She turned her face to touch her lips to his neck. “Make a memory with me, Hunter,” she whispered huskily. “One more beautiful memory.

It was a fact that he hadn’t lied to her – except for the time he had promised to cut out her tongue and hadn’t. She couldn’t very well hold that against him.

Life goes on. We just have to find the strength to face it sometimes, and the only way we can do that is to reach deep for faith and believe with all our hearts.

Oh, yes, how remiss of me. I forgot that you can have an entire herd of wives.

Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you’d like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there’d be a man in the picture. You’re too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.

When you run, run to me.

I was a kid once. When you meet my dad, ask him about the time my brother and I decided we wanted a yellow lab instead of a black one and spray-painted the dog.

When you’ve been hurt, you don’t make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That’s his mama’s job.

Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.