Sarah MacLean Quotes

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• I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

  Sarah MacLean

  Perfect, Want, Easy

  Sarah MacLean (2012). “A Rogue by Any Other Name: Number 1 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  Sarah MacLean

  Running, Hands, Feelings

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• Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

  Sarah MacLean

  Heart, Romance, Desire

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• To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa paused, considering the ords. "Is that so?" "Men are uncomplicated, generally," Sally said, all too sage. "They're beasts when they want to be." "Brute ones!" "Ah, so you understand." Pippa tilted her head to one side. "I've read about them." Sally nodded. "Erotic texts?" "The book of Common Prayer.

  Sarah MacLean

  Prayer, Book, Animal

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• The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the ones who are as happy wih their drawers as they are with their gowns. You can tell the difference between a woman who wraps herself in beautiful silks and satins and she who wears...otherwise.

  Sarah MacLean

  Beautiful, Believe, Differences

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• I feel able to comfort myself emotionally, and this keeps my heart open.

  Sarah MacLean

  Heart, Comfort, Able

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• I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.

  Sarah MacLean

  Kindness, Compassion, Practice

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• Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

  Sarah MacLean

  Practice, Helping, Silent

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• I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

  Sarah MacLean

  Eight, Years, Vision

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• Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?” She gave a short laugh. “If the man you speak of had ever planned on coming, my lord, I’m afraid he has obviously lost his way. And, at twenty-eight, I find I have grown tired of waiting.

  Sarah MacLean

  Tired, Men, Feet

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• You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.

  Sarah MacLean

  Beautiful, Life And Love, Believe

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• Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in the words grated. "The first rule of scoundrels?

  Sarah MacLean

  Believe, Firsts, Logic

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• She looked up at him and said,"What did you say?" "You have beautiful eyes." "You told my father that he has beautiful eyes?" He smiled. "No. You distracted me. I told your father that, while I was very grateful for the lesson, I doubt I would ever need of it again- because I was planning to court only one woman in my lifetime.

  Sarah MacLean

  Beautiful, Father, Grateful

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• She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “The Season”, p.151, Scholastic Inc.

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• She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling for a long moment. A raindrop moved slowly down her neck; he watched as it turned down the slope of her breast to disappear inside the collar of her shirt. He was seriously contemplating becoming jealous of a droplet of water. Yorkshire was obviously damaging to his sanity.

  Sarah MacLean

  Jealous, Long, Water

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• And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

  Sarah MacLean

  Flesh, Bullets, Consumed

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• He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

  Sarah MacLean

  Wife, Dumb, States

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• You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

  Sarah MacLean

  Challenges, Silent, Lord

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without our being childhgood neighbors, I am certain that my husband woud never have found me." Michael's gaze lit with admiration, and he lifted his glass in her direction. "At some point I would have realized what I was missing, darling. An I would have come looking for you.

  Sarah MacLean

  Husband, Glasses, Missing

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• I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

  Sarah MacLean

  One Day, Made, Not Sure

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• ..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

  Sarah MacLean

  Men, Lovers, Hesitation

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• She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

  Sarah MacLean

  Silly, Names, Important

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• Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

  Sarah MacLean

  Real, Cutting, Heroic

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• Sometimes, love was not enough.

  Sarah MacLean

  Sometimes, Enough, Sometimes Love

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• She was all he wanted. He would give everything for her. Without thought. Without regret.

  Sarah MacLean

  Regret, Giving, Wanted

  Sarah MacLean (2012). “Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart: Number 3 in series”, p.297, Hachette UK

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