Luanne Rice Quotes

happy endings start with new beginnings.

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

You fall in love with the girl next door but married her sister.

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.

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.

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

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.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer

A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

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

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

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