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“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

“It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

“Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?"
"I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream

“Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Dream a Little Dream

“My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“someday, I wanted someone who would love me. Not for what I could do for them, but for who I was to them.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

“I wanted to crawl into him, become part of him so he would never feel alone again. But I didn't know how to tell him that without it sounding like the world's creepiest Valentine's card so instead I kissed him again, putting everything I felt into it.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Met

“War is such a waste of women’s time.”
― Deborah Harkness, Time's Convert

“Folks are always in favor of fairness, until they have to give up something they have to someone else.”
― Deborah Harkness, Time's Convert

“Too soon? There is no such thing,” Ysabeau said. “We are, all of us, asked to grow up too quickly. It is the way the gods remind us that life, no matter how long, is still but a breath.”
― Deborah Harkness, Time's Convert

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“I have not yet begun to procrastinate.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“A breeze flew through, picking up some leaves and swirling them around, the sound like fluttering pages in a quiet library.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“If you swapped out all my Jessicas for Johns, do you know what you'd get? Fiction. Just fiction. Ready and willing to be read by anyone, but somehow by being a woman who writes about women, I've eliminated half the Earth's population from my potential readers, and you know what? I don't feel ashamed of that. I feel pissed.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“That was what I'd always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn't move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Your courtship method of arrogance self-loathing, and then telling me how beautiful other girls are is pretty unique," said Kami. "I like it. I don't know what that says about me.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade

“Enough, she thought, enough, enough: nobody was allowed to make her this unhappy. She didn't have to stay around him, any more than she had to keep her hand in a fire.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade

“You can't just go out-
No, I'll dream another dream.”
― L.J. Smith, The Kill

“She seemed to think reading was some sort of hobby, as opposed to being as necessary as breathing, sleeping, and eating.”
― Michelle Cooper, The FitzOsbornes at War

“Sometimes I think Life is best summed up as
(a) Awful Bits
and
)b) This That Successfully Distract One from the Awful Bits”
― Michelle Cooper, The FitzOsbornes in Exile

“Autumn felt like the whole world was browned and roasted until it was so tender it was about to fall away from the bone.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“What, you think that just because we're demons, we don't like to stay current with world events? You think we don't like to be entertained? We're demons, not Nazis!”
― Katie MacAlister, You Slay Me

“Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“I carved out little spaces within my heart; little, lovely mausoleums where I could lock each and every one of them inside, keep the memories safe and close to me forever.”
― T. Torrest, Remember When

“His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?”
“Don’t be silly. I was talking to my lover.”
“She told me she lives at a place called Brookdale. After I hung up, I did a little research on the Web. Your talent for obfuscation continues to amaze me.”
“Hey, I haven’t obfuscated in weeks. Makes you go blind.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

“We face a dark future if children stop asking questions, Susanna," Goody Alsop remarked.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“I just killed a man! This isn't the moment to discuss our marriage."
"Nonsense. Marrying amid bloodshed is a de Clermont family tradition," Philippe said briskly.”
― Deborah Harkness, Shadow of Night

“What was I thinking, anyway? It would never work out between the two of us. I mean, I'm a mediator. His dad's a vampire. His uncle's a killer. What if we got married? Think how our kids would turn out...”
― Meg Cabot, Ninth Key