Come Sundown Quotes

“Mothers do, every day. It’s funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“There's just no love like the love of a mother for a child, no matter how that child comes into their life, and no loss or grief to match it.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“I’ve got a black belt in tae kwon do.” When she lowered into a fighting stance, Callen could only wonder. “I took it all through college.” “And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap,” Jessica added.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“see it. She liked horses.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“away and rose to start her day.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“Shelter in Place”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“credit for. And really good sex. She liked to think she gave him just the same. Most days she saddled up and rode to work with him, then home again. If she could juggle the time, she rode home again midday to give her grannies a little break from Alice. “I like her.” Though she had an agenda in mind, Bodine rode easily beside Callen. “Every once in a while something—someone—peeks out from the trauma. And I know I’d like that someone. And the dogs like her, which is a good gauge.” “The dogs like Alice?” “And it’s mutual. A lot of the time they sprawl and snore at her feet when she”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“and our brochures, and will highlight you and the event beginning the first of the month.” When she just sat back, closed her eyes, made mmm-hmm sounds, Callen poked into her cooler, took out a couple of Cokes. He opened one, put it on her desk, opened the other, sat down with it. “I can promise you’ll find our kitchen and our staff worthy of our five-star rating. I’m afraid we can’t pay for that. If you feel you need your own sous chef, you’re welcome to bring one, at your own expense. Yes, yes, that’s firm, and is so stated in your contract. As I said, we’re delighted to have you as our guest chef for the event. I expect it to be sold-out.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“Until you work in a man’s world without a penis, you can hush about it.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“You’re searching, Joe, For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. —Robert Frost”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“not jumping up and down and”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“That married and dead aren’t the same. We were married sixty-seven years before he passed, and the both of us were free to look all we wanted. Touching, now? That’s when married and dead are the same.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“Despair is a powerful, living thing.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“I’m done lighting out, done needing to. This is my land. It’s not about the owning of it, but waking up in the morning knowing you’re where you want to be, having good work to do and good people around you.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“There’s just no love like the love of a mother for a child, no matter how that child comes into their life, and no loss or grief to match it.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“heart with mild disdain, which is”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“Why is it men are called strong or tough, and women stubborn?”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“finished.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“We got a clear night. You see something like that sky, no matter how long you’ve been the police, you just don’t understand why people do what they do to people.”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap,”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“shoulder when she started to get up. “I told her it was a mistake when she did, and I’ve come around to seeing that was a lot more about me than you.” In a defensive gesture, she folded her arms under her breasts. “If you’d taken such an instant dislike to me, I’m surprised you didn’t put a lot more pressure on Bodine.” “It wasn’t dislike, and pressuring Bodine when her mind’s made up’s a waste of time. Taking your time’s not wasting it.” And he took his time now. “I thought it was a mistake, believed it was because I didn’t see you staying. So pretty, so polished, I didn’t see how you’d fit in. And since I was damn near struck deaf, dumb, and blind the first time I saw you in that red suit, it didn’t bode well for me. I figured to keep my distance until Bo came home and said how I was right and you were leaving.” “Apparently you’ve been disappointed there.” “No, just wrong. I kept my distance as best I could because every time I saw you I wanted to touch you. And”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“Alice”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“securely around the saddle horn. “Want to show off, Sundown?” With a toss of his head, the gelding trotted out to the center of the ring. “Rattlesnake!” At Callen’s call, Sundown reared, hooves striking air. “Backstabber.” Dropping his forelegs, Sundown kicked his back legs high. “Do-si-do.” Brightly, the horse danced laterally left, swung his”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown

“to her. “You”
― Nora Roberts, Come Sundown