Top 98 Barbara Delinsky Quotes
#1. I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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#2. You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have
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#3. She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.
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#4. Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing - you think you have - then wham.
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#5. Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, ... Look at what you have now.
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#7. In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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#8. Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.
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#9. Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.
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#10. Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.
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#11. Concentrating when it's the hardest is what builds character
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#12. OLIVIA DIDN'T WANT TO SEE SIMON. She didn't know how to deal with what she felt. It was raw physical attraction with no emotional link, and it was totally wrong at
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#13. But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.
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#14. If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.
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#15. Remember my mother - how much she suffered before she died, how thin and gray she seemed after so much surgery? I don't picture her that way anymore. I picture her as she was before she got sick.
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#16. Love was such a complex emotion, so overpowering and all-consuming. Love conquered all, the old saying went.
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#17. So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show ... It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?
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#18. She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and its spontaneity. He was amazed at how easily it had come.
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#19. Whether she was writing to tell her followers about a local cheesemaker, a new farm-to-table restaurant, or what to do with an exotic heirloom fruit that was organically produced and newly marketed, she spent hours each day scouring Philadelphia and the outlying towns for material.
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#20. It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.
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#21. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He
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#22. She's my mother. I'm not sure you get the same kind of unconditional love in your life from anyone but a mother.
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#23. The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.
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#24. returned to the typewriter, angrily erasing and correcting each mistake she'd made, desperately wishing she could as easily wipe out her mental image of the man in her carriage house.
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#27. On that bright May morning, with the lilacs budding and the kids off to school, Tom Markham approached his wife with the best of intentions.
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#28. What about me, Peter?" "You can cook. You can clean. You can be waiting here for me when I get home. I'd think that would be enough." "Well, it's not!
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#30. Thanks to the Betamax and Jason's diligent collection of tapes, she'd even been able to rerun the shows she'd missed while in Haiti. It was her job, she reasoned. And now she'd blown it!
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#31. Clear water sped over rocky clusters whose colors ran from ivories to mossy greens, blues and grays. Though clouds covered the sun, the sway of dappling evergreens gave the water sparkle.
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#32. Always a sucker for blue eyes, she was relieved to be released.
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#33. Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
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#34. No mother loves her children the same. Each one is different.
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#35. As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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#36. Percodan. One every four hours for pain. P. Demery, M.D." So the directions read, and Ryan had no problem with them. What he did have problem with was the fact that the prescription was made out to an R. Hart and came from a pharmacy in Chicago.
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#37. Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.
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#38. Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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#39. And then - the kicker - they were cousins. Casey suspected she would forever feel protective of Meg, and that wasn't a bad thing.
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#40. That's the dilemma with family. When it comes to our parents, we're always children. At what point do we grow up? They raise us to function as individuals, but when do they allow us to act independently?
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#41. What made a friend a best friend? Did it have to be someone who knew your people, who shared your life outlook or your views on religion or politics? Could it just be someone who could talk and listen and commiserate?
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#42. No, Jack Ramsey didn't look like a spa person. He lifted weights. Tom couldn't imagine him in an aerobics class, much less wrapped in seaweed.
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#44. You have a fuchsia heart. And a fuchsia heart doesn't die, it simply bides its time, taking a backseat to pragmatism, all while leaking helpless drops of color here and there. Hence, teal gables, turquoise earrings, and saffron scarves.
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#45. Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.
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#46. Tom was not. "Seems to me," he said, "that she's at her drawing board evenings more than she's watching TV, and that you're the one who uses the sitting room for
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#47. When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.
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#49. Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.
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#51. The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
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#52. Did you hear about the lawyer hurt in a crash? An ambulance stopped suddenly.
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#53. You'll always be with me, Mom. Kind of like Jordan's perennials. Every year, something'll bloom in my life to remind me of you. It'll always be different, never the same, but it'll be good. Love lasts.
