Top 60 Sandra Brown Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it’s worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.”

— Sandra Brown

2. “GOD works in mysterious ways.”

— Sandra Brown

3. “People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn’t change.”

— Sandra Brown

4. “What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”

— Sandra Brown

5. “Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn’t have deprived myself the beauty of the story.”

— Sandra Brown

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6. “I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.”

— Sandra Brown

7. “A fool is someone who ignores warning signs.”

— Sandra Brown

8. “Fine. He had let her indulge in her hobby, while he’d indulged in his, and right now his was clenching her soft thighs against his pumping hips. He gave one last push and came. He wasn’t sure Alice did, but she was better than Emory at faking it.”

— Sandra Brown

9. “I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They’re absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.”

— Sandra Brown

10. “I don’t panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.”

— Sandra Brown

11. “Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.”

— Sandra Brown

12. “Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn’t help yourself from acting like a fool.”

— Sandra Brown

13. “Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I’m old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They’re flawed.”

— Sandra Brown

14. “Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune.”

— Sandra Brown

15. “She crumpled into the chair behind the desk and, bending slightly from the waist, hugged her elbows.”

— Sandra Brown

16. “Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it.”

— Sandra Brown

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17. “Beware of women in white who look and move and talk like goddesses. Sooner or later there ’ll be hell to pay.”

— Sandra Brown

18. “He kissed her like he meant it, like this kiss was going to be the last thing he ever did on earth, and he was going to do it right, thoroughly, and leave nothing wanting.”

— Sandra Brown

19. “Lauren whirled her head around so quickly that the motion hurt her neck. Jared’s hand came up and clamped the hat more firmly over his face. He adjusted his long body to another position, contracting and relaxing muscles that Lauren didn’t know existed. But then, she had never seen a masculine physique like this before. His languid movements were repelling and thrilling at the same time. It was like watching some pagan god who was beautiful even in his decadence.”

— Sandra Brown

20. “He’d been such a solid presence beside her, Strong, warm, vibrant. So different from that form beneath the sheet in the mougue.”

— Sandra Brown

21. “Don’t ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living.”

— Sandra Brown

22. “People don’t care how smart woman is as long as she’s charming and gay and pretty.”

— Sandra Brown

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23. “I’ve got your back, Doc. You can count on it. I would kill them before I let them touch you.”

— Sandra Brown

24. “Look. I know you’re just trying to make friendly conversation to fill an awkward silence between strangers, but I’m not big on friendly conversation, and I don’t find silences awkward. In fact I like silences and prefer strangers.”

— Sandra Brown

25. “From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple – religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior – were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.”

— Sandra Brown

26. “He won’t hurt me. I have a secret weapon.”

— Sandra Brown

27. “He was rude and disrespectful and treated women abominably. Perhaps that was his attraction, what made him desirable. Geographically.”

— Sandra Brown

28. “Doubts could cripple the thoughts of a reasonable man.”

— Sandra Brown

29. “No answer. Answer enough.”

— Sandra Brown

30. “It’s hard for us to back down once we’ve taken a stand.”

— Sandra Brown

31. “When the retching stopped, he assisted her to stand upright and backed her into the car.”

— Sandra Brown

32. “Did you find Jesus?”

— Sandra Brown

33. “The bullies who instilled that hatred were never made to account. I think they should. I think they should because he died that day, too.”

— Sandra Brown

34. “People reveal as much by their silences as they do by what they say.” Deadline.”

— Sandra Brown

35. “He gave, took, told her with every stroke what he hadn’t been able to convey with words, communicated what he’d felt from the moment he saw her enter the courtroom, and knew, in that instant, that he’d been blessed and doomed in the same heartbeat.”

— Sandra Brown

36. “You must allow yourself a few small failures and develop a capacity to forgive yourself when you make a mistake.”

— Sandra Brown

37. “He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely. Her smile had come through her eyes straight from her heart. He had known unequivocally that she loved him. He believed to this day that she had died knowing that he loved her. How could she not know? He had dedicated his life to never letting her doubt it.”

— Sandra Brown

38. “She hadn’t been taught to have prejudices, so she didn’t.”

— Sandra Brown

39. “Love was a word that poets and songwriters used. They vested the emotion with tremendous powers over the human heart and mind, but they were wrong. it didn’t transform lives like the saccharine lyrics claimed it could.”

— Sandra Brown

40. “He’d wanted to die on the spot, but he had the rotten luck of living through it.”

— Sandra Brown

41. “But owning the pain, running through it, overcoming it, was a matter of self-will and discipline.”

— Sandra Brown

42. “If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.”

— Sandra Brown

43. “I made straight A’s and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.”

— Sandra Brown

44. “He took a long time to answer. “I asked which of her brothers had fathered the baby. She told me it could have been either.”

— Sandra Brown

45. “Since his return from Afghanistan, he’d been unable to shake off the effects of spending almost a year in a war zone. They clung to him like a spiderweb, so fine as to be invisible, yet as tenacious as steel and, so far, impossible to escape.”

— Sandra Brown

46. “It was difficult to sympathize with a protagonist whose dilemma was mild when compared to her own.”

— Sandra Brown

47. “What people aren’t looking for, they rarely see.”

— Sandra Brown

48. “The conversation had left her feeling more disturbed than ever. She had bared her soul about the tragic death of her parents and its effect on her, a topic she was.”

— Sandra Brown

49. “I can’t wait to start never seeing you again.”

— Sandra Brown

50. “For each book, there’s a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it’s derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It’s just there.”

— Sandra Brown