Quotes from Carolyn Brown

Trixie wondered how she'd ever survive without her three friends. Divorce, PMS, teenagers, crazy people who thought they were your friend—all of it wouldn't be bearable without friendship.

tomorrow. There's a Gone With the Wind museum here in the house.

What would Betsy tell Marty about poor

What did I do wrong with my children? Everett tries to comfort me, but I feel like a complete failure.

I may never see my daughter again. My son says he has no intentions of ever coming back to the cursed south again. A part of me admires him for his conviction; the other part wants to shake him until his teeth rattle even though he's a grown man.

That doing a job well and accomplishing something important, even though it paid nothing in real money, brought satisfaction and self-respect.

The old blue swing looked lonely, like it was waiting to tell stories, and it could sure enough tell a lot.

He covered a yawn with the back of his hand. "The sofa was better than my bedroom, but I did consider going out to the hayloft or taking a blanket to my truck when Lily raised her voice. It was almost daylight when she told her goat if he shit again, she would haul his sorry little goat ass out to the calf pen right now. And then there was something about that stuff not smelling like roses. I'm pretty sure you are a genius.

Darcy shook her head. "I thought it would be wonderful to have Calvin this close, but it's not. I can't get past this thing I have for him. I've tried and tried, dated other men, but none of them measure up or make me feel like he does. I have made up my mind to be single forever and dote on Sophie." Darcy shrugged. "Why couldn't you sleep?

Things sure are easy to get done when you're old and everyone thinks you're senile.

Be sure not to wash your white things with red or you'll have pink underwear.

Little girls are all born vicious, darlin'. We just don't let the boys know it. It would hurt their little egos.

Tarts and chocolate cake." Nettie started for the door. Vicky frowned. "What?" "Some folks like tarts. Others like chocolate cake. They'll argue which one is best until the cows come home. Same with religion. Some folks like it served up one way, others like it another, but when it's all said and done, it's just dessert.

You don't have to get out. I know how to let myself in, she said. I'll get you at the door and walk you to it when I return you. It's part of my job, woman, he said. Her temper flared. Don't you ever call me woman. I'm not backwoods white trash. I have a name and don't you forget it.

We live and we die by the choices we make.

One of my favorite sayings is that a change in behavior begins with a change in the heart

Once a mother, always a mother, no matter the age or the era." Truer words have never been spoken.

There is a time for all seasons," he quoted Scripture. "A time to break down and a time to build up. You've had your time to break down, and now it's your time to build up. Don't punish yourself for what you didn't do. Just put all that behind you and move forward.

What Wyatt had done or hadn't done was on him. She had a bright future ahead of her—hopefully sharing every minute of it with Mack and her children.

There's a time when it's too late to do what you should have been doing all along.

God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

There's a difference between love and being in love, and also in liking a person. Love is akin to lust, and lasts a few minutes a day. In love is deeper than that. But, honey, you better like him first and foremost, because that goes beyond all the rest. It's what's left when you're old and lust isn't there anymore for health reasons. It's the glue that holds a marriage together," Vera told her.

Let's go into the sanctuary or the adult Sunday school room

water. Bear Creek is the cause the