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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 89d2f5a | You cannot make a man love me any more than you can keep a flower from turning its face to the sun. Nature has endowed us with certain urges. That's why we speak of the magic of love. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| fd308a6 | Love isn't always all perfume and magic. It has a physical side, one that has nothing to do with tender feelings, fluttering hearts, sentimental poetry. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| d245ced | What we remember from childhood we remember forever--permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. --CYNTHIA OZICK, AMERICAN WRITER, B. 1928 | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c58804a | Caponata This has an excellent flavor and makes a very nice presentation on a perfect leaf of lettuce, not that Robert and Sal ever gave a hoot about presentation. And it's even quite low in calories, not that guys care about that, either. Serve this as a traditional antipasto with a good crusty Italian bread and a glass of chilled Pinot Grigio. Peel and dice an eggplant, toss with salt, put in a colander and drain for at least a half hour... | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 110a882 | I believe that for a lucky few, love can grow from what is truly important in life--honor, respect and recognition. Now, those are matters worth pursuing, wouldn't you say? | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 9b4c2a1 | She had known a love as intense as the brightest star, and a betrayal deeper than the blackest void in space. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 2220733 | She'd always thought a broken heart would heal with time. Now she knew the hurt only went deeper with each passing day. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 51b6811 | When she was little and a bad dream woke her, Gran would advise her to change the channel by turning her pillow over. It worked every time. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 61773b8 | Love comes into your life in its own time, not when you're ready. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 7c0dee3 | equaled her brilliant sister in the classroom. She used to pretend it didn't matter during the years she and Abigail attended Miss Madinsky's school together. Alongside the pampered daughters of judges and senators and foreign dignitaries, she would sit with her hands folded atop her desk, her mouth reciting words by rote while her mind wandered a thousand miles away, to distant lands and places in the heart where all fathers were attentive.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 5d41c43 | The human heart has a way of holding on for as long as it takes, until it has been fulfilled. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| dc40106 | No amount of liquor could make him forget the things he yearned to erase from his mind-- | Susan Wiggs | ||
| f1afdd2 | maybe crying helped, he reflected, counting the squares of the grid that imprisoned him. Not crying was actually painful, an ache of pressure in his chest. Maybe girls cried because it let off the pressure. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 69a4796 | She visited her father all the time. She'd stepped over piles of clutter, but it had never occurred to her that Pop was having serious problems. As time went by, his carelessness had increased, but Rosa hadn't thought anything of it. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 224073c | great guy. Wait till you get to know him." I didn't wait, Sophie thought. I fell right into bed with him. "It would never work. I still don't want kids," Daphne said. "I never will. I'm the oldest of five, and I raised my younger brothers and" | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 36e2d78 | apartment? There was so much she didn't know, so much she wanted to learn but wouldn't let herself | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 26813b6 | And then the simple truth dawned on her. She finally acknowledged that it didn't matter who you were or where you came from. Love | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 72e4ef7 | And then the simple truth dawned on her. She finally acknowledged that it didn't matter who you were or where you came from. Love and respect put everyone on equal footing. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| b9712fe | Appreciate the journey, and recognize your strength. --See the Triumph | Susan Wiggs | ||
| ea5f4d8 | She wore almost no jewelry, which Rosa later learned was characteristic of women from the oldest and wealthiest families. Ostentation was for the nouveau riche. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c1fd9a2 | CIAMBELLONE Ciambellone is a cross between a cake and a bread, with a nice texture well suited to be served at breakfast or with coffee. The smell of a baking ciambellone is said to turn a scowl into a smile. 4 cups flour 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup sugar 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 cup oil 1 teaspoon baking powder zest from 1 lemon, finely chopped garnish: milk, coarsely granulated sugar Make a mound with the flour on a board, c.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| b342d0d | I've always thought a quilt held together with a woman's tears to be the strongest of all. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 9fa3ef9 | Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. --Marilyn Monroe | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 207e909 | He had practically made a career out of reading parenting books, even though they all seemed to give conflicting advice. One thing they agreed on was that rebellion stemmed from a need to escape parental control, running up against a need for boundaries and limits. Not that it made dealing with a thirteen-year-old any easier. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| ddf200c | When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c84b7ef | you wait for the perfect time to fall in love, said a little inner voice that sounded suspiciously like Lulu, it'll never happen. | sansa the-hound | Susan Wiggs | |
| 939bfdb | If you wait for the perfect time to fall in love, said a little inner voice that sounded suspiciously like Lulu, it'll never happen. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 895c2c6 | Forgiveness was such a simple thing, she thought, once you surrendered to it. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 8d16968 | Being a mother had taught her so much in such a short time. She'd never known all the colors and shapes that love could take, had never known her heart could be so full yet still have the capacity to expand. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 2ca7a02 | Women", he used to say, "are like a book. You being with the title page. If that is not interesting, then you will not desire to read further. In fact, interesting is better than beautiful. A beautiful title page may attract your attention, but if it's not interesting, you will not continue with it." | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 356af8d | Guilt is a gorgeous girl but nobody wants her. | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 45ae9c7 | I have extracted some joy from them, after all, because I have relived my life, in the memories. The second time around you can savour in your mouth the really good times and you can spit out the bad times, with the knowledge that better times succeeded them. Perhaps this second life was better than the first one, because I can enjoy the laughter a second time, and I no longer feel the pains. | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 7105bd9 | Love makes the time pass, but time makes love pass, too. | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 768f80b | Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. That's what makes it so beautiful. | Arakawa Hiromu | ||
| f923ca5 | I guess god really does have it in for us sinners. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 14878af | Sebebi bir Homunculus olsa bile savasi yapan bizdik. | sorumluluk | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 1cf3aaa | Teachings that do not speak of pain have no meaning because humankind cannot gain anything without first gaining something in return. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| f2aef94 | Zor zamanlarda kahraman denilen kisilere baris zamaninda sadece cok insan olduren katiller gozuyle bakilir. | katil | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 2e19708 | Feel these muscles and understand how they boast the truth! | truth inspirational muscles | Hiromu Arakawa | |
| 68864ed | What do I most look forward to when creating manga? Why, doing the bonus pages, of course! I wish I could just do a whole 180 of nothing but bonus pages! | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 66e388f | So the years passed and everyone grew old and Nell's husband died and Hilda grew to be a large, angry sort of woman very high up in local government. When Nell was eighty-four Hilda retired and they went to live at a sea-side place where Hilda had had meaningful holidays during the menopause with a woman called Audrey, now dead. | Jane Gardam | ||
| d20aabe | His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of the old joke, Failed In London Try Hong Kong. It was said that he had fled the London Bar, very young, very poor, on a sudden whim just after the War, and had done magnificently well in Hong Kong from the start. Being a modest man, they said, he had called himself a parvenu, a fraud, a carefree spirit. Filth in fact was no .. | hong-kong | Jane Gardam | |
| e84ce92 | Amy planted a glass of brandy beside the bride's cornflakes. | Jane Gardam | ||
| 096eb9d | The landing stage stood on its high crooked stilts with only one person watching the boat disappear round the bend of the river--a girl of twelve called Ada, the wet-nurse's eldest child. As | Jane Gardam |