Quotes from Robyn Carr

Too soon, the day had aged.

She opened the door with a frown. "What are you doing?" "Pressing my luck," he said. He walked in, pushed her gently out of the way and closed the door. He put his hands on her waist and pulled her to him, going after her lips at once. It took her exactly two seconds to melt to him, moan, reach her arms around his neck and return the kiss.

My mother said, 'This is your new brother, Michael, and from now on your father is sleeping in the barn.' I didn't know what that meant for a long time. Eight kids in a little over ten years.

Let me seek to understand rather than to be understood. Where there is despair, let me offer hope.

I saw your daddy tonight," Franci whispered. "There's a reason you're so beautiful.

a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. —Frank A. Clark

She smiled at him when she came into the room. Then she turned away abruptly to take the gum out of her mouth, though he couldn't tell where it went. But the image of her smile was immediately tattooed on his mind—it was beautiful. Also hopeful. But what was she thinking, coming to a job interview in a small-town church dressed all honky-tonk? And he thought, Aw, Jesus. Why me? He

person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. —Mahatma Gandhi

Joe, I think I might be clueless when it comes to love. Afraid I wouldn't know real love if it bit me in the ass." He chuckled in spite of himself. "Been there," he said. "Pretty recently, in fact." "I

Ew." "Exactly. You tell her I was less than perfect and I'm a eunuch." She couldn't help it, she laughed. "Gee, and Peyton seems so sweet.

You're right," he said. "I learned my lesson. I'll listen to you now." "It isn't easy being the wise one in the marriage," she said. "I imagine the pressure is terrible," he said with a smile. She

Vanni rocked Hannah back and forth, tears running down her cheeks. Hannah settled back against Vanni and looked up at her face. She put a pudgy little hand against Vanni's cheek and said, "Mama." "Yes, my little angel," Vanni said with a sniff. "I'm going to be your mama. Yes. Mama loves you." *

Luke was ready to put down roots. He was just scared to death to ask anyone like Shelby to take that on. Because she might change her mind. And that would kill him. So

The best fiction in the history of the world had not adequately conveyed just how much a broken heart could hurt or how much crying was involved. It was a kind of death made worse by the fact that there hadn't been a death at all, unless you accounted for the demise of perfect happiness.

Luke put his elbow on the kitchen table and lazily leaned his chin into his hand, watching. Amused. And so glad some other Riordan male was taking the heat. Sean

Think she'll stay on awhile?" Preacher quietly asked Jack. Jack was frowning. "I think what she does to a pair of jeans ought to be against the law." He looked at Preacher. "You okay here? I'm thinking of having a beer in Clear River." It was code. There was a woman in Clear River. "I'm okay here," Preacher said. *

I'm in my sixties; it's late to become enlightened. I hereby vow to be relentlessly happy, ridiculously daring, outrageously open-minded and passionately optimistic.

He stopped chopping again and, looking at her, asked, "What made you decide?" "Bear's new leg. That old blue plaid flannel..." "Old?" Preacher asked, smiling slightly. "That was a perfectly good shirt." *

on, Ash," she said. "You have to get a

Do what makes your heart beat.

I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens—only my own.

Go after her, Luke. Tell her the truth, that it scares you to death but you want her." Luke

She turned, looked up at him, and they both jumped back in surprise. She was likely startled because Preacher looked intimidating—he was six foot four, bald with bushy black eyebrows, a diamond stud earring and shoulders about as broad as an ax handle was long. Under