Quotes from Deborah Raney

I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life.

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.

I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.

I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

If I could give one piece of advice, it would be 'If you're angry with a family member, talk to God about it, not the other members of your family.'

Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling out loud one minute and wiping away tears the next. Highly recommended!

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

Nowhere else have I grown more in my faith than in the midst of my family.

I've been surrounded by love. I know now what the Bible means when it says that His grace is sufficient, that His peace passes understanding. It's all so true.

I'm sorry, Anna, but I…Anna, I just can't picture a baby at the end of all this. I'm sorry. I just cannot." His voice had risen, but now it was a whisper. "Especially not another man's baby…especially not that.

To ache so deeply now for Nana gave the older woman's life profound meaning. It was a privilege to mourn such a loss because it meant you had loved and been loved.

It was beyond frustrating to have circumstances always dictating her life. When would she ever get to make a choice about how her life looked?

that in the midst of heartache so deep it was a physical pain, she was finding a deeper joy and contentment in life than she'd ever known.

There's been too much hurt. Too much pain. I just want it to stop.

He patted her belly lovingly—her stomach still firm and flat, belying the secret it cradled. "Anna, this little life is part of you. How can I not love it? If my dad could love me the way I know he did"—Paul meant Albert, the only father he'd ever known—"then I… I guess I can find it in myself to learn to love this child.

How could she say anything other than "yes"? The only question she really had to answer was this: Was she going to do it begrudgingly or could she do it with a servant's heart?

Sometimes--well, maybe always--we just have to take it on faith that God knows what He's doing.

The way he handled this would set the tone for how this whole thing would be treated by the team. He leveled a stare at his best post player. "Rafe, I don't even want to know what you just

heaven was such a wonderful place, why did everybody cry whenever someone went there?

It is a miracle, Claire. Whether it was performed by God himself or by the hands of doctors He created and guided, I won't call it anything