Top 43 Ann Rinaldi Quotes
#1. A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.
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#2. Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.
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#3. The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.
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#4. Haven't my past sermons taught you anything?"
"Yes," Emilie threw at him, "that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren't, who need Him, you toss away like garbage.
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#5. He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.
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#6. There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.
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#7. Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?"
"I hope so," I said.
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#8. As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
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#9. A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.
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#10. I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to."
She stared at me. "That's all?"
To me it was not all, it was everything.
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#11. He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb
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#12. I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
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#13. I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.
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#15. I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
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#16. Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.
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#17. Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.
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#18. I do not know what will be the end of it.
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#19. I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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#20. Because that's how intelligent people conduct themselves. They allow for each other's differences.
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#23. I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.
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#24. Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.
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#25. I think he is just an old man who still believes in his country, his old Germany. we all wanted a new Germany, but not at the cost of this madman, Hitler. Your grandpa can't be blamed for loving his old Germany.
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#26. I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.
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#27. There are different kinds of love, Sarah. I feel one kind of love for your father. A special kind. Another kind for Warren. And still a different kind for you children.' She smiled at me. 'Heaven rue the day we can't feel love for one another. I wouldn't want to live in such a world, would you?
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#28. Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.
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#29. No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.
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#30. Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.
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#31. You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
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#32. Our enemies make us strong, Miss Muffet, not our friends. Our friends will lie to us, tell us what we need to hear. Forgive us. We must keep a few good enemies on hand, always, to keep us sharp and teach us never to do anything that needs forgiveness.
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#33. Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.
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#34. You don't have to love somebody to miss them. You get used to having them around, like a cat or a bird.
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#35. Two women, one nigra and one white, whose voices were part of me, whose hands had comforted, soothed, and taught. One a pine-knot torch and the other a scented beeswax candle against the darkness of my ignorance and fear. Both gone.
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#36. Her face was a map I'd like to trace. I'd love to see where it would take me. And I'd love to see where she had been.
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#37. When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.
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#38. War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever.
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#39. When a woman's face is wrinkled
And her hairs are sprinkled,
With gray, Lackaday!
Aside she's cast,
No one respect will pay;
Remember, Lasses, remember.
And while the sun shines make hay:
You must not expect in December,
The flowers you gathered in May.
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#40. The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.
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#41. I earn my own respect," I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.
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#42. ... There was something regal about her. She carried herself like she was wearing pink moire. And that powerless complexion glowed. Watching her, it came to me that she must have some Yankee strength that didn't need frippery.
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#43. My heart stopped beating, I know it did. Hearts do that sometimes, for just a beat or two. Then they start up again. But they never regain those missed beats, and nothing is ever the same afterwards. Life proceeds to a different cadence, and never again as harmonious as before
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