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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet…

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When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what…
Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing…
Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might…
At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in…
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.
Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to…
He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind…
This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in…

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