Top 46 Eleanor Brown Quotes

#1. Every room has a mood or personality ... and it is this that one desires to develop.

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#2. Yes, you'd make a great partner for him. What with the embezzling and the adultery and the drinking. That's what every man wants in a wife - a vaguely alcoholic, fornicating thief.

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#3. And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it.

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#4. The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

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#5. There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.

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#6. Forgetting wasn't the same as being happy. Being drunk wasn't the same as forgetting ... we were at our most miserable when we're doing it to ourselves.

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#7. I keep waiting to feel old, to feel like a grown-up, but I don't yet. Do you think that's the big secret adults keep from you? That you never feel like a grown-up?

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#8. Long ago she had thought bravery equaled wandering, the power was in the journey. Now she knew that, for her, it took no courage to leave; strength came from returning. Strength lay in staying.

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#9. Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.

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#10. She did not want him. Had she ever? It is so easy to look at love when it is over and think it was never real.

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#11. Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

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#12. When I open my eyes to a painting, it is as though everything has changed and will never be the same again. Colors look more vivid, the lines and edges of objects sharper, and I fall in love with the world and all its beauty - the tragedies and love stories on the faces of people walking by,

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#13. Oh honey, we're all fuckups in our own special ways.

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#14. I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

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#15. The library drew Bean down the street, as it had drawn all of us over the years. Our parents had trained us to become readers, and the town's library had been the one place, other than church, that we visited every week.

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#16. We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

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#17. The wanderlust crept up again inside her like a shooting star, a sudden, violent urge to escape disappearing into darkness again. She pushed down the afterglow and focused.

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#18. There is no problem that a library card can't solve.

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#19. She wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

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#20. Sleeping was impossible, and we would often be found wandering the house, our white nightgowns gleaming in the darkness, a trio of Lady Macbeths, driven mad by the mercury.

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#21. Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

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#22. A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

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#23. What I mean is, I still feel like me. It's not like I wake up and think, I am a responsible adult. I just look in the mirror and see myself. the same stupid person I've been looking at for years.

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#24. Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

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#25. How different her mother's world was from hers. How different our mothers' worlds are from all of ours.

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#26. She had gone from most favored nation to useless ally, from Cordelia to Ophelia.

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#27. Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

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#28. August is a teacher's longest Sunday -Weird Sisters

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#29. we came home because we were failures

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#30. But the truth was, we had failed, and rather than let anyone else know, we crafted careful excuses and alibis, and wrapped them around ourselves like a cloak to keep out the cold truth.

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#31. Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

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#32. Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.

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#33. Sisters keep secrets.
Because sisters' secrets are swords.

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#34. Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

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#35. After our weekly trip to the library, she cleared the top of her dresser and set out her week's reading, stood them on their ends, pages fanned out, sending little puffs of text into the air.

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#36. There is no problem a library card can't solve.

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#37. He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love.

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#38. Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...

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#39. Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.

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#40. Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

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#41. We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

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#42. These were the kind [of letters] you save, folded into a memory box, to be opened years later with fingers against crackling age, heart pounding with the sick desire to be possessed by memory.

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#43. But Rose learned an important lesson: people don't always do what you tell them to do.

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#44. Your own Fear is the greatest obstacle you will ever face on your journey. Let your Faith be bigger than your Fear.

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#45. There is nothing that isn't beautiful about bread.

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#46. Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me.

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