Quotes from Annette Blair

Being nice to that woman is like feeding a baby shark so it can grow big enough to eat you.

It was scary to need another person as much as you needed your next breath. It implied a need for unlimited faith and trust. You had to believe your love would be there for you always.

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open mind.—GAIL RUBIN BERENY

I feared they'd never have that special connection. The covenant between a mother and child is powerful, but if it's broken....

Beauty," he said, looking into her eyes, "resides where gentleness and love are the most wondrous of gifts.

she felt more alive than she had ever imagined anyone could feel. When they were apart, it now almost felt as thought she were , but half alive.

Home, Sabrina thought, was not a place, but a state of being, a meeting of minds and hearts. Home was the one's strength balancing the other's weakness. Home was the instinctive knowledge of when and where to listen or speak, to hug or hold, to stroke or kiss. Home was the person who completed you in the way only heaven could ordain.

She refused to consider what losing him forever might do to her.

WHEN THEY SAT down to dinner, Hawksworth looked twice into his soup bowl—belly up, soft and white, tiny little feet, spiny back, sleepy eyes. "Excuse me," he said. "But there seems to be a hedgehog in my soup." "There you are, you naughty—" Beatrix's expression melted with love, and she smiled. "Oh, how cute. Nanny is having a nice warm soak.

My mother will hear you.

Here on earth, discover what you are, what your existence is, and how swiftly flees your span of life from time to eternity. For after you are gone, your deeds will speak louder than when you lived.

Amazing how shared laughter could sweeten life, make it seem worth living.

Did she need succor so badly that she bore a keen sense when others needed it?