Virgin River Collection Volume 1 Quotes

“Demand, belittle, insult, accuse, sulk, punish with the meanest words. It was just a matter of degrees; abuse is abuse.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4

“burying”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“I don’t really want to leave the house. I’ll have to find a way to change that soon, but for now, I just want to feel safe. That’s a tall enough order.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“Guys like him, they nurse grudges, rarely abandon obsessions, and I don’t believe they change.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“I don’t hold much hope of him becoming a different kind of human being, but, God help me, he might find a new target. Oh, God really help me.” “I don’t know if that’s encouraging, or the worst thing I’ve ever heard.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“Let’s all say a little prayer that gives God permission to guide us in the right direction, in doing good, mending hurts, healing hearts, asking for forgiveness. And then we’ll sing.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“As we enter a season of loving, healing, forgiving…a season of promise…so many of us will look to the heavens for that star. I think, sometimes, that star is in our hearts as well.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“Have you ever been driven to do something, but lacked direction? Have you ever been one of those people who didn’t pray too often but were in sudden, desperate need of help and found yourself on your knees? The star is faith. A belief that a power greater than ourselves will, given the opportunity, lead us to our destination. The star is meaning, purpose, promise that we’ll be given divine illumination. That our way will be filled with the light of understanding and keep us from stumbling. That is the miracle of the star.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“There comes a time in every life when the curtain is coming down, and when that time is present and there’s no way to turn back the clock, the best answer is dignity and peace.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“Too soon, the day had aged.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“Jack, there are only two of us here. One of us is going to push him out, one of us is going to catch him. Which job do you want?”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“After a little while, Jack pulled him up, hoisted him over his shoulder and carried him about a mile down the road to meet their convoy. And Jack had said, Let it out, buddy. After you get it all out, you stick to me like duct tape—I’m your mother now.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“You don’t cry over something like that and the tears turn into snakes that eat you from the inside out. The crying part—it’s required.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“Am I staying here? I came here because I believed I’d lost everything that mattered, and ended up finding everything I’ve ever wanted in the world. Yeah, Joey. I’m staying. Jack’s here. Besides, I belong here now. I belong to them. They belong to me.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Collection Volume 1: An Anthology

“shank or canned tomatoes thickened with paste for a kind of red sauce to pour over noodles.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4

“If I could be anyone, I’d be Abigail Adams.” “Because she did it all?” he asked. “Because she was glad to do it all and never complained, that’s how committed she was to what John was doing. I know—as a woman, a feminist, I’m not supposed to admire a woman who’d do all that for a man, but she was doing it for herself. As if that was the contribution she could make to the founding of America. And they wrote each other letters—not just romantic, loving letters, but letters asking each other for advice. They were first good friends, two people who respected each other’s brains, and then obviously lovers, since they had a slew of kids. True partners, long before true partners were fashionable.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4

“I don’t know the weight of anyone else’s burdens—only my own.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4

“White dope would be meth, cocaine, heroine.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4

“His smile was constant, which was a signal—you only smile when something makes you smile. If you smile all the time, you’re hiding something.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4

“if we think first about making sure the town is taken care of, we’ll do just fine. And we do.”
― Robyn Carr, Virgin River Books 1-4