Claire Cross
Deborah Cooke also writes under the names Claire Delacroix and Claire Cross.
Deborah makes her home in Canada with her husband. When she isn't writing, she can be found knitting, sewing or hunting for vintage patterns. Deborah Cooke has always been fascinated with dragons, although she has never understood why they have to be the bad guys. She has an honors degree in history, with a focus on medieval studies. She is an avid reader of medieval vernacular literature, fairy tales and fantasy novels, and has written over thirty romance novels under the names Claire Cross and Claire Delacroix.
“Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.”
Claire Cross
“Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick.”
Claire Cross
“Semper ubi sub ubi”
Claire Cross
“Res ipsa loquitur”
Claire Cross
“You only get one life so dream big. Dream bold. Dream in color”
Claire Cross
“They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe.”
Claire Cross
“Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.”
Claire Cross
“The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.”
Claire Cross
“Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?”
Claire Cross
“The softest hearts always have the toughest shields.”
Claire Cross
“Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.”
Claire Cross
“It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.”
Claire Cross
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Claire Cross
“So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan.”
Claire Cross
“There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.”
Claire Cross
“Life is too short to cower.”
Claire Cross
“If love disappeared when we touched the fault-lines, it wouldn't be worth much, would it?”
Claire Cross