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“I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Guilt was a parasite that would eat you alive, but only if you let it.”
― Sandra Brown, Tough Customer

“The kiss intensified. It was that kiss you’re lucky to experience once in a lifetime. That kiss that defies the rules, that banishes conscience, that is purely sexual. That kiss that makes you feel vibrantly alive and positively doomed. That I’m-going-to-die-if-I-don’t-fuck-you kiss.”
― Sandra Brown, Tough Customer

“sometimes the only comfort left to a person was to share his or her story and have someone listen.”
― Ava Miles, The Town Square

“We’re doing something big here, Arthur. Education and information—the hallmarks of this century.”
― Ava Miles, The Town Square

“You know that the smallest minds tend to be paired with the loudest mouths.”
― Ava Miles, The Park of Sunset Dreams

“When my grandma passed, there was this huge hole inside me. She taught me how to cook, and she said that those of us who love to feed people are obsessed with finding the perfect ingredient—the one thing that fills the emptiness inside us with peace.”
― Ava Miles, The Perfect Ingredient

“Why don’t we just do what we’ve done with our lives?” Her brow knit. “What do you mean?” “Rise from the ashes of where we came from. Imagine something better and make it happen.”
― Ava Miles, The Perfect Ingredient

“Then a new knowledge rolled through him, one he’d been waiting so many years for, one he’d searched the globe for. Elizabeth was his perfect ingredient.”
― Ava Miles, The Perfect Ingredient

“I want to see Vince get what he deserves.” “So do I, but perhaps that’s not in the cards.” “We make our own luck,” her friend said, eyes troubled. “This is life, Jane, not poker, and the stakes are much higher.” You couldn’t get much higher than someone’s life. Their career.”
― Ava Miles, The Perfect Ingredient

“you can’t reason a person out of a place they didn’t reason themselves into to begin with.”
― Dineen Miller, Bloomed to Be Messy

“Mandy, you are your own person. The past only has as much control over your future as you let it.”
― Dineen Miller, Bloomed to Be Messy

“Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it’s incurable. I’ve just learned to live with it.”
― Sandra Brown, Mean Streak

“If I was guessing,” Lisa continued, “I’d say he has a mean streak a mile wide. He keeps it under control. But if he ever let it loose, look out.”
― Sandra Brown, Mean Streak

“The Floyd brothers were the reason he’d come to North Carolina. He had vowed to seek retribution, vowed to get it. He just hadn’t counted on things happening how they had, or when they had.”
― Sandra Brown, Mean Streak

“If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.”
― Sandra Brown, Mean Streak

“But owning the pain, running through it, overcoming it, was a matter of self-will and discipline.”
― Sandra Brown, Mean Streak

“First I’m gonna kiss you till I can’t breathe.” He always did what he said.”
― Sandra Brown, Mean Streak

“Crying is the body’s way of coping with grief, and if grief isn’t processed, disease, depression, and a whole list of other stuff can lie in wait for a person.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“Shadows are only illusions, April. It’s a person’s actual presence that counts.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“The people who know when to ask for help are stronger than the ones who insist on standing alone.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“She might have been drunk, but you know what they say—in vino veritas.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“If marriage had taught him one thing, it was that carrying a grudge only eroded love.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“If you have fun and play to make yourself happy, everything else will fall into place.” He clapped a hand on the boy’s shoulder. “Once you stop worrying about impressing other people, it becomes a lot easier. That other crap…it messes with your head. Now, go on in and have some fun.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“Being together long-term was as much about loving each other and sharing space as it was about making sure each partner felt fulfilled.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“If there was one thing he’d learned about love and marriage, it was to never stop forgiving. Ever. Even if she hurt him a thousand times, he wasn’t going to deny her absolution.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“If you don’t fight your fears, you’ll always be a victim. I’m not a victim. Despite my little pity party.”
― Ava Miles, The Calendar of New Beginnings

“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera…they are made with the eye, heart, and head.”
― Ava Miles, The Calendar of New Beginnings

“He’d learned in his marriage that conflict was like an infection. With early prevention, the effects subsided with little harm to the patient. Delay treatment, and things turned ugly.”
― Ava Miles, The Calendar of New Beginnings

“fear is only fear. It only has the power you give it.”
― Ava Miles, The Calendar of New Beginnings