Lurlene McDaniel Quotes
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I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.
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Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.
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Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
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I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.
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I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."
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We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
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People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.
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I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.
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I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.
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In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.
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Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.
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From every ending comes a new beginning.
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If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.
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On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.
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You want to attach emotionally.
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For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
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Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.
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Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.
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None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.
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I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.