Elise Broach Quotes

#1. The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.

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#2. A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger. pg. 287

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#3. But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

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#4. This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.

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#5. That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much about human nature. And write about it in a way that still rings true, all these years later.' ". . . " 'That's Shakespeare's secret. . .

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#6. A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

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#7. ...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.

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#8. My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.

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#9. I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.

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#10. It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.

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#11. That was the very heart of friendship ... your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.

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#12. The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.

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#13. There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

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#14. My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

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#15. My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

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