Quotes from Carolyn Brown

Visualize the end, and start at the beginning.

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

May all the ones ahead be better than those that have already passed.

Have you had joy in your life? Did you bring joy to others in your life? To

Get up in the morning and make the decision to take a step forward instead of two backward for that day. Let go of the guilt, and stop feeling sorry for yourself. Don't let the what-ifs drive you crazy, because they will if you let them. I'm speaking from experience.

the lines of communication open between us. Calm comes with peace, and peace comes with admitting when we can't do anything about the situation and letting it play out however it will.

The river is the journey of your life. You find a good woman to ride the river with, and the journey will be right nice. Just be real sure that you're listenin' to your heart and not your head when you make your choice.

My opinion is that you should get up every morning and decide if you are going to be happy or miserable.

They didn't want to get too close to the crazy woman, since scientists hadn't yet proved whether crazy, like stupid, is inherited or contagious. The

He flipped through channels until he found reruns of NCIS. Understanding murder is simple compared to understanding a woman, Leroy Jethro Gibbs. You been married a bunch of times. What advice would you give me? He talked to the character on the television. Gibbs said, Grab your gear.

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Whoa, honey. Did you ever really, really listen to your heart?" "How do even I know when it's talking to me?" "There's peace.

Jill is mine and Polly's only living relative and she has come to Burnt Boot to work for us. And this bunkhouse is big enough for the two of you. Sawyer wasn't too sure about that last statement. The bunkhouse had looked huge when he moved in, but a woman living in it would damn sure make it smaller in a hurry. Travis Tritt's old song TROUBLE played through his mind.

Wake up every morning and eat a bullfrog first thing, and the rest of the day will go just fine.

Once a mother, always a mother. You don't ever get to quit or retire.

That's pretty bold of you, Jill Cleary. His eyes sparkled when he teased. We've only known each other a few hours, and you're already talking about us getting pets together.

He might tolerate someone dipping into his stash of dark-roast coffee, but nobody messed with his pot. Not even if she was cuter than a bug's ear, with that faint sprinkling of freckles across her nose.

You aren't a nice cowboy. Are you going to break my heart so bad that I have to write a country song about it?

Be sure to get her home before midnight. She turns into a rabid coyote when the clock strikes twelve. Sawyer moved on down the bar to fill a pitcher with beer. That true, darlin'? Tyrell asked. Got to take the bad with the good, Jill answered.

He flipped his hands out to motion her away. Go change clothes six times and stand in front of the mirror. I'll tell you if your jeans make your butt look fat.

It was so quiet. I thought those two women had kidnapped you. Did that make you sad? His eyes twinkled, and a smile tickled the corners of his mouth. Dammit! Why did she have to look at his mouth? That made her think of that amazing kiss, and that put a little extra giddy-up in her pulse. It sure did. I didn't want to stock shelves and slice bologna and still keep everyone from killing each other. She smiled sweetly.

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit, I'm livin' with a prophet.

Sometimes love blinds a person to like, and although love is important, like is just as much so.

The time to fix something is when it's first broken, not when it's shattered in so many pieces that there's not enough glue in the world to put it back together again.