Brenda Novak Quotes
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But you have to let go of the past first or you won’t believe a word she says.
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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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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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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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They come to be? Why don’t they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been.
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It shouldn't matter when I fell in love with you. Or how. All that matters is that I did.
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Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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I knew you belonged with me.
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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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Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves.
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I've always believed you can't predict love. You can't qualify or quantify it. Can't dissect it. Love hits you like a truck or the flu, coming up from out of nowhere to knock you to your knees. Love burns you up alive.
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That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.
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Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.
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Heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces—but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God’s tender mercies. Love, Phoenix.
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You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.
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That the child she bore him had lived only six months—and died under mysterious circumstances, circumstances that made him suspect she might have had something to do with it?
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Sex is never messy on screen.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.
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Their union was heaven--and it was hell.
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Actually, after it was all over, I could’ve used a cigarette myself!
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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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You care how I feel? What I think?” When she couldn’t wrench her.
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Anger is so much easier than grief.