Judith McNaught Quotes
You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.
You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?
Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.
Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.
How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it
The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.
Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.
Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.
The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.
Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland
It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.
After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.
Let me go.” “I can’t”, he said hoarsely, (…)” I’ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can’t.
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery
Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".
Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.
But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.
She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.
If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.
I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.
At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.
How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.
God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it." -Dr. Whitticomb