Top 27 Elise Broach Quotes
#1. See, your laugh is exactly what's keeping me away, woman. I just want to kiss those lips and hoard that sound all to myself.
Linda Kage
#2. 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.
Elise Broach
#4. 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.
Elise Broach
#5. There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.
Elise Broach
#6. Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
Cornelia Funke
#7. 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.
Elise Broach
#8. 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.
Elise Broach
#9. In the time of the robber barons, my great grandfather insisted on reinvesting and sharing profits with workers ... He was told he was a socialist, that he was not welcome on Wall Street.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#11. 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.
Elise Broach
#12. 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.
Elise Broach
#13. My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.
Elise Broach
#14. ...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.
Elise Broach
#15. We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
Robert Pozen
#17. A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!
Elise Broach
#18. 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. . .
Elise Broach
#19. I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#20. I'm proud of you. You could have run away, but you didn't. That's what most of us do when we have to face a giant.
Chris Coppernoll
#21. The map of our life is folded in such a way that we cannot see one main road across it, but as it is opened out, we are constantly seeing new side roads. We think we are choosing, and we have no choice.
Jean Cocteau
#22. 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.
Elise Broach
#23. But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.
Elise Broach
#24. I'm standing on the balcony a full ten seconds before I realize it's raining, washing me clean of my boiling anger.
Victoria Aveyard
#25. It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.
Cheryl Strayed
#26. 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
Elise Broach
#27. The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.
Elise Broach
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