Rosanne Bittner > Quotes

“No better stress reliever than to sit down and write! Let your imagination take you to other places and another time!”
― Rosanne Bittner

“What we do today will become tomorrow’s memory; and often the past we are now creating returns to haunt us.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Outlaw Hearts

“Chivington and his Third Colorado Regiment wear uniforms and fight the Indians only as an excuse to stay out of the real war going on back East, so they don’t want peace because they won’t have an excuse to stay out of that war.” “Evans”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Colonel, my ass. That rotten Indian hater will only cause more problems out here for the real Army. If the man kept harassing and murdering innocent natives, there would be more Indian attacks and unrest at a time when the Army had few enough men in Colorado or anywhere else in the West to take care of such problems. Even the half-Indian Bent brothers, successful traders and friends to the Army and whites, were growing restless and resentful.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“They”
― Rosanne Bittner, Do Not Forsake Me

“Lester Morrow could quite possibly have enough pull with the army to foil Howell’s own attempts at promotion.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Comanche Sunset

“Please, Amanda,” he said softly, still holding her hand. “I’ve never had many friends. And I’ve never had one as nice as you. I’d be hurt if you didn’t take it. You’d be denyin’ me a lot of pleasure, ’cause I know you’ll like it, and that would please me greatly. You said you owed me for watchin’ out for you. So please take the gift for me.” She”
― Rosanne Bittner, Lawless Love

“grinned. “That is what you call instinct. You feel the trust. You know by instinct that you can trust me, and the same instinct tells you that you cannot trust Tommy Decker. Animals have the best instincts.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Tennessee Bride

“beating. Emma! A beautiful young woman with golden hair came outside. Her hair was tied into a a tail at the base of her neck. Two Indian women came up to her and they embraced. Each Indian woman held a child, one of them just a little baby.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Tennessee Bride

“he hated the constant danger of Indian attack; but being here was better than being in jail back in New Orleans for robbery and assault.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Comanche Sunset

“against”
― Rosanne Bittner, Do Not Forsake Me

“nest of love”
― Rosanne Bittner, Frontier Fires - Book Two of the BLUE HAWK SAGA

“I, uh, figured you could use that to maybe put your rosary beads in, or whatever jewelry you might have,” Moss told the temporarily speechless Amanda. “I know you probably aren’t a woman who would keep much jewelry. But I know Catholics have them prayin’ beads, so I figured you must have some. Do you like it?” She”
― Rosanne Bittner, Lawless Love

“could not understand why, at treaty councils with the whites, when white prisoners were brought in, beaten, scarred, and noses burned off, the whites suddenly would not continue the talks. Always they turned on them, making demands that were not originally agreed upon,”
― Rosanne Bittner, Comanche Sunset

“Sometimes the sorrow deep inside can slowly kill as surely as disease or hunger.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Comanche Sunset

“already upstairs in her”
― Rosanne Bittner, Rapture's Gold

“the Supreme Court ruling and forced their Indians into Indian Territory (Oklahoma), along what has come to be called the infamous “Trail of Tears.” Although”
― Rosanne Bittner, Tennessee Bride

“white raiders attack their own kind just so it can be blamed on the Cheyenne.” Ansley”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“There was another twenty miles to cover tomorrow, most of it on foot.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Wildest Dreams

“Moss,” she went on softly. “When Christ died on the cross, two men hung on either side of him. Both were criminals, outlaws. He loved them both. And one of them asked Christ to forgive him, minutes before he died. And he was forgiven. If a person wishes to change his life, then God does not hold that person to blame for things in his past. Someone such as I has no right condemning another human being, when Christ does not condemn. I want very much to keep the case, Moss.” She”
― Rosanne Bittner, Lawless Love

“She could not take her heart or trust with her. Chad had stolen both. It still hurt deeply to think about it, but it was done now, and she doubted she could ever love or trust a man again, let alone ever find it in her heart to forgive.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Walk By Faith

“Governor Evans had himself given the order that citizens could “shoot on site” any Indian who trespassed”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Moss, you—you look wonderful!” Amanda told him, wondering if her eyes were giving away her feelings. Her emotions were now more confused than ever. Sitting across from her was not only a man she already knew to be brave and skillful, a man of strength and experience, but also a very, very handsome man, who she suspected was also very lonely.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Lawless Love

“Colonel John Chivington, a vicious Indian-hater who committed uncalled-for atrocities against peaceful Southern Cheyenne villages, including the killing and mutilating of women and children. To create excuses for such attacks, gangs of white men began committing raids on their own kind, dressed and behaving as Indians, using”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“Life is just a series of good-byes, isn’t it? People move in and out of our lives, they go on to new places, sometimes they die.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Thunder on the Plains

“was”
― Rosanne Bittner, Climb the Highest Mountain

“Colonel, my ass. That rotten Indian hater will only cause more problems out here for the real Army. If the man kept harassing and murdering innocent natives, there would be more Indian attacks and unrest at a time when the Army had few enough men in Colorado or anywhere else in the West to take care of such problems. Even the half-Indian Bent brothers, successful traders and friends to the Army and whites, were growing restless and resentful. Through”
― Rosanne Bittner, Capture My Heart: prequel to A Warrior's Promise

“torture and killing were as ingrained a part of their lives and beliefs as breathing. Such behavior was expected by the Comanche.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Comanche Sunset

“Damn it, I love you, Mandy,” he whispered. “God help me, I love you so much. I just wish I was good enough for you.”
― Rosanne Bittner, Lawless Love

“He was strong, and so handsome; So wild and so free; A man of the mountains, In high Tennessee. His arms drew me close,”
― Rosanne Bittner, Tennessee Bride