Luanne Rice Quotes

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It’s not that at all. It’s an action.

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be and that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness.

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can’t lose it.

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn’t realize you were saying them.

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water’s edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.

The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we’ll see that person again-or perhaps knowing that we won’t.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Safe Harbor is a state of mind… its the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don’t. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.