Top 160 Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sometimes she did this funny little thing after they’d finished making love. He’d be holding her against his chest, sort of dozing off and feeling peaceful all the way down to his toenails, and she’d make this little ′ x’ right over his heart with her fingertip. Just this little ‘x’. Right over his heart.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

52. “Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

53. “I write romance, women’s fiction, chicklit. I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women – books about relationships, books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

54. “Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

55. “Eventually Theo would pick up their daughter, kiss the top of her head, and carry her to an old spruce stump. He’d crouch down, gather up the beach glass that was still scattered there, and whisper in her ear. “Let’s build a fairy house.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

56. “It wasn’t everyday a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of the road,...”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

57. “I’m a cowboy, wild and free. No little filly can ever tame a man like me.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

58. “If you’re not familiar with the Internet, I suggest you look into it. It’s a wonderful thing. Except for all that porno.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

59. “I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man’s body, although I’d appreciate it if you didn’t quote me on that. -Bobby Tom.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

60. “E-mail creates the illusion that you’re writing. You’re not.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

61. “That’s not fair. I like lying to you. It makes my life easier.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

62. “She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. “I hope you choke on every penny.” “Pick that up.” She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

63. “Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don’t much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

64. “Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

65. “Sweetheart, I don’t think there’s going to be any pain, if that’s what you’re worried about. Now I’m no gynecologist, but you’re thirty years old, and whatever barrier might have been there when you were a youngster has got to have evaporated from old age by now.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

66. “Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

67. “She shot across the rug, flung the door back open, and yelled into the parking lot. “I hope you choke on your blood vegetables!”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

68. “You try spending six months sitting at somebody’s bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn’t one of God’s good gifts.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

69. “Okay, so I’ll admit I’m curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

70. “Time doesn’t change a person’s basic character.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

71. “It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn’t remember all the reasons it was wrong.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

72. “My website bulletin board is the place I interact with my readers.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

73. “You’ve been in my life for so long that I stopped thinking about you as someone who existed separately from me. You were just part of me. And then all these changes happened, and you decided to leave me, and I’ve been going crazy ever since.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

74. “It runs in the family. And don’t expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop ’em up on parade floats and march ’em through the middle of town.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

75. “Sometimes we focus on other’ flaws so we don’t have to focus on our own.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

76. “Is driving me crazy your idea of seduction?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

77. “As far as I’m concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

78. “Who needs food? Your smile alone is enough to nourish me for weeks.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

79. “He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he’d never let her see how close she’d come to unseating a champion.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

80. “The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

81. “It’s not your fault that you’re slow. I’m sure it’s hard to recover from being hit on the head with a silver spoon.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

82. “Sometimes you need a friend really badly, but everyone’s gone away for the day.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

83. “When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

84. “Piper wasn’t used to anyone intimidating her, but being in the presence of Phoebe Calebow was being in the presence of greatness.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

85. “Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

86. “I’m just very, very slow. I would not make it as a journalist, I’ve got to tell you. I sweat bullets over every sentence, and sometimes, you know, a day will pass and I’ve written one paragraph, and I’ve been at the computer for four hours.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

87. “I’m a man of my word, and I promise that I won’t hurt her.” He flexed his hands. “When I murder her, I’ll do it real quick, so she won’t feel a thing.” Viktor.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

88. “I can’t chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you’re a lot better-looking.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

89. “Anybody ever tell you that you’ve got a smart mouth?” “It goes with my brain.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

90. “He was a glittering superhuman creature who must have been put on earth by a perverse God to remind homely women like herself that some things were unobtainable.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

91. “If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

92. “She hated using airplane toilets. She was always afraid the plane would choose the exact moment she was most defenseless to crash, and she’d spend her final seconds of life spiraling toward earth with her bottom bare to the world.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

93. “Men like him should be required by law to carry a heart defibrillator. He.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

94. “I have an unhealthy curiosity about other people’s business.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

95. “I don’t care how much evidence the state presented. I’ve never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

96. “We all have a lot of rubbish in our pasts. At some point, we need to step over the piles and get on with it.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

97. “Lani regarded smudged mascara as a worse catastrophe than nuclear holocaust.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

98. “Not to get all Zen on you, but maybe you should love yourself more.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

99. “Daisy ’s thoughts after getting tiger back to his cage: That every living being was part of every other living being. That all were part of God. Bound by love. Put on earth to care for one another.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

100. “I don’t need to be fixed anymore. That job’s already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips