Quotes from RaeAnne Thayne

A gorgeous, make-your-ovaries-shiver man.

life was a precious gift, meant to be opened and savored, not tucked away on a shelf, waiting for something that might not ever come.

Someone ought to glue his shoes to the floor to keep him where he

Every child deserved to grow up in a home filled with warmth and love, not strict rules and harsh discipline.

And there went the neighborhood.

HOSPITAL SLEEP WAS THE WORST.

Life was as beautiful as a silky, fresh, sweet-smelling rose, even when that beauty was sometimes complicated by a few thorns.

Charlie gave Jacques a tentative pat or two as if he hadn't been around animals very often. Too bad, she thought. In her experience, kids were generally a little more responsible and a little less self-absorbed if they had another creature depending on them.

The mantra of her parents seemed to echo in her head, almost as if they were both talking to her like the angels Olivia had imagined. If they were here, they would have told her the only way to survive heartache and pain this intense was to throw herself into doing something nice for someone else.

Nobody wants to have hard things happen to them. But I wouldn't have become the person I am without going through that time. It made me stronger, more kind, more compassionate.

The best things in life don't come from taking the easy path, do they?

aren't we lucky that the terrible choices we made when we were young don't have to define us for the rest of our lives?

Where's Mom?" she asked. Claire gestured to the French doors. "She walked out to your patio to take a phone call. I was assuming it was Harry, since they were all lovey-dovey." "Eww.

We can continue to let the past control us. One horrible night we can't change. Or we can take the lessons we learned from it—lessons about courage and resilience and second chances—and embrace a future together.

no matter how difficult our own journey, sometimes the only thing that can ease our path is to stop for a while and gather strength by lifting someone else's burden.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.

More than forty thousand soldiers have been injured overseas, with three-quarters of those having life-threatening or life-changing injuries. And here's something staggering. Nearly 20 percent of soldiers who've seen combat in the Middle East have sustained what could be classified a traumatic brain injury. An estimated 30 percent of returning soldiers have psychological or post-traumatic stress issues.

so many parts of him live on in Christopher. But love is a funny thing, isn't it? When you open your heart to it once, it becomes that much easier to open it again.

Only that I just happen to be in love with a certain small-town librarian who is the most caring, wonderful woman I've ever met." Nerves danced through her at the words, spiraling in circles like a gleeful child on a summer afternoon. "I... You're what?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

You wouldn't be the first celebrity who seemed to think giving mouth service to a few good works will make everybody willing to forgive and forget, just gloss over an ugly past.

a man who smelled like sin and kissed like salvation.

And for what it's worth," the woman said, her face still red, "we don't think you killed your wife.

she had been overweight but she knew plenty of other big girls who were popular and well-liked and had dates all the time.