Belva Plain Quotes

#1. The gods speak to us, and irony is their language.

Tim W. Burke

#2. Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

Belva Plain

#3. Wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Belva Plain

#4. All life is a pattern ... but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it.

Belva Plain

#5. His voice is all peculiar and he's got a funny smell. Not hamsterish like Libby but sort of doggy/cheesy. I don't think all boys smell like that. Perhaps it's because he's my cousin.

Anonymous

#6. I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

Belva Plain

#7. Her breath caught as she watched Noah unzip, and shove his pants down, his boxer briefs going with them.
Veronica wondered if he'd heard her thunderous gulp as she gazed at his flawless body.

Elizabeth Reyes

#8. It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

Belva Plain

#9. Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

Belva Plain

#10. Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?

Jeff Goldblum

#11. If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

Walt Disney

#12. During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

Craig Ferguson

#13. How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

#14. O yes! a machine for saving work, is it? He'd invent that, I'll be bound; let a nigger alone for that, any time. They are all labor-saving machines themselves, every one of 'em. No, he shall tramp!

Harriet Beecher Stowe