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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...
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The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, d...
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Alas, summer sun can't last forever. The days will grow cooler and shorter, and our skin will on...
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As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone ...
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Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood,...
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In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even gr...
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No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and re...
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There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The ar...
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In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, b...
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No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it,...
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For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be...
SARAH MACLEAN

At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, h...
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'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, c...
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I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age...
SARAH MACLEAN

Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the mos...
SARAH MACLEAN

The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rog...
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One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance n...
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Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselv...
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I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never s...
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Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Gre...
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That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole sto...
SARAH MACLEAN

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.
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In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-thre...
SARAH MACLEAN

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill c...
SARAH MACLEAN

As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made fo...
SARAH MACLEAN

Romance readers love a wealthy hero, and why not? There's value in a man able to hire a helicopt...
SARAH MACLEAN

The most confident of women are those who believe in every scrap of fabric they wear. They are the o...
SARAH MACLEAN

Would you like to cross another item off this list today?"

"I should like that very much....
SARAH MACLEAN

As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit ...
SARAH MACLEAN

Kisses should not leave you satisfied.
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I do, love. I want you more than you could ever know. More than I could have ever dreamed. I want yo...
SARAH MACLEAN

No matter the differences between them, brothers are brothers.
SARAH MACLEAN

What does Éloa mean?”

He narrowed his gaze, answered her literally. “It’s the name...
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Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, ...
SARAH MACLEAN

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of a...
SARAH MACLEAN

Era um vestido projetado para realçar, encorajar e levar os homens à loucura. Um vestido que só s...
SARAH MACLEAN

She was mine before she was yours,” Tommy said, anger in his tone. “All those years without you ...
SARAH MACLEAN

Even now, even as she faced a lifetime with him, she thought of her sisters. She was legions too goo...
SARAH MACLEAN

And it’s time you stop dickering around and accept yourself a suit.” Penelope’s eyes went wide...
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She supposed the lake was part of her dowry, now. Michael would have to ask permission to fish there...
SARAH MACLEAN

He should be named Lord Simpleton,” Olivia said, frankly. Pippa chuckled. “Stop. He’s nice eno...
SARAH MACLEAN

Michael,” she whispered, wishing he would kiss her. “I love the way you say my name. You’re th...
SARAH MACLEAN

He's nice enough. He likes dogs." She looked to Penelope. "As does Tommy."

"This is what ...
SARAH MACLEAN

Scandal had made it easy for Penelope to end the engagement without being jilted. Well, at least, no...
SARAH MACLEAN

Penelope!” Lady Needham stood just inside the door to the dining room, stick straight, her hands c...
SARAH MACLEAN

Penelope! Marriage proposals from wealthy, eligible young men do not blossom on trees!” Particular...
SARAH MACLEAN

Don’t be so sily, Philippa,” the marchioness said, “Lord Castleton is an earl. Beggars cannot ...
SARAH MACLEAN

Sadly, expectations did not make for good marriages.
SARAH MACLEAN

How sad,” she whispered to herself. He heard it. “What?” She shook her head, meeting his gaze,...
SARAH MACLEAN

He was saved from having to reply by Philippa, turning to face them. "What on earth? Do you see this...
SARAH MACLEAN

Yes, it had been a perfect match, except for the fact that he had been perfectly in love with someon...
SARAH MACLEAN

It should all feel splendid. You tell me if it doesn't, and I shall rectify the situation.
SARAH MACLEAN

It wasn't that she thought highly of herself. It was that she thought highly of the promise of more.
SARAH MACLEAN

When you father dies! What then?"

Lord Needham looked up from his pheasant. "I beg your p...
SARAH MACLEAN

Fortuitous mostly for me,Lady Holloway," she said, her gaze steadfast on her husband. "For without o...
SARAH MACLEAN

How long has it been since you’ve slept?” Chase asked.
“I sleep.” Not much.
“How...
SARAH MACLEAN

In the silence that ensued, Mariana turned her gaze on Callie. Ignoring her sister's pleading look, ...
SARAH MACLEAN

I intend to play. We require a dealer."

