From traditional Valentine’s Day to Galentine’s Day (the celebration of love for our girlfriends), over-priced roses and enormous amounts of chocolate…this week, there is a bit more love in the air than usual. Here on the island, we’re fortunate to add our love of reading, writing, and other authors into the mix with the Amelia Island Book Festival starting on Valentine’s Day. An author luncheon, a gala, a book expo and, of course, an #IndieAuthor reception… it’s going to be delicious. And all of that is followed by the anniversary of my marriage to the love of my life — someone known\u00a0online as “Favorite Husband.” My heart is full.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLove yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.\u201d\u2014 Lucille Ball<\/p>\n

[bctt tweet=”We accept the love we think we deserve.” username=”AndreaPatten”]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe accept the love we think we deserve.\u201d \u2015 Stephen Chbosky, <\/span>The Perks of Being a Wallflower\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.\u201d \u2015 Elie Wiesel<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy six word love story: I can\u2019t imagine life without you.\u201d \u2013 Anonymous<\/p>\n

[bctt tweet=”My six word love story: I can\u2019t imagine life without you.” username=”AndreaPatten”]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness\u2014and call it love\u2014true love.\u201d \u2015 Robert Fulghum, <\/span>True Love<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.\u201d \u2015 William Shakespeare, <\/span>All’s Well That Ends Well<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.\u201d \u2015 Jane Austen, <\/span>Northanger Abbey<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s pretty much always love.<\/a>” – Diana Gabaldon<\/p>\n

[bctt tweet=”It’s pretty much always love.” username=”AndreaPatten”]<\/p>\n

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From traditional Valentine’s Day to Galentine’s Day (the celebration of love for our girlfriends), over-priced roses and enormous amounts of chocolate…this week, there is a bit more love in the air than usual. Here on the island, we’re fortunate to add our love of reading, writing, and other authors into the mix with the Amelia Island Book Festival starting on Valentine’s Day. An author luncheon, a gala, a book expo and, of course, an #IndieAuthor reception… it’s going to be delicious. And all of that is followed by the anniversary of my marriage to the love of my life — someone known\u00a0online as “Favorite Husband.” My heart is full. \u201cLove yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.\u201d\u2014 Lucille Ball [bctt tweet=”We accept the love we think we deserve.” username=”AndreaPatten”] \u201cWe accept the love we think we deserve.\u201d \u2015 Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower\u00a0 \u201cThe opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.\u201d \u2015 Elie Wiesel \u201cMy six word love story: I can\u2019t imagine life without you.\u201d \u2013 Anonymous [bctt tweet=”My six word love story: I can\u2019t imagine life without you.” username=”AndreaPatten”] \u201cWe\u2019re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness\u2014and call it love\u2014true love.\u201d \u2015 Robert Fulghum, True Love \u201cLove all, trust a few, do wrong to none.\u201d \u2015 William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well \u201cThere is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.\u201d \u2015 Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey “It’s pretty much always love.” – Diana Gabaldon [bctt tweet=”It’s pretty much always love.” username=”AndreaPatten”]  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-12814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreapatten.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}