Jacquelyn Mitchard Quotes

#1. As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#2. Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

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#3. When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.

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#4. Maybe we don't get a long past. Maybe we just get a future.

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#5. Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

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#6. They talk about everything that happened right in front of me like I'm not there. They don't see me. When you don't see someone, she disappears. That's why I'm vanishing.

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#7. Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

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#8. Already there was black rain inside me.

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#9. It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone.

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#10. There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Babette Deutsch

#11. You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in.

Diana Palmer

#12. It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.

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#13. I'm optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it's about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I'm physically active and devout - just not as Buddhistic as she was.

George Takei

#14. You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

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#15. I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.

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#16. I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

Rose Kennedy

#17. Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

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#18. Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

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#19. Put a small piano in a truck and drive out on country roads; take time to discover new scenery; stop in a pretty place where there is a good church; upload the piano and tell the residents; give a concert; offer flowers to the people who have been so kind as to attend; leave again.

Sviatoslav Richter

#20. The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

#21. Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.

Greg Iles

#22. It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.

T. S. Eliot

#23. It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

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#24. There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don't understand the reason, that doesn't mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life.

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#25. I do a great deal of research. I don't want anyone to say, 'That could not have happened.' It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

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#26. What should he say to this woman that wouldn't entail ornamenting the tunic of lies he wore?

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#27. Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

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#28. Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

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#29. The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

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#30. Our sons and daughters are only passing through ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

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#31. Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth.

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#32. Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

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