top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If he was looking for fancy embellishment, or obvious signs of wealth, he was to be disappointed. Amanda couldn't bear pretension or impracticality, and so she had chosen furniture for function rather than for style. If she bought a chair, it must be large and comfortable. If she bought a side table, it must be sturdy enough to hold a stack of books or a big lamp. She did not like gilding and porcelain disks, nor all the carving and hieroglyphics that were certainly fashionable."
Standard
Customized
More
"The only thing that belongs to us is our LIFE. Yet, we waste it in the pursuit of meaningless things that will never belong to us."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?"
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I wonder how Merripen is faring, Win said, her blue eyes soft with concern. Merripen, the cook-maid, and the footman had gone to the house two days earlier to prepare for the Hathaways' arrival. "No doubt he's been working ceaselessly day and night, Amelia replied, "taking inventory, rearranging everything in sight, and issuing commands to people who don't dare disobey him. I'm sure he's quite happy."
Dedication
"You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife.""His widow," Devon muttered."Have you seduced her?""Not yet."West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?"
Drama
"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."
Books
"Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new."
Love
"It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect."
Fate
"I had hooked up my iPod to the speakers. The air was filled with the raw, sexy purr of Etta James. "The thing that's great about the blues," I told Luke, pausing to sip from my glass of wine, "is that it's about feeling, loving, wanting without the brakes on. No one's brave enough to live that way. Except maybe musicians."
Passion
"Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature."
Injustice
"He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body.""No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death."
Relationship
"I don't want adventure.""I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself."
Adventure
"And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness."
Romance
bottom of page