LaVyrle Spencer Quotes & Sayings

Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it. — LaVyrle Spencer

Will fired the shoes like two orange grenades into the alley, pushed her outside and offered in parting, If you're in heat, Lula, go yowl beneath somebody else's window! — LaVyrle Spencer

It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line! — LaVyrle Spencer

Happy people got something to fight for. — LaVyrle Spencer

You all right? his eyes asked.
I'm all right, hers answered. — LaVyrle Spencer

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,'I was plenty scared'makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one. — LaVyrle Spencer

At night in bed, they talked. He, of the bees. She of the birds. Never of the birds and bees. — LaVyrle Spencer

She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again. — LaVyrle Spencer

A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making.
"But you never complain."
'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours. — LaVyrle Spencer

You ... you loved her, didn't you, Pa?"
Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps.
"Oh, I loved her, all right," he answered. "A man sometimes can't help lovin' a woman, even if she's the wrong one. — LaVyrle Spencer

A good logger does not raze the forest, but only thins it. — LaVyrle Spencer

Yessir, it's a hard taskmaster, that guilt. I say, feel it, and wriggle a little bit if you have to, but then put it away. Get on with what you can change. — LaVyrle Spencer

The value of affection going up when it was in short supply — LaVyrle Spencer

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Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore. — LaVyrle Spencer

Touch me, he thought, my arm, my hand, a finger. Let me know it's all right for me to have these feelings for you. — LaVyrle Spencer

He was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something — LaVyrle Spencer

Will asked Miss Beasley what kind of man Glendon Dinsmore had been and she answered, as different from you as air is from earth. He asked which he was, air or earth? She laughed and said, That's what I like about you - you really don't know. — LaVyrle Spencer

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life. — LaVyrle Spencer

Could you say it once," he entreated, "like they say people do?"
Her heart beat like the wings of an eagle, taking her soaring as she spoke the words. "I love you, Will Parker."
The sting hit his eyelids and he hung his head because nobody had prepared him for this, nobody had said, When it happens you'll be resurrected. All that you were you will not be. All that you weren't, you are. He lunged against her, burying his face above her breasts, holding fast. "Oh, God ... " he groaned. "Oh, God. — LaVyrle Spencer