If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously Nancy Werlin More Quotes by Nancy Werlin More Quotes From Nancy Werlin 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 healing night two 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 black fear might 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 miracle real dream 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 nice mistake thinking You can be special without being extraordinary. Nancy Werlin extraordinary special 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 telling-the-truth hate people Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story. Nancy Werlin ends stories remember Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you. Nancy Werlin love-you mean people 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 myself marriage hope people Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at. Nancy Werlin back my-own age past I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them. Nancy Werlin secrets family different writing You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book! Nancy Werlin you character book thinking There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common. Nancy Werlin mission girl impossible hair I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book. Nancy Werlin good me mind believe 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story. Nancy Werlin i-am alone book world No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo. Nancy Werlin loved beautiful book world
