There are moments in a woman’s life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.
A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.
Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?
He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.
It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.
Any man, you’ll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?
For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!
He’d been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn’t even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.
I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.
Love was the best present of all...
I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.
There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
I didn’t think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.
Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.
I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.
You have to live each hour as if it’s your last and each day as if you were immortal. – Kate Sheffield.