Here Comes Trouble Quotes

“it’s not what you’ve done that will fill you with regret, but what you haven’t done?”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“Not knowing what else to try, she got out her heavy cast-iron skillet and banged it against the top of the rad in hopes of reviving the ageing pipes. The noise was deafening, vibrating through the room like a jet aircraft crashing through the sound barrier.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“Men, especially sick ones, are the biggest babies on earth,” Barbara said wryly. “They get a little virus and think someone should rush in to make a documentary about their life-threatening condition. My advice to you is let him wallow in his misery all by himself.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“Furious, she grabbed his tie and jerked him into the apartment. “You can come inside,” she said.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“I wish you and Dad had known him the way I did,” she said wistfully. “He’s such a contradiction. Rough and surly on the outside, but gentle and compassionate on the inside.” “It sounds as though you’re describing your father.” She pondered her mother’s words. “Nolan is a lot like Daddy. Principled and proud. Independent to a fault. I didn’t realize that in the beginning, only later.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“If you must know, Carol, Barbara and I had a pity party.” “A what? You’re kidding, right?” He didn’t bother to hide his mocking grin. “Never mind.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“In case you hadn’t noticed, there isn’t any heat in this place.” Nolan set the baseball bat aside and moved to the far wall to look at the radiator. “What’s wrong with it?” How like a man to ask stupid questions!”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“Maryanne was much too furious to stand still. She paced her living room from one end to the other, her mind spitting and churning. A slow painful death was too good for Nolan Adams.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble

“It didn’t take her more than a couple of seconds to realize that Nolan treated his car the same way he treated his raincoat. The front and back seat were cluttered with empty paper cups, old newspapers and several paperback novels. Mysteries, she noted. The great Nolan Adams read mysteries. A container filled with loose change was propped inside his ashtray.”
― Debbie Macomber, Here Comes Trouble