Deborah Smith
Deborah Smith
Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 35 novels in romance and women's fiction. Her books include 21 series romances under her real name and under two pen names. Her bigger novels include Miracle, Blue Willow, Silk and Stone, A Place To Call Home, When Venus Fell, On Bear Mountain, Charming Grace, Sweet Hush, The Stone Flower Garden, Alice at Heart, Diary of a Radical Mermaid, The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain, and Solomon's Seal:...
beautiful teacher strong
But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful.
lying men lips
The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22
long joy sorrow
Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
husband children smart
A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land. I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.
class skills literature
I did my BA in English lit, and hated the restriction - I'd always read more in translation than not; coming from a working-class background, what I knew of as British literature - the writers who made big prize lists and/or were stocked in WH Smith, Doncaster's only bookshop until I was 17 - seemed incredibly, alienatingly middle-class. Then in 2009, just after the financial crash, I graduated with no more specific skill than 'can analyse a bit of poetry'.
water guarding depth
We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.
memories pieces might
The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.
believe wish
Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.
years london firsts
I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.
people getting-older looks
Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
might excited should
Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!
inspirational ocean insperational
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.
pittsburgh
Pittsburgh isn't the Pittsburgh of 20 years ago.