Robin Caroll > Quotes

“How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.”
― Robin Caroll, Injustice For All

“Beyond that row was a double row of trees. Sam headed in that direction, Dad on her heels.
"Be careful of snakes."
That stopped her in her tracks. She could deal with a snarling dog. A hissing cat. Even a spitting ferret like her cousin Chris had, but she had the biggest fear if snakes. It didn't matter if it was a grass snake or a supposedly good snake that ate the poisonous snakes. In Sam's opinion, the only good snake was a dead snake. Dead and chopped up into little, itty, bitty pieces.

~From "Samantha Sanderson On the Scene”
― Robin Caroll

“Um, no. The thought of handling a gun terrifies me."
Sam burst out laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"You."
"What?"
Sam snorted. "You're scared of a gun, but you love karate, even when it wipes you out. You're a walking contradiction, girl."
"Guns kill people, Sam."
"No, people kill people. Guns are just a vehicle for those types. So are knives. And ropes. And even plastic bags. And yep, even martial arts."
"I'm not going to kill anybody. Stop being morbid."
Sam snorted again, "I didn't say you were. I was just pointing out that people associate guns with violence but not martial arts. Both can be just as deadly."
"True. Guess I never thought about it that way.”
― Robin Caroll, Samantha Sanderson Off the Record

“Tragedies happen. Murders happen. Crime happens. But in it all, I know it’s not of God’s doing. It’s men’s doing.” “But isn’t God all powerful and all that?” Brody laughed. “Yeah, he’s all powerful and all that, but He also gave us free will. Meaning we could choose to follow Him and do what’s right, or we can just do whatever we want. He’s not a dictator god, Julian, but a loving one. Just like Nina loved Sophia and Alena loved Nina. Both differently, but still love. Alena tried to force her wishes on Nina and you see how well it turned out. God doesn’t want us to go and do our own thing, but He’ll allow us to make our own mistakes.”
― Robin Caroll, Hidden in the Stars

“Don’t let anyone think less of you because YOU ARE young. Be AN EXAMPLE to all believers in what you teach, IN THE WAY YOU LIVE, in your love, YOUR FAITH, and your purity. 1 Timothy 4:12”
― Robin Caroll, Samantha Sanderson at the Movies

“He'd talk to the devil himself if that's what it took to make sense of all this.”
― Robin Caroll, Darkwater Truth

“Think about it this way. Every day, we see kids choosing the life of crime even though their parents are good, upstanding people. Were there as hands-on parents. Did everything they could to provide for the kids. Family dinners together, family vacations and all the usual, but the kids still turn out to be rapists or thieves or murderers, right?” “Yeah. Nobody said it was the parents’ fault the kids went bad.” “Exactly.” Brody smiled. Huh? “I’m not following you.” “Well, God’s our heavenly Father. Mine, yours . . . everybody’s. But when we choose to go bad and do bad things, it’s on us, not our Father.”
― Robin Caroll, Hidden in the Stars

“I know everything’s in God’s hands. I may not understand why things happen, at least not on this side of paradise anyway, but I do know there is always a reason.” She hugged her arms around her torso. “And knowing that is what helps me sleep at night.”
― Robin Caroll, Deliver Us from Evil

“Sam: "You know what they say about kids of LEOs, right?"
Makayla: "LEO?"
Sam: "Law Enforcement Officer"
Makayla: *laughs* "Cute. No, what do they say about LEO's kids?"
Sam: "That we're most likely to cross the legal line, or at least go right up to it."
Makayla: "You fit that description to a T."
Sam: "Hey now."
Makayla: "Girl, you've got to admit you push the limits. A lot.”
― Robin Caroll, Samantha Sanderson Off the Record

“Addy's heart beat so hard she could feel her pulse pounding in her eardrums. At the same time, waves of nausea crashed in the pit of her stomach.”
― Robin Caroll, Darkwater Lies

“His 'spidey sense' was tingly all over, and that was never a good sign.”
― robin caroll