The Bitterroot Inn Quotes
"Oh, just waiting around for good news like everyone else."
"You young people these days leave nothing up to chance with your ultrasounds."
"It’s just because Seth Balan is on vacation."
"I want to be the man rubbing her back and kissing her hair."
"Men like me didn’t believe in love at first sight."
"She’s got to be retired to have the time to join this old group."
"It’s not like they’re going to say anything about me that hasn’t already been said."
"May your day be filled with a plethora of speeding tickets."
"I wanted a strong and honest man to come crashing into my life."
"I swear, these guys are running out of gossip."
"I wanted to tell her how beautiful she was as her baby made its way into the world."
"I’m okay. It doesn’t feel great but it just means he’ll be here soon."
"My efforts were finally starting to pay off."
"I’d worked my ass off for almost three years."
"I love mornings like this when I could drop off Coby at his daycare, Quail Hollow, and then walk downtown."
"I had learned to listen more and be mindful of the people I brought into our lives."
"I had learned the hard way just how deceptive people could be."
"I was so lost in my sketching I flinched when the lobby door opened."
"I’m so sorry! I’m so sorry. I didn’t know it was you."
"I just didn’t expect to see anyone out this late."
"I haven’t had a home-cooked meal in longer than I can remember."
"I know how that goes. I used to have hobbies."
"I was going to head up into the mountains tonight."
"I wasn’t doing the job for the photographs. I wanted it for the time spent with Maisy."
"I’m sure." She smoothed out the cotton. "We haven’t had much time with just the two of us lately."
"I try not to think about it at all. It’s too easy to go back to the dark place."
"Lies. Everything he’d done, everything he’d pretended to be during our relationship, had all been lies."
"I’m happy. Even if it’s only ever me and Coby, I’m happy."
"I’d really like that." His voice was gentle but firm.
"This wasn’t a date so I’ll pay for my own. Thanks though."
"We’ve got all the time in the world until you get this exactly the way you want."
"He’d been a drug dealer, smuggling pills from the hospital and then selling them around town."
"No. I like Chicago. Moving to Prescott was necessary."
"I’ve always wanted to have a cool hobby like photography."
"Maisy, do you think a mess is going to scare me away?"
"It’s just that seeing places like this makes me think of him."
"I’ll always pay for meals. It’s just one of those things I was raised to do."
"Ask all the questions you want, just know I might not answer."
"Everything he’d pretended to be during our relationship, had all been lies."
"I had looked at him with stars in my eyes and not seen the deceit hidden beneath his perfect smile."
"I hadn’t lost a parent but could imagine that it was extremely painful."
"Maybe it was time to open the lid and empty the bottle dry."
"Nothing, not even the night Everett had kidnapped me, could compare to the fear of losing Coby."
"If he could hear the panic in my voice, he would not have stayed hidden."
"It was the flicker of Coby’s light-up shoes, the ones my parents had bought him for his birthday."
"I’m a good mom. A really good mom. And he needs me."
"No parent should ever have to feel this kind of crippling powerlessness."
"I made a vow because I couldn’t do anything else."
"All the anger I’d had for her evaporated. In its place a deep pity settled."
"I’d never feared that my dad hadn’t loved me, but he’d rarely said the words. Coby would know without doubt."
"It was a good thing he was such an awesome teenager with a sturdy backbone."
"At sixteen years old, Mason Drummond was in love with Rowen Cleary."