A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
I’m all mixed up inside. It’s like – I don’t know – like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I’m fine, and the next I’m losing it.
When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
Falling in love doesn’t always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
When you’ve been hurt, you don’t make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That’s his mama’s job.
When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.
A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you’d like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there’d be a man in the picture. You’re too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.
What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.
Ask me to cut off my right arm for you, and I’ll do it. Ask me to lay down my life for you, and I’ll do it. But Please don’t ask me to give you up now that I’ve found you again. Don’t ask that, Amy.
Sammantha: Tucker? Tucker: Does some other man call at this hour just to hear your voice? If so, give me his name, and I’ll kill him.
Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.
I think I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, Molly mine. And when I look at you, that’s all I’m ever going to see, the woman I love. It doesn’t matter if you’re perfect. To me, you will be, and that’s all that counts. It’ll be that way always. Even years from now, when you’re old and withered, I’ll see you with my heart, not my eyes. That’s just the way it is when you love someone. The imperfections don’t exist. If you see them at all, you think they’re beautiful.
Life goes on. We just have to find the strength to face it sometimes, and the only way we can do that is to reach deep for faith and believe with all our hearts.
It was a fact that he hadn’t lied to her – except for the time he had promised to cut out her tongue and hadn’t. She couldn’t very well hold that against him.
She turned her face to touch her lips to his neck. “Make a memory with me, Hunter,” she whispered huskily. “One more beautiful memory.
When you run, run to me.
I was a kid once. When you meet my dad, ask him about the time my brother and I decided we wanted a yellow lab instead of a black one and spray-painted the dog.
Sometimes it was lonely, living in silence.