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

—Debbie Macomber in The Perfect Christmas

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About Debbie Macomber

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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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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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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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I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul.

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

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My old man used to say you could be dollar-poor but emotionally rich if you had one good friend.

—Fern Michaels in The Guest List

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The fact is, being married to your job for some portion or all of your life, even if it does in some way inhibit romantic prospects, is not necessarily a terrible fate, provided that you are lucky enough to enjoy your work, or the money you earn at it, or the respect it garners you, or the people you do it with.

—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies

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Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.

—Robin Williams

Money can't buy you happiness, but happiness sure is a hell of a lot easier to find when you're not worried about where your next meal is coming from.

—Christina Lauren

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Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

—Margaret Thatcher

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