Hold the Dream Quotes

“Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream

“Life has its own intricate pattern—there is a grand design, really. What has already happened in our lives was meant to happen, perhaps to show us the way, lead us to each other. And the future is already here with us, now, at this very moment, whether we’re aware of it or not.’ He put his hand under her chin, lifted her face to his, looked deeply into her eyes. ‘And we’re not going to think about anything except this weekend. We’ll take each day after that as it comes.’ He leaned into her, kissed her lightly, drew back. ‘Don’t look so serious. Life has a way of taking care of itself and I have a feeling that we are going to do just fine together.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream

“most disturbing part of the meeting had been Sarah’s blatant dislike”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream

“tries, and tries very hard, but she doesn’t know what it’s like to be the sole survivor, the only one left of one’s contemporaries. They’ve all gone now. They’re all dead and buried. My dearest friends, my loved ones. Even my enemies are no longer around to get my goat and spark the will in me to fight.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream

“once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream

“why would it? He had won, and”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream

“fraction of a second, before asking,”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Hold the Dream