14 Quotes & Sayings By Lisa Tawn Bergren

Lisa Tawn Bergren lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. She is the author of more than one hundred books for children, young adults, and adults. Her fiction includes the New York Times best-seller, The Morning Lark, a novel for which she received a 1995 National Book Award nomination. She has also written over a dozen picture books for children and has collaborated on several picture books with her daughter, Elisabeth Bergren Read more

Her nonfiction titles include the award-winning I'm Not Afraid of Anything: A Mother's Memoir and My Daughter's Horse: A Memoir. In 2001 Lisa received the North Carolina Author of the Year Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.

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His eyes opened, and he stared at me. The morning light was streaming through the window, and my hair rolled in waves over either shoulder.“ God has smiled upon me. I have the most beautiful wife in all the land. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Lia let out a low growl and moved her arrow to the base of his fat throat. "What do you think, Gabi? Would you like to see these nuptials through?"" Not this day, " I said" How about on the morrow?" Marcello asked, smiling and lifting my hand to his lips. "If I am your groom?"" Hold that e Harmony thought, " Lia whispered in English. "We gotta get out of here. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Are you educated in the art of medicine?” Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. “A bit, ” I hedged. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt. But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love? Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Fortes fortuna adiuvat, " Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you? Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step. Lisa Tawn Bergren
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I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war. Lisa Tawn Bergren