Quotes from Carolyn Brown

cracked. The tub was as old as God and pitted. There

No woman had ever made him feel so protective, yet so protected at the same time. He shifted his gaze to her lips. He had to taste them, had to claim them for his own right then, or his heart was going to jump right out of his chest and die on the floor at the ends of her cute little toes.

According to the sermon that night, God worked things out. Whether folks liked it or not was up to them. They could be bitter or they could be better. Bitter had the letter I in it, and every single time people put themselves first, it became a problem that created a bitter attitude.

So what if she had to wear another woman's underpants. She'd live and the sun wouldn't stop coming up in the morning.

I wish they'd make a law that all reissued books had to have a little sticker on the front cover so us readers wouldn't buy something we've already got.

Finn slipped an arm around her waist and squeezed. We've got to keep them, Callie. I'm already attached to the critters. We talkin' about Angel and Pistol or the kids? The whole lot of them. Verdie included. A ranch is just dirt without kids and animals even if they knock over Christmas trees and fall in mud and cow shit. But it needs a good woman, too. You callin' me a good woman, or are you going to put an ad in the newspaper for one? she asked.

I said that it would be easy to fall in love with you," he repeated. "But would it be wise?" He cocked his head to one side and their eyes locked in the short space between them. Slowly his chin went up and down in a nod. "I believe it might be the wisest thing I could do in this lifetime." "Then you have my permission.

God is Great Beer is Good and People are Crazy

I didn't ask you if you loved him. I asked you if you liked him. Love is important but like is the more important. If you don't like him, all the love in the world can't make you have a good relationship.

You call me Red again, Mister, and you won't need one. What you'll need is a pine box and a preacher to read about you lyin' down green pastures.

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Don't worry about tomorrow or let the past ruin today.

Don't waste an opportunity for happiness. Just be wise.

Any kid what begs for a whippin' can find one.

I had two choices. I could be bitter, or I could get on with life...Mine had been made...I wasn't going to be bitter.

Money is just dirty paper with dead presidents' pictures on it.

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.

Whoa, cowboy! I don't have phone sex on the first phone call.

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.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Guess you never know how much you like the water until the well runs dry, and if I can't have your love unconditionally, then I'll just have to do without it until you grow up.

She said that what was in the past was best left there and that 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

You are whatever and whoever your self-confidence allows you to be

A true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise she's giving away her power and her crown.