Barbara Bretton > Quotes

“Love makes you crazy. Love crawls into your brain and plays games with your neurons. All the things you thought you knew about yourself fly out the window when love flies in.”
― Barbara Bretton, Laced with Magic

“I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.”
― Barbara Bretton, Casting Spells

“Human males are fascinating creatures. No matter how old they get, the little boy never goes away. ”
― Barbara Bretton, Laced with Magic

“Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.”
― Barbara Bretton, A Soft Place to Fall

“Some people meditated. Some people ran laps around a track. When I was tense, I turned yarn into socks. Lots of socks. More socks than any sane woman with the standard-issue pair of feet could possibly use in a lifetime.”
― Barbara Bretton, Spun By Sorcery

“She knew it in the deepest part of her soul, the part where she was four years old and the world was still a good place, a place where little girls could go to sleep at night secure in the knowledge that the world would still be the same safe place when she woke up the next morning.”
― Barbara Bretton, Shore Lights

“the”
― Barbara Bretton, At Last

“What a fool she had been to waste the most precious gift of all, the gift of today. She”
― Barbara Bretton, Shore Lights

“Apparently a girl could get just as far with a blindfold and a dream.”
― Barbara Bretton, Laced with Magic

“Sometimes the little voices in your head were all that stood between you and oblivion.”
― Barbara Bretton, At Last

“My father always said the first ten years of marriage were like a shakedown cruise. You couldn’t fix the problems until you figured out where they were hiding.”
― Barbara Bretton, Chances Are

“How could he embrace the bleak and endless night when he had finally learned to love the sun?”
― Barbara Bretton, Destiny's Child: The Crosse Harbor Time Travel Trilogy

“Maybe we should open a bottle of champagne," Maddy said, glaring at the two women. "A toast to keeping secrets . . . where would a family be without 'em?”
― Barbara Bretton, Shore Lights

“The only thing that mattered was that you'd found the other half of your heart”
― Barbara Bretton, Tomorrow & Always: The Crosse Harbor Time Travel Trilogy

“No good." Warren Bancroft pushed the sheaf of papers back across his desk. "The price is too high.”
― Barbara Bretton, A Soft Place to Fall

“If you ever want to incite a riot north of New York City, mention raising taxes and see what happens.”
― Barbara Bretton, Casting Spells

“Nobody ever tells you the truth about loss. You don't only lose someone you love, you lose a part of yourself as well. Your heart. Your humanity.”
― Barbara Bretton, Shore Lights

“reserved spot near the door to the Medical Arts building when he saw Annie dash down the steps. Her hair was loose, a long tangle of waves and curls that glinted gold and red in the fierce autumn sunshine. The look on her face – Jesus, he could live to be two hundred and never forget the look on her face as she darted past him. She glowed from within. There was no other way to say it. She had always been beautiful to him but”
― Barbara Bretton, A Soft Place to Fall

“Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.”
― Barbara Bretton, Stranger in Paradise

“have faith that you'll see there's nothing more important than family." But he didn't have a family. Not anymore. With”
― Barbara Bretton, Somewhere in Time

“break a few legs off the gingerbread men Lilith gave me the night of the Town Hall meeting. The gingerbread legs led to a few arms, which led to biting their heads off, and let’s face it, what was the point of saving gingerbread torsos?”
― Barbara Bretton, Casting Spells

“The beautiful bride wanted to stick a sock in the judge's mouth. Why didn't people just leave newlyweds alone?”
― Barbara Bretton, Bundle of Joy

“personality to match. He had an opinion about everything that went on in her house, from where she kept the tea bags to Billy’s spelling tests to why she didn’t buy out Aidan and run the bar herself. And to make matters worse, he had a better social life”
― Barbara Bretton, Chances Are

“His attorney, a pig-headed Yankee named Stoney, allowed himself to register his shock. "Too high?" He glanced down at the number Warren had written across the top of the appraisal. "That's absurd! It isn't high enough.”
― Barbara Bretton, A Soft Place to Fall

“That's like hating a copperhead," Rafe said. "She is what she is. Don't waste your time on it.”
― Barbara Bretton, Once Around

“Lucy, the eldest, said a DiFalco woman couldn't hold onto a man if she had him Krazy Glued to her side. Over the years Rose had come to realize the truth of that statement. In”
― Barbara Bretton, Shore Lights

“There are other doctors out there but there's only one [of your child].”
― Barbara Bretton

“her anger a third presence in the room”
― Barbara Bretton, Destiny's Child: The Crosse Harbor Time Travel Trilogy

“am almost ashamed to be living in such peace while all the rest struggle and suffer. But, after all, it is still best to concern oneself with eternals, for from them alone flows that spirit that can restore peace and serenity to the world of humans - Albert Einstein, Princeton, New Jersey”
― Barbara Bretton, Tomorrow & Always: The Crosse Harbor Time Travel Trilogy

“imagined Patty”
― Barbara Bretton, Mrs. Scrooge