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Judith McNaught

"Was it me you were discussing?â€ he countered with lifted brows. â€œI couldnâ€™t tell from the description you were giving. Since when am I kind, considerate, refined, and amiable?â€ â€œYouâ€™re angry,â€ Victoria concluded on a sigh. A low chuckle rumbled in his chest and his arms tightened, drawing her close to his leann, muscular body. â€œIâ€™m not angry,â€ he said in a husky, gentle voice. â€œIâ€™m embarrassed"

Source : Judith McNaught (2016). “Once and Always”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Judith McNaught

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“Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.”
“Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.”

Source : "Wabi Sabi Love! A Q&A with Arielle Ford!". Interview with Mastin Kipp, thedailylove.com. January 24, 2013.
“I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.”
“My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't”
“You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.”
“..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?”
“One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.”
“Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.”

Source : "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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