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“They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter."

Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird."

Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

“He grinned, and right then it occurred to him that he hadn't enjoyed himself so much with a woman in a very long time. If Annabelle Granger were a few inches taller, a hell of a lot more sophisticated, better organized, less bossy, and more inclined to worship at his feet, she'd have made a perfect wife.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

“Maybe I should let my faithful manservant answer the rest of your questions, since he seems to have all the answers."

"I'm saving her time," Bodie replied. "She brings you a redhead, you'll give her grief. Look for women with class, Annabelle. That's most important. The sophisticated types who went to boarding schools and speak French. She has to be the real thing because he can spot a phony a mile away. And he likes them athletic."

"Of course he does," she said dryly. "Athletic, domestic, gorgeous, brilliant, socially connected, and pathologically submissive. It'll be a snap."

"You forgot hot." Heath smiled. "And defeatist thinking is for losers. If you want to be a success in this world, Annabelle, you need a positive attitude. Whatever the client wants, you get it for him. First rule of a successful business."

"Uh-huh. What about career women?"

"I don't see how that would work."

"The kind of potential mate you're describing isn't going to be sitting around waiting for her prince to show up. She's heading a major corporation. In between those Victoria's Secret modeling gigs."

He lifted an eyebrow. "Attitude, Annabelle. Attitude.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

“I paid you five thousand instead and promised the balance only if you made the match. As it turns out, this is your lucky day because I've decided to write you the full check, whether the match comes from you or from Portia. As long as I have a wife and you've been part of the process, you'll get your money." He toasted her with his beer mug. "Congratulations."

She put down her fork. "Why would you do that?"

"Because it's efficient."

"Not as efficient as having Powers handle her own introductions. You're paying her a fortune to do exactly that."

"I'd rather have you."

Her pulse kicked. "Why?"

He gave her the melty smile he must have been practicing since the cradle, one that made her feel as though she was the only woman in the world. "Because you're easier to bully. Do we have a deal or not?"

"You don't want a matchmaker. You want a lackey."

"Semantics. My hours are erratic, and my schedule changes without warning. It'll be your job to cope with all that. You'll soothe ruffled feathers when I need to cancel at the last minute. You'll keep my dates company when I'm going to be late, entertain them if I have to take a call. If things are going well, you'll disappear. If not, you'll make the woman disappear. I told you before. I work hard at my job. I don't want to have to work hard at this, too."

"Basically, you expect me to find your bride, court her, and hand her over at the altar. Or do I have to come on the honeymoon, too?"

"Definitely not." He gave her a lazy smile. "I can take care of that all by myself.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

“You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight."

"Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests."

"Then why are you still trying to talk me into seeing Melanie again?"

"Hunger makes me weird."

"You got rid of the last one in fourteen minutes. Well done. I'm rewarding you by letting you sit in on all the introductions from now on."

She nearly choked on an ice cube. "What are you talking about?"

"Exactly what I said.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

“He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive."

She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Match Me If You Can

“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing â€� for she had done mischief.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“God first appeared on the scene of human history in the role of a matchmaker. What a profound and exciting revelation!

Is it too much to suggest that Eve came to Adam on the arm of the Lord Himself in the same way that a bride today walks down the aisle of the church on her father’s arm? What human mind can fathom the depth of love and joy that filled the heart of the great Creator as He united the man and woman in this first marriage ceremony?

Surely this account is one among countless indications that the Bible is not a work of merely human authorship. Moses is generally accepted as the author of the creation record. But apart from supernatural inspiration, he would never have dared to open human history with a scene of such amazing intimacy—first between God and man, and then between man and woman.”
― Derek Prince, God Is a Matchmaker

“You blast me open and then
You stand back and watch
My feeble attempts
To deal with myself.
Where do I turn
In my now desperate need for love?
You are not there.
There is no one else to turn to
For I have made you my Everything.
And in my exhaustion
From my desperate moments,
I slip into myself
And there I find God waiting for me
To love Him to love me to love you
Because you are the matchmaker.
I thought He was leading me to you
But, surprise surprise,
You were leading me to Him.”
― Kate McGahan

