3 Quotes & Sayings By Caroline Blackwood

Caroline Blackwood is a well-known author of contemporary romance novels. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in English literature. After college, she moved to Toronto, Canada, where she began writing for magazines and newspapers. The idea for her first novel came to her while she was washing dishes in a Toronto restaurant Read more

Her debut novel, The Perfect Match, debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2003. Since then, she's had over 100 books on the bestseller list. She married her husband on August 14th, 2011, and they now live in North Carolina with their three daughters.

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I had hardly ever seen Great Granny Webster at that time, and yet her feelings interested me. She was little more to me than the silhouette of a formidable old woman dressed in black who appeared occasionally at family gatherings and made us feel that she was taking a dangerous risk with her upright spine when circumstances forced her to bend over and kiss her great-grandchildren. Caroline Blackwood
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Aunt Lavinia always had a near-religious belief that it was wicked to inflict one's personal despair on others. Any display of self-pity or self-dissatisfaction she saw as a social cruelty that was very nearly criminal. Caroline Blackwood