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#54. And so it went. Smiling, Annie might have liked to freeze the moment in time. These three, so precious to her, were in synch with each other. There was a feeling of excitement and hope.
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#55. You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.
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#56. Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.
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#58. Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.
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#59. Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire.
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#60. Barbara, you have done it again! Sweet Salt Air is a fabulous story of friendship, betrayal, courage and love with family and friends. Having been raised in Maine, she writes 'to the T, in describing beautiful and simple lives on a Maine Island.
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#61. More space for their clothes. I can't tell you how many times I've had nowhere to hang a single damn suit because a woman's closet was so stuffed. Hire a closet planner. She'll think you're brilliant." "She hired one herself a few years back. I need something she hasn't thought of herself.
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#62. she pulled out her cell and punched in their number, one of the few she knew by heart and the absolute easiest to dial.
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#63. She distracted him by pulling her gift for him out from under the bed. It was two-tiered and beautifully wrapped, with an exquisite card she had made herself - she was an artist, after all. He read the message inside, felt a catch in
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#64. My writing style has changed dramatically over the years, growing increasingly clean and exact. I like to think that I'm still improving
that each book I write is a new personal best.
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#65. To wear every day, not big things that are only for dress." Another pause. "Yes, they were very expensive, but expensive doesn't make them right. I buy costume jewelry that I love, and I wear it all the time, because
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#66. There were ones with garden supplies and ones with health supplies, but neither offered anything remotely appropriate. There
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#67. Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
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#68. But you don't know what I want, do you. You formed an idea of who I am and What I do, and you've woven that idea in your life. You may listen to my words, but you don't hear my thoughts. You don't hear my needs. You don't see me. You haven't seen me in years.
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#70. The people who get places in life are the ones who stay ahead of the game.
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#71. I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.
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#72. She shifted in her chair, eyeing her front door with trepidation as she began to wonder if something might be wrong. What if he'd been hurt somewhere - if he'd been in an automobile accident or, more bizarre but nonetheless
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#73. Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.
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#74. There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.
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#75. Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work - and what to do when they break.
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#76. Is it harder to dream about what you don't have, than to live in fear of losing what you do?
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#77. Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.
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#78. Don't touch," she cautioned as she had before. She pulled her mind back down. "I'm fine.
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#79. Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
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#80. Except she wasn't Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her husband, Rob, whose family was nearly as rooted in Bell Valley as the Bell family was, hence a questionable welcome there, too.
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#81. What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? There are skid marks in front of the dog.
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#82. matter that the robe was pure silk and had cost a fortune, their daughter wouldn't be caught dead in anything
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#83. the kind. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one
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#84. Recalling "Love Games," she returned to the present with a jolt and glanced at the set in time to find the show over for the day. She'd missed it!
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#86. Strangely, he wasn't in the mood to look at files and papers. Not with Heather Cole to look at. For that matter, even the journals might have fallen short - a shocking thought, but one he wasn't about to analyze at the moment. I wasn't sure you'd be here, and
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#87. clients. They're always there. You do have to worry, and look at the practice you've built. Give me a rundown on today's list." Casey could count on Brianna to boost her morale. "Two phobias, the low self-esteem, three adjustment disorders, and one panic attack.
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#88. Still there were times, as Jill whirled through her final preparations, when Emily stood watching her, wondering where the years had gone, wishing them back.
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#89. She turned the water on again, rinsed a dish, put it in the dishwasher. "I know you didn't have jewelry." She listened. "Yes, Mother, other women would love what I have, but that's not the point. The point is that a gift lacks something if I have to dictate exactly
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#92. one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.
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#93. I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.
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#94. What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
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#95. I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.
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#96. tattoos are like bumper stickers in some respects. Their wearers want to tell the world something.
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#97. Clams served on Quinnipeague were dug from the from the flats hours before cooking, and the batter, which was exquisitely light, held bits of parsley and thyme. Other fried clams couldn't compare.
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#98. What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket?
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