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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4d0f3ec | life had taught him long ago that fear and happiness could not coexist. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| ca134de | 1/2 cup softened sweet butter 1 small (3-ounce) stick of softened cream cheese 1 1/4 cup flour a small jar of jam--choose apricot, raspberry or apple a sprinkle of powdered sugar Beat the butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add flour, then roll the dough out on a floured | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 167c731 | surface. With a sharp knife, slice into squares about 2 inches across and place these on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Place a small spoonful of jam on each cookie and loosely fold opposite corners together, pinching at the edge. Bake at 375deg for 15 minutes. When cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar. This recipe makes about 2 dozen cookies. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 7510812 | Life as it reveals itself is filled with riches. What will happen, will happen. Worrying will not affect the outcome. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e2dee2c | They'd take Nina's hair tonight, leaving only enough to cover her scalp--the k.d. lang look, Jezebel explained. Paige would weave the hair, strand by strand, into a wig modeled after Nina's natural look. Sonnet nearly forgot to breathe, listening to Paige, whose eyes lit as she talked about her work. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| f9a0767 | The dispatcher said they're ten minutes out. That was almost ten minutes ago, so--" "Okay, I need to concentrate here." Faith knew it was better to perform a few unnecessary chest compressions for someone with a beating heart, rather than withhold compressions from someone in cardiac arrest. Holding her hands one over the other, she leaned over his bare chest and got started. Everything else fell away as she pushed hard and fast, counting o.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e563c6e | your smile is my sunshine. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| da82be9 | She could scarcely move at all. Her muscles felt impossibly weak. Her limbs were gummy worms. She looked at her hands. Looked at her mother. "Is that what happened to my manicure? It's gone because I've been asleep for a year? A whole freaking year? That's impossible." It was the kind of thing people passed around on the Internet--Woman Sleeps for a Year, Wakes Up Angry About Manicure." | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 9aff3a0 | Are you taking piano lessons?" Alice asked Ruby. "No," said Ruby. "I don't know how to play." "Well, this is a fine instrument. It's not a toy." "Then why is it called playing?" | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 2c925ba | I'm open to suggestions, if you happen to have any." "You could sing," Ruby said without missing a beat. "Or if you don't like singing--" "How did you guess?" "You could listen to music. Or audiobooks--I used to listen to them before I learned to read. You could also tell jokes and talk on the phone if you put it on speakerphone. You could tell me all your favorite flowers, and I would plant them in the garden so you can have a bouquet when.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| ea90c53 | one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer--and the other seven will know her. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 2f92b00 | No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." --Helen Keller" | Susan Wiggs | ||
| b8c28ff | The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." --Buddha" | Susan Wiggs | ||
| a23c1b4 | The list of side effects was lengthy and horrible. Sonnet had pored over it, along with all the other literature she'd hastily devoured, searching for grains of hope. The worst part of chemo started after the drugs were administered. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| f1a69d0 | To Sonnet, wearing castoff clothing was just another way to make her different from the other kids at school. As if she needed one more thing to make her different. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 5368986 | Having a Mac all to himself was pretty amazing. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| aa0c2bb | Methylprednisolone? | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 4b7c6d4 | Another thing Gran would say was imprinted on Annie's heart--remember the love. When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 13e8065 | There were only a few things that truly mattered. Family and friends and connection. Understanding and selfless love. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e2c6799 | This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children's story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mistress that screwed the husband that ignored the wife who lived in the house that Jack built.... | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 86da085 | there are some things you don't have a choice about, but there's plenty you can choose. Like happiness. Like focusing on the positive. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 3d45426 | What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" --E. M. Forster" | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e2506ac | Being paralyzed is a condition. Being angry is a choice, | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 1b7a62e | life was beautiful, that love and adventure were possible even when times were hard or frightening. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| ca79101 | As a child, she'd been a great reader, finding the ultimate escape within the pages of a story. She learned that opening a book was like opening a set of double doors--the next step would take her inside to Neverland or Nod, Sunnybrook Farm or Mulberry Street. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 6b44c83 | One afternoon, she went to Washington Square | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 2da448a | A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. --Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 | Susan Wiggs | ||
| d2134b6 | The best honey comes from a source you know, and is processed without heat. Raw, unfiltered honey retains its royal jelly, bee pollen and propolis--three major sources of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. 1 cup of locally produced, raw organic honey 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice Additional water, about 2 cups 2- 1/2 cups water Ice cubes or crushed ice 1 tablespoon dried culinary lavender Combine honey and 2- 1/2 cups of water in a sau.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e2ae7fc | Oh, aye. A bit of mist in the air might bring the selkies out to play. The selkies are seal people, you know. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 527addb | Time for lunch. Take me somewhere good. Somewhere Italian." She chose Vine, one of the cafes on the main plaza, and ordered a burrata and squash blossom pizza. The fluffy soft cheese, drizzled with fruity olive oil, paired beautifully with the crisp blossoms and homemade crust. Eaten with chilled elderflower soda, it was exactly what she'd been craving." | ingredients isabel-and-cormac pizza | Susan Wiggs | |
| 095436e | I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more," | Susan Wiggs | ||
| d64a255 | 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon table salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon bananas (about 3) 2 cups diced overripe bananas 3 beaten eggs 1 cup chopped toasted pecans 1 cup vegetable oil 2 tablespoons honey 1 (8-oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained Preheat oven to 350deg. Sift together first 5 ingredients in a large bowl; add the remainder of the ingredients, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour batte.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| ecc490f | life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 0fc0117 | There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. She felt a natural attraction to a man with the instinct to make a fire for her. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 773511b | Vincotto (Italian for cooked wine) is a tradition dating back to Roman times as a way to preserve wine. Its complex, sweet properties have recently attracted culinary interest as a condiment with many uses. 4-5 cups red wine--Primitivo is a good choice 2/3 cup honey 3 cinnamon sticks 3 whole cloves Combine everything in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and bring to a boil. Then simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes, until the liqui.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 12a7e34 | There was something in the way a man held a woman when he was about to let her go. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 2b6a796 | The term honeymoon was coined to refer to the sweetness of a new marriage. But according to Norse legend, a man abducted his bride from a neighboring village. He was then required to take her into hiding until the bride's family abandoned their search. His whereabouts were known only to his best man. While in seclusion, the couple drank mead, a honeyed wine. 1 1/2 oz. good quality bourbon 1 oz. apple cider 1/2 oz. Calvados 1/2 oz. honey .. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| a3515dd | The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss? | Susan Wiggs | ||
| b0af773 | she opened the lid and was hit with a musty smell she could immediately put a name to: camp. It was an unforgettable combination of mildew, wood smoke and outdoors, an essence that resisted laundering and airing out. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e54c486 | Her whole body flared to life with a fiery blush. Maybe that was why the term "old flame" had been invented. Somebody always got burned." | Susan Wiggs | ||
| eac04ca | I trust. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| cd26f4e | When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that's building character. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| fcb3479 | heart--life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 6a47cb8 | Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens | Susan Wiggs |