Brenda Novak Quotes
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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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Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.
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Fake hope would only serve up more disappointment later.
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Weak women get no respect.
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You don’t look so good.
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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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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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Paradox—if you want more security, you have to pay for it with less freedom.
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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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It shouldn't matter when I fell in love with you. Or how. All that matters is that I did.
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Maybe being a big star isn’t the only life that will make you happy. Maybe the joy isn’t in the end result—in the success. Maybe it’s in living, loving—and trying.
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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 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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That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.
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Of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.
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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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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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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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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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I mean that love is enough—when the time is right.
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To walk out of here and never look back. To put her heart and soul into loving those around her, loving her baby, instead of destroying herself.
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You care how I feel? What I think?” When she couldn’t wrench her.
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Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.