Quotes from Carolyn Brown

If wishes and buts were candy and nuts, you'd all have a Merry Christmas.

about them anymore or the cowboy I'm about to marry. And Finn

he conned his way past Saint Peter at the pearly gates, then the angels best lock down those streets of gold.

That we are on the right journey to where we're supposed to go . . . and to think it all started with catching a bouquet.

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth.

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

Fear will ruin the future quicker than anything.

front of her dress somewhere

my precious mama used to tell me that there was no room in a heart for both love and hate.

Prayer is not penicillin and it won't cure everything from philanderin' husbands to ingrown toenails.

get up in the morning and we decide to be either bitter about the past or happy

Are you and Finn more than boss and hired hand? You might say that. My ranch is bigger than his, Quaid teased. It's not the size of the ranch, darlin;. It's the heart that runs it, she answered.

Momma always said that a true lady never lets someone know when he's riled her; otherwise, she's giving away her power and her crown.

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.

but it was still dark in the woods

The goat boy never gloats.

Don't be afraid of dying. Be afraid that you don't make the most of every single day you are alive.

The news just floats around this part of the world like dandelion fluff in the springtime.

Me too," Hannah said.

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got.

Is he asleep? Finn whispered. Out like a light. He thinks he's too big to crawl into bed with me so when he as the nightmares, we sleep on the sofa the rest of the night. So you are the nightmare whisperer, he chuckled. What? Like the horse whisperer. Only you banish nightmares with your presence. Damn, Callie! I wish I'd have known that two years ago. I would have looked you up and slept on the sofa with you, he said.

You can get glad in the same britches you got mad in.

And if I'm in control, then no one can hurt me.

I'm still a little bitter, but my precious mama used to tell me that there was no room in a heart for both love and hate. She said that hate would soon eat up its half of the heart and want more and more until soon there would be no love left for anyone.