Luanne Rice Quotes

#1. The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

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#2. Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

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#3. 'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind ... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

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#4. During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

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#5. People who don't like doing things together probably ... well probably shouldn't get married.

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#6. Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

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#7. A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

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#8. All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed.

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#9. Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

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#10. Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

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#11. After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

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#12. I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

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#13. I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare.

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#14. Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

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#15. The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

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#16. Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane.

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#17. How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

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#18. happy endings start with new beginnings.

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#19. You fall in love with the girl next door
but married her sister.

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#20. Jane seemed to just like her. She liked her without wanting anything in return:

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#21. We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

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#22. I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

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#23. When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.

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#24. But her life on this earth had taught her this: that love, in the end, was all that mattered. Friends, families, suitors, husbands: Goodness abounded in all of them.

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#25. My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'

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#26. When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

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#27. Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

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#28. 'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.

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#29. Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

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#30. In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.'

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#31. He wouldn't try to make her feel better about something if it meant telling her a lie.

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#32. Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.

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#33. She'd looked it up and read the definition ("deprived of the possession or use of something; lacking something needed, wanted, or expected")

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#34. Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

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#35. Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be
and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

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#36. A good sailor knows everything is always changing.

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#37. Never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good. - perfect Summer

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#38. Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

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#39. Jane's dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive.

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#40. What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

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#41. Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.

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#42. The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

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#43. I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the Stars Home.'

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#44. 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

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#45. I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

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#46. Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

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#47. Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics.

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#48. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

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#49. My first three-sisters novel in a while, 'Sandcastles' tells the story of the Sullivan family - two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There's also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don't want to give too much away!

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