Michael’s gaze snapped to her as Langford sneer...
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He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual ...
SARAH MACLEAN

First, I thought we'd already established that I am not a gentleman. That ship sailed long ago. And ...
SARAH MACLEAN

When in doubt, bluff.
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Chase picked up the card. “I’m happy to share from my personal experience, if you like.”
...
SARAH MACLEAN

He missed you just as I did. He worried about you just as I worried. He looked for you. Tried to fin...
SARAH MACLEAN

Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN

Dear Sixpence,

I saved them all, you know. Every letter you ever sent, even those to whic...
SARAH MACLEAN

Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn’t know it.
“I fell in the Serpentine t...
SARAH MACLEAN

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned si...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It'...
RORY MACLEAN

Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of nort...
RORY MACLEAN

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
NORMAN MACLEAN

To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because the city is forever in the process of ...
RORY MACLEAN

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe...
NORMAN MACLEAN

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the pric...
AUDREY MACLEAN

Mandy Sutter's 'Bush Meat' triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarmin...
RORY MACLEAN

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...
NORMAN MACLEAN

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
NORMAN MACLEAN

Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
AUDREY MACLEAN

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice...
RORY MACLEAN

Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.
RORY MACLEAN

But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topo...
NORMAN MACLEAN

Hockey Day in Canada has become an unofficial holiday for Canadian hockey fans everywhere. It is imp...
RON MACLEAN

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.
RORY MACLEAN

As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from a...
NORMAN MACLEAN

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly b...
NORMAN MACLEAN

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-tro...
NORMAN MACLEAN

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask...
NORMAN MACLEAN

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a...
AUDREY MACLEAN

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich...
RORY MACLEAN

The average taxpayer wants their potholes filled, their roads maintained, their sidewalks maintained...
DAVID MACLEAN

We use primary and secondary data to make models using current econometric methods.
CATHERINE MACLEAN

Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so c...
NANCY MACLEAN

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact a...
RORY MACLEAN

I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched....
NORMAN MACLEAN

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...
NORMAN MACLEAN

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what beca...
AUDREY MACLEAN

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear
NORMAN MACLEAN

I got a call on my way to practice this morning, and it took me about 4 hours to get here because I ...
DONALD MACLEAN

I'm the type of player that once I get hot, I usually stay hot. At the start of every season, I put ...
DONALD MACLEAN

You have to, that was a conversation between Mike and I, that we had to make the money work for both...
DOUG MACLEAN

It's really unfortunate for him, as a kid you hate to see that, it was an awkward type thing. He's o...
DOUG MACLEAN

He has played with the game's best players in Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr and has also excelled i...
DOUG MACLEAN

I posed it to him as a challenge. He was successful in Colorado helping them win a championship. Now...
DOUG MACLEAN

I would like to believe it was an unbelievable recruiting job, but I don't think that was the case. ...
DOUG MACLEAN

He's as tough as they come. All I know he may be the best conditioned athlete in the league, and tha...
DOUG MACLEAN

I've got a funny feeling that if Detroit could spend $80 million this year and the Rangers could spe...
DOUG MACLEAN

He earned a spot on our roster and will be a tremendous complement to the young talent in our organi...
DOUG MACLEAN

He's a big part of our future and we think he has a chance to make an impact on our team as early as...
DOUG MACLEAN

I didn't look at the market, I looked at our particular financial situation. I think everyone will l...
DOUG MACLEAN

If I don't fish for a season, I'm dead. I'm history. It scares the heck out of me. I'm 56. I've done...
DUNCAN MACLEAN

It puts us in the poor house. I'm still optimistic that we can come out with something along the lin...
DUNCAN MACLEAN

The market softens now because they anticipate those guys going fishing and they anticipate cheaper ...
DUNCAN MACLEAN

Last season was the most restrictive on record. This year, we're hoping we just have some sort of se...
DUNCAN MACLEAN

Last year's season cut my income by 25 percent, and if you cut it by half again, I'm not going to be...
DUNCAN MACLEAN

It's not a pretty picture. Our options are either we have no season or we use an emergency rule whic...
DUNCAN MACLEAN

Berlin is all about volatility. Its identity is based not on stability but on change.
RORY MACLEAN

One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw.
RORY MACLEAN

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci
NORMAN MACLEAN

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with s...
RORY MACLEAN

Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy ...
RORY MACLEAN

They ought to be making the levels of government that they have work properly and they're not, judgi...
DAVID MACLEAN

It's completely out of whack with what the average taxpayer out there is looking for,
DAVID MACLEAN

The strange thing about falling in love is, we know what it looks and feels like. But we can’t rea...
CHARLIE MACLEAN

She’s not the kind of girl you can easily forget,” Alex said, before sitting upright again and t...
CHARLIE MACLEAN

