Jayne Ann Krentz > Quotes

“Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Running Hot

“Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends"
"I already know how it ends"
"You read the ending first?"
"I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book."
"If you know how it ends, why read the book?"
"I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Running Hot

“Friends may come and go
but enemies accumulate.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, In Too Deep

“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, All Night Long

“I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy."
"No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry."
"I thought men got nervous around crying females."
"I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, All Night Long

“Guys don't get romantically involved."
"What do they get?"
"Involved, period.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Summer in Eclipse Bay

“The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Silver Linings

“Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I’m serious.”

“What about the one time when you’re not?”

“I’m asleep.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Trust Me

“Pretty much everything about you gets me hot.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Sizzle and Burn

“I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, In Too Deep

“Funny thing about the past. The older you get, the less it matters.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Summer in Eclipse Bay

“I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“Now that, would be a really dumb ass thing to do.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, In Too Deep

“The hero in a romance is the most important challenge the heroine must face and conquer. The hero is her real problem in the book, not whatever trendy issue or daring adventure is also going on in the subplot. In some way, shape, or form, in some manner either real or perceived on the heroine's part, the hero must be a source of emotional and, yes, sometimes physical risk. He must present a genuine threat.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz

“Find one lousy body in your aunt’s fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, River Road

“If you don’t give yourself room to fail, Zack, you’ll live your life inside an iron cage that will gradually get smaller and smaller until you can’t even breathe.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Sizzle and Burn

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

“Letty, it's just a business. Don't get emotional about it.”
She grinned. “You're a fine one to talk. You're the most emotional man I know.”
“The hell I am,” he muttered. “I have a lot more self-control than you do, Madam President.”
“Let's not argue about that,” Letty said”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Perfect Partners

“Later we can go to dinner.”
“I suppose that might work,” she said.
She sounded so damn casual, he thought. As if the decision she had just made weren’t staggering in its implications. As if it weren’t going to alter destinies and change the fate of nations.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Summer in Eclipse Bay

“Role models or not, in the end every man has to decide for himself just what kind of man he will be.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Promise Not to Tell

“The very fact that you can even wonder if you’re going crazy means you very likely aren’t crazy. Real nuts don’t question their own nuttiness. They think they’re the only normal ones. That’s why they’re nuts.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Absolutely, Positively

“How long were you standing up there spying on me?” she asked.
“You sure know how to make a man feel welcome.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Dawn in Eclipse Bay

“Charlotte never lied to others, so she made the classic mistake of the habitually honest—she assumed that other people did not lie to her, at least not to her face. In her world, people were innocent of deliberate deceit until proven otherwise, which was, of course, way too late. Even”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, When All the Girls Have Gone

“It’s only a mistake if you don’t learn from it”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, River Road

“He leaned back against the Jeep and smiled. “More orders for your CEO, Madam President?”
Her eyes were huge and solemn with concern. “I want you to be very careful tonight.”
“I will,” he promised.
“Joel, I love you. You know that, don't you?”
For an instant he was stunned at the admission. Then elation soared in him. For the moment, at least, it blotted out all the other things he had been
feeling since he'd walked into his apartment and seen the evidence of Victor Copeland's ungovernable rage. He reached for Letty.
“Damn, Letty,” he muttered thickly, “you've picked a fine time to tell me.” He pulled her into his arms, fumbling for the feel of her through the plump
layers of her Thornquist Gear down coat. “You know I love you, too, don't you?”
“Well, you hadn't actually said so,” she reminded him. The comment was tart, but her eyes were brimming with delight. “However, I have been
extremely optimistic.”
“Don't ever forget it.” He kissed her mouth, the only part of her that was not swallowed up by her voluminous jacket. Her lips were warm in spite of
the cold air. Joel groaned and pulled her closer.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, Perfect Partners