Quotes from Barbara Freethy

No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.

You can take all the precautions in the world and worry yourself like crazy, but each individual comes to this world with a life to live, no matter how long or how good or how scary it might be.

You deserve to be happy. You also deserve to be you

Mothers and daughters share a special bond." "I never knew how special until it wasn't there anymore. I'm twenty-seven, and when something good or bad happens in my life, I still wonder what my mom would think. I've lived more of my life without her than with her, but it still matters.

I can't die yet, honey. I haven't finished counting the stars and don't you know, my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.

Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

The mysteries of life are infinitely frustrating for those of us who try to make sense of them,

Don't think about the problems. Think about the possibilities. This could be the beginning of something amazing.

It's funny how life goes merrily along and then, boom, the past comes back and bites you in the butt.

Today was a day for remembering only the good. And there had been a lot of good.

You must get hurt a lot," he murmured. She looked at him in surprise. "Why do you say that?" "Because you don't hide anything. You put yourself out there for the world to like or dislike.

No, I stay for myself. Everything I need, everything I want, is here. I know it's not enough for most people, but it is for me. Every time I leave, even for an afternoon or an overnight trip to Seattle, I can't wait to get back. This is home. And I guess I'm a person who needs a home, a place to plant seeds and watch them grow.

She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

That was the way of relationships. If no one fought for them, they ended.

I'd bring you flowers

I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.

Love and hate are complicated emotions," Aiden said. "Sometimes they're the same.

There was certainly more to him than

What's happened? What's wrong?" he asked. "I

life can change in a heartbeat. There's no point in wasting time doing something you don't love. You have to live for the moment

Some men are born to rule, some to follow, some to ponder, some to wander.

ten years since he'd seen Sara, and

You just have to have faith, child. The bad times will pass. There's only good coming your way