Julianne MacLean > Quotes

“How long was I asleep?"
"Over an hour," the Butcher replied.
"An hour? Surely not."
"Aye. You were moaning my name and saying, 'Oh, yes, Duncan, yes, yes. Again, again...”
― Julianne MacLean, Captured by the Highlander

“Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“I wanted to believe that in the end, the universe would take care of us, and we would end up exactly where we were meant to be.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling

“i confess i cannot help myself. i am imaginig my self as his wife. i suppose while im at it , i might as well imagine myself as queen of england,too.”
― Julianne MacLean

“Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another. You’ve had more than your share of knocks lately, I’ll give you that, but it doesn’t mean you get to quit. No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“i will always remember what my life might have been like if i had married a man who loved me with undying passion. perhaps i might not have been so vunerabel to the attension of a rake. ”
― Julianne MacLean, The Mistress Diaries

“Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knocked
away facades.”
― Julianne MacLean, Love According to Lily

“HERE’S THE THING about motherhood. It exhausts you and thrills you. It kicks you in the butt, and the very next second makes you feel like a superstar. Most of all, it teaches you to be selfless. Let me rephrase that. It doesn’t really teach you this. It creates a new selflessness within you, which grabs hold of your heart when you first take your child into your arms. In that profound moment of extraordinary love and discovery, your own needs and desires become secondary. Nothing is as important as the well-being of your beautiful child. You would sacrifice anything for her. Even your own life. You would do it in a heartbeat. God wouldn’t need to ask twice.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“We could all drive ourselves mad thinking about what could have been. But life happens the way it happens, and there's no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling

“Just like the waves that keep rolling onto the beach, happiness may recede sometimes, but then it comes back. It always comes back.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Curve in the Road

“Since you dismissed your maid,” he said, “I suppose it will be up to me to undress you.”
“That is most chivalrous of you, my lord.”
― Julianne MacLean, Love According to Lily

“No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“He was the luckiest man on earth, and he didn’t know
why.”
― Julianne MacLean, Love According to Lily

“Seger gözlerini kapattı. Clara onun çenesindeki kasların gerildiğini gördü..Clara da gözlerini kapatarak alnını onunkine yasladı.
"Cenneti gördün mü ?"
"Tanrım, evet."
"Neye benziyordu?"
"Sana.”
― Julianne MacLean, An Affair Most Wicked

“The death of my child was the death of my own heart.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“And though I tried to let go of certain things and live without regret, I was beginning to accept that regret would always be a part of my life. I was only human, after all, and as much as I wanted to, I couldn’t escape it. What I decided was that I would not let it consume or define me. For the most part, I was at peace with how my life had unfolded, and I would embrace my regret—and my ability to work at forgiveness—as evidence of my humanity. I would wake up each morning and count my blessings.”
― Julianne MacLean, These Tangled Vines

“Love is our greatest achievement. Don’t ever forget that. Don’t squander it. Seek it. Experience it. Savor it every day that you can, because you never know when a rogue wave might sweep you away.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“But that's life, isn't it? For all we know, each day could be our last. What matters most is the appreciation and gratefullness we should feel for each precious day we have with one another.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“Sometimes you think you know someone, but maybe it’s impossible to really know everything about a person, even someone you love. Maybe good people—the very best people—are just better at keeping secrets.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling

“Evelyn continued to hold the wheel, recognizing the sensation of being in control of the rudder, while Martin explained how the direction of the wind was key, and how all the elements worked together to affect speed.
"It's physics," she said, becoming fascinated by the complexity of the air and water flow working together, and comprehending how the shape of the hull and sails and the size of the keel all played an important part in the boat's movement.”
― Julianne MacLean, Surrender to a Scoundrel

“Sometimes life is cruel, and it can seem pointless and tragic. But occasionally – surprisingly – certain hardships can lead you down a new path you never dreamed possible. Maybe that new path was your destiny all along. And when you look back, you do so with acceptance, forgiveness, and peace.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Destiny

“she wanted the man who held his infant daughter in his arms with fatherly affection, the man who could talk to her for hours and hours on a blanket in the grass,laid out under the trees.that man for some reason was out of reach.”
― Julianne MacLean

“Anton stood up and crossed the room to sit beside her on the sofa. “I’ve often thought that a marriage is like a covered wagon, full of the stuff of life. The man and the woman are the two workhorses who pull it. Eventually, it gets heavy. There are children in the wagon, a home that needs to be maintained, feelings that need to be protected and nurtured when life throws curveballs. It works when both partners pull together, but the journey can’t continue for long if one partner unbuckles the straps and decides to ride in the wagon, because it’s easier, and because he knows his partner will keep pulling no matter what. Sometimes it can’t be helped. If someone gets sick or is suffering in some other way . . . physically or emotionally or financially . . . when that happens, the other person needs to bear more of the load, but generally, when both partners are capable, husband and wife should be a team, pulling together, or at least taking equal turns.”
― Julianne MacLean, These Tangled Vines

“Why do we always wait for traditional special occasions to enjoy good things? Maybe we just need to create our own special occasions.”
― Julianne MacLean, These Tangled Vines

“I believe that if you’ve been through hell and you come out the other side, you appreciate the little things more.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Destiny

“I told her that I could not marry her, because…because I was in love with you.”
For a long time Madeline sat in her chair, immobile, listening only to the sound of her blood pounding in her ears. She stared blankly at Adam. “You can’t be.” He bowed his head. “You can’t possibly love me. I’m nothing.”
“You’re not nothing. You’re everything.”
― Julianne MacLean, Adam's Promise

“Everything seems perfect on the surface,” I told him, “but sometimes I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I really want to be, and I’ve always had this strange unexplainable urge to escape from wherever I am, because nothing seems quite enough, and I feel incredibly frustrated sometimes, like there’s more to life out there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is, or where it is. Do you ever feel that way?”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of Heaven

“Total forgiveness was not going to be easy. This much I knew. It was going to take some effort, but it was better than the alternative, which would leave me hating my father and resenting him. I couldn’t live like that.”
― Julianne MacLean, These Tangled Vines

“The important thing is to keep getting up each day knowing that everything can turn on a dime. For better or for worse. Sometimes bad things happen, and people will always make mistakes, but isn’t that how we learn and grow stronger? That’s why we need to treasure each moment of every day, learn how to accept and forgive, and never fear what might be over the horizon, even if it looks dark and cloudy. Because it just might turn out to be the best day of your life.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of the Season

“But life happens the way it happens, and there’s no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.”
― Julianne MacLean, A Fire Sparkling