Quotes from Carolyn Brown

You, Declan, are sexy as hell. He leaned in and kissed the top of her breasts. And how sexy is that? Think of the heat down there in hell. You are seven times hotter than that.

We are never ready." Noah laced her fingers in his and gently pulled her toward the house. "We all knew my grandfather wouldn't last long, and yet when he was gone, we weren't ready to lose him. My dad went suddenly, so we sure weren't ready. I remember thinking at the time that it didn't matter if we had weeks to prepare for a loved one's death or no time at all. We could never be ready no matter how hard we try or even think we are.

God hates me.

Sometimes you've got to get a machete and hack your way through the kudzu to make your own path in life.

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.

At my age? I'm only a year older than your mother!" "Try lookin' in a mirror. Bitterness sours the soul and ruins the countenance

Lizzy hated mice with a passion. A spider, she could handle. A snake, she could kill with a hoe or a pistol. But a damn mouse was only slightly smaller than a full-grown gorilla and it roared like a lion.

Her books include historical, contemporary, cowboy, and

When a person stops learning, they might as well drop over, graveyard dead." He shrugged. "Learning is what makes life fun.

Love didn't fail. It was lack of love and commitment on one or both sides

anywhere on it. A southern woman's social dignity is determined by the way she keeps her Caddy clean.

sometimes a door opens that isn't really a risk, but an opportunity.

She leaned toward dark hair and was drawn to blue eyes.

Some friends are in your life for a season. Some friends are in your life for a reason. Some are there forever to double your joys and halve your sorrows. Thank you for being a forever friend and helping me today. She signed her name with a flourish and slipped into Cathy's room, laid it on her pillow, and went back to her room.

What in the devil is a forever thing?" he asked. "It's a thing that lasts way past attraction and saying the vows in front of a preacher. It's something that endures the fights as well as the good times right up until the last breath is drawn. That's a forever thing

I figured that once you've had steak, it's kind of hard to go back to bologna.

They were all kin, not by blood, but by heartstrings.

Keep everything going at once and organized." He shrugged. "It's not so hard. Visualize the end, and start at the beginning.

When we come to the edge of the light we know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, of this we can be sure…either God will provide something solid to stand on or we will be taught to fly.' I

He's horrible, Mama. Why didn't you give him away at birth?

in 1912, a developer paid the town of Pleasant

talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

together, but Billy Lee was the magician. I barely qualified

Two people were supposed to have enough love to carry them through the bad times.