Delia Truesdale Quotes

#1. "You're the first girl I've met around here who's real, and who cares about things and likes to do things. But half the time, you decide the conversation's over in mid-sentence and take off. Or you ignore me when we're at school and other people are around, and you tell your cousin that there's nothing going on between us and that you're not interested me at all."
"Me? What about you?"
"What about me?"
"You're the master of saying one word and disappearing. And you have all these things that you care about, like Bea and Oliver and surfing and acting, but most people would never know that. Your father thinks you can't wait to be a banker and all your friends think you don't care about anything. And meanwhile you've gone from a person who acted like he cared about me to a professional bodyguard doing a favor for my aunt. I mean, what is the whole Secret Service act about?"
His jaw was clenched. "I don't want anything to you."
"Nothing's happened to me."
"Oh, like when you got hit by a car?"
"It didn't hit me."
"But I should have been there. I got caught up, talking to Mr. Dudley, and I was late, and I let you stand out there all alone."
"Quinn, that makes no sense."
"I just don't want it to happen again."
"What don't you want to happen?"
"I don't want anyone I care about to get hurt on my watch."
That shut us both up. We were silent for a while, each looking out our respective windows as we sped along the highway. #Quote by Jennifer Sturman

#2. He turned to me. "Call me later?"
"Yes."
"Promise?"
"I promise," I said.
And then he leaned down and kissed me. And this time it wasn't Romeo kissing Juliet. It was Quinn kissing Delia. And that was even better. #Quote by Jennifer Sturman

#3. Faces change with life's toll, but eyes remain a window to what was... #Quote by Delia Owens

#4. I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive. #Quote by Delia Smith

#5. They sat there like that, quietly. Not remembering. #Quote by Delia Owens

#6. There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail. #Quote by Delia Ephron

#7. There in the first row of seats in the court room, sitting with Tate, were Jumpin' and Mabel. Folks had made a stir when they walked in with Tate and sat downstairs in the "white area." But when the bailiff reported this to Judge Sims, still in his chambers, the judge told him to announce that anybody of any color or creed could sit anywhere they wanted in his courtroom, and if somebody didn't like it, they were free to leave. In fact, he'd make sure they did. #Quote by Delia Owens

#8. It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason,' she said. 'It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is'
...
'But if everything was always smooth and perfect,' she continued,'you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. '
~Delia, pg 93 and 94 #Quote by Sarah Dessen

#9. ...judgement had no place here. Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the participants. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light. Nothing seemed too indecorous as long as the tick & the tock of life carried on. She knew this was not a dark side to Nature, just inventive ways to endure against all odds. #Quote by Delia Owens

#10. A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked. #Quote by Delia Smith

#11. Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors. #Quote by Delia J. Colvin

#12. My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it. #Quote by Delia Smith

#13. What d'ya mean, where the crawdads sing? Ma used to say that." Kya remembered Ma always encouraging her to explore the marsh: "Go as far as you can --- way out yonder where the crawdads sing."
Tate said, "Just means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters. #Quote by Delia Owens

#14. Commodore Koudelka had just taken a mouthful of wine to chase his last bite of salmon. The atomized spray arced nearly to Delia, seated across from her father. A lungful of wine in a man that age was an alarming event in any case; Olivia patted his back in hesitant worry, as he buried his reddening face in his napkin and gasped. Drou half-pushed her chair back, as she hesitated between going up around the table to assist her husband or, possibly, down the table to strangle Mark. #Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

#15. I think that men think they need their man caves. They don't really do. They think they want them, and then the second they do get them and they have alone time and time away from the girl, and the girl is really cool with giving them alone time, then that's when they, or at least I, start to think, "So, why are you so cool with me being alone? What's wrong with me that you don't want to be with me every second." #Quote by Chris D'Elia

#16. You're a cool dude."

"A cool dude, huh? That's what you call your best friend, or a guy you've stuck in the friend zone, not someone you keep kissing. Are you trying to friend-zone me, Delia?"

I roll over to face him and he peers down at me, one eyebrow raised.

