You need determination and an iron will."

"He loved his entire family, including his mother, but growing up with them had taught him that not every intimate detail needed to be shared. He hadn’t wanted to know that his parents had enjoyed a new sexual technique the night before or that his sisters had their periods. He hadn’t wanted to talk about his own sexual development or, back when he’d been a teenager, have his mother ask him, over breakfast, if he’d masturbated yet that day."

"As Maya Angelou said, ‘I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."