Barbara Freethy > Quotes

“No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.”
― Barbara Freethy, Golden Lies

“You can take all the precautions in the world and worry yourself like crazy, but each individual comes to this world with a life to live, no matter how long or how good or how scary it might be.”
― Barbara Freethy, One True Love

“You deserve to be happy. You also deserve to be you”
― Barbara Freethy, One True Love

“I can't die yet, honey. I haven't finished counting the stars and don't you know, my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.”
― Barbara Freethy, Just the Way You Are

“Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.”
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“Mothers and daughters share a special bond." "I never knew how special until it wasn't there anymore. I'm twenty-seven, and when something good or bad happens in my life, I still wonder what my mom would think. I've lived more of my life without her than with her, but it still matters.”
― Barbara Freethy, Almost Home

“The mysteries of life are infinitely frustrating for those of us who try to make sense of them,”
― Barbara Freethy, One True Love

“Don't think about the problems. Think about the possibilities. This could be the beginning of something amazing.”
― Barbara Freethy, Golden Lies

“It's funny how life goes merrily along and then, boom, the past comes back and bites you in the butt.”
― Barbara Freethy, Summer Secrets

“Today was a day for remembering only the good. And there had been a lot of good.”
― Barbara Freethy, One True Love

“You must get hurt a lot," he murmured. She looked at him in surprise.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because you don't hide anything. You put yourself out there for the world to like or dislike.”
― Barbara Freethy, Almost Home

“No, I stay for myself. Everything I need, everything I want, is here. I know it's not enough for most people, but it is for me. Every time I leave, even for an afternoon or an overnight trip to Seattle, I can't wait to get back. This is home. And I guess I'm a person who needs a home, a place to plant seeds and watch them grow.”
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“The monsters aren’t always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they’re right in front of you, only everyone thinks they’re the good guys.”
― Barbara Freethy, Silent Run

“She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.”
― Barbara Freethy, Almost Home

“I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.”
― Barbara Freethy, A Secret Wish

“Понякога след най-тъмните нощи идват най-светлите дни.”
― Barbara Freethy, Taken

“Love and hate are complicated emotions," Aiden said. "Sometimes they're the same.”
― Barbara Freethy, On A Night Like This

“That was the way of relationships. If no one fought for them, they ended.”
― Barbara Freethy, Between Now And Forever

“I'd bring you flowers”
― Barbara Freethy, Falling For A Stranger

“Are you ready to go for a sail?" John MacGuire asked his wife. A young, handsome man, he stood on the edge of a wide sandy beach, wearing summer shorts and his favorite T-shirt. He pointed toward the water behind him, to the sailboat that bobbed gently in the quiet bay. "It's the perfect day." "I can't sail. I'm sick. I don't know what happened, but I can't seem to open my eyes." Phoebe MacGuire took a quick breath as panic filled her soul and the sounds and smells of the hospital threatened to pull her out of her dream. "I'm seventy-six years old now, John. How did I get to be so old? I'm scared." "No need to be scared, my darling, not when I'm here.” "But you're not really here," she whispered, knowing his image was nothing but a memory, and her love had been gone for a very long time. "I miss you, Phoebe," he said softly, his voice as gentle as the morning breeze.”
― Barbara Freethy, Just the Way You Are

“mesmerizing -- gold, red, orange, black -- the colors of the dragons that had promised so much: prosperity, love, good health, a second chance, a new start. The fire began to pop, the small sounds lost in the constant boom of firecrackers going off in the streets of San Francisco in celebration of the Chinese New Year. No one would notice another noise, another spark of light, until it was too late. In the confusion of the smoke and the crowds, the dragons and the box they guarded would disappear. No one would ever know what had really happened. The flame reached the end of the gasoline-soaked rope and suddenly burst forth in a flash of intense, deadly heat. More explosions followed as the fire caught the cardboard boxes holding precious inventory and jumped toward the basement ceiling. A questioning cry came from somewhere, followed by the sound of footsteps running down the halls of the building that had once been their sanctuary, their dream for the future, where the treasures of the past were turned into cold, hard cash. The cost of betrayal would be high. They would be brothers no more. But then, their ties had never been of blood, only of friendship --”
― Barbara Freethy, Golden Lies

“It's not your imagination. I hear it, too." Another shriek made Matt pause. "I'll talk to you later." He put the phone down and walked to the door. The only other tenant on this side of the L-shaped building was a single woman he had yet to meet. He opened the door, but there was no one there. Actually, there”
― Barbara Freethy, Some Kind of Wonderful

“I don't want you anymore. I don't want to be second choice, second best, second whatever. I don't want to be the one who trails after you like some stupid lost puppy dog. I don't want to be the one you got stuck with after the one you loved got away.”
― Barbara Freethy, Just the Way You Are

“There was certainly more to him than”
― Barbara Freethy, All Your Loving

“I love San Francisco," she said. "I lived there when I was a child.”
― Barbara Freethy, Falling For A Stranger

“everyone hated her, and some people actually knew she was a good mother. It helped to rekindle her faith in herself. “I”
― Barbara Freethy, Silent Run

“...life can change in a heartbeat. There’s no point in wasting time doing something you don’t love. You have to live for the moment”
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“of him going back into that fire.”
― Barbara Freethy, When Shadows Fall

“Some men are born to rule, some to follow, some to ponder, some to wander.”
― Barbara Freethy, Ask Mariah

“I know one very important truth. Life is not just in the end result but also in the journey. Don't forget to take a breath and look around every once in a while.”
― Barbara Freethy, Take Me Home