Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
I love the way knitting brings people together.
I’m dyslexic, although they didn’t have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had ’word blindness.
Readers have actually changed the way I’ve done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
I’m a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There’s something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
I’ve always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn’t have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time – I married.
Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.
Sometimes, I think we’re afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle.
God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle.
Maybe money can’t buy love – but it can get you practically everything else.
Here’s where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.
Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.
I’d found love – only to discover how fleeting it can be.
But although she was with family and friends, she’d never felt more alone. She felt as if she’d lost a vital part of herself and she had – her heart.
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. – Mrs. Miracle.
We’re each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book – my book, any book, any romance. It’s entertainment, it’s escape, and it can even be an inspiration!
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.