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101 " There is power in dangerous love. You can be so focused on the forbidden nature of it, justifying your choices to the world—me falling in love with Griffin while still legally married to Nate, Griffin giving me all his attention instead of trying to find a workable custody agreement with Margot, instead of doting on his devastated sons—that you miss the fact you’re completely wrong for each other. "
― Luanne Rice , The Shadow Box
102 " I used to escape into books. I'd hear my father yelling, and I'd open my book and dive in. I don't know what I would have done without reading. "
― Luanne Rice , Follow the Stars Home
103 " People that sick simply can't love. They don't have it in them. "
104 " Conor. “Yeah?” “This is my case,” she said. “And you’ve got a missing woman to find, so I’m wondering why you’re hanging around the boatyard with me.” “I miss you, Jen,” he said. “I never see you "
105 " Motherhood. Yes, Scotty understood more than anyone what it meant to me. When I think of Sam now, what she is about to face. How will she manage? I remember how I felt when my mother died. Scholarship and achievement had been my way of healing from what the Andersons had done. But once I conceived Sam, nothing else mattered in the same way. I wanted Kate to have this too—the eternal connection to a child, the transformation from a victim who had suffered at the hands of others to a powerful woman able to give life. Lulu too—our dear and not-so-dear secretive mystery girl Lulu. It sometimes felt so unfair to me that only Scotty and I had experienced motherhood. But frankly, not everyone deserves it—not just the childless, but not even every woman who’s become a mother. "
― Luanne Rice , Last Day
106 " Not everyone glimpses paradise during their lifetime. Only the lucky ones. "
― Luanne Rice , Home Fires
107 " You can think you know what's best, what's right for you,and then all of a sudden something happens and turns your plans upside down "
― Luanne Rice
108 " The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats, "
109 " Girls have to be dauntless,” Mathilda said. “And twice as excellent "
110 " Sometimes a person has to visit where he came from to find out where he's going,” he said. “Life never stays the same—as much as we love today, tomorrow's coming fast. "
― Luanne Rice , True Blue
111 " The scarf, a gift from Willa—purchased lovingly, with money from her savings account, from a Paris boutique—had been one of Kate's most prized possessions. Its thick, creamy silk had felt so soft around her neck, the fringe so jaunty and brave. "
― Luanne Rice , The Secret Hour
112 " Just like the splashing waves, the whispering sand, the crying gulls. Everything in nature meant something, alive with private poetry for any person willing to listen. "
113 " was sleeping, but my heart kept vigil. "
― Luanne Rice , What Matters Most
114 " forks in the road. Going left, and only later realizing that if you’d gone right everything in your life would have been different. Split-second decisions—or ones you had the chance to consider for years. The choice of who to love, what to do, whether to stay together… "
― Luanne Rice , Last Kiss
115 " You can have everything in the world, and have nothing. Or you can have little and have it all. "
116 " Falling in love,” his father had said. “It’s like taking a horse over a brush fence—you get air, rise up, take the jump. And you might land okay, or you might go flying. You want to make sure you’re on solid ground. That’s what loving someone is like: you land safely. You have ground under your feet. "
― Luanne Rice , Light of the Moon
117 " a man I loved and cared about but wasn’t in love with. "
118 " and that laugh was my signal that it was all about to change. "
119 " In all these years, how often had she wished she could call Rumer? With the happy news that followed good notices, the time she had worried about a mammogram, all the little things Michael had said and done. "
120 " knew I had a choice—I could fight him on his statement, stand up for myself and say it was hard to be understanding of someone who flew off the handle so easily. "