Top 68 Janette Rallison Quotes
#1. When I became a mother, there was no doubt in my mind that it would be the most vital and important job I would ever have because I knew firsthand what it was like not to have a mother.
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#3. No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.
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#4. I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would create a decoy nun and then crawl out the window.
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#5. You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought ...
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#6. 'My Fair Godmother's movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'
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#7. Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.
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#8. Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.
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#9. That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important things like how to invade his trailer.
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#11. It's acting, not lying, so I will not be sent to hell for saying these sorts of things.
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#12. Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
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#14. That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.
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#16. I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?"
He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
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#18. Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
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#19. It'll be okay," I said.
"We're here for you." Kelly said.
"I've decided to become a divorce lawyer," Amanda said.
Well, we all have our own ways of showing we care.
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#20. Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.
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#21. She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx.
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#22. Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.
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#23. It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.
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#24. New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.
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#25. The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.
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#26. Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true.
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#27. It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.
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#28. Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
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#29. I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.
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#30. Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.
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#31. Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.'
And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.
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#32. People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.
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#33. But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.
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#34. Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.
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#35. Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
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#37. You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.
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#38. I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.
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#39. Actually, I think I'm more into sleek-looking suits right now." I ran my fingers over the arm of his tuxedo and gave him an appraising stare. "You know, sort of that James Bond cool look.
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#40. I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.
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#41. And her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.
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#42. What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.
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#43. Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.
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#44. Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?
... No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.
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#45. At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.
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#46. Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that.
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#47. If I'd believed that stuff was true, I would have missed out on loving you.
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#48. I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.
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#49. It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
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#50. As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.
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#52. Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.
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#53. But if Grant doesn't like you for who you are, then he's not worth it.
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#54. Then he leaned over, right there in the restaurant parking lot, and kissed me. And it wasn't a friendship kiss, either. It was tender and real, and utterly romantic.
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#55. I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys' dreams in your spare time.
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#56. Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish
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#57. Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.
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#58. The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
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#59. The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.
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#60. Women he said in disgust. I wasn't sure whether we was referring to me or nuns.
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#61. You asked that kid to follow me around the mall and throw soda on me?
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#62. Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous
and cool like Johnny Depp.
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#63. The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.
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#64. Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.
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#65. You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.
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#68. Takes a moment to change everything. Savannah glanced at Jane, then smiled at Hunter. "I see you found my car." "It's just the hot rod
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