Quotes from Jodi Thomas

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

Be my wife, all my life.

That's all any of us can do. Try. sometimes I think it's not the winning or the losing, or even the right and wrong of things, it's the trying that makes us keep on living and hoping.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Carter placed her fingers over his hand and signed a single sign. "I love you too," she answered. "How did you know what I said?" He moved his fingers along her arm trying to convince himself she was truly with him. "I listened with my heart." Her gaze locked with his.

Triumph comes through perserverance.

He couldn't just take her home, bed her, and wait for children to pop out. Somewhere in between, he'd have to talk to her.

Again, please," she whispered. (Allie to Wes)

What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?" Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

Every day is different, every day I'm on an adventure. If I get bored, you can bet that in the story I'm writing, bullets will fly.

I think there may be some kind of law about a woman buying more than she can carry.

Did you tell her it was just until all was safe, or did you promise her forever?" Victoria shook her head. "Sounds to me like you've got some proposing to do before you're really a married man. Maybe a few days alone will loosen your tongue and make that knee of your bend easier.

The dreamer whispered, Just once let something happen.

How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said. 'I was just guessing.' 'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.

She pulled a chair to the tiny table "I'm starving." "So am I," he answered, but when she glanced up he was looking at her and not the food.

He had no idea about the 'loving deeply' part. Scarlet was the one love he'd had. They'd married the weekend after they'd discovered they both like sangria. He'd thought they were waltzing through life and it turned out she was line dancing.

In his daydreams he was busy planning how to ask Kate to marry him someday. He thought, as a fourth-generation undertaker, it might be proper to say simply, "Kate, how would you like to be buried in the Wright family plot beside me?

He'd try to keep it light. "Kate, if you're going to call my border collie your baby every time you see her, maybe we should marry and make the poor dog legit.

While the women talked, he did what he often did in the presence of people he didn't particularly like; he began planning Martha Q's funeral.

Times like this are like muddy water, Rea, you just got to keep moving through it until you get to the other side.

Jonathan was tired of arguing with himself. He was obviously conversing with an idiot.