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My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
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What we wish other people would do has nothing to do with us. That's not moral fiber, that's being judgmental and unforgiving." "I've never been judgmental or unforgiving a day in my life," Maureen protested. "Know"
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Noah smiled at her, then his smile froze. He looked her slowly up and down. And again. "What?" she demanded hotly, hands on her hips. "Nothing," he said, turning away. "No. What? What's the matter?" He turned back slowly, put his tools down on top of the ladder and approached her. "I don't know how to say this. I think it would be in the best interests of both of us if you'd dress a little more...conservatively." She looked down at herself...
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you know no one wanted to see the old boy go. I bet where ever he is, the fishing's good" "Given his surely behavior, the fish might be fried where he is,"
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The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.
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I'm a helpless, recovering introvert
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No, Tom, no hay que sufrir por amor. Amar a alguien es maravilloso. Lo que duele son las separaciones, las infidelidades y las rupturas, pero el amor, Tom, el amor es lo que nos hace vivir. Porque es algo maravilloso. (Paul y Tom)
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God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds--way too big. And pomegranates? Too many seeds. What a waste of fruit!" He"
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The hardest part of training a painter is showing him how to introduce emotion into his work,
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It's very simple -- I got smacked up the side of the head and all your bullshit fell out and some sense seeped in.
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Mac, my dear friend, here is something you should probably know about women without being told. We don't want to have to tell a man we need to be wanted. We'd really like that to come naturally. We'd like a man to pursue us because he wants us, not because he's out of options.
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You know. I can call my husband an idiot and asshole but no one else can. It's a rule. It's almost a law.
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Jack renovated the cabin without being asked, while I stayed at Doc's house," Mel said. "About the time I was going to make a break for it, he showed it to me. I said I'd give it a few more days. Then my first delivery occurred and I realized I should give the place a chance. There's something about a successful delivery in a place like Virgin River where there's no backup, no anesthesia... Just me and Mom... It's indescribable." "Then ther..
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Do you know what your husband is doing?" she asked. "Yes," June said, sounding annoyed. "Not babysitting." "Are you worried?" "Only that one of them will shoot off a toe. Why? Are you?" "Well... Yes! You should have seen them--in their vests and with those big guns. I mean, big guns!" "Well, there are bear out there, you know. You don't want a peashooter," June said. "You don't have to worry about Jack, honey. I think it's been established ..
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I didn't offer so that you'd feel obligated to me in any way. I mean, who knows? Jack Whatshisname might turn out to be just what you've always dreamt of." "You jealous of him already?" she asked. "You're goddamn right," he said, leaning back in his chair, drawing those fierce eyebrows together. "He's going to spend the next six months with you and I'm not." "Well, he doesn't stand a chance," she said softly. He"
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Eventually Jack said, in his sensitive and mellow voice, "Eat the goddamn fucking sandwich. And I mean it." A few seconds later, Rick peeled off the wrapping paper and took a bite, then another bite. But Jack had lost his appetite. He was glad Rick was eating something, but this didn't feel victorious at all. The drive had to come from inside Rick, not from the bully in the seat next to him. Jack"
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Yeah. You going to hunt?" he asked. Jack puffed up a little. "I am. I am going to defy my queen and take a rifle into the woods. But if I hit anything, I'm blaming you."
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Why don't I give her a bottle while you eat. I brought coffee." "Really, I didn't know they made men like you," she said, letting him follow her into the kitchen. When he put down the plate and thermos, she handed over the baby and tested the bottle. "You seem very comfortable with a newborn. For a man. A man with some nieces in Sacramento." He just smiled at her. She passed him the bottle and got out two coffee mugs."
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He said he loved me and wanted me no matter what my past had been like, no matter what load I was bringing along. That's never been a secret in our family--that
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How's that beer?" Jack asked, dishtowel in hand, eyeing the nearly empty glass. "I'm good," Ian said. "Just let me know," he said, turning away. "Ah," Ian said, getting his attention but not exactly calling him back. Jack turned, lifted an eyebrow. Silent. "She tell you to leave me alone?" A small huff of laughter escaped Jack. "Pal, the first thing you learn when you open a bar--talk if they talk, shut up if they don't." Ian tilted his hea..
