I should have seduced you at the ball,” she said. “Kilts are probably much more convenient.”
“Oh, aye,” said Colin, and his smile was full of light. “But you’ll get another chance or ten, I promise.

This is not a quote but it is the only way I found to contact you. Please note the following: You are confusing James Allen, American writer, with James Allen, British writer. Please have a look on the following site: http://james-allen.in1woord.nl/ and a photo of the English author is available throught the Preface of his "Book of meditations for Every Day in the Year". So, the quotes published here belong to James Allen, British author and not to the American author. Kind regards, Isabel

"If cats could talk, they'd sing as Frank Sinatra. If dogs could talk, they'd act as Chris Farley".

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.

May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.