13 Quotes by Roxanne St. Claire

Great, Yoda wrote the directions.

they were looking for housekeepers and cooks, and I was dying to get out of Australia and see the rest of the world. It's a Sagittarius thing, you know. We just move on and on, like tumbleweeds.

Money doesn't make you happy," Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. "Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.

I don’t really hate my mother. But I loathe that haunted, sad, scared, pained look that turns Libby Summerall’s gray eyes into two burned-out pieces of charcoal.

Sumo vestri proeliis.

Deep, dark secrets always hurt to share. That’s why we keep them in the deep dark.

For the first time in my life, I understand the meaning of the word swoon. And I don’t like it. Swooning is dangerous, helpless, and it doesn’t feel so great.

So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

That I made a mistake, and that mistake doesn’t define me.