Top 40 Beverly Jenkins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Every day is a gift – start unwrapping them.”

— Beverly Jenkins

2. “A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.”

— Beverly Jenkins

3. “You are the contrariest woman I have ever met.” Hester snorted. “Contrariest. What kind of word is contrariest. French?” He grinned. “Be careful baby girl, I bite. I’ll give you more French than you’ll know what to do with.”

— Beverly Jenkins

4. “I don’t think you ever get over it, but you do get through it.”

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5. “I shot the sheriff?”

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6. “Because we can’t tell others about our accomplishments if we don’t know them ourselves.”

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7. “Hester thought about the political upheaval gripping the country and said, “These are serious times.” “Yes, they are, which is why it’s important to seek out humor and beauty whenever possible. If we don’t, we’ll all be buried beneath the weight of the misery.”

— Beverly Jenkins

8. “As he’d noted before, the decision to cross the color line had allowed him to reap many benefits, but it had cost him, too, and this time that decision would haunt him for the rest of his life.”

— Beverly Jenkins

9. “Her five-feet seven-inch frame.”

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10. “So, having been dismissed by his mistress while pining for a woman who belonged to another, he rode out of the city to the abandoned plantation his good friend Hugh had purchased, and hoped he had some cognac on hand.”

— Beverly Jenkins

11. “Embarrassed by her admission and doing her best to ignore the heat searing her cheeks, she dragged her eyes to his and found a quietness waiting there that spoke to her wordlessly.”

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12. “Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?”

— Beverly Jenkins

13. “Had the Army been helpful, maybe the murderer wouldn’t be wherever he was taken.”

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14. “My great-great grandfather was a Tory and fought on the side of the Crown against the rebels.” “He was on the losing side then?”

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15. “Lady Ruby was behind the long wooden bar. Her shoulder length red wig was slightly askew and she was wearing a voluminous silver wrapper on her tall large-boned frame. She was also sporting enough silver jewelry on her wrists and fingers to be officially declared a mine.”

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16. “What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?”

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17. “Some do, but the big cattle ranchers don’t. They own the land now and it’s made them rich. They don’t care if the tribes are fenced in, starving, and destitute, as long as they can ship their beef.”

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18. “What scares you?” “That I won’t be taken seriously because I can’t write my name in the snow.”

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19. “Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. “You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear.”

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20. “Men were surprised by her unconventional ways all the time. They.”

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21. “Rhine laughed. “She bribed you?” “Sure did, and I took it like a politician at the state capital.”

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22. “The bloodthirsty killers were the men who gunned down the Cheyenne children and women, then returned to mutilate the bodies and set the village on fire.”

— Beverly Jenkins

23. “Someone has to champion us if the government won’t. During the Draft Riots back home, mobs attacked members of the race all over the city. They even burned down a Colored orphanage. Those who hate us have no shame, and if dragging them from their houses teaches them a lesson, I’m all for dragging them out every night until they learn.”

— Beverly Jenkins

24. “Your sweetness is so much stronger than their hate.”

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25. “Although there were only five children enrolled, every educated child was an asset to the race.”

— Beverly Jenkins

26. “There were undoubtedly worse things than being an unmarried woman in charge of her own life, free to come and go as she pleased, free to explore pleasure.”

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27. “Pirate thoughts.”

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28. “Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. “Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we’ve become.”

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29. “She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.”

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30. “And that’s what you aspire to? Being a force to reckon with?” “yes, and to teach girls to aspire to be the same.”

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31. “Why do men want unmarried women to be so ignorant?”

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32. “Never mind then. Do what’s best for her. Not you. But if you need me to ride north, let me know.”

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33. “I wonder if the country will ever heal from the war?”... “It won’t be anytime soon. Maybe not even in our lifetimes.”

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34. “No two families are alike,” he said.”

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35. “Sheriff, I’m wanted everywhere – but not by the law.”

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36. “Passion could lead to a place you’ll regret.”

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37. “Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn’t necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distinction.”

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38. “Love with the right person makes us stronger, not weaker.”

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39. “I’ve always believed the Spirit puts people in our lives for a reason. I’m not sure if that applies to eleven-year-old carjackers, but we’ll work with what the Spirit sends.”

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40. “Whatever I can do to make you happy makes me happy as well.”

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41. “Love is also patient,” he added quietly. “Love is kind. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends.”

— Beverly Jenkins