Top 140 Susan Mallery Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Love is always enough.”

— Susan Mallery

2. “Because the reward is worth the risk.”

— Susan Mallery

3. “Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.”

— Susan Mallery

4. “It’s not getting it right the first time – it’s learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.”

— Susan Mallery

5. “It’s okay to screw up. It’s what we do afterward that defines us.”

— Susan Mallery

6. “Trust others to do the right thing. If you can’t do that, trust yourself to survive what happens.”

— Susan Mallery

7. “You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.”

— Susan Mallery

8. “You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.”

— Susan Mallery

9. “Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.”

— Susan Mallery

10. “As Maya Angelou said, ‘I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

— Susan Mallery

11. “Doing what’s right isn’t supposed to hurt someone you care about.”

— Susan Mallery

12. “I don’t know why she picked me, but she did and I’m not letting go.”

— Susan Mallery

13. “Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we’re pretending we’re not looking for.”

— Susan Mallery

14. “Sometimes life was hard, she thought, walking across the grass to be with her friends. Just when you least expected it, you had to start over. There was pain in that, but also satisfaction. With or without her wanting it to, life moved on. And she would, too.”

— Susan Mallery

15. “It’s about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.”

— Susan Mallery

16. “I didn’t want to hurt you,” she blurted. “I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I’m not afraid for me. I’m afraid for you.”

— Susan Mallery

17. “Dear God. Brad the Dragon. I swear, if I ever meet that author, I’m going to strangle him with a Brad the Dragon stuffed animal, wrap him in a Brad the Dragon blanket and throw his body out to sea.”

— Susan Mallery

18. “I believe you have the heart of a lioness. You will protect your children with all you have. But sometimes the right thing to do is nothing. We have to let them grow and make their own mistakes.”

— Susan Mallery

19. “Marry me, Gracie. Marry me and let me take care of you. Let me love you and prove it each and every day.”

— Susan Mallery

20. “We all have to deal with something. I know that to be true. They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but I say sometimes He assumes we’re stronger than we are. Life is a challenge.”

— Susan Mallery

21. “The root of all fears. Not being accepted by those we care about. Being rejected and isolated. It’s a primal fear. As a species, we are meant to be part of a group. A community. We mistrust loners because we don’t understand them. With the exception of our romanticizing the loner in movies and novels, of course.”

— Susan Mallery

22. “Being left at the altar was not for sissies. Aside from the humiliation and hurt, there were actual logistics to worry about. Odds were if a guy was willing to leave you standing alone in front of three hundred of your closest friends and relatives, not to mention both your mothers, he wasn’t going to sweat the little stuff like returning the gifts and paying the caterer.”

— Susan Mallery

23. “Zane liked her. At least Chase thought he did, and she was gone enough on the man to be willing to accept the gospel truth from a seventeen-year-old.”

— Susan Mallery

24. “Maya sat with Phoebe and Chase. He didn’t linger on that group, because he knew what would happen. His gaze would settle on Phoebe, and he wouldn’t want to look away. Not with the firelight making her eyes shine and her skin glow. Not with the sound of her voice easing inside of him and tying him up in knots. She was five kinds of temptation with just enough hell thrown in to make things interesting.”

— Susan Mallery

25. “News flash, horses poop about fifty pounds of manure a day. That’s per horse. Of course cows poop about three times that, so we have it easy by comparison.”

— Susan Mallery

26. “People have trouble admitting when they act for purely selfish reasons. Telling the truth about something like that forces them to redefine their sense of self. So they make up a story. We all do it. Tell stories to explain the unexplainable. To get by. Sometimes the stories even help us survive that which would otherwise destroy us.”

— Susan Mallery

27. “The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

— Susan Mallery

28. “Nothing is free. If you stay safe, the price is never knowing love. Because to receive love, you have to give love. And to give love is to be vulnerable. You can build walls and be lonely or you can tear them down and hand over your heart.” “What.”

— Susan Mallery

29. “Never ignore the feelings that don’t seem to make sense.”

— Susan Mallery

30. “If you’re not happy, it’s all on you. If you want to find your way, be your own compass.”

— Susan Mallery

31. “I promised myself no regrets,” she whispered into the darkness. “No what-ifs, no second guessing. I promised myself that I was going to live my life, instead of always taking the safe route.”

— Susan Mallery

32. “He looked at her. “I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I’ll regret leaving someone behind.”

— Susan Mallery

33. “They say people who don’t learn from history are destined to repeat it.”

— Susan Mallery

34. “Love is the only thing that makes us strong. It’s all that matters in the end. Who we love and who loves us.” He.”

— Susan Mallery

35. “You do realize that bunny butt is just a polite way of saying rabbit ass.”

— Susan Mallery

36. “He was a man on the sexual edge, and she couldn’t wait to push him over.”

— Susan Mallery

37. “Greatness is measured by how one faces adversity. Everyone can be committed when things are going well.”

— Susan Mallery

38. “This isn’t Twilight. I don’t have to pick a guy.”

— Susan Mallery

39. “Was she quiet in bed, or a screamer? He was open to either.”

— Susan Mallery

40. “If you hang on too tight, sometimes things get broken. If you don’t let go sometimes, the bad stuff can’t get out and the good stuff can’t get in.” He.”

— Susan Mallery

41. “I could never regret you. Us.”

— Susan Mallery

42. “Es mejor dejarse tentar por un croissant que por un hombre.”

— Susan Mallery

43. “Needing something or someone meant being vulnerable. It meant the risk of not getting. The pain of not asking was a lot easier to stand than the pain of being refused or rejected.”

— Susan Mallery

44. “Alone by herself or alone in a crowd, it still came down to lonely. She.”

— Susan Mallery

45. “Phoebe, you’re the most amazing lover I’ve ever had. You’re sexy, responsive to the point of being a lethal weapon, sweet, funny, caring and if I had a box of condoms, I’d use every single one before sunup.”

— Susan Mallery

46. “Did you tell him you love him? My mom says men have trouble with that sometimes because they’re emotionally immature.”

— Susan Mallery

47. “To be successful at something, you have to want it for yourself, not someone else. You have to be willing to do the work. You have to see the benefit in the hours of practice and you have to be willing to fail over and over again. You need determination and an iron will.”

— Susan Mallery

48. “She often made choices based on her heart rather than her desire to get ahead. From what she’d figured out, opportunities went to the ruthless, and she could never seem to act in a way that put her best interests first. Not if it meant stepping on someone else.”

— Susan Mallery

49. “I’ll have you know I was wildly in love with Ford long before he was dangerous. No one truly loves like a fourteen-year-old girl.”

— Susan Mallery

50. “What do you mean she left me the embryos? I’m supposed to get the cat.”

— Susan Mallery