Quotes from Carolyn Brown

Honey, we're not just friends. We are family whether we share DNA or not.

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Where are you? In the barn wrapped up in a quilt with an old pregnant cow that won't get on the ball and deliver her calf. Jack was wrong when he thought she'd calve tonight. Every song that played all day on the radio reminded me of you, Red. I miss you so bad.

Grandpa, why am I like this?" he had asked. "If God made everyone just alike, the world would be a boring place, now wouldn't it?" Grandpa had answered.

Don't fight heaven. You'll lose every time.

Don't sneak up on a woman holding a hammer.

Never scare a woman who's holding a paintbrush, Blake said.

pulled falling out of the tree right on

You are trying to take my mind off the coming announcement and I appreciate it, but all that alphabet soup stuff confuses me. You do realize that I am a very natural blonde, don't you?" "You don't get to play that blondie card with me, darlin'. I already know how smart you are.

She didn't care what common sense said, she wanted him to kiss her again.

Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck

How did I fail my son so much that he'd betray what we believe? What great sin have I committed that I have to bear this burden?

God's arms. You light up the

Her face looked like the bottom of a dried up creek bed after a drought

I heard through the Verdie grapevine yesterday that the sexy cowboy who lives in this house likes gingersnaps. Sexy? One dark eyebrow shot up. That's according to the grapevine, she said. I kind of like the grapevine then.

Whatever happened is water under the bridge. Burn the damn bridge and forget the past, he whispered.

We were going to talk, she whispered. We are talkin', darlin'. We'll use words when necessary, he said softly.

We can't expect to be over the past in only three weeks, but we can close the door to it and choose to be happy one day at a time." Nessa gave her another sideways hug.

Sometimes God gives us an end so we can have a better beginning," Luke said. "Are

Love—the real thing—was what she wanted. What is the real thing? the voice in her head asked. It's trusting whoever you are in a relationship with to love you unconditionally even if you're damaged, she answered.

The room was empty without him. No, the

Family," he muttered as he turned away from the mirror. "I've learned that they can be taken away in the blink of an eye.

No, I do not. I might want a baby but not in a small town. I'm getting too quick to let myself be caught up in the excitement of the moment. A handsome man standing beside me. Adorable children everywhere I look. What woman wouldn't have an attack of Iwannababyitis?

We must be the two craziest people in the world, Clint.