Top 41 Mary Alice Quotes
#1. The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
Richard Peck
#2. Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.
Mary Alice Monroe
#3. Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness
one that I believe is found in all living creatures.
Mary Alice
#5. That was the day Alice Mary Love went to the gym and carelessly misplaced a decade of her life.
Liane Moriarty
#6. I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
Mary Alice Monroe
#7. Hello," he said. "Tom?" A whoop of joy. "Alice, where are you? Are you all right?" "Never better, Tom. And you?
Mary Higgins Clark
#8. The butterfly is the totem of transformation and change and a symbol of courage.
Mary Alice Monroe
#9. Dawn tore at the seam of night, pulling the blackness back a little farther with each passing minute.
Mary Alice Monroe
#10. One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.
Mary Gaitskill
#11. To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
Mary Alice Monroe
#12. Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we've taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead.
Mary Alice
#13. Don't live in a world of 'I never should have'. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at the stars.
Mary Alice Kruesi
#14. Yes, you can learn a lot about women, from what they choose to wear. You can learn even more by what they choose to take off, and who they take it off for.
Mary Alice
#15. Friends come and go. But through the thick and thin, the good and bad, you can only ever count on your family. That's the heart of it. Family.
Mary Alice Monroe
#17. Adele," she mouthed. Mary looked up, she couldn't help it, toward the desk where Adele sat, her back to them, her dirty blond hair draped perfectly over her lovely shoulders. "Rita," another girl from the office, "saw them both," Pauline whispered. "At lunch." She
Alice McDermott
#18. She'd neglected to make choices for her inner self as well. She'd given away too much.
Mary Alice Monroe
#19. Do what your heart - and your instincts - command and you will not be disappointed!
Mary Alice Kruesi
#20. The wind," Mary said again. "It was making everyone tear up.
Alice McDermott
#21. Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.
Mary Alice Monroe
#22. I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!
Mary Alice Monroe
#23. See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.
Mary Alice Monroe
#24. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.
Mary Alice
#25. Middle of May," Alice said. "I'm a May baby. We're calm, sweet-natured people.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#26. Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.
Mary Alice
#27. The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.
Mary Alice Monroe
#29. A woman does not need to live among many people to be content. She needs but one true companion, one soul mate with whom to share this long journey we call life.
Mary Alice Monroe
#32. As I began researching butterflies, however, the monarch stood out among all of them. It's the only butterfly - the only insect - that migrates like a bird or a whale!
Mary Alice Monroe
#34. She thought how sharp words could sting when they held the truth.
Mary Alice Monroe
#35. Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.
Mary Alice Monroe
#36. Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.
Mary Doria Russell
#37. The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with nature are necessary for our well-being. Without it, we are depressed, lonely, and fail to thrive.
Mary Alice Monroe
#38. Caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.
Mary Alice Monroe
#39. Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!
Mary Alice Monroe
#40. First we get the rocks out, Alice. Then we get the pebbles out. Then we get the sand out, and the writer's voice rises. No harm done.
Mary Norris