I reach up and smooth it down. "You look like you're trying to smell what the Rock is cookin' when you do that. #Quote by Teagan Hunter

#17. In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat. #Quote by Delia Smith

#18. One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria. #Quote by Delia Ephron

#19. She held it against her heart. Where else would one need a compass more than in this place? #Quote by Delia Owens

#20. I had Sophie in my arms when Eric came in. He went straight to Delia and kissed her on the mouth, then bent his forehead against hers for a moment, as if whatever he was thinking may be transferred by osmosis. Then Eric turned, his eyes locking on his daughter. "You can hold her," Delia prompted.
But Eric didn't make any move to take Sophie from me. I took a step toward him, and saw what Delia must have overlooked
Eric's hands were shaking so hard that he had buried him in his coat pockets.
I pushed the baby against his chest, so that he'd have no choice but to grab hold. "It's okay," I said under my breath-To Eric? To Sophie? To myself?-and as I transferred this tiny prize to Eric's arms, I held long longer than I had to. I made damn sure he was steady, before I let go. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#21. His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what's necessary to defend a woman. #Quote by Delia Owens

#22. I love my style of writing. Nope, it's not the most poetic stuff you've ever read but you know, it can evoke emotions and images and smells and sensations, and that is what I set out to do. #Quote by Erin M. Truesdale

#23. I laughed, loud enough that Delia looked up at me. She made motions for me to come over, but I pretended to be looking past her into the food tent. "Hurry. Pretend you're pointing something out so I can pretend not to see her." Luke put a hand on my shoulder and pointed with the other towards the sky. "Look, the moon." "That was the best you could come up with?" I demanded. #Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

#24. Her three children, she saw, had been staring at the horizon with the alert, tensed stillness of explorers at the ocean's edge, poised to begin their journeys. And Delia, shading her eyes in the distance, had been trying to understand why they were leaving.
Where they were going without her.
How to say goodbye. #Quote by Anne Tyler

#25. The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it. #Quote by Delia Sherman

#26. The shack took on a different light, as though more windows had opened up. She stood back and stared at them--a miracle to have some of Ma's paintings on the walls. #Quote by Delia Owens

#27. The acne-pitted kid manning the controls flips the switch, and the carousel begins to wheeze to a stop. Sophie leans forward, caressing the plaster mane. Fitz and Delia appear again, standing up in the stirrups for a last stretch at the brass ring. They're batting at each other's hands and laughing. There's an S-curved steel bar at the top of the carousel that makes one of their horses rise as the other falls. It looks like they're moving separately, but they're not. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#28. Did I say normal had left the building? At this point, I couldn't find normal with a flashlight and a GPS. #Quote by Delia James

#29. Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience ... Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief. #Quote by Dorothy Allison

#30. Heart: Because you're hurt. Because even though I'm broken, I still exist. #Quote by Delia Foster

#31. It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other. #Quote by Delia Ephron

#32. The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans. #Quote by Delia Smith

#33. I knew Kristy was probably exacting
the revenge she thought I
was due, while Delia moved right behind her, making apologies and smoothing
rough edges. Monica was
most likely following her own path, either oblivious or deeply emotionally
invested, depending on what
you believed, while Wes worked the perimeter, always keeping an eye on
everything. There was a whole
other world out there, the Talbots' world, where I didn't belong now, if I ever
had. But it was okay not to
fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere. So I picked up my tray, careful
to keep it level, and
pushed through the door to join my friends. #Quote by Sarah Dessen

#34. Who cared that he couldn't spell? She was a good-enough speller for both of them. With luck, their children would take after her. #Quote by Delia Ephron

#35. I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth. #Quote by Kate Klise

#36. She blushes a deep red, then an even deeper hue with both Delia and I hasten to explain that I'm not Sophie's father.
There have been times, I'll admit, that I wished I was. Like when Delia put my hand on her belly so that I could feel Sophie kicking inside, and I thought: I should have been the one to make that happen. But for all the nights I lay in bed as a teenager, imagining what it would be like to be Eric, with the freedom to touch her whenever I wanted, or breathing in the smell of my pillow after she'd sprawled on my bed studying for a test on Hamlet, or even feeling my pulse jump when we were both patting Greta after a find and our hands brushed
for all those times, there were a thousand others that did not belong to me. #Quote by Jodi Picoult

#37. Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar. #Quote by Delia Owens

#38. But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty. #Quote by Delia Smith

#39. People care about what newspapers tell them to care about. #Quote by Delia Parr

#40. I would never say that I'm good at being on dates. I think I like to try to find a connection with somebody, like, that's my main thing. I think that maybe if you find a connection with a girl on a date, that's like the No. 1 thing, and then it's like, 'Cool, that was a great date.' #Quote by Chris D'Elia