Quotes from Brenda Novak

Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.

if one couldn't be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.

Their union was heaven--and it was hell.

Nothing ever stays easy for long.

I've always believed you can't predict love. You can't qualify or quantify it. Can't dissect it. Love hits you like a truck or the flu, coming up from out of nowhere to knock you to your knees. Love burns you up alive.

birth it had been! Martha thought her mistress deserved a moment of triumph before further worries beset her, but Her Grace spotted the baby's clublike

She'd decided she'd try to stick it out until halftime when she saw a face that made her scream and jump off the sofa.

This feels like Groundhog Day," Phoenix said as Riley parked at the curb outside his parents' house. "Groundhog Day?" "Haven't you seen that movie? My mother has a copy. We watched it the night I got home. Bill Murray's in it. I wasn't interested enough to pay a whole lot of attention. I was mostly indulging her. But he lives the same day over and over again.

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves.

slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which

Anger is so much easier than grief.

Hanover House?" "That, or it's possible someone just thinks it's funny. But if I find out who that someone is, I'm going to make them awfully sorry." He stepped back and told his dog to go inside with her. "Makita will stay with you until I check things out." She nodded and closed the door so that Makita wouldn't be tempted to follow

words eventually became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Learned that he had to overcome the past or the past would overcome him.

At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.

she'd been determined to overcome the immunology challenges associated with finding a cure for diabetes—her favorite aunt had lost a leg to the dreaded disease—

To walk out of here and never look back. To put her heart and soul into loving those around her, loving her baby, instead of destroying herself.

Don't make excuses for him. We all have choices, even when times are tough. Those are the defining moments of our lives.

It's best to keep your troubles pretty much to yourself, because half the people you tell them to won't give a damn, and the other half will be glad to hear you've got them.

That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.

think I'm crazy about

Not every change comes about peaceably, even changes that are for the best.

She didn't protect her own computers with a password, even the one she worked on here at the B and B. But there was hardly any crime in Whiskey Creek, and she had nothing to hide.

His gaze lowered to her mouth. I don't think you understand my limitations. You're not open to a relationship. Is that the limitation you're talking about? He nodded, but kept staring at her lips as though they were all he could really think about. Consider me warned, she said and slid her hand around his neck to bring his head down to hers.