Virginia Kantra > Quotes

“Sweet Mother in Heaven, please don't let me be dreaming." He raised his hand, stopping Rachel's interruption before she could get it properly started. "Or if this is a dream," he continued, "then don't let me wake up. Amen.”
― Virginia Kantra, The Temptation of Sean MacNeill

“Each of us must use the gifts that we have, in the time that we have, in the place that we are. You taught me that. No more is required of us. And no less.”
― Virginia Kantra, Sea Lord

“You took something of mine when you returned to the sea.You took my heart. The wind sighed. The salt air touched his lips like a cool kiss, like the taste of tears.”
― Virginia Kantra, Burning Up

“If you never asked, you were never disappointed.
If you didn't rely on someone, they could never let you down.
If you never admitted how desperately you wanted something, it didn't hurt so much when it was taken away.”
― Virginia Kantra, Carolina Man

“You’re too trusting. You ever think maybe I didn’t stop by just to light sparklers for the kid?” “Then why did you come?” His deep voice reverberated, making her shiver. “Maybe I want to see if I can light you up, too.” Her heart thumped. She twisted her hands together in her lap. “Are you talking about...?” “Sex. Yeah.” She wrenched her head to glance at the upstairs windows, as if their words could somehow penetrate her son’s curtained, closed and darkened bedroom. “Well, I’m not,” she said crossly. “I don’t talk about sex.” “Okay. Why don’t we do it instead?”
― Virginia Kantra, Mad Dog and Annie

“Do you dance? Or are you strictly a prop-up-the-wall-with-a-beer kind of guy?"
"I dance. But I don't shag."
She laughed. "I think we've just established that you do".
"Not Austin Powers shagging. It's A Carolina thing. A dance.”
― Virginia Kantra, Carolina Blues

“Feeling like a fool, he went to convince Jane to water her crabs.”
― Virginia Kantra, Sea Witch

“This was love. Not holding back, not keeping score, but doing things for each other. Giving to each other. Not out of obligation, but generously, because it was a joy to offer.”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo

“Picking up and moving things - bags of groceries, stacks of mail, scattered toys, the kids...That was my day.”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo

“And you both sometimes speak without considering the full impact of your words on the people you care about.”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo

“Women who tell the truth have always been called witches.”
― Virginia Kantra, The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale

“Jo took me to the beach. Because, she said, the ocean makes everything better.” Beth & Amy”
― Virginia Kantra, Beth and Amy

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo

“We were still us, I thought, looking around at my sisters. There was no one else who shared our history, who spoke our secret language, who could summon the past or drive me crazy with a single word. And yet..."It's the same," I said. "But not the same.”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo

“We were still us, I thought, looking around at my sisters. There was no one else who shared our history, who spoke our secret language, who could summon the past or drive me crazy with a single word. And yet..."It's the same," I said. "But not the same.”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo

“Do all the good you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can,”
― Virginia Kantra, Meg and Jo