5 Quotes & Sayings By Debra Dean

Debra Dean is a best-selling American author of inspirational fiction, with over 6 million copies of her novels in print. Her novel "The Sunflower" was nominated for a RITA award. She has written four books about the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She is the co-author of "The Queen's Wit", a biography of Shakespeare's wife, published in 14 volumes by Oxford University Press.

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Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks. Debra Dean
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Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question. Debra Dean
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Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this is a picture about love. Filial love. The old man has been condemned by the Roman senate to die of hunger, and his daughter has come to his prison cell and offered her breast to feed him. This has nothing to do with with the decorous love or amorous passions one is more accustomed to seeing in a painting. It is raw and wretched and demeaning. In the end, we are physical bodies and every abstract notion about love sinks beneath this fact. Debra Dean
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She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves. Debra Dean