Brenda Novak Quotes
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Weak women get no respect.
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Respect is more important than anything else. Respect will create a foundation. But, just so you don’t walk into something you aren’t prepared for in the future, you need to be aware that he has his limits.
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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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Paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.
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Of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.
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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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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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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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Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.
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Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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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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That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.
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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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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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Actually, after it was all over, I could’ve used a cigarette myself!
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Their union was heaven--and it was hell.
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Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.
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You care how I feel? What I think?” When she couldn’t wrench her.
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I mean that love is enough—when the time is right.
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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.