Heartache Falls Quotes

“see what scenario he had cooked up. At least she’d get a steak out of the deal.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“The bedrock of one’s character doesn’t change.” They’d reached the corner and turned toward the park at the end of the block. Celeste continued, “However, Mac, dreams, wishes, and desires are something different. Some change over time. Others stay consistent throughout life. Tell me, dear, what do you know of Ali’s dreams, wishes, and desires today?”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“something hit the water in the shallow end in front of him. Mac halted in midstroke and pulled up, his feet finding the bottom of the pool. He blinked the water from his eyes, thinking he must be imagining things. “Ali?” She’d jumped into the pool. Wearing her clothes. When he said her name, she drew back her arm and sent a big splash of water flying at his face. “Damn you, Mac Timberlake. You should have called me. Why didn’t you call me? Some maniac takes a shot at you and you let me hear about it from somebody else!”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“He opened the door and exited the car, pocketing his keys. Then he walked to the kitchen door and stepped inside hoping to detect the unmistakable aroma of Ali’s homemade red sauce, which would mean that she’d felt compelled to concoct a peace offering. Instead, all he smelled was pine-scented cleaner. When Ali felt guilty, she cooked. When she was ticked off, she cleaned. “Great,” he muttered. “Just great.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“fuss-about-able”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“In more than twenty years of marriage and forty years of daughterhood, she’d learned that no matter a man’s age, his inner boy never entirely disappeared. The inner boy never outgrew his need for being mothered.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“Instead, he unplugged the answering machine, picked it up off the desk and tucked it beneath his arm, then carried it out to the trash can behind the garage. He yanked off the lid, threw the machine inside the empty metal can, then slammed the lid back on. It clanged satisfactorily, and Mac went back inside the house and went to bed. He let the dog sleep at the foot of the mattress.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“Mountain Susie Quiltmaker.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“She’d never worn thong panties in her life. The whole wedgie thing had turned her off the idea, but Sarah had goaded her into buying them. Now, faced with a choice between butt floss that just might make Mac’s eyes pop out or a drawer full of plain ivory panties, she decided to go for broke and donned the new lingerie. Darned if wearing them didn’t make her feel just a tad trashy.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“Mac couldn’t recall the last time he’d been this furious.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“Don’t be ridiculous, Mackenzie. He’s a stray. You can’t go picking up strays.” “Why not? You do.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“Celebrities. Mac exhaled a long, heavy sigh. What he wouldn’t give for a good embezzlement trial.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“he just didn’t get it. He’d never understood the whole hero worship thing over actors and singers and sports stars. Cops and firemen, yeah. Soldiers, absolutely. He appreciated and admired a great athlete’s abilities, but just because a guy had the eye-hand coordination to swing a bat and hit a ball didn’t make him a hero. Neither did riding a bull in a rodeo.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“to attend?” With that, he lost patience. “Give it up, Ali. You’re not taking a job in podunk Eternity Springs. You’re not leaving.” Her eyes went to ice. She removed her sunglasses from her shoulder bag, then slipped them on. In a voice as cold as January, she declared, “Just watch me, your honor. Just fucking watch me.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“She was a stay-at-home mom who’d completed her job. Lost her job. A thundercloud of self-pity built in her emotional sky, but she fled from it, tried to outrun it, by lecturing herself aloud. “You haven’t lost your family. They just don’t live with you anymore. In lots of ways, that’s a good thing.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. —MARK TWAIN”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls

“You have it within your power to simplify your situation. Just be sure that every decision you make, every choice you make, is motivated by love. If you do that, what is meant to be will be.”
― Emily March, Heartache Falls