Nancy Werlin

Writer

1961-10-29

Quotes by Nancy Werlin

• But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

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• It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

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• It was any outcast's nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

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• Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

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• Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

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• It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?It took him a minute. Yes, he said finnally. It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her.Oh? What?I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on.Lucy didn't laugh. Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

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• It was any outcast's nightmare.If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

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• It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

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• But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

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• Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

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• It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?It took him a minute. Yes, he said finnally. It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her.Oh? What?I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on.Lucy didn't laugh. Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

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• Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

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• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

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