RaeAnne Thayne > Quotes

“Haven’t I proved to you yet that I don’t give a damn about your missing parts?”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Dancing in the Moonlight

“We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.” —Luciano de Crescenzo”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Blackberry Summer

“the eyes see faster than the hand moves”
― Raeanne Thayne

“He should have remembered that particular joy of small-town life before he moved back. Everywhere a guy turned, he stumbled over hot, steaming piles of history.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Christmas in Snowflake Canyon

“With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Dancing in the Moonlight

“She didn’t want the kiss to end. It was magical, delicious, like a hundred dreams come true wrapped up in one heated embrace. With the snow fluttering down outside and the Christmas tree lights gleaming beside them, the moment seemed perfect. Better than she ever could have imagined.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Season of Wonder

“The world would be a much better place if more people thought about others first before themselves.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“We were all doing exactly what we needed to be doing. What’s the point of talking over the pulpit about how a baby changed the world if you’re not willing to help be that change yourself?”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“For now, this moment, she decided she would focus on gratitude.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“Here was one perfect example of why he preferred to work with computers and code. They did what was required of them. They didn’t cheat, didn’t betray, didn’t wake up one morning with a damned tumor that knocked them to their knees.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Snow Angel Cove

“the act itself should be the reward for a kindness, not any reaction from the recipient.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“I needed the reminder that I’m still alive and the world still contains magic and wonder, like Christmas trees and kisses from beautiful women.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Season of Wonder

“Butterflies are symbols of hope. They land beside us, like sunbeams, and belong to us for a moment, but then they fly away. And while we wish they might have stayed longer to share their beauty, we feel blessed for having s-seen them.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sweet Laurel Falls

“The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Dancing in the Moonlight

“he didn’t have to carry his pain alone, that the entire town wanted to help. This was a beautiful, comfortable, warm place for him to heal—for Wes to see that life could once more be filled with grace, with beauty. With love.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“It was an epitaph in an Irish cemetery and it just seems to fit perfectly. It says, ‘Death leaves a heartache difficult to heal. Love leaves sweet memories impossible to steal.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sweet Laurel Falls

“But life is never exactly perfect, as much as we might want it to be. We have to figure out how to find the joy, anyway.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“You made good time from Portland.” In seconds, she shunted away the brief flicker of remembered heat from her gaze and became as coolly polite as her downstairs neighbor. “I was afraid you’d be ready to string me up if I didn’t hurry.” “I”
― RaeAnne Thayne, The Daddy Makeover

“She was doing her best,”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Sleigh Bells Ring

“Jake, anyway, and somehow that seemed far, far worse. The couldn’t”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Dancing in the Moonlight

“He wasn’t an introvert, as he loved his family and his few close friends like Ben Kilpatrick,”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Snow Angel Cove

“necessarily want to go. “Don’t know why not. We can probably swing that before the holidays.” Christmas was just around the corner and he was completely unprepared for it. He didn’t like celebrating the holidays in the first place. He didn’t really feel like hanging out at some cheesy Christmas moneymaking venture aimed at pouring holiday spirit down his throat like cheap bourbon.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Christmas Story

“I think that’s amazing progress!” “Her progress or lack of progress is none of your business. You understand? She’s my daughter. I get to make those choices for her, not some small-town librarian who barely knows either of us.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Christmas Story

“Right after”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Woodrose Mountain

“Only that I just happen to be in love with a certain small-town librarian who is the most caring, wonderful woman I’ve ever met.” Nerves danced through her at the words, spiraling in circles like a gleeful child on a summer afternoon. “I... You’re what?”
― RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Christmas Story

“he had fallen. He shined the light up and saw it must have”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Autumn Chill in Utah Springs

“The hardest part of being a parent is accepting that not every decision you made for your children benefited them as much as you hoped it would. You do your best and pray it’s enough to help them become decent, well-adjusted humans making a difference in the world.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Summer at the Cape

“I’m happy to blame you, as long as that means I wasn’t the cause of any delay in Aunt Mary’s birthday celebration,” Celeste said with a smile as she headed for her great-aunt. She kissed the woman’s lined cheek as the familiar scent of Mary’s favorite White Shoulders perfume washed over her. “Happy birthday, my dear. You are still just as stunning as ever.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Christmas Story

“Someone ought to glue his shoes to the floor to keep him where he”
― RaeAnne Thayne, A Cold Creek Baby

“Endless worry about tomorrow only steals joy from today.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Christmas at Holiday House