Top 100 Macomber Quotes
#1. Don't worry about me talking," he said. "I have a living to make. You know in Africa no woman ever misses her lion and no white man ever bolts." "I bolted like a rabbit," Macomber said. Now what in hell were you going to do about a man who talked like that, Wilson wondered.
Ernest Hemingway,
#2. They had a sound basis of union. Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot ever to leave him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#4. Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.
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#5. She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a week.
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#6. We're here to deliver preemie hats to Sharon Jennings," Libby explained. The receptionist
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#7. Addie had always considered the holidays an extra-special time of year. Magic hung in the air, and people were gentler, kinder to one another. Differences were set aside, friendships deepened, and people in general were more charitable and happier.
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#8. If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
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#9. Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.
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#11. It was unnerving. She'd looked at him and had the uncontrollable urge to weep. Thus far she'd managed to control her emotions. Thank God. She didn't even want to imagine what he would think of her if she started weeping for absolutely no reason.
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#13. I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.
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#14. When Addie had signed up for this course she'd been determined to do whatever it took to get through with a passing grade. She hadn't expected to enjoy it or even learn from it. Yet the novel they were studying was filled with life lessons that seemed to apply directly to her.
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#15. A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible.
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#16. Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
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#17. God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate.
Mrs. Miracle
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#18. Their relationship wouldn't be easy and the realities of a future with him were intimidating. Yet the strength of her attraction overcame her doubts.
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#19. What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so ... simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting.
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#20. I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison.
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#21. As the spiritual coordinator for this part of Tacoma, Celeste Chapeaux had been assigned to oversee Harry.
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#23. Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us
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#24. While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.
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#25. Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.
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#26. Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
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#27. when the Lakers scored at the buzzer to take the lead, Charlotte leapt to her feet and cheered.
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#28. Unfortunately he'd fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.
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#29. Don't be a quitter.
Try harder.
Don't be so picky.
Be willing to start at the bottom.
Prove yourself.
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#30. I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.
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#31. Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.
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#32. Prim and proper, a cat woman ... Hmm, I was left to wonder. Possibly a librarian in her late forties or early fifties. In town for a special occasion? It certainly left me to ponder her story.
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#33. People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" - Sally Melville,
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#34. Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.
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#35. John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn't forget their names.
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#36. Take charge of your life.
Don't be afraid to pursue your dreams.
Work hard and don't listen to anyone who says you can't, because you can and you will.
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#39. He said with such confidence that her heart surged with hope. But a person's ability to love is only equal to his or her openness in receiving it.
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#40. Kindness is something that should always be passed on.
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#41. All right, why the glum face now? I get that you messed up, but you need to pick yourself up and move on.
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#42. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.
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#43. Parents love their children. We might not always approve of the things you do, we might not like your friends, and cringe at some of the choices you make, but that doesn't change our love.
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#44. The truth was she did love him. She loved him for the gentle care he gave her roses. For his loving way with animals. For his honesty. For his tender patience with Maggie and, most important, for the joy he brought into her life.
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#45. Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed".
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#46. I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.
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#47. Forgiveness is hard, and most people tend to hold on to their hurts, to take some kind of perverse satisfaction in them.
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#49. I'd found love
only to discover how fleeting it can be.
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#50. Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings
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#51. Parked his taxi. Lily tried to talk to him twice on the
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#53. Her case worker had once suggested knitting as a means of anger management.
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#54. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
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#55. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle
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#56. She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.
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#57. We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.
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#58. As if this was more than she could imagine, Amiee asked, "What about a stove with more than two burners and an oven that actually works?" "All yours," Steve assured her.
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#59. perhaps, in giving of myself, I would find the joy Paul had promised. And maybe, given time, it would be possible for me to find my way back to life.
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#60. For the first time since I arrived, it struck me how truly alone I was.
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#62. The grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered.
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#63. Mousy. It was the only word Travis could think to describe Mary Warner when she stepped off the plane. His heart sank and took a moment to rally itself. Long legs, that was all he'd asked for, and what did he get? Minnie Mouse.
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#65. Remember the time Pamela stuffed a bead up her nose and we had to take her to the emergency room to get it out? That bead cost us a fortune.
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#66. Carried on the brisk winds of faith, guided by devotion, navigated by love, it arrived fresh and bright at the very feet of the Archangel Gabriel.
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#67. It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.
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#68. Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.
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#69. It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time." - Tallulah Bankhead
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#70. People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. - Mrs. Miracle
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#71. I'm a yarnaholic. That means I have more yarn stashed away than any one person could possibly use in three or four lifetimes. There's something inspiring about yarn that makes me feel I could never have enough.
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#72. Pete's a good guy."
"He just slept with my mother!"
"I didn't say he was perfect.
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#73. Harry was on a God-given mission - a trial mission that was the opportunity of an eternity and one he hoped would become a permanent job if he performed well.
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#74. It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.
Mrs. Miracle
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#75. I'm referring to feelings! Women aren't afraid to face their feelings. Men are so terrified of emotion they hold it inside until they're totally bent out of shape.
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#76. In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.
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#77. We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.
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#78. The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.
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#80. You're acting like a little kid, Carrie said, slapping
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#81. I love to knit. There's a comfort to it that I can't entirely explain. The repetition of weaving the yarn around the needle and then forming a stitch creates a sense of purpose, of achievement, of progress. When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order and I found it in knitting.
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#83. Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.
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#84. Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
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#85. aplomb. Sometimes the sheer bravado of her actions astonished
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#86. We all make mistakes. Big and small. But you don't have to let them define you forever.
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#87. I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I've always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library.
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#88. I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.
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#89. For every loss there is an equal or greater gain. Often humans have to search for it, though.
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#90. Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.
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#91. We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!
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#92. Handsome couple. "In other words, we clean up well," Kent joked. "Indeed, you do," I said, and was pleased to know my voice had found itself again.
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#93. Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
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#94. We should lean into the pain, instead of running away from it.
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#95. I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.'
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#97. Forgiveness isn't a gift we give the offender. It's something we do for ourselves.
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#98. Janine," Anton cried, delighted. "Zach. My, my, this is
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#99. Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.
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#100. The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations. - Karen
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