Brenda Novak Quotes
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We all just do the best we can. When we make mistakes, we admit them, learn from them, ask forgiveness and move on.
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Learned that he had to overcome the past or the past would overcome him.
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At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.
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if one couldn’t be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.
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She was ruined. She’d become anathema.
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I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman, had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time.
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You’re so different—like a pretty rock that you almost step over because you assume it’s the same as all the others. But then you pick it up and realize how lucky you are to have found it.
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Spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager—by her high school boyfriend—she’s determined to understand how someone she trusted.
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How someone she trusted so much could turn on her. So she’s established a revolutionary new medical health center in the remote town of Hilltop, Alaska, where.
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Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.
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Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves.
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It gave him the confidence he needed to believe that maybe, just maybe, they had a right to be together. He’d never felt the way he was feeling at.
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Information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke’s household, the last thing.
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Learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family’s what it’s all about. It’s the only thing that matters.
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...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump.
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Birth it had been! Martha thought her mistress deserved a moment of triumph before further worries beset her, but Her Grace spotted the baby’s clublike.
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Of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.
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Paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.
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She thought of Jonah and regretted that she hadn’t really forgiven him as she’d promised. Holding a grudge suddenly seemed so contrary to her own happiness, so pointless. What good was it? No good, because it kept them apart. She wished she could tell him she was finally ready to start over and make it work, to forgive Adriana, as well.
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Live and let live.
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But that moment, the one that was supposed to be so special, had turned into an ache that would never heal.
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Do you know that I thought you were the most beautiful girl in the world the moment I saw you?
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Weak women get no respect.
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I knew you belonged with me.