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In other words, our opinions and our thoughts and feelings, anything we experience, need not define us forever.
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Nicholas Sparks / Barbara Delinsky / Dick Francis / Glenn Meade |
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Sarcasm is the language of the devil.
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women
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Searching for self implied either not liking who you are or wanting to escape who you've been.
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women
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
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mothering
mother
respect
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Barbara Delinsky |
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People don't get what they deserve; they get what they work for.
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women
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Barbara Delinsky |
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I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.
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fear
tather
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Confidence could be applied like makeup. I knew that for fact.
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relationships
women
makeup-and-beauty
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Barbara Delinsky |
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It was too early in the day for this kind of discussion - but really, was it ever too early to discuss matters of the heart? What if the moment passed and never returned?
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women
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Barbara Delinsky |
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If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.
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running-away
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Barbara Delinsky |
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You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
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change
blueprints
growing-older
aging
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.
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lover
sex
lovers
men
relationships
romance
women
relationship
women-s-fiction
women-writers
men-and-women
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Barbara Delinsky |
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It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.
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love-story
lovers
romance
relationship
love-at-first-sight
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.
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women
truth
telling-the-truth
honesty-quotes
women-s-fiction
women-writers
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Barbara Delinsky |
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But you don't know what I want, do you. You formed an idea of who I am and What I do, and you've woven that idea in your life. You may listen to my words, but you don't hear my thoughts. You don't hear my needs. You don't see me. You haven't seen me in years.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.
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love-story
lovers
relationships
romance
women
friendship
love
lovequotes
women-s-fiction
women-writers
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.
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truth-telling
women
honesty
truth
honesty-quotes
relationship-problems
women-s-fiction
women-writers
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.
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love-quotes
love-story
romance
love
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Tombstones don't list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.
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marriage
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Barbara Delinsky |
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life isn't black or white. There isn't only one picture that's perfect. It's about piecing together shades of gray to make something quite stunning. And the picture shifts. That's another Dad-ism. Remember his sea shadows? Each time the shadow moves, there's a new image. Only sometimes those clouds are stuck up there, so we're the ones who have to move to see it.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and friends. Having been raised in Maine, she writes 'to the T, in describing beautiful and simple lives on a Maine Island.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?
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women
discrimination
job
workplace
aging
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Clear water sped over rocky clusters whose colors ran from ivories to mossy greens, blues and grays. Though clouds covered the sun, the sway of dappling evergreens gave the water sparkle.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.
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building
house
home
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Barbara Delinsky |
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When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Vsiaka godina neshcho shche razts'ftiava v zhivota mi,koeto shche i napomnia za teb.Vinagi shche e razlichno,niakoga edno i s'shcho,no shche b'de khubavo.Liubovta otseliava.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
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change
changes
roots
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Her ticket to freedom lay in her lap. Ever an avid reader, Annie had escaped into books in recent months, when all else failed to calm her. As a friend, a book had advantages over the human variety. It was there whenever she needed it, it vanished as easily, and it never asked questions, expected witty replies, made awkward suggestions, or otherwise overcompensated for its own inability to right the wrongs of the world.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Pain is pain. You have a right to feel it.
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sufferings
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Except she wasn't Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her husband, Rob, whose family was nearly as rooted in Bell Valley as the Bell family was, hence a questionable welcome there, too.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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What made a friend a best friend? Did it have to be someone who knew your people, who shared your life outlook or your views on religion or politics? Could it just be someone who could talk and listen and commiserate?
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Barbara Delinsky |
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But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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But the rest of what I was doing is ... is like spinning. I sit in a room of thirty people I don't know, and I pedal faster and faster to keep pace, but when I'm done, I haven't moved an inch.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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I swear, the cats did know me. They came without pause,
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Barbara Delinsky |
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You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have"
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Barbara Delinsky |
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more space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself."
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing--you think you have--then wham.
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Barbara Delinsky |
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won't go any farther than my plants unless the rest of the place is exciting, which right now it is not." When the phone started to slip, she pushed it back up and began on the Ficus lyrata. "They're planning to renovate and remerchandise, and all of that's actually starting in two weeks, but then they had this, quote unquote, brilliant idea that I should"
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Barbara Delinsky |
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plants and containers that I know will work in their rooms. Mayer's?" Snorting, she tucked the phone between shoulder and ear; holding the bucket with both hands, she tipped it toward the Ficus benjamina. "Mayer's doesn't do that, but they want to, because their business is static right now. They want me to move right in there and be the centerpiece of their store, and, you know, it might work. I could bring people in, only they won't go an..
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Barbara Delinsky |
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Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.
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Barbara Delinsky |