Quotes from The Front Runner

Patricia Nell Warren ·  320 pages

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“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner


“Love is when you fry the other person's bacon even if you're a vegetarian.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner


“The angel of death had cruised him. Death, that hustler, that last lover.”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner


“Let us live without hate among those who hate”
― Patricia Nell Warren, quote from The Front Runner


About the author

Patricia Nell Warren
Born place: in Helena Montana, The United States
Born date June 15, 1936
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