Iris Johansen Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't take you. So the violin will have to do." He smiled and moved over to the violin case on the bed. "The next time you play, it will be at Loch Gaelkar. — Iris Johansen

He had never dreamed anyone would ever care enough to venture into the darkness to pull him into the light. He felt bewildered and awkward and filled with a strange sense of wonder. And a stranger sense of grace. — Iris Johansen

Asked for an explanation. I've — Iris Johansen

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill — Iris Johansen

corrections." "Global corrections? — Iris Johansen

I'm only Superman, I'm not God. — Iris Johansen

Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple. — Iris Johansen

Would be important to ascertain whether a man's son was his own through a wife's purity, but where marriage was not involved it was — Iris Johansen

How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it ... And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this. Garrett — Iris Johansen

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them. — Iris Johansen

Her. But I may ask you to let me check it occasionally — Iris Johansen

We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you. — Iris Johansen

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. — Iris Johansen

Loneliness.
By all the saints, he was mad. He should be filled with hatred and thoughts of revenge. Vaden was his enemy and that time of friendship has gone. When would he learn to give up those memories and realize Vaden meant what he said?
Tonight. From no on he would regard Vaden as any other enemy. To do anything else would endanger Dundragon and Thea. He must close away this sense of loss and behave with sanity.
The entire world was a barren place. To accept that Vaden was his enemy did not make the loneliness more desolate.
It only seemed to make it weigh heavier, much heavier, — Iris Johansen

I believe he's a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a morbid blossoming. — Iris Johansen

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points. — Iris Johansen

Bedroom. "And, please, stay away from Venable, Jock. Don't let him talk you into doing anything like this again." He didn't answer, and she glanced back over her shoulder. He smiled, that beautiful, gentle smile that had first drawn her to him when he was a boy scarcely out of his teens. "Things aren't good for you, Jane. I have to make them better." She shook her head helplessly. In his way, he was an implacable force on the same scale as MacDuff. "Good night." She closed the bedroom door — Iris Johansen

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world. — Iris Johansen

My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd) — Iris Johansen

this before when they'd been together — Iris Johansen

How do you keep to some idealistic set of rules when your opponent has no rules? — Iris Johansen

But now you have another problem. Keeping him from exploding like a live granade and blitzing all of us." He started walking down the hall. "I've already had a little taste of that and I'm not willing to stand for it again. I'm patient, I'm not a martyr. Fix it Eve. — Iris Johansen

Enough of this soul-searching. What would be, would be. She could only do what she thought was right. — Iris Johansen

You look like the first breath of spring, — Iris Johansen

He stopped. You're upset. I'll shut up and leave you — Iris Johansen

They say anticipation makes pleasure more intense. — Iris Johansen

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him. — Iris Johansen

Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama. — Iris Johansen

My feelings exactly. You should be here with me, not in that compound." "Go away, Joe. I don't want you here." "It's mutual. I'm staying. And Galen insisted on bringing everything from explosives to surveillance equipment so we can set up for the — Iris Johansen

She gave him a cool glance over her shoulder. "May your balls wither away and you develope an allergy to Viagra and all its counterparts."
He looked at her, stunned. And then he suddenly exploded into laughter.
"God, you're a formidable woman"
"No, I'm not. I'm soft, remember?"
She slammed the door behind her. — Iris Johansen

known that he had to be careful — Iris Johansen

The first rule of persuasion ... " "Don't you mean manipulation?" "You — Iris Johansen

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you. — Iris Johansen

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy ... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy. — Iris Johansen

Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
— Iris Johansen

What would I do with billions? I don't need it. Would it make me a better artist? — Iris Johansen

isn't just a minor inconvenience. — Iris Johansen

It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong. — Iris Johansen

night. She doesn't have a — Iris Johansen

Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate. — Iris Johansen

Coming nearer and — Iris Johansen

And I'll be waiting for you to make — Iris Johansen

Didn't think of it. She supposed she should have — Iris Johansen

If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. — Iris Johansen

Said we'll discuss it when I commit." She smoothed the area under the eye crevice. "I wonder who they think it is ... " He watched her for a moment without speaking. "Louisiana in October isn't too unpleasant. We could take — Iris Johansen

come and get it, you dumbass — Iris Johansen

To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect. — Iris Johansen

Etienne, didn't worry enough, Jules thought in despair. Ever since childhood it had been Jules who was the serious one, the one who had to accept the responsibility while Etienne ambled along through life with endearing blitheness. "You arranged for the men to be waiting at the church?" "Of course." "And you told them nothing?" "Only that they would be paid well for the work. And I parked the motorboat — Iris Johansen

was everything. Eve — Iris Johansen

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. — Iris Johansen

You don't give up on people because they're not what you want them to be. Not if you love them. — Iris Johansen

I have it. She got into the passenger seat of the security van. — Iris Johansen

Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to it — Iris Johansen

Certainly more dangerous — Iris Johansen

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer. — Iris Johansen

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away. — Iris Johansen

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you. — Iris Johansen

We all die. I can't promise to live forever." His arms
tightened around her. "But I can promise to love you as long as I
live. — Iris Johansen

Find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're — Iris Johansen

I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be. — Iris Johansen

It's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it. — Iris Johansen