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To my second-oldest daughter, Megan, for her strength of spirit, her leadership ability and her constancy. Meg, you’re a light to everyone who knows you, someone capable of great things because at twelve years old you’ve already learned the power of self-discipline. I can always depend on you to choose the right and stay the course, and that has been an incredible blessing. If you forget everything else I’ve ever taught you, remember this: my love is everlasting.
Brenda Novak
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Learned that he had to overcome the past or the past would overcome him.
Brenda Novak
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if one couldn’t be loved, one could at least be warm, comfortable and full, always.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.
Brenda Novak
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You don’t look so good.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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Rod had signed on the dotted line mostly because he’d been promised a free college education. But his commitment to the armed forces had quickly evolved into much more than that. In the navy, he’d found a home, friends who were more like brothers, purpose in what he did, some self-esteem. But it hadn’t been an easy road.
Brenda Novak
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She’d been determined to overcome the immunology challenges associated with finding a cure for diabetes—her favorite aunt had lost a leg to the dreaded disease.
Brenda Novak
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Weak women get no respect.
Brenda Novak
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A lot of that criticism stems from jealousy, don’t you agree? People have a hard time accepting someone who soars so high. Someone who dares to break all the rules.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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He couldn't have what he'd once had; he'd already destroyed it.
Brenda Novak
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Live and let live.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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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.
Brenda Novak
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Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.
Brenda Novak
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Paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.
Brenda Novak
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It shouldn't matter when I fell in love with you. Or how. All that matters is that I did.
Brenda Novak
