Catherine Marks Quotes & Sayings

Leo smiled and stroked her hair. 'We'll both be fine, Marks. We've just begun our journey ... and there's so much we have yet to do.' He spoke more softly as he heard her breathing turn even and steady. 'Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.'
'Dodger?' she mumbled against his chest, and he grinned.
'No, your confounded ferret will have to stay in his basket. I was referring to myself.'
'Yes, I know.' Catherine slid her hand up to his cheek. 'Only you,' she said. 'Always you. — Lisa Kleypas

I think we all have to believe in something greater than ourselves. Something as distant and magnificent as the stars. — Leila Rasheed

I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another. — Catherine Brady

When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again. — Catherine Brady

It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. — E. M. Forster

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had. — Rob Portman

I expect the notions of personal freedom and representative government would appear radical to a slave of the corporate world." "A — Anthony Ryan

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. — Jean-Paul Sartre

One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality? — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years. — Debra Dean

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst. — Peter Kreeft

Just because words come out of somebody's mouth doesn't make them true. — Rebecca Brockway

Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them. — Bryant McGill

If you don't leave my room this instant," she heard herself say, "I'll make a scene." "Marks, there is nothing in the world I would enjoy more than watching you make a scene. In fact, I'll help you. How shall we start?"
- Catherine & Leo — Lisa Kleypas