15 Quotes & Sayings By Nancy Werlin

Nancy Werlin is the author of fourteen novels for adults and young adults. Her novel, "A Simple Plan," was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1999. Nancy lives in Seattle with her husband, former NBA player Michael Cage, and their two children, who are not named Murphy.

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It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes, " he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?"I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works. Nancy Werlin
Music links us humans, heart to heart... Across time and...
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Music links us humans, heart to heart... Across time and space, and life and death. Nancy Werlin
Anyone in this world can have the power of life...
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Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin) Nancy Werlin
It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I...
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It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window. Nancy Werlin
It is absolutely okay with me if you need to...
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It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand. Nancy Werlin
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But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape. Nancy Werlin
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I walked out. I left. Andy Jankowski had taught me how. Nancy Werlin
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Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end. Nancy Werlin
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From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us, " not the "I." For that is true love, is it not? Nancy Werlin
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People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin) Nancy Werlin
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When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything. Nancy Werlin
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Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue. Nancy Werlin
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No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth. Nancy Werlin
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea. Nancy Werlin