At times he could be charming and gracious, which was what had made it so hard to leave him. His ability to be tender and loving was equal to his capacity to be deceptive and underhanded. He could rip out my heart and then be the first one to pick it up and hand it back to me.

—Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On

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Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her Cedar Cove series of novels was adapted into a television series of the same name. Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted...

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Their relationship wouldn't be easy and the realities of a future with him were intimidating. Yet the strength of her attraction overcame her doubts.

—Debbie Macomber in Twenty Wishes

Maybe money can't buy love—but it can get you practically everything else.

—Debbie Macomber in The Perfect Christmas

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Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

—Debbie Macomber in Twenty Wishes

What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so… simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting.

—Debbie Macomber in 5-B Poppy Lane

I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison.

—Debbie Macomber in The Trouble with Angels

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Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness.

—Isabel Allende in My Invented Country

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Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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Tenderness contains an element of sadness. It is not the sadness of feeling sorry for yourself or feeling deprived, but it is a natural situation of fullness. You feel so full and rich, as if you were about to shed tears. Your eyes are full of tears, and the moment you blink, the tears will spill out of your eyes and roll down your cheeks. In order to be a good warrior, one has to feel this sad and tender heart.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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