Luanne Rice > Quotes

“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”
― Luanne Rice

“Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”
― Luanne Rice, Follow the Stars Home

“Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.”
― Luanne Rice, The Geometry of Sisters

“Sometimes it's more generous to take than give,
he said.

"How?" Caroline asked.

"To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.”
― Luanne Rice, Firefly Beach

“Look up.”
― Luanne Rice, Silver Bells

“Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.”
― Luanne Rice, Firefly Beach

“The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.”
― Luanne Rice, Summer of Roses

“Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.”
― Luanne Rice

“happy endings start with new beginnings.”
― Luanne Rice

“Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer”
― Luanne Rice, The Perfect Summer

“Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.”
― Luanne Rice, Follow the Stars Home

“Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“You fall in love with the girl next door
but married her sister.”
― Luanne Rice, True Blue

“We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.”
― Luanne Rice, Silver Bells

“A good sailor knows everything is always changing.”
― Luanne Rice

“Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.”
― Luanne Rice, Little Night

“Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.”
― Luanne Rice

“People who don't like doing things together probably...well probably shouldn't get married.”
― Luanne Rice, The Edge of Winter

“The patients there were mostly teenaged girls, with the occasional boy. I thought of us all as tigers with thorns in our paws. We were beautiful beasts who’d gotten injured by life, by loss or trauma or shock, and if we could just get the splinters out of our paws, we’d be fine. My thorn was the fact that my mother had left me. Megan”
― Luanne Rice, The Beautiful Lost

“He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie.”
― Luanne Rice, Summer's Child

“Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.”
― Luanne Rice, The Lemon Orchard

“Something you always look for, but never know when it's going to happen”
― Luanne Rice, The Beautiful Lost

“faith: belief in light of the absence of proof, enlightenment received through prayer, and that which is seen and unseen….”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“Water is what people need to survive,” he said. “It quenches the deepest thirst, and you don’t have to be rich to drink it. There’s nothing better than cold water….”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“But we don't always go to church" -Emily
"Caring about people doesn't just take place there. It's how you act out in the world, when no one is looking, where it really counts" -Dad”
― Luanne Rice, Pretend She's Here

“That was really it, her message as a nun and a child of God: listen deeply to your heart. That was how and where God communicated with people. Not so much in burning bushes or on mountaintops, in blue grottos or apparitions of the Virgin Mary, but more often in the depths of their own hearts.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“me, loving someone means carrying them, and feeding them, and holding them when they’re scared. God might be up there”—he nodded his head back, tilting up toward the ceiling—“but I’m down here.”
― Luanne Rice, What Matters Most: A Novel

“Love is the greatest blessing there is, and when you love someone as much as he loved you, you can’t let go lightly. You just can’t.”
― Luanne Rice, Cloud Nine