Quotes from Barbara Bretton

Love makes you crazy. Love crawls into your brain and plays games with your neurons. All the things you thought you knew about yourself fly out the window when love flies in.

I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.

Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

Human males are fascinating creatures. No matter how old they get, the little boy never goes away.

Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime.

She knew it in the deepest part of her soul, the part where she was four years old and the world was still a good place, a place where little girls could go to sleep at night secure in the knowledge that the world would still be the same safe place when she woke up the next morning.

personality to match. He had an opinion about everything that went on in her house, from where she kept the tea bags to Billy's spelling tests to why she didn't buy out Aidan and run the bar herself. And to make matters worse, he had a better social life

The only thing that mattered was that you'd found the other half of your heart

Try giving a full body wax to an overweight eighty-five-year-old man with more wrinkles than a shar-pei. Now that's a workout.

How could he embrace the bleak and endless night when he had finally learned to love the sun?

If you ever want to incite a riot north of New York City, mention raising taxes and see what happens.

have faith that you'll see there's nothing more important than family." But he didn't have a family. Not anymore. With

What a fool she had been to waste the most precious gift of all, the gift of today. She

The parent-child connection was as deep and wide as the ocean, as mysterious as heaven, as impossible to explain as love.

Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.

Apparently a girl could get just as far with a blindfold and a dream.

Still, what was the point to love if it didn't make you feel like you could fly? You might as well live alone.

Sometimes the little voices in your head were all that stood between you and oblivion.

My father always said the first ten years of marriage were like a shakedown cruise. You couldn't fix the problems until you figured out where they were hiding.

Maybe we should open a bottle of champagne," Maddy said, glaring at the two women. "A toast to keeping secrets . . . where would a family be without 'em?

There are other doctors out there but there's only one [of your child].

am almost ashamed to be living in such peace while all the rest struggle and suffer. But, after all, it is still best to concern oneself with eternals, for from them alone flows that spirit that can restore peace and serenity to the world of humans - Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey

His attorney, a pig-headed Yankee named Stoney, allowed himself to register his shock. "Too high?" He glanced down at the number Warren had written across the top of the appraisal. "That's absurd! It isn't high enough.

trust me, there is nothing sadder than a vampire with a removable upper plate and a subscription to Modern Maturity.