Quotes from Hold the Dream

Barbara Taylor Bradford ·  768 pages

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“Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream


“once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream


“fraction of a second, before asking,”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream


“why would it? He had won, and”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream


“tries, and tries very hard, but she doesn’t know what it’s like to be the sole survivor, the only one left of one’s contemporaries. They’ve all gone now. They’re all dead and buried. My dearest friends, my loved ones. Even my enemies are no longer around to get my goat and spark the will in me to fight.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream



“most disturbing part of the meeting had been Sarah’s blatant dislike”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, quote from Hold the Dream


About the author

Barbara Taylor Bradford
Born place: in Leeds, West Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
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