Quotes from Robyn Carr

you know you're important when an entire board of directors gives you the boot.

Maybe in time Mel would join in, share her secrets. For now, though, she just wanted to hear theirs.

I'm not Susan Sarandon or George Clooney for one thing." "Or Ed Asner, who is very special to me. But you are Walt Booth, and you rank right up there. But be careful, Walt. People will think we're serious." He grinned at her. "At the risk of scaring you to death, I'm very serious about you, Muriel. And a good relationship is exactly what I'm in the market for. That, and a decent dishwasher.

Yes, she was a friend now. She trusted him with her personal challenges, even if they might be embarrassing.

Medical Center in San Diego to at least start

She looked over at him as he drove; he was grinning. "Why are you smiling?" she asked him. He turned to look at her. "I've never been shopping with a woman before," he said. "I didn't hate it.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart—it's all a man has. —Hubert Humphrey

her over onto her back and, looking into her eyes, said, "Mel, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me. I'm going to make you so happy, you won't be able to stand it. You're going to wake up singing every morning." "I already do, Jack." *

For now, they were inseparable. The three of them. Preacher kept Paige and Christopher under his protective wing, as though danger loomed nearby and might strike at any moment. When there were no patrons in the bar, Preacher and Paige sat at one of the tables and talked or played cribbage; if Christopher wasn't napping, he was on Preacher's knee.

You don't need approval and you don't need an excuse or explanation for living your own life. Remember that." Oh,

If you don't mind me saying so, you look kind of fragile for that kind of work." She laughed and her whole face brightened. "Is that so? Well, this fragile girl has cleaned up a lot of dumps and lifted more than her share of heavy stuff, Your Reverence." He cleared his throat. "It's Noah. Please. I'm not the pope." "I know that," she scoffed. "I was being funny." "Ah. And so you were," he admitted.

I told you," he said. "I gave you my word, my commitment, that I'd stand by you, wouldn't let you down. I'll love you forever, never let you down, stay with you from now on. I couldn't have made love to you under any other terms. It's not just some notion of mine, Ellie, but part of who I am. When I make promises like that, I don't back out. No matter what." She

lying created bad karma and that often you were stuck with the lie. She said it was God showing his sense of humor. When

Wanting a woman was something he knew quite well—but wanting to take care of a woman so that she would never hurt, never want, never be afraid or lonely—he had no experience with that. There had been beautiful women in his past; intelligent women, clever women, women with wit and courage and passion, but as far as he could remember, never one like Mel; never before a woman who had everything he'd ever wanted.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. —Robert J. Burdette

Feeling a little sorry for yourself? Do something nice for someone else. Particularly someone you don't know. That will put you right.

As banged up as she is, that's what most people would do. Even if she pulls through, there's no guarantee she'll be much of a dog." He stroked the dog's head and thought, No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try.

You don't have to be in first place to feel like a winner, you just have to beat the thing, whatever it is, that makes you feel failure is inevitable." "So

He didn't see dancer on there but, without asking, he suspected he knew what kind of dancer. Just the way she was dressed, decidedly not churchy, suggested way too much.

She was wearing an old sweatshirt and pair of jeans, big fluffy slippers and had some kind of feathery dusting thing on a long handle in her hand. And she looked delicious. He wanted to tackle her on the spot.

Giving fed the soul.

I don't have room in my life for hate. I tried it for a while. It didn't work.

tongue. Sophisticated

There was a big barn and a darling little farmhouse at the end of a drive through the fields. As they got closer Maggie noticed the details. The windows were covered with tinfoil. The weather vane on top of the house had tinfoil streamers on it.