Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart – had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
If that isn’t typical male stupidity! If something doesn’t work, kick it or swear at it!
Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you’ve got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there’s always light and hope in the world.
Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.
When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That’s something you should remember.
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books – one I’ve read a dozen times – and still slide right into the story.
Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn’t destroy that. They couldn’t stop you from becoming.
Once she’d been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.
The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank one.
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected – the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.
You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.
Getting a room’s not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
There’s an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.
When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There’s nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.
Are you telling me you’re cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.
Look, if some guy dressed in his mother’s clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.
Didn’t people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?