Hummingbird Lane Quotes
"I could not stop reading and imagining the beautiful changes that were taking place within each character’s heart!"
"A heartfelt tale of familial love and self-acceptance."
"Heartfelt moments and family drama collide in this saga about sisters."
"A road trip full of laughs, tears, and deep friendships that prove that heart is truly what makes a family."
"Carolyn Brown takes us back to small-town Texas with a story about women, friendships, love, loss, and hope for the future."
"The author does a first-rate job of depicting the devastating stages of grief."
"This story takes you and carries you along for a wonderful ride full of laughter, tears and three amazing HEAs."
"Carolyn Brown continues her streak of winning, heartfelt novels with The Sometimes Sisters, a story of estranged sisters and frustrated romance."
"Sweet and satisfying romance from the Queen of Texas Romance."
"Deeply satisfying contemporary small-town western story."
"The Yellow Rose Beauty Shop was hilarious, and so much fun to read."
"This is one of those light-hearted, feel-good, make-me-happy kind of stories."
"I just loved the symbolism in Daisies in the Canyon."
"I’m fine," Emma answered. "How are you today?"
"I didn’t talk to Sophie anymore when I went home."
"An artist can make lizards any color that they want."
"I want to live in a tiny house by myself, take walks through a park, and watch the birds."
"You are over thirty years old, for God’s sake. You can make up your own mind and color lizards purple or orange or even red if you want to."
"You’d have to be forty years younger and a helluva lot prettier."
"As uptight as a bull’s butt during fly season."
"It’s your trailer. You can do what you want while you are here."
"Any guy who wore orange shoes had to be all right."
"Rule number one is that you are the boss of you while you are here."
"You are not delicate. You are a strong, talented woman, and we’ll prove it right here on Hummingbird Lane."
"The wrong time to tell someone that they can’t do something is right after they’ve already done it."
"Rain, hail, sleet, or snow—isn’t that what we read about in elementary school?"
"It's hard to explain, but somewhere down deep inside, I know something had happened... I think that I'm afraid to remember because I know it's going to be painful."
"You cared enough to march into that room and rescue me."
"She just did that to prove that I wasn't capable of a relationship, didn't she?"
"The warm shower water beat down on Sophie’s back, easing the sore muscles in her shoulders from painting all day."
"Love will always demand more. Surrender to being seen and being loved."
"I wanted to build one of those tiny houses, but my mother said no."
"Are we ready? If you get uncomfortable, just say so. This small crowd understands, believe me."
"I finally got up and went out on the porch. I told myself that those stars up there were the same ones that were shining the night all that happened, and they’d gone right on living, so I could, too."
"Maybe someday, if I stay long enough, I’ll even love myself."
"If I keep reliving it every hour of every day, I’ll never be able to move on."
"The folks here always wait until I’m here to celebrate Easter because they know how much I love it."
"I feel a little like I’ve been resurrected from being dead after what happened to me. Like maybe someday I’ll be all right."
"If God made everyone just alike, the world would be a boring place, now wouldn’t it?"
"You are the artist. It’s your work, and you can even toss it when you’re done if you don’t like it."
"Sometimes we all make something that’s pure crap. Just do whatever you want because it makes you happy."
"I’m finding a heart inside this brittle shell."
"I might be broken, but I’m living in a place that makes glue to put me back together."
"I might have cracks, but then, no one is perfect."
"Love will put you face-to-face with endless obstacles."
"That life has thorns, but there’s hope in each new day."
"Artists have the rule of the world. We can do whatever we want. If people like it, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s their problem."
"You’ve always got a home with me. You never have to go back to the way things were again."
"Surviving that horrible nightmare, and this one is from Mama. Thank you for letting me talk to her about it."
"I loved Rebel’s hugs, and I’ve always trusted her."
"Of course not. If either one of us ever has kids, we’re going to be like my mother."
"We can eat on the sofa and open the door a crack so we can smell the rain."
"The female needs to be recognized, she lays the eggs, sits on them, takes care of the babies."
"Yes, you will. You are going to have lots of rainbows in your future, and many pots of gold at the end of them."
"I don’t even care about the gold. I just want the rainbow, because to me that will mean that all this rape stuff is finally over."
"Loneliness was nothing new to Josh. That feeling had been with him most of his life."
"Everything is for sale, but some things are priceless."
"Free at last, thank God Almighty, I’m free at last."
"I’ll be standing right behind you. Victoria has lost her power. Just remember that."
"I’m coming back with strength I didn’t even know I had."
"She’s told me all about you. Congratulations on the paintings that Leo took yesterday."
"I wouldn’t be surprised if Leo calls you when they sell. He’s a good man, and he runs a really neat little store and gallery over in Terlingua."
"Just when is this ceremony going to take place?"
"I love you right back, and thanks for understanding."
"I wish I’d plowed right through Victoria and come to see you."
"That would be surreal, as if nothing, not even evil, can stop the light from shining through."
"I want roots, and I want to put them down with you."
"I love it, and I love you. For this broom-jumping business, do I buy you an engagement ring?"
"You shouldn’t have carried this burden all alone."
"We just want to do what we love, sell it, and live simply out here in our corner of the world."
"Sometimes you have to fight for what you want, or what is yours."
"I care less about what other folks think of me and more about what I think of myself."
"I'm proud of my strength and the person I'm becoming."
"I woke up after a horrible nightmare about that rape, Mother, and Sophie was here for me."
"I can stand on my own two feet. I. Am. Fine."
"I've figured out that I can make my own decisions and my own way now."
"I slept really well, even if we were sharing the sofa."
"It’s not Mother’s business what I do anymore. I have to get past thinking like that."
"Admitting that you need help is part of the healing process."
"Straighten you out so that you don’t need anyone to complete your life or heart."
"Kissing comes as natural as breathing. Just let nature take its course and don’t overthink anything."
"We are hunting our whole lives. As women, we hunt for love. As artists, we hunt for inspiration. As people, we hunt for truth."
"You can be anything or anyone you want to be in this part of the world."
"Home! Emma liked the sound of that. That’s what had been missing in her life."
"I’m glad you feel close enough to me to feel like you can ask me anything."
"Forget love, inspiration, and truth. I’m hunting for the new me."
"Words can’t describe the look on Arty’s face when that happened or on your face when you saw us."
"This is absolutely amazing. Em, you should have told me. I would have dressed up."
"We want to hear more about your new gallery before we all get emotional and can’t enjoy that cake and those cookies."
"Surrender to being seen and being loved. Surrender to the beauty of revealing yourself to yourself, and to the ones who saw you before you saw you."
"Eat it and drink your coffee and tell me what to do now."
"You are going to sit right here beside me. This is too much for me to do alone."
"She can always get dressed later. The important thing is that you’ve gotten her out of bed and into a place where she’s always loved to paint."
"I’m going to hang up this phone because all we’re going to do is shed tears together if I don’t."
"I’ve had the same worries. What if I find someone wonderful and he wants children?"
"If you provoke them, they are, but they’ll run away from loud noises most of the time. Just grab a pot and bang on it."
"This RV is for Sophia Mason and Emma Merrill’s use until Saturday afternoon."
"I’m glad you made it safely, but the place seems awfully empty without you and Sophie here."
"I can’t imagine living anywhere else, Josh. I’m happy there, and I don’t ever want to leave."
"Could you have changed the color of your baby’s eyes or hair with thoughts? Of course you couldn’t, and you were scared out of your mind during those few weeks."