Irene Hunt Quotes

#1. We mustn't give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

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#2. I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense, when the need to grasp and keep loveliness left me with a sense of desolate frustration.

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#3. Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.

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#4. That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.

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#5. I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

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#6. On such a night,' I thought, 'were ill and good,
Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry,
All mingled into one
And pressed against my heart.

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#7. I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

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#8. And then suddenly Danny's arms were around me, and his lips were on mine, and the crazy windshield wipers commenced singing our names together.

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#9. I had sparkle that morning, sparkle that originated somewhere deep inside me and spread outward to my cheeks and eyes, even it seemed, to the gleam of my hair.

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#10. I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning - raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

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#11. One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

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#12. I don't know if anyone ever "wins" a war, Jeth.

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#13. Once again, both Chris and I were manipulated like small puppets in our world of adults. We didn't like it, and we suffered, but the tall ones around us said that we would soon get over our sadness, that we would "adapt" in a matter of weeks.

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#14. No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

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#15. That old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

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#16. Beautiful hours move so quickly.

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#17. Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

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