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“A person should never be sorry for loving someone. Only for not loving someone.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Three River Ranch

“A lot of people think moving will solve their problems, when what they're really doing is running away.”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Chocolate Cure

“You're pretty low maintenance, as women go."
"I am, am I?" She sounded amused.
"Yeah. Like a cactus.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“True love stories never have endings.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Finding Home

“Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“She tossed a handful of snow at his face, then shrieked as the wind whipped it back into her own.
Red hooted. "Karma's a boomerang, sweetheart. Don't forget it.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“I'm named after my father, Rudolph," he said, then shot her a stern look. "But if you connect that with my red nose --”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“Great. He had a ranch with no power, a burgeoning blizzard, animals depending on him and now, a frightened, felonious elf to look after.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“She pulled her arm free from his grasp and stood back, her arms crossed. "So, what then? You're holding me hostage? Are you even really a sheriff?"
"I am," he said, highly amused at her attempt at bravado. "You wanna see my badge?”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Finding Home

“Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“Rory's big labradoodle made a snap judgement that Frankie was everything her life had been missing up until now. She flung herself into the girl's arms, wiggling and whining, a shaggy mass of chocolate-colored enthusiasm.
"Mistral likes you, I see." While he, the one who filled the dog's food dish, had gotten nothing but suspicious glances since he arrived two days earlier.
"of course you like me" she said, baby-talking into the dog's fur, "I'm extremely likeable."
If the dog's expression was any indication, Frankie was about to get nominated for sainthood....
She glanced at him. "Maybe she'd like you more if you weren't so... testosterone-y."
"But then you might like me less”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“I hope you brought your handcuffs," she added. "I won't go quietly."
"I might use them anyway, for fun," he answered, remembering the sensation of her warm lips against his.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“I'm resourceful," she called after him.
Resourceful, he thought, rinsing his hands with the ladle she'd left in the bucket. "A euphemism commonly used by successful criminals," he called out to her.
"If I were so successful," she called back, "I wouldn't be talking to you.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“What are you wearing?" "Coveralls. Shit-kickers. Long, latex gloves." He blinked. "can't wait to see you take them off.”
― Roxanne Snopek

“It’s about showing someone you care for them, wanting them to care for you, doing things they like because you want them to be happy. Because their happiness makes you happy. That’s love, Dane. That’s how you’ll win…your daughter over.”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Millionaire Daddy Project

“Love comes in seemingly insignificant moments and if you’re not paying attention, you might miss them.”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Millionaire Daddy Project

“Their love story had ended long ago, and yet one smile from him brought it all back, the joy, the heartache, everything. True love stories never have endings.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Finding Home

“It's nothing fancy, I opened a jar of sauce and cooked the linguine. But there's fresh Parmesan and I even found a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon."
"You found wine." Earlier he'd been thinking about microwaved Who Hash, solitude and if he was very lucky, beer.
But a hot, fresh-cooked meal? Candles? Wine? And a chatty yoga-elf chef? With a body like a Las Vegas showgirl?”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“Without you, I’m not me. Something inside that I didn’t even know about is broken without you.”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Millionaire Daddy Project

“Once in rur-al Flathead coun-ty
Stood a cru-wel Christmas scene
Dumped for slaugh-ter were the rein-deer
When an elf did intervene.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“She was licking something off the end of a wooden spoon. Red froze. His body reacted as if he'd walked in on her twirling half-naked on a pole....
Frankie was intriguing. Unsettling. Challenging He wanted to figure her out. He wanted to play strip poker with her. He wanted to throw her on the couch and ---
"A touch more oregano, I think." Frankie pointed the spoon at him.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.”
― Roxanne Snopek, Saving the Sheriff

“Once his life had been like this. He applied strength and determination to a messy problem until the stickiness went away, strands of sense formed and suddenly a hopeless mess was transformed into something beautiful, delectable, something everyone wanted.
Now, no matter how hard he tried, no one wanted what he had to offer.”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Millionaire Daddy Project

“Humans were fragile creatures, needing a lot of covering to survive. They could no more live with their hearts bared than they could make it through a Montana winter night in shorts and flip-flops. But”
― Roxanne Snopek, The Chocolate Cure

“Life that had given them so much stuff, but so little value.”
― Roxanne Snopek, A Sweet Montana Christmas

“No smiling!" said Melinda. "Look stern, everyone."...
He kissed her. "Our American Gothic."
"Sweet Montana Farms style." And she kissed him back.”
― Roxanne Snopek, A Sweet Montana Christmas

“My goodness, I'm like a hog at a trough!”
― Roxanne Snopek, Finding Home

“Mel," he murmured against her cheek, "everything I need in the world is right here, in my arms.”
― Roxanne Snopek, A Sweet Montana Christmas