Virgin River Quotes
"I need everything to be different. No more hospital war zone."
"The only thing that gave her any peace of mind was fantasizing about running away to some tiny place in the country."
"She couldn’t remember the last time she’d had a restful night’s sleep."
"Her work in the three-thousand-bed county hospital and trauma center brought to her care the victims of too many crimes."
"She felt a lot safer here than in the house where her hostess would be lighting a gas water heater."
"He told her once, ‘This—you and me—this is forever.’"
"She was only thirty-two and from now on she would be alone."
"Every morning, the first thing she noticed was a song, clear as if the radio was on."
"She had this weird and funny gift—music in her head."
"There was a time she had been so content, especially waking up in the morning."
"The music in her head went away with his death."
"I’m cranky, huh? He’s a giant pain in the ass!"
"She couldn’t leave the baby to an old doctor who might not hear her cry in the night."
"She couldn’t shake a profound concern for the baby’s mother."
"It passed for happiness, if she dared go that far."
"She couldn’t move on as long as she stayed in L.A."
"Sometimes the longing to see him one more time, to talk to him for just a little while was overwhelming."
"She was trying to start over no matter what. She had nothing to go back to."
"She hadn’t wanted anything to tie her to L.A."
"She always had a song in her head, clear as if the radio was on."
"You can’t find that anywhere else on earth. All those stars, that moon—the clear black sky. That belongs to us."
"Sometimes, if something’s eating me up—I can come out here, or drive into the redwoods, or go up on the knoll where the sheep are grazing, and just sit awhile. Just connect with the earth."
"It’s not like we ask for a lot of outside help."
"We help out when we can. And I do love babies."
"It’s just a neighborly thing. We help out where we can."
"You should think about that. This isn’t a bad place."
"You are so hard on yourself sometimes. It’s okay to feel something that doesn’t hurt once in a while."
"You’re a good man, Jack. I don’t want you to be hurt. Because I can’t love anyone."
"People belong wherever they feel good. It can be a lot of different places. For a lot of different reasons."
"You just don’t understand. It’s complicated, Jack. There’s more to this than you realize."
"I got rid of everything that tied me to L.A. and ran for my life. It was a panicked, crazy, irrational decision."
"Believe me, Mel. This is as good a place as any to work through a heartache."
"Sometimes she asked herself if she was paying some tribute to Mark’s memory by hanging on to the sadness of losing him."
"You have to think like one. It’s not enough to just feel like one."
"You have to use the head with the brain in it. Believe me, I’ve seen more than one good man go down because he was thinking with his dick."
"I sleep so well here. I was afraid I’d never sleep well again—it’s probably the air."
"It’s not godforsaken, Joey. It’s breathtaking."
"It has its challenges. There are aspects of rural living that I think might be growing on me."
"I didn’t feel so out of place today. I loved June and John Stone. Even old Doc Hudson was a kick."
"We can make house calls, if necessary. But it’s a lot more convenient to do prenatal checks here in the clinic."
"I’ve never had a consultation go quite like that."
"I’m sorry, Mel. I think the boys wore me out."
"Sometimes when the boys are here, it dredges things up."
"I’ve got you. I won’t let anything happen to you."
"It’s only kissing, Mel. Just take it one kiss at a time."
"It’s okay, Mel. Can you really think otherwise?"
"She loved him while he tossed and turned against a mean-spirited ghost."
"I think I roughed you up a little with whiskers."
"I never spent a night. She didn’t come to Virgin River."
"I think you know—I’m not doing anybody any favors."
"This mutual need, this had become the best part of his life."
"I’m going to tell her I love her more than I thought I could love a woman."
"Mother Nature is twisted. If she had any compassion, we’d have six-week pregnancies."
"I don’t even know there is a baby coming. What if there is no baby?"
"This is a real complicated place sometimes. I’m just going to do my job the best I can."
"I’ve never known anything like this. Every time I look at him, I just want to get undressed."
"I’m completely monogamous. I just need time…You know…"
"I thought life would be simpler, easier, quieter, fewer challenges, and certainly nothing to fear."
"It must be the water," Mel said with a shrug.
"Oh," John said. "Well, first things first—June, set her up in there. Let’s get the facts."
"You have reached the right approximate diagnosis. Good. Everything’s good."
"This is supposed to be my baby with my husband. The one we tried so hard to have."
"I don’t think I could survive something like that again."
"I’m so confused," Mel said. "I don’t really know what to do!"
"I want everything with you. Everything."