We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky shore. We-or maybe it was just I-bandaged our needswith what we declared was love. But, eventually, the tide draws out what it has swept in.
Alma KatsuStichwörter: paranormal historical-romance-fiction
A man´s desire is a powerful thing. It can reduce a strong man to nothing. When he sees a woman who fascinates him, he will give up everything for her.
Alma KatsuStichwörter: historical-romance-fiction
There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You are like a golden rose, a rare bloom but no less lovely.
Alma KatsuStichwörter: historical-romance-fiction
I´ve always wanted him to love me the way I loved him. He did love me, I know he did. Just not the way I wanted him to.
"And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop."
"But the taker never changes," Luke says, though he wonders if this is always the case.
"Sometimes the giver has to let go, but sometimes you don´t. You can´t. I couldn´t give up on Jonathan. I seemed to be able to forgive him anything.
Stichwörter: historical-romance-fiction
A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with."
- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother
Stichwörter: romance women-s-strength women-s-fiction historical-romance-fiction quotes-about-heartbreak
she was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it—when he walked out of her life.
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Stichwörter: inspirational-quotes historical-romance-fiction lenore-wolfe dark-warrior
I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future
Nancy B. BrewerStichwörter: historical-fiction historical-romance-fiction
Are you a traveling man he asked?
Nancy B. BrewerStichwörter: historical-fiction historical-romance-fiction
Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.
Nancy B. BrewerStichwörter: historical-fiction historical-romance-fiction
The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.
Nancy B. BrewerStichwörter: historical-fiction historical-romance-fiction
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