Top 27 Maggie Shipstead Quotes
#1. Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.
Maria Semple
#2. As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.
Caitlin Moran
#3. Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
Dani Shapiro
#4. People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, they would only learn everything that was to be despised in the other.
Maggie Shipstead
#5. Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like ... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#6. When they are alone, lying quietly, he holds her the way a child holds a stuffed animal: for comfort, for security, out of a primate's urge to cling, to close one's arms around a warm, soft object.
Maggie Shipstead
#7. She hates to disappoint him. She fears the slow, corrosive trickle of reality into his adulation.
Maggie Shipstead
#8. What a sad and cynical world this has become when one is forced to be suspicious of pie.
Sandra Peterson Ramirez
#9. This was truly advanced WASP: how to comfort a wronged wife and mother without acknowledging any misdeeds done or embarrassment caused by loved ones.
Maggie Shipstead
#10. Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word 'waiting' out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.
Maggie Shipstead
#12. She seems distracted, the way Joan feels when Harry is away on a school trip and part of her tries to follow him clairvoyantly through his day, probing the ether for any sign of distress.
Maggie Shipstead
#13. The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.
Lyman Abbott
#14. Her throat is tight with fear. She is afraid of how this man, this stranger, has already changed the sensation of being alive. She is afraid he will slip away.
Maggie Shipstead
#16. It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
Thomas Paine
#17. We cannot control how others feel and react. Even though we should understand feelings, there are some things that are out of our control, and some decisions we can only make for ourselves.
Jack Canfield
#18. I just wish insignificance had more stature.
Andy Rooney
#19. Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
Maggie Shipstead
#20. Though she would never say so, Sandy holds the opinion that mothers who keep their figures have sacrificed less than mothers who have widened and softened.
Maggie Shipstead
#21. He finds low-level jealousy to be enlivening, pleasantly astringent.
Maggie Shipstead
#22. No number of compliments will convince her of anything, and one of Jacob's projects in their marriage is to wean her off perfectionism.
Maggie Shipstead
#23. What do I do?' she had asked Harry. 'What do I do now? Everything is ruined. You've ruined everything.' 'That you think that," he'd said, "is exactly the problem.
Maggie Shipstead
#24. The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.
Brad Stine
#25. Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.
Maggie Shipstead
#26. All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by the slightest disturbance into puffing up and flashing warning colors.
Shipstead, Maggie
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