Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at the most vulnerable, cellular level. In a time when largeness is threatening to topple us, I wish to remember and praise the beauty of smallness, in order to banish the Goliath of loneliness.
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SARAH ALEXANDER Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. SARAH BERNHARDT Legend remains victorious in spite of history. SARAH BERNHARDT Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. SARAH MCLACHLAN As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone ... SARAH MACLEAN Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood,... SARAH MACLEAN In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even gr... SARAH MACLEAN No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and re... SARAH MACLEAN There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The ar... SARAH MACLEAN In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, b... 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SARAH MACLEAN One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance n... SARAH MACLEAN Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselv... SARAH MACLEAN I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I never s... SARAH MACLEAN Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Gre... SARAH MACLEAN That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole sto... SARAH MACLEAN When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. SARAH MACLEAN In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-thre... SARAH MACLEAN The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill c... SARAH MACLEAN Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never ... SARAH PARISH I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and ... SARAH CHALKE I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the art... SARAH BUTLER