"Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups."

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Source : Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.160, HQN Books

Gena Showalter

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“I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.”
“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.304
“It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.”
“The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.”
“I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.”
“Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.”
“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”
“The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.”

Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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