Quotes from Julianne MacLean

Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

Don't lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.

How long was I asleep?" "Over an hour," the Butcher replied. "An hour? Surely not." "Aye. You were moaning my name and saying, 'Oh, yes, Duncan, yes, yes. Again, again...

Life is hard. It's cruel sometimes. It's merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another.

i will always remember what my life might have been like if i had married a man who loved me with undying passion. perhaps i might not have been so vunerabel to the attension of a rake.

i confess i cannot help myself. i am imaginig my self as his wife. i suppose while im at it , i might as well imagine myself as queen of england,too.

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one's view, knocked away facades.

I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.

Since you dismissed your maid," he said, "I suppose it will be up to me to undress you." "That is most chivalrous of you, my lord.

He was the luckiest man on earth, and he didn't know why.

No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.

Sometimes you think you know someone, but maybe it's impossible to really know everything about a person, even someone you love. Maybe good people—the very best people—are just better at keeping secrets.

The death of my child was the death of my own heart.

Seger gözlerini kapatt?. Clara onun çenesindeki kaslar?n gerildi?ini gördü..Clara da gözlerini kapatarak aln?n? onunkine yaslad?. "Cenneti gördün mü ?" "Tanr?m, evet." "Neye benziyordu?" "Sana.

But that's life, isn't it? For all we know, each day could be our last. What matters most is the appreciation and gratefullness we should feel for each precious day we have with one another.

Just like the waves that keep rolling onto the beach, happiness may recede sometimes, but then it comes back. It always comes back.

Everything seems perfect on the surface," I told him, "but sometimes I feel like I don't know what I'm doing, or where I really want to be, and I've always had this strange unexplainable urge to escape from wherever I am, because nothing seems quite enough, and I feel incredibly frustrated sometimes, like there's more to life out there somewhere, but I don't know what it is, or where it is. Do you ever feel that way?

Of course I'm going to forgive you. How can I not? Life is rough for everyone, and it's complicated. It's full of hairpin turns we don't see coming. You know that better than anyone. You suffered a terrible trauma. And we all make mistakes. Mom certainly wasn't perfect. She left a fair bit of destruction in her path." "Yes, but she gave me you." "And she gave me you.

Total forgiveness was not going to be easy. This much I knew. It was going to take some effort, but it was better than the alternative, which would leave me hating my father and resenting him. I couldn't live like that.

she wanted the man who held his infant daughter in his arms with fatherly affection, the man who could talk to her for hours and hours on a blanket in the grass,laid out under the trees.that man for some reason was out of reach.

I believe that if you've been through hell and you come out the other side, you appreciate the little things more.

He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.

But life happens the way it happens, and there's no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

He pulled his lips away and rested his forehead against hers, trying to keep himself from getting another erection. It took great strength of will, but he did it.