26 Quotes by Mary Connealy

Cassie, Griff told you not to ride. Griff told you not to talk about the baby to the point you don’t know a thing about what’s to come. Griff told you a woman was unclean when she was carryin’ a child. Griff mortgaged all your family heirlooms without telling you so you could have a useless new silk dress every year. Excuse me for speakin’ ill of the dead, Cass, but your husband wasn’t very smart, was he?

Cassie grabbed at the heavy skillet she had hanging on a peg on the wall, and Red rushed to lift it for her. She whacked at his hands with a wooden spoon. “Don’t you have any chores to do outside?” “I’m carrying this frying pan for you.” Red pried her fingers off it. “Now tell me where you want it.

Good idea. I’ll do it.

But I need a ride back to town,” Grace called after them. “You’re not getting a ride back to town, woman. You’re married!” Daniel might as well have been a cougar trapped in this cave with her. She’d have felt no safer. “I’m what?

She knitted him a thick scarf to cover his face and he teased her about liking her warming him better. She told him impertinently that she had enough to do without that troublesome chore, and he chased her around the room. Cassie laughed out loud as they played. “Your sassy mouth makes me want to kiss you.” He caught her by the waist. “You know that, Cass. So you must want a kiss.” “I most certainly do.” She giggled as he kissed her soundly.

Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.

And... and well, I can’t be kissing a man. that’s a good way to get tangled up... in forever.

He wondered why she wasn’t happy. After all, she now had a man to take care of her. Wasn’t that all a woman wanted? She’d actually hurt his feelings just a little bit when she’d agreed so gruffly to his proposal. The little woman should be at least as happy as he was.