Loree Lough > Quotes

“So she prayed. She prayed she'd been right when she told herself something good and decent lived inside this man. Mostly, though, she prayed she hadn't made the worst mistake of her life when she allowed herself to fall in love with him.”
― Loree Lough, Jake Walker's Wife

“Jake's pulse quickened when he realized that for the first time in his life, he was looking straight into the honest eyes of love.”
― Loree Lough, Jake Walker's Wife

“He'd never felt more loved or wanted than when he was with Bess. Had never felt more important or cherished than when in her arms. Was it wrong to want her on every human level? Not wrong, perhaps, but not right, either....”
― Loree Lough, Jake Walker's Wife

“you've gotta take love where you can find it in this cruel world and hold on tight for as long as you can, because you never know what will steal it from you.”
― Loree Lough, From Ashes to Honor

“Because if the Texan hadn't been mistaken (or lying), and Jake had been convicted of the murder—and sentenced to hang for it—her dreams of a future with him would remain just that. And the mere thought of losing him, even for a reason like that, woke an ache inside her that she'd thought long buried, a pain as cutting and as deep as Mary's death had caused.”
― Loree Lough, Jake Walker's Wife

“The encroaching darkness that shrouded him couldn't compare to the joyless gloom that hung in his heart.”
― Loree Lough, Jake Walker's Wife

“buzzy”
― Loree Lough, For Love of Eli

“He can’t”
― Loree Lough, Home to Stay