Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
So much in life came down to timing.
They say everyone needs something to love.
A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven
Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.
She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.
I love the structural part of the writing process.
She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.
We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.
I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.
Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?
. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .
What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.
You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?
Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?
when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.
That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton
Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.
Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.
Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.
I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.
But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?