Quotes from Robyn Carr

Listen, remember what we've always talked about...change can be good. What feels like a disaster can be your new opportunity.

was—there was already a lot of activity

Ah. Methylsulphonymethane. People around here use it for damn near everything. It's famous for cell repair. I guess Doc's right—you're in good hands.

He unbuckled her and lifted her out of the truck. He whacked her head on the door frame. "Ow!" she yelled, her hand going to her head. "Sorry," he said. And thought to himself, Foreplay that was not. "S'okay." She laid her head back on his shoulder. Now,

If you never let anyone get near you, they soon got the message you wanted to be left alone.

way we don't tell the most important people in our lives the most important things. It was how men tended

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. —JOHANN SCHILLER

It's a very normal, human frailty we all have, to be afraid someone we love could be taken from us. And the reality is, eventually we all suffer loss. It's a sad fact of life. There is no way to stop it, really. But there is a way to prepare for it…

I'm going to tell her. Tell her I love her more than I thought I could love a woman. Tell her that my life started when she walked into town.

This crowd of men, each one of them what would be called a man's man, so driven in the masculine pursuits of soldiering, hunting, fishing and the like, loved women, pregnant women especially, and the babies they brought. It was uncanny. And tremendous fun. Doc

The thing about the hard times, the stupid times, they make you who you are. And regrets—I look back and ask myself if I didn't do a certain thing that I'm really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn't been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness?

What's going on?" she asked. "Wait till you see. You're going to like this. You're going to like me again." "I love you—I'm just not thrilled about how potent you seem to be." As

And he thought—Just give me time. I'm going to get that picture put in storage. *

It might've been nice if he'd awakened her to say, "I'm getting naked to wash now, so if you don't want to be embarrassed, close your eyes." But then, no—Ian wouldn't do that. It was his cabin. And he was a man. It had always intrigued her the way men could stalk around naked, proud as lions, completely unconcerned about being seen, judged. They

Know how to make a small fortune?" Sully asked Frank. "Take a large fortune and put it into educating a neurosurgeon who decides to quit and sell picnic supplies.

Just in case you're wondering, you shouldn't show your face around here again," Jack said. "It could be bad for you." "Are you threatening me?" Arnold asked. "Nah," Mike said. "Promising." *

It was less than thirty minutes before her cell phone chimed. She glanced at the phone and saw it was Luke. She let him go to voice mail. Next was Sean, then Patrick and finally Colin. She smiled to herself; it was nice having all five boys in the United States. She let them all leave messages. She would entertain herself later by listening to them. Really, she thought with amusement, how did they think she got to be this old without knowing anything? Pups. They were just pups. *

Quiero que me abraces. Para amarte durante la noche." I want you to hold me. To love me through the night. A slow smile grew on Mike's face. "I haven't had any secrets, have I?" "Nada," she said. Not one. Mike laughed softly. "It serves me right. I didn't know you spoke Spanish," he said.

Love...is an able master; he teaches us to be what we never were before. —MOLIÈRE

I took a look at what you needed and divided what was left between

George was captivated by her. She was a pip, as George's father might have said. But what he saw quickly, what he was sure Noah was oblivious to, Ellie was very like Noah's late wife. She was unique, confident, funny and impossibly positive. Noah

Task finished, she sat a few minutes longer, very quietly. Then she sheepishly opened the outhouse door, cursing the squeaking hinges as she stuck her head out. She saw nothing, so she took a careful step outside. She heard a hiss and snarl and saw the cat lurking around the shed, twenty feet away. She retreated, slamming the door. "Shit," she said aloud. "Shit, shit, shit!" So

Peyton, I'm not married and you're not a lesbian. Think of the possibilities.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. —Augustine of Hippo