Quotes from Julianne MacLean

longer. I also know that I can't protect him from pain. Pain is part of life, and we have to deal with it when it comes. But sometimes, a flicker of light can emerge from the darkest, most unexpected tragedies.

Oh, how I had willed her to come back.

but I don't know if peace is ever possible when you've lost a child." His words caused a swell of sadness in me because I knew he was right. I'd never stop missing my beautiful son. Not in this lifetime.

How do you recover from something like that? How do you walk into your daughter's life for the first time and make her love you? Was that even possible?

It's okay to be sad. Just know that…

Love is our greatest achievement. Don't ever forget that. Don't squander it. Seek it. Experience it. Savor it every day that you can, because you never know when a rogue wave might sweep you away. o0o

My heart pounds like a jackhammer, and I can't find the right words. All I can think about is what if both Alan and I had been killed. Zack's an only child. He would have been left all alone.

What good could come from grappling forever with "could have beens"? Every life was full of "could have beens." The best we could do was make the most of what was and what had been.

Perhaps there was hope for happiness as well, some day in the future. Perhaps I wouldn't always feel so disappointed.

I do beg your pardon, sir, but when a gentleman like you behaves inappropriately- leading an impressionable young lady to believe there is some genuine affection between you- that gentleman must accept the consequences of his actions.

Not completely, because sometimes I still feel angry, but then I remember that he gave me you, and I'm glad I married him. I have no regrets about that." It's a monstrous statement, and it feels good to say it. To truly believe it. Zack

It may seem an odd thing to say, but I sometimes felt that Megan's cancer, even though it was painful, had brought something good. It had taught us so much about life and love.

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.

I feel as if I've begun a new chapter. It's definitely preferable to feeling as if my life is over.

Perhaps the lesson is this: Without knowledge of misery, there can be no true knowledge of joy.

Intuition is a funny thing. Sometimes it's a gut feeling, and you look around and just know something bad is about to happen. Other time, it's elusive, and later you find yourself looking back on certain events and wondering how in the world you missed all the signals.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without adversity." – Donina Va'a Renata

Maybe there is someone in your future who will change everything. Maybe there will be gifts that will surprise you. Live for it. Dream of it. Or if you already have it, treasure it.

But that's life, isn't it? For all we know, each day could be our last.

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

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another way. I think she preferred that we weren't close to Dad. She was bitter toward him, and she encouraged us to do what we wanted, which was to stay in LA, because she knew it would hurt him." Sloane suddenly recognized her mother's motivations

and she would always love him, but deep down, they had nothing in common. She had to be honest.

Martin eyed the buffet table because he'd slept through dinner and was ravenous; but as luck would have it, who was standing next to the tower of cream cakes but Evelyn- looking equally delicious in a stunning, pale yellow gown of light diaphanous fabric that seemed to flutter around her legs on a nonexistent breeze. And her bosom... Well, she looked delectable with pearls crisscrossing over her lush, alluring breasts.