Karleen Koen Quotes

#1. Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.

Karleen Koen

#2. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

Karleen Koen

#3. What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

Karleen Koen

#4. She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.

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#5. Nothing changes and everything does.

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#6. I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.

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#7. ...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.

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#8. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.

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#9. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.

Karleen Koen

#10. What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

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#11. Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

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#12. What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more!

Karleen Koen