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Mary Jo Putney Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare

Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning.

The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy ... She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.

Children often sang, adults seldom. At what age did the singing stop?

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

And with the deftness of a thief, he was picking the lock of her willpower.

Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.

Mikhal - ... most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

We all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear.

A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Lucien Fairchild

Disdain for authority is the bedrock of my character.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Men are imperfect creatures, aren't they? But they are the only opposite sex we have, so we must make the best of them.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

Gentlemen do not work. Since I do not work, therefore I must be a gentleman.

And certainly unchristian, to hate someone for the color of his skin, yet such trivial things can change the pattern of a life.

But I'm so very glad that my resistance was futile!

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, Kirkland said.

Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet.

Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan.

Some fusty fellow, perhaps Samuel Johnson, had once said that every man was sorry if he hadn't been a soldier. She

Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.

bullet wound will do." Gordon

I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved ... well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

To love and be loved is the most powerful of human needs
Clare Morgan

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

Form, not the crashing waves far below at the base of the cliff. She looked eerily like the sketch that Kenneth had drawn of

behind the anger, she saw that he loved her,

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

What a pity that men couldn't find such satisfactions without killing so many of their fellows.

Winning her would be like coaxing a butterfly to land on his hand. Patience, gentleness, and perhaps a prayer or two would be required.

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

Heresy is just philosophy that the establishment doesn't approve of,

She made a purring sound in her throat and pressed into his palm,