Christie Speich’s Profile

“With all the safety mechanisms in place to make cribs safer, still more infants die alone in cribs than in the family bed; yet, there has never been an outcry to ban cribs.”
― Barbara Nicholson, Attached at the Heart: 8 Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children

“He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.”
― Josh Lanyon

“Guy was saying, “What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"

"Something in my body language?"

He groaned. “That was bad—even for you.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide

“Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him."

"I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.”
― Josh Lanyon, The Dark Tide