Quotes from Sharon Sala

When he grasped her hand, he felt the calluses on her palm. He was thinking about how tough she was, and then she smiled. It was tentative and brief but it touched his heart, and then she was gone. He watched while she disappeared over the hill and then took the box into the kitchen, refilled his coffee and opened the lid. 36%

I love you, Robert Tate." Bud fingered her ring. "I love you, too. I think I'm going to rest now. Promise you won't go anywhere without me." "I promise." He closed his eyes. Holly lay facing him, burning every nuance of his misery into her brain. She was determined to remember, when she was in labor giving birth to their first child, that, for the love of his woman, he'd been the first to bear pain.

As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.

I didn't forget you. To this day, I have yet to walk through an airport without looking for your face, and every time it snows, I remember what it felt like to kiss you.

I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember?

You cry, girl. You cry all you want, and when you're through and all this pain is nothing but a memory, I will find a way to make you smile. Do you hear me China Brown? That's a promise from me to you.

he wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

They're our families, but they're not us. Whatever hitches they carry in their steps does not cripple you or me.

Hello, Presley residence." "Mrs. Presley, this is Dallas Memorial. I have—" Penny started to weep. "Oh my God, he's dead, isn't he?" "No, no, Mrs. Presley. Quite the contrary. The doctor wanted you to know that we think your husband is waking up." Penny's emotions shuddered to a stop. Not dead? Not dead after all? Waking up? What the hell was all this about?

As long as we draw breath, we have the option to change what we don't like.

When I first got the news, I was devastated," Annie said. And then her chin tilted in a defiant gesture, as if daring him to begrudge her her fear. "Actually, I was scared out of my wits." Gabe heard the tremble in her voice, but he gave her no evidence

A woman wronged is an enemy forever.

Money does not establish class. Behavior does

And, yes, there would be laughter again one day, and there would be times of calm, and times she felt peaceful in her heart. But it would be the absence

As soon as Tara looked at the skull-and-barbed-wire tattoo showing beneath the sleeve of Flynn O'Mara's tight t-shirt, she flashed on a jail cell. Bummer. His Dad's in jail

The last thing she needed was to fall for someone again. Before the move from Denver, she'd had her first serious boyfriend. Millicent had gone along on every one of their dates, suddenly determined to play chaperone. Uncle Pat's decision to move came just as the relationship was heating up Tara sagged. Why bother falling for another guy? It would hurt too much when Uncle Pat pulled up stakes again. My life sucks, she thought.

his mother yelled out the door, "Ben! Phone! It's Red." He dropped the hose and ran to answer. "Yeah… what's up?" "We got an anonymous call a while ago. It may amount to nothing and it may not. Captain said to give you a call, that you might want in on the interrogation." "Is it worth anything, or is it just his way of trying to get me to come back to work?" "It's a picture of Mona Wakefield. Damned if she isn

when it was time to go back to get ready

Bea's smile softened. "I was that connected to my Robert, as well. In many ways, losing him was worse than losing Leah. She was my blood, but he was my heart.

At least once a month Choo Choo managed to get lost. There were constant reports about animals who could find their way home across hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of miles. Choo Choo continued to get lost within the block on which it lived. It was his opinion that Choo Choo had the homing instincts of a fart—once having escaped, it would lose its point of origin, yet never get far enough away to ignore.

nothing is random. The Universe knows what's happening, and what's needed, even when we do not.

Coal Town was primed like a john with a hard-on. All they needed was a willing hooker and it would blow.