Catherine Anderson

“No one could work forward without falling if they continually looked at the path behind them.”

“Once a man admitted his feelings to a woman, it either drew them together or wedged them apart.”

“When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.”

“Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.”

“A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.”

“Strong is right?""Well, yes, I suppose you could say that.""You say a woman cannot be bought. I say she can. I am strong. I am right.”

“When your head tells you one thing and your heart another, listen to your heart. It tells no lies.”

“After all my work to make something of myself how do you think I feel when I see how disappointed you are in me? When you find fault with me every time I so much as turn around?”

“What begins very badly can only get better.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Put your arms around my neck, sweetheart.""Whatever for?"He grasped her wrists and lifted her arms himself. "Because," he whispered, "we're going to dance."....."This will never work. I appreciate the thought. It's very sweet, but-""Shut up," he whispered. The first notes of the next number drifted to them, and she realized it was the band's rendition of Montgomery's hit song, "I swear." Tears sprang to her eyes, for the instant she recognized the tune, she knew Ryan had requested it."Dance with me," he whispered."I feel foolish.""Who'll see? Only me, and I'm our best bud, so I don't count. Besides, why should you feel foolish?""My legs are dangling. My feet will thump your shins." "Those soft slippers won't hurt my shins," he assured her.And with that, he swept her into a waltz.-Ryan and Bethany (Phantom Waltz)”

“Afterward, she hooked a limp arm around his neck, buried her face against his shoulder, and whispered, "Don't ever get hypothermia with anyone but me.”

“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.”

“¿Crees que ser valiente significa no tener miedo? ¿O atreverse? El coraje, en realidad, significa dar tres pasos cuando eso te aterra”

“A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.”

“Was her God up there in the sky as she believed? Did he truly hear man's whispers,his thoughts? Hunter could see his own Gods,Mother Earth,Mother Moon, Father Sun, the wind coming from four directions. It was easy to believe in what he could see. Why did Loretta's God hide himself?”

“I'm not quite in the grave yet, darling. I just have my reservation confirmed.”

“Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.”

“Prisjetio se događaja koji su ih spojili i cijelim srcem je vjerovao kako ih neka nevidljiva ruka pokreće,i nju i njega,kao malene komade drveta,namještajući njihov položaj,manipulira događajima dovodeći ih do trenutka kada će se upoznati.Sudbina?Svevišnji?Alex nije znao, i nije se trudio pogađati.Sve što je bilo važno u ovom trenutku je osjećaj koji se činio predivno i savršeno ispravan.”

“When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.”

“And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.”

“I strike fear into you because I am a man?""It isn't funny.""I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.”

“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”

“That's an L, as in love, and I love you more than I'll ever be able to tell you with words. I want to tell you in other ways. In the way I kiss you. In the way I touch you. In the way I hold you. Won't you let me say it my way, just once? - Swift to Amy”

“[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple." You bought a couple of what?" Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one." He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I like the way your mind works." ~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells”

“Oh, yes, how remiss of me. I forgot that you can have an entire herd of wives.”

“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.”

“This was how God had intended it to be. A precious gift. A sacred oneness.I love you. He said the words in the way he held her, his rock hard arms so gentle they felt like air around her. I love you. His hands told her-not merely touching her, but worshiping her.”

“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.”

“Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you love me back?"~Isaiah Coulter”

“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.”

“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.”

“her stories make you believe in the powerof love”

“He could almost feel her spirit leaving him,see her runing gracefully across the stepping-stones made of stars into the land of the dead”