“Did she not have it all, the beauty, the brains, the breeding, the brilliant marriage? Yet I felt a tangible sadness lurking within…”
― The House I Loved
― The House I Loved
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
― How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
“Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.”
― The Mountain Between Us
― The Mountain Between Us
“Even now, after a lifetime of human companionship, I am hard-pressed to understand fully mankind's fascination with those little marks that they so carefully impress on sheets of paper.”
― Christmas at Sea Pines Cottage
― Christmas at Sea Pines Cottage
“I think when two people really love each other...way down deep...like where the souls sleep and dreams happen, where pain can't live 'cause there's nothing for it to feed on...then a wedding is a bleeding together of those two souls. Like two rivers running together. All that water becoming the same water. Mine did that.”
― The Mountain Between Us
― The Mountain Between Us
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