4 Quotes & Sayings By Claire Holden Rothman

Claire Holden Rothman is the author of the international best-selling novels The Wordy Shipmates, A Deeper Sleep, and No One Else Can Have You. Her stories have been published in the USA Today bestseller list more than 150 times. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her writing, including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Single Title Romance; ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award; and the Grand Prize for Fiction at Romantic Times Book Club's National Readers' Choice Awards.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend...
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Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it. Claire Holden Rothman
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It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity. Claire Holden Rothman
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I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes. Claire Holden Rothman