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its d...
RORY MACLEAN

My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver cur...
RORY MACLEAN

I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet.
AUDREY MACLEAN

I back people who I think will be seeking help and advice. These are the best entrepreneurs.
AUDREY MACLEAN

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You ha...
AUDREY MACLEAN

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market s...
AUDREY MACLEAN

I'm only going to make investments with people that I'd want to spend time with anyway.
AUDREY MACLEAN

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.
AUDREY MACLEAN

[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any ...
NANCY MACLEAN

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't no...
NORMAN MACLEAN

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

They did not take it well. I was disappointed about that after all the dedication and hard work work...
MICHAEL MACLEAN

Based upon the activity we experienced, we are confident in our ability to acquire significant numbe...
ROB MACLEAN

It's a true blessing. It's just a true love of the best game of all.
RON MACLEAN

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things-...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN

Palm Sunday I bind my heart, this tide, to the Galilean's side, To the wounds of Calvary, to the C...
LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT

On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderos...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN

I am in love with Montana . . . Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is lik...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN

Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big wat...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction ...
NORMAN FITZROY MACLEAN

If we are looking for respect and peace from others, isn't that something we should be offering to t...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Reach out beyond the cloud and touch the silver lining.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Live WISE and watch the ripple effect flow. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

We are not victims by nature...we are programmed to be victims...for good reason...if we truly embra...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

For every challenge we face and embrace, there are benefits of equal value. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

With karma, not taking responsibiilty for yourself means that you are not a victim, what it means is...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Your reaction says more about you then the people you are reacting to. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Making changes and shifts to the greater whole, begins with our own personal shifts. Holding onto fe...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

It's time to remove ourselves from the time loop we have been stuck in for so long and create a new ...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Expectations lead to self imposed limitations
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Live WISE!
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

The art of listening is enhanced when we open our minds
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Don't shrink who you are, to make others comfortable, rather empower them to see they are just as la...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Living with pure intent allows your life to flow freely and openly. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Peoples reactions say alot more about themselves then it does the people they are reacting to Live W...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Blame and/or guilt is like quick sand...you just keep sinking deeper...taking responsibility allows ...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Don't wait for a hero, don't follow a leader, be your own hero, be your own leader...unite with othe...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Our compass points towards fate when we are not concentrating.
MICHAEL C MACLEAN

There is learning in each and every interaction we have in life, even the most seemingly negative. I...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Change the choice, shift the result. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

More rules, regulations and laws is never the answer...especially when they simply address the sympt...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

The way out is within. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Stay on target. Find your common goal with others and stay focused in reaching all in unity. Live WI...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

It's time to drive on our own freeway of life.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Take the next leap of faith with yourself and trust that miracles are occurring in real time.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

"We reflect outward what we feel inward" Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Passion is contagious, share yours and encourage others to embrace their own. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

When our minds are at rest, our true selves can soar.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

It's time to free ourselves of the chains and fear.....and clear our way to our own new paradigm of ...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Unconditional love is a gfit we are born with...unwrap the package to embrace it within ourselves
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Peace on earth begins with peace within ourselves.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Life is our teacher....people are our books...the world is our classroom. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

If you can't be honest with another, then you aren't being honest to yourself. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

We are only as free as our fears allows us to be.
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

The shift has begun.....now its our time to take our responsibilities...shifting from a victim menta...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

If we don't come together, we will surely fall apart. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Knowledge is power....awareness is key. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

A soldier with a gun is no match for a fearless women with heart. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

“If you are looking outside yourself for change to happen, then you are looking in the wrong direc...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Fear and love can't reside in the same place. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Connecting to the WISE Foundations of Existence embraces your WISE potential. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

“Life is a journey of shared experiences, hidden treasures and surreal ironies.......Dream your dr...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Through the darkness shines your WISE power. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Choose flight not fight
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Unconditional love of self isnt forced...its felt and flows naturally
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

If you are looking outside yourself for change to happen, then you are going in the wrong direction....
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

An Intent of peace and love will manifest truth
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

In the game of LIFE, if you focus on winning or losing, you get no where, focus on finding inner pea...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

Unconditional love is a gift we are born with...unwrapping the package allows us to embrace it withi...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

You can become your pain or you can understand it and free yourself of it to embrace who you truly a...
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

A person with a gun is no match for a fearless person with heart. Live WISE~
GAIL MARIE MACLEAN

By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.

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By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.

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