Top 160 Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “And no matter what anybody says, I don’t believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I’m concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

102. “Not too much. I never got into killing things.” “Preferring slow torture.” “You.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

103. “For a fraction of a moment she glimpsed the truth. She saw a world so terrified of Woman’s mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power – the natural shape of her body.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

104. “I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

105. “Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin’ you some tranquilizers?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

106. “Years ago she had discovered that she could control her relationships with heterosexual men far better by playing the sexy siren than the blushing ingenue. Being the sexual aggressor put her subtly in charge. She was the one who defined the rules of the game instead of the man, and when she sent her suitor on his way, he assumed it was because he didn’t measure up to all the other men in her life.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

107. “Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

108. “When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

109. “His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. “Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

110. “Monday, when he’d barged in on her because she’d somehow managed to hold up everybody’s paychecks, she’d been painting her goddamn fingernails! He’d gotten mad then, but he’d barely begun to yell before her lip had started to tremble and she’d said he couldn’t talk to her like that because she had PMS.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

111. “You’d better be worth it, studmuffin. – Phoebe to Dan.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

112. “Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that’s not loaded down with manure?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

113. “You’re beautiful, every part of you. I love your hair, the way it looks, the way it feels. I love touching it, smelling it. I love the way you wrinkle your nose when you laugh. It makes me laugh, too, every time. And I love watching you eat. Sometimes you can’t shovel it in fast enough, but when you get interested in a conversation, you forget there’s anything in front of you. God knows, I love making love with you. I can’t even talk about that without wanting you. I love your pathetic attachment to those seniors. I love how hard you work.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

114. “She took a sip of water and absorbed the dismaying realization that she was attracted to him, even though she wanted to hit him in the head with that beer bottle.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

115. “And I wish you were a hit man because, if I had the money, I’d hire you right this minute to knock yourself off.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

116. “Maybe some poor slob would take you to bed if you weren’t such a ballbuster.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

118. “His writer’s words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn’t find a single wisecrack to put up between them.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

119. “Before you go anywhere, Mr. Football Player,” Nita said, “I want to know exactly what your intentions are toward my Blue.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

120. “For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

121. “My wife is so much a part of me, she’s like the breath coming into my body. I love her very much.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

122. “Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life – and what could be more fulfilling than that?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

123. “Of all the things her father had done to her, she’d never imagined he’d marry her off to the Marlboro Man.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

124. “If she’d done things the normal way, she’d have practice dealing with heartbreak, but she’d had none. That was why her world had fallen apart. The.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

125. “I write about the men you want to read about but don’t necessarily want to be married to.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

126. “But there was something she didn’t understand. To him, winning was everything. And he wasn’t above cheating. With.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

127. “You’re the one who’s not supposed to be here.” She hoped he didn’t hear the squeak in her normally reliable voice. “How am I supposed to snoop if you don’t leave when you say you’re going to?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

128. “There is a God after all. And She watches out for Her own.” Dan.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

129. “Annabelle gazed wistfully toward the doorway. “If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

130. “He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn’t add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

131. “Be the best at what you’re good at.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

132. “Everybody’s afraid of something.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

133. “Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

134. “His arms cradled her as if she really belonged inside them.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

135. “She wasn’t going to let them make her cry. She’d cried enough self-pitying tears in her life to drown a goat, and all it had gotten her was a big fat nothing. She made herself take a deep breath, but it didn’t help break the traffic jam in her throat. Might as well call a spade a spade. That traffic jam came from shame. There was a big difference between knowing people still hated your guts and seeing it in their faces.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

136. “I want you to want me, not just to make me want you.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

137. “I want a life with you, Annie. I want to make love with you until you can’t walk. And have kids with you. I’m sorry it took me so long to figure out, but I’m not exactly used to having love feel good. He poked his finger in the rough direction of her face. “You talked about being a romantic. Romance is nothing! It’s a tiny word that doesn’t come close to what I feel for you.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

138. “Tell me what it would be like? If you loved me?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

139. “This hasn’t been a conversation, Bobby Tom. You haven’t said one single thing that matters.” She.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

140. “Bobby Tom: You’re supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

142. “Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

143. “At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

144. “Hey, everybody, Jerry Maguire’s here.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

145. “There’s nothing more boring than listening to successful adults whine about how mistreated they were as children, is there?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

146. “There wasn’t much left at the end of the month for her favorite luxuries – great clothes and hardback books, but she didn’t mind. She bargain-shopped and used the library.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

147. “She realized he looked more at home sitting at her desk than she did. How did he manage it? Somehow, he found a way to mark whatever space he occupied. He might as well lift his leg when he walked into a room.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

148. “He gave Dancer one last pat. ‘You’re luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

149. “Now, this is where I draw the line! It’s bad enough everybody in town’s going to be thinkin’ I’m sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she’s just about cornered the market on condoms-I don’t know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin’ a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

150. “If I eat another hamburger, I’ll start to moo. – Rachel.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips