Top 25 Annie Barrows Quotes
#2. Ivy! It's a natural disaster! You have to be there!
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#3. And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster.
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#4. Whatever gave you the idea we were like everybody else?
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#5. Grandpa, that's something I never am ... Lonesome in my spirits
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#6. I have an idea for a new book. It's a novel about a beautiful yet sensitive author whose spirit is crushed by her domineering editor. Do you like it?
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#7. Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.
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#8. You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
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#9. All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity. You
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#10. That meant that Nancy was the grown-up, the one who got to decide everything. And it meant that Bean was the little, boring, poopy baby who didn't get to decide anything.
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#11. I've learned that history is the autobiography of the historian, that ignoring the past is the act of a fool, and that loyalty does not mean falling into line, but stepping out of it for the people you love.
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#12. But what can I do? I can - she leapt into the abyss - join a ladies' club. There! That's respectable! That's something I can do! I can be ladylike. Why, I can be more ladylike than anyone, as long as I can keep myself from saying the first thing that pops into my mind.
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#13. A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.
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#14. If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.
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#15. It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.
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#16. We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
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#17. I am a grown woman
mostly
and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.
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#18. I swung the door open and relaxed. She wasn't there. I stepped in and shut the door behind me. I had promised God I wouldn't touch anything. I'd just look at what was lying around. If Jane Eyre had only looked around a little, she might have saved herself a lot of heartache.
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#19. I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called the enigma of history, and it can drive you out of your mind if you let it.
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#20. He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.
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#21. Mary Ann could no more endure a day without reading than she could grow feathers.
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#23. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.
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#24. If I could believe I had a soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself.
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#25. If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.
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