Elizabeth Lowell Quotes & Sayings

The plateau? she silently demanded of Ty. Why did you turn her loose? She could lead — Elizabeth Lowell

You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold. — Elizabeth Lowell

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. — Elizabeth Lowell

Ham or roast beef?" he asked.
"Yes," she said, stretching.
He hesitated, then smiled crookedly. "You are a dreamer if you think you get both sandwiches."
"Two?" she yelped. "You mean you only made two sandwiches?"
"Well, after that breakfast . . ." He shrugged.
She looked at him in a silence that was broken by her rumbling stomach. He glanced sideways at her, chuckled, and put two sandwiches in front of her.
"No, you need it more than I do," she said hastily, trying to give the lunch back to him. "You're the one who's doing all the work."
He let her put the sandwiches in front of him. Then he pulled two more sandwiches from the lunch bag and waited. It didn't take two seconds. With an indignant sound she snatched her sandwiches and ignored his laughter. Muttering about men who had been out in the sun too long, she bit into the yeasty bread. — Elizabeth Lowell

ended less than a mile away, — Elizabeth Lowell

Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind. — Elizabeth Lowell

Do flies trapped in amber scream? — Elizabeth Lowell

Show me your dreams. Let me make them come true. — Elizabeth Lowell

If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older? — Elizabeth Lowell

Does that mean you — Elizabeth Lowell

Some people are born for the city. I'm not one of them. — Elizabeth Lowell

A woman of intense feeling, head thrown back, hair wild, lips open upon a cry of unbelievable pleasure.
The enchanted.
A warrior both disciplined and passionate, his whole being focused in the moment.
The enchanter.
Now he is bending down to her, drinking her cries ... — Elizabeth Lowell

Only the most hardy of living things survive renewal. — Elizabeth Lowell

Too bad, how sad, life's a bitch and then you die. — Elizabeth Lowell

As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches. — Elizabeth Lowell

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. — Elizabeth Lowell

Love is itself an expression of strength. — Elizabeth Lowell

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right. — Elizabeth Lowell

not as a potential lover. Roger would have liked it otherwise, but he was wise — Elizabeth Lowell

Love is the light that casts no shadow. — Elizabeth Lowell

The world wasn't going to go away. Ever. — Elizabeth Lowell

approaching Kyle. The Tangs — Elizabeth Lowell

the Kamchatka Peninsula." "What do you say?" "We're betting if the man and the picture matched, neither was Kyle Donovan." Jake's eyes narrowed. "Bad news." "For Donovan, certainly. He probably got that chunk of Mother Russia they offered you. But bad for us? We don't know. — Elizabeth Lowell

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope? — Elizabeth Lowell

Beyond Stone Ring Keep's high walls, the wind wailed of coming winter. Ariane didn't hear the mournful cry. She heard nothing but echoes — Elizabeth Lowell

The sacred rowan is a woman born long, long ago, a woman whose refusal to see love cost first her lover's life, then the lives of her family, her clan, her people.
But not her own life. Not quite.
In pity and punishment she was turned into an undying tree, a rowan that weeps only in the presence of transcendent love; and the tears of the rowan are blossoms that confer extraordinary grace upon those who can see them.
When enough tears are wept, the rowan will be free. She waits inside a sacred ring that can be neither weighed or measured nor touched. She waits for love that is worth her tears.
The rowan is waiting still. — Elizabeth Lowell

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always. — Elizabeth Lowell

Yes," Shannon said calmly. "I could have died. But so what? The stars would have come out tonight and the sun would have risen tomorrow morning. The only difference would be that I wouldn't see it." Shannon to Whip. — Elizabeth Lowell

And unofficially? — Elizabeth Lowell

precisely because she was — Elizabeth Lowell

A man with no name may you claim, heart and body and soul. Then rich life might grow, but death will surely flow. "'In shades of darkness he will come to you. If you touch him, you will know life that might or death that will. "'Be therefore as sunlight, hidden in amber, untouched by man, not touching. "'Forbidden. — Elizabeth Lowell

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles. — Elizabeth Lowell

I told you--ten minutes," he said, breathing heavily.
"I don't know how to c-count," Janna said, trying to blink back tears and laughter at the same time.
Ty swung up on Lucifer, brought the stallion alongside Zebra and gave Jenna a fierce kiss.
"Sweet liar. — Elizabeth Lowell

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters. — Elizabeth Lowell

When it comes to death, nature is much more cruel to predators than predators are to their own prey — Elizabeth Lowell

He had too much fun teasing "the boy" over the real meaning of the words in The Song of Solomon or Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
"Read that verse to me again," Ty said, smiling. "You ran over it so fast I missed most of the words."
Janna tilted her head down to the worn pages of the Bible and muttered, " ' Vanity of vanities . . . all is vanity.'"
"That's Ecclesiastes," Ty drawled. "You were reading The Song of Solomon and a woman was talking about her sweetheart. 'My beloved is gone down into his garden, to tubes of spices, to feed in the gardens . . .' Now what do you suppose that really means, boy?"
"He was hungry," Janna said succinctly.
"Ah, but for what?" Ty asked, stretching. "When you know the answer, you'll be a man no matter what your size or age. — Elizabeth Lowell

Too many memories, each one sharper and more painful than the last. — Elizabeth Lowell

Clouds veiled the mountains, — Elizabeth Lowell

You may hold my tears and live as you did before, trusting your soul to no one. Or you may release my tears and accept what comes. — Elizabeth Lowell

It shouldn't have hurt. She should be used to it by — Elizabeth Lowell

I studied because I wanted to know, not because I wanted the world to know I knew. — Elizabeth Lowell