Quotes from Patricia Rice

Cade, this is foolish. I look like a beached whale. Allow me some decency. Instead, Cade flung the covers to the floor and straddled her legs, leaning over to rest his ear against her stomach. I think he speaks Apache, but I can't understand a word he says. Lily laughed softly and tried to push him away.

We need a national Forgive the Ignorant Day

Lily closed her eyes in relief, then opened them again. Seeing through her eyes, Cade was aware of the shabbiness of the chambray shirt he'd strained at the seams, the calluses of his big hands, and the foreignness of his high-cheekboned brown face, but she seemed to see beyond these things. He hoped she saw beyond them. I

I did not have any magnificent jewels to give you, but I hoped you would understand that I would give you the world if I could.

Well I never! And you with a a wife and babe on the way, Colin Moriarity!" The Widow Blackthorne. Groaning inwardly, Fiona steepled her fingers against her forehead and swore to worship the Devil if God couldn't do better than this.

You can't go taking the law into your own hands, Cade. Think about Lily." "I am thinking about Lily. If I weren't thinking about Lily I'd be out of here now, chasing Satan back where he came from.

Travis would always be a nice man with a shallow character. On the other hand, Cade's character was as deep and dangerous as a river's currents. She

I spent the months with Houston regretting leaving you. When I heard you were no longer with my grandfather, I thought I had lost you. I don't ever wish to live through that time again." Perhaps

They flew out of town as if all the devils in hell were after them, but once out of sight, Cade slowed the horse and inquired anxiously, "Are you all right? I wasn't thinking. The child...?" Lily leaned her head against his back and gasped for breath now that the horse had found a steady pace. She shook her head in answer to his question. "I rode an oxen wagon from Mississippi when I was four months gone with Roy. I am fine." This

He had done it. He had taken her. Now all he had to do was keep her. *