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Someone's going to have to wipe up the floor..." "Hmm." "Luke Riordan, you're in a bubble bath." "Yeah," he said, breathless. "What would people think? Big, tough, womanizing Black Hawk pilot, in a bubble bath." "You better not tell or you'll be punished," he said, still catching his breath. She giggled again. "That might be interesting. I never know what you'll come up with next." Late"
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He still had on last night's trousers. Not a good sign. However, she had not killed him in his sleep--and that was a good sign. She was probably saving his execution for later, when he could feel it. He stood up straight in front of the mirror. He stuck out his hairy chest. He flexed, popping out tattooed biceps. I am a marine, he said to himself. She is five foot three. He sagged visibly. Who am I kidding? was his next thought. He
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For a man like Preacher to see his little wife struggle and have pain was obviously torture. He was much more comfortable in the role of protector. Mel knew immediately that he wasn't going to be much help. When
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Baby girl, you haven't done anything wrong. You've been through such a lot." "Well, in my sane state, I know that. Jack knew about my problems, and he just hung in there, just kept loving me and loving me, putting all my needs ahead of his own, promising me I'd be safe with him, that I could trust him. Oh, God," she said, tears coming in spite of the fact that she was so, so happy. "God, he's wonderful. Joey," she said in a near whisper, "h..
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Lou had a memory like an elephant; it took a lot to cause her to hold a grudge, but once she achieved it, it was even harder for her to let go.
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You can't try. Trying is a struggle and doing is an act. You can't witness the act of trying, but you can see the results of doing. Trying brings on stress because not only do you have the problem, but now you have all this frustration with it not going away just because you want it to. It's kind of like being told not to think of pink elephants--impossible. What you have to do is stop. You say to yourself, this is over for now. I'm done fo..
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You know, Pastor, how we always say God won't give us more than we can handle?" "Yes, Lydie." She sighed. "I wish God didn't have such a high opinion of me." *"
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here is something you should probably know about women without being told. We don't want to have to tell a man we need to be wanted. We'd really like that to come naturally. We'd like a man to pursue us because he wants us, not because he's out of options.
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I discriminate against stupid assholes!
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. --Mark Twain
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No guarantee any of us will be much of anything, but we still try.
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to the sack and began removing cartons, placing them on the table.
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That woman is my woman
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That woman is my woman, Jack said [...]
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Do what makes your heart beat.
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My God, thank you for bringing her. It's like a trip into the past. Hannah looks just like her. My sweet little Terri." And Vanni was reminded, not for the first time, that the loss of a child is probably the most brutal loss of all, no matter that child's age. *" --
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laugh." Josephine looked at the scrawled note from her sister. A small huff escaped her, but she was not as overcome as Charley had been. "It will be hard to pass up an invitation like that," she said. She passed the note to Krista. Krista did not laugh at all. "Good, I hoped you'd say that," Charley said."
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It's not what you get in life that will make you whole, but what you give.
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wholeness
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Vanni rocked Hannah back and forth, tears running down her cheeks. Hannah settled back against Vanni and looked up at her face. She put a pudgy little hand against Vanni's cheek and said, "Mama." "Yes, my little angel," Vanni said with a sniff. "I'm going to be your mama. Yes. Mama loves you." *"
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You don't have to be in first place to feel like a winner, you just have to beat the thing, whatever it is, that makes you feel failure is inevitable." "So"
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There was a big barn and a darling little farmhouse at the end of a drive through the fields. As they got closer Maggie noticed the details. The windows were covered with tinfoil. The weather vane on top of the house had tinfoil streamers on it.
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Wow. And it's true? She's a stripper?" Noah stopped walking and looked at Paul. "No. She's a pastor's assistant." "Right," Paul said, losing that boyish grin the second he saw the angry tic in Noah's jaw. "Okay, my bad. That wouldn't do so much for you. Sorry." Noah started walking again. "Sure makes life interesting, though," he said. "And all this has made Ellie's life a challenge, to say the least." "And all that other stuff? Vanni says ..
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Want me to do baths while you cook lasagna?" "That would be good," she said. "And please, don't forget the hard-to-get places--neck wrinkles, backs of ears, between toes. Your mother checks those things." He laughed a little emotionally. "She does, huh?" And he thought how lucky he was to have a mom like that. And now both Hannah and Matt would have one like that, too. Fussy. Committed. *"
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