Harlequin Quotes

• My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock will be no exception. I'm excited to share these sizzling new romances with readers and to do so hand in hand with Harlequin and Cosmopolitan, beloved brands known for giving women exactly what they want.

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  Sylvia Day

  Fun   Hero   Hands  

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• Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

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  Margaret Atwood

  Reading   Book   Romance  

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

  1944

• Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

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  Harlan Ellison

  Men   Harlequin   Said  

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• Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

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  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful   Sunglasses   Sugar  

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• Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Taken   Fit   Mood  

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.43

  1903

• I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

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  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book   Writing   Dark  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes. By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

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  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream   Numbers   Clouds  

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