Quotes by Sarah MacLean

About Sarah MacLean:

Sarah MacLean is a New York Times bestselling American author of young adult novels and romance novels. Her first adult romance novel, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List, where it stayed for four weeks. Since February 2014, MacLean has written a monthly romance novel review column for The Washington Post. She is a two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for A Rogue by Any Other Name in 2013 and No Good Duke Goes Unpunished in 2014.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Hope was a fool’s emotion.

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We were discussing the fine puppetry of fate.

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What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d done. He settled on: “I made a mistake.

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I notice more than you could imagine.

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It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.

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I love your laugh. I want to hear it every day. I want to be through all this darkness and devastation. I want happiness now. I want our due. I want what we’ve deserved from the beginning.” He paused and stared deep into her eyes, willing her to ...

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Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied, "Not at all. I said I think you charming." "A fine start." "And I appreciate your exuberance." His eyes glitered with bar...

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Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary

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You realize that is you allow me to court you, all your opposition to marriage is going to have to be reconsidered." She smiled, feigning innocence."What opposition to marriage?" "Excellent." "But I'm thinking we should have a long courtship." "Why?"...

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Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

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I am happy to pay you," she announced. "For your services." A harsh, strangled sound cut through the room. It came from him. "Pay me." She nodded. "Would say, twenty-five pounds do?" "No." Her brows knit together. "Of course, a person of your--prowes...

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It makes you ache,” he whispered, and she watched the curve of his lips in the darkness. “You’ll make any promise, swear any oath. For one… perfect… unsoiled taste.

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Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love.

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The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

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In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

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The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.

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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 again because it has left me for some other, better writer.

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'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.

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Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

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There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.

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I never met Colleen McCullough; if I had, I probably would have cried and made a fool of myself.

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Author Bio

  • NameSarah MacLean
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornDecember 17, 1978
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist