Currant Creek Valley Quotes

“Life is a strange thing,” he said quietly. “We make our choices, pick our course and usually have to live with the consequences. But sometimes we’re given the rare and precious chance to take a different path. When that happens, we often can discover what truly matters. Not money, power, land. Not grand houses. It’s this.” He cleared his throat, the old coot, beaming at all of them but especially at his son, Jack, from whom he had spent so many years estranged. “This,” he repeated. “Family. Friends. Love.” “Don’t forget food,” Alex added.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“You’re the person you are today because of everything that has happened to you.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“how could she stay? “For a long time, I thought the fact that I can’t have more children was punishment for my mistakes.” “I hope you know better now.” “I think some things just happen. Not for a reason, not as some punishment from a higher power, not as part of some master plan. They just are.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you’re hollowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“I’ve spent fifty years...without a man in my bed. Think...of all the orgasms I missed.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“I...should have...risked it.” She grasped Alex’s hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. “Life isn’t...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“Where’s Mom?” she asked. Claire gestured to the French doors. “She walked out to your patio to take a phone call. I was assuming it was Harry, since they were all lovey-dovey.” “Eww.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“And there went the neighborhood.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“This was the important part of her life, she thought as she headed toward Currant Creek Valley. Her family, her friends, the people she cared about in town.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“overcome with joy when she rolled the window down.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“and the intact fire pole that descended from the second-floor dining area that used to be the sleeping quarters of the old firehouse, back in the days when Hope’s Crossing was a rough and rowdy mining town.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“that was the very best part of loving someone. Wanting to do anything she could to become the kind of woman who could feel worthy of a man like him.”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley

“People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hallowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days”
― RaeAnne Thayne, Currant Creek Valley