Secret Sisters Quotes

“A secret is only a secret as long as only one person knows it”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“I don’t want any misunderstandings between us. I can’t make any promises.”
“Ah. Commitment issues.”
“Something like that.”
She considered briefly and then nodded once. “Okay.”
“Okay? That’s all you can say?”
“I’m good with your issues if you’re good with mine.”
“Your issues don’t begin to compare to mine,” he warned.
“Now we’re comparing issues?”
“You think running background checks on the guys you date constitutes a serious issue?”
She frowned. “Of course not. Paying someone to run background checks on my dates is just common sense. My issues are a lot more personal. I do not intend to discuss them with a man who isn’t interested in having a relationship with me. Good night, Jack. Again.”
“Wait. You’re saying you’re okay with my commitment issues?”
“Right. Now, if you’re done with this conversation—”
“We’re not having a conversation, we’re conducting a damn negotiation.”
She raised her brows. “Is that right?”
“Just to be clear—you’d be okay with a relationship based on the understanding that I’ve got a lousy track record in the relationship department?”
“I’ll put my lousy track record up against yours anytime.” She folded her arms. “However, I do insist on monogamy on both sides while we are involved in this uncommitted relationship.”
Her voice was as tight as that of a gambler who was doubling down on a desperate bet.
“Agreed,” he said. He did not want to think about her with another man. “Anything else you want to negotiate?”
“Can’t think of anything offhand,” she said. “You?”
“Nothing comes to mind.”
“Then it looks like we have established the terms and conditions of a relationship.”
“Are you going to whip out a contract for me to sign?”
Her browns snapped together. “What?”
“Talk about taking the romance out of things.”
She stared at him for a beat. Then she went off like a volcano.
“You started it,” she said.
Her voice was harsh with indignation, anger, and—maybe—pain. Or maybe—just maybe—those were the emotions tearing through him.
“Me?” he shot back. “You’re the one who wanted to compare issues.”
“I can’t believe you’re trying to make this my fault.”
He moved closer to her. “Damned if I’ll let you stick me with the blame for this fiasco.”
“First you accuse me of taking all the romance out of our relationship and then you call it a fiasco. You’re right. Whatever happens between us probably won’t last very long, not at the rate we’re going, so I suggest we get started before it fizzles out completely.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“One thing I’ve learned over the years is that nobody really wants my good advice. They just pretend to listen to it.” “Probably because most people just want to whine about their problems. They don’t want to actually take the hard actions that will fix those problems.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“You and I are going to figure out what is going on, and then we’re going to make it stop,” he said.
“Okay,” she said.
He smiled. “And in return, you will never again ask me to vet one of your dates.��
She shook her head, reluctantly amused. “That really irritated you, didn’t it?”
“A hell of a lot more than I anticipated.”
“Why?”
“Probably because there’s a conflict of interest involved. When this is over I want to be your next date. If you say yes, you’re going to have to ask someone else to do the background check.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“And me?” Daphne prompted.
“You go with Abe because you’re the one who knows how to get a read on people based on their living spaces.”
“Oh, wow,” Daphne said. “I get to play forensic designer.”
“I see a book and possibly a TV reality show in this,” Madeline said.
“Stick with me, kid.” Daphne pushed herself up from the table. “I’m headed for the big time.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“Travis looked up. He stared at the recorder and then he looked at Jack.
“Everyone said you were just a small-time security company,” he said.
“I am a small-time security company,” Jack said. “But I’ve got aspirations.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“She wanted to scream her rage to the uncaring universe, but she couldn't breathe.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“died of natural causes,” Madeline said. “I believe she”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“When we were growing up, Cooper Island was our whole world.” “And then we went out into a much bigger world, so the island and everything on it now seem smaller in comparison.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“Grandma always said that people don’t change, at least not way down deep inside where it counts.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“She doubted that he had ever uttered the words Have a good day in his entire life. Even if he got the right words out, the chill in his hazel eyes would completely nullify the warmth of the sentiment. In his opinion, your failure to have a good day was your problem, not his.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“It occurred to her that after what he must have seen in the course of his FBI profiling work, death by garden tools was probably a fairly tame scenario.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“I love you,” he said into her hair. “I’ve loved you from that first day in your office when you tried to fire me.”
“I wasn’t trying to fire you,” she said into his shirt. “I was simply suggesting that the hotel security business might not be a good fit for you and that you ought to pursue other professional opportunities.”
“You tried to fire me. But under the circumstances I’m willing to let bygones be bygones.”
“Good. That’s good.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

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― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters

“Everyone is vulnerable to something. The trick is to recognize your own weaknesses and blind spots so that you can come up with a way to protect them.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Secret Sisters