Robyn Carr Quotes

I retired from the army. Her eyebrows shot up. Like my uncle! No, not like your uncle. Like a warrant officer, helicopter pilot. Jack said your uncle is a retired three-star. A whole different thing,...

I was just about to tell you when she came bounding in the front door. Rosie doesn’t walk anywhere. You were just about to tell me? A few years after the fact? I told you I needed a commitment, that I...

I wasn’t ready to get married, Sean said. I didn’t like getting pushed up against a wall and we both walked away mad. Six months later I was thinking, I might not be ready to get married, but I’m not...

I wouldn’t let myself think ahead! I remember when my sister said, ‘I know widows who have remarried, and are happy.’ I almost took her head off. I was appalled. I wasn’t at all hopeful life could go...

If Luke was quieter than usual, it could be explained by the fact that Sean never shut up. That, and the fear he was losing a major chance with Shelby to this upstart who would be gone in a few days....

If he was going to be a father he would be an involved father. He was more than committed to taking on little Matt and he hoped…no, he prayed, Vanni could accept his child as part of the package. But...

If she looked his way, even once, he’d have to think of something clever to say. He’d have to smile, walk confidently across the room to their table, say hello and get friendly. He’d have to make them...

In the early morning as dawn was just beginning to streak through the cabin windows, Jack was stirred awake by the soft sound of slightly off-key humming. He found Mel nestled into the crook of his ar...

It isn’t that funny. Are you kidding? It’s hilarious! She laughed a little more and finally said, Paul, he’s a trained interrogator. You walked right into it! I don’t see the humor… Well, if you don’t...

It might’ve been nice if he’d awakened her to say, I’m getting naked to wash now, so if you don’t want to be embarrassed, close your eyes. But then, no—Ian wouldn’t do that. It was his cabin. And he w...

It was less than thirty minutes before her cell phone chimed. She glanced at the phone and saw it was Luke. She let him go to voice mail. Next was Sean, then Patrick and finally Colin. She smiled to h...

It's different for guys. They don't feel the same way about proms that girls do. Girls see it as a chance to feel like a princess. Guys see it as a chance to have sex.

It’s so hard, Andy said. When you don’t have anyone.Yeah, I know, Gerri agreed. Yet it’s harder when you have the wrong one.

I’m gonna tell you something, and you’re going to act like you never heard it. You get me? Sure, Preacher said, throwing back the shot for courage. I caught your girl crying today. Shock settled over...

I’m not Susan Sarandon or George Clooney for one thing. Or Ed Asner, who is very special to me. But you are Walt Booth, and you rank right up there. But be careful, Walt. People will think we’re serio...

Jack had seen his brothers-in-law, all puffed up with testosterone pride when they’d gotten their wives pregnant, when the babies came. He never pretended to really understand it. He was too busy with...

Jack’s hands were shaking as he did so, wiping the muck of birth from his son’s little body. Mel was straining up to see him, her fingers reaching toward him to touch him. For a moment Jack was paraly...

Jeannie saw the bear with the blue-and-gray flannel leg. She had stroked it and said, Oh, God. I’ve never known a guy who does something like this. This is amazing. It’s one of the first things that c...

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. —Voltaire

Look, Mel. Look at that sky. You can’t find that anywhere else on earth. All those stars, that moon—the clear black sky. That belongs to us. She looked up at the most gorgeous sky imaginable, with mor...