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The best way to get even is to forget.
I love the way knitting brings people together.
Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.
I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.
God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle
Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.
Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.
Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.
Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.
People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle
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
Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.
Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.
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.
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.'
Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.
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.
But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.
My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.