“Ob der Komplexität der Partnerwahl, der Frage der Chaoskontrolle zumal, ist auch Sylvester Stallones Ansatz durchaus brauchbar, wiewohl beileibe nicht das Gelbe vom Ei. Interessant indes allemal. So ist für ihn, ins Unreine gesprochen, eine Beziehung von vornherein zum Scheitern verurteilt, wenn sie mit Arbeit verbunden ist.”
― Collin Coel, Stabilität der Partnerschaft

“Für Sylvester Stallone ist, ins Unreine gesprochen, eine Beziehung von vornherein zum Scheitern verurteilt, wenn sie mit Arbeit verbunden ist.”
― Collin Coel, Stabilität der Partnerschaft

“The world has a way of making things happen just when they are meant to.”
― Valerie Bowman, Mr. Hunt, I Presume

“Loose lips not only sink ships, they are terrible for dentures besides”
― Robert Kimmel-Smith

“Was heute den Partnern belanglos oder gänzlich undenkbar erscheinen mag, kann anderntags bereits das unwiderrufliche Aus der Beziehung bedeuten.”
― Collin Coel, Stabilität der Partnerschaft

“Es mutet unstreitig höchst befremdlich an, dass Bollywood der leidenschaftlichen Liebe das Wort redet, während ebendie im Alltag der Inder faktisch ohne Belang ist. Wer unter die Haube kommt, lässt sich nämlich nach wie vor von althergebrachten Erwägungen wie Abkunft, Konfession, Bildung und Einkommen leiten, was ja beileibe nicht ausschließt, sein Herz an den künftigen Partner verlieren zu können.”
― Collin Coel, Stabilität der Partnerschaft

“Im Wesen des Menschen liegt es, ein Chaos heraufzubeschwören, weil das Gehirn nichtlinear arbeitet. Insofern ist es am Einzelnen, sich seiner Haut zu wehren und dem Chaos die Stirn zu bieten.”
― Collin Coel, Stabilität der Partnerschaft

“Während in Indien die Familien die Sache in die Hand nehmen, hat ihr Modell im Westen als Dienstleistung der Partneragenturen Schule gemacht. Von daher mutet es höchst befremdlich an, wenn Europäer hergehen und die arrangierte Ehe der Inder als Horrorvorstellung brandmarken.”
― Collin Coel, Stabilität der Partnerschaft

“I was lost in my own little world, devouring the pages of my book, taking slow sips of my lukewarm coffee, when an old man with a kind face and a gentle smile approached me. He had silver hair, and he wore a white button-down shirt, and brown trousers. He offered me his hand, and I recall closing my book in haste, taking his hand, and following him across the room, like I knew him. We stopped at a table where a man who looked like he was in his mid-thirties sat alone, immersed in the pages of his book. The old man leads me to the empty chair next to the stranger, and without hesitation, I sat down. Regardless of how perplexed I was by what was going on, I didn’t ask any questions. I didn’t want to. I was too amused by what was happening to me.”
― Corey M.P.

“It shouldn’t surprise him that she quilted. And helped run the library. And made dresses. And tried to find him a wife. No wonder she was short of breath sometimes â€� she never slowed down.”
― Karen A. Wyle, What Heals the Heart

“From all reports, Briggs Tutheridge is someone who enjoys life. Perhaps a little too much.”
― Tess Thompson, A Match for a Reluctant Bride

“Don't be the "frog in the well" when it comes to dating having an open mind expands your horizon!”
― Cassindy Chao, Ancient Wisdom Modern Love: Chinese Wisdom for Dating & Relationship Success

“If you go into the match with your eyes wide open, Enya, you might eventually find love.â€�

“My eyes are open, and I’m not looking for love.� She’d thought she’d found love once, but she’d been wrong and had ruined her life in the process.

She wouldn’t make that same mistake twice.”
― Jody Hedlund, Saved by the Matchmaker

“I don't care who you love. If I have taught you anything, it is that life is fleeting and one of the only true joys is the love and family we find in a soulmate. How could you believe that something as insignificant as gender could invalidate that?”
― J.J. Arias, The Single Matchmaker

“being passionate about something doesn't make you boring, he says. it makes you the complete opposite.”
― Catherine Walsh