Meldrum Quotes

#1. With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after their secrets have been revealed.

Michelle Richmond

#2. Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."
--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

Tamara Valentine

#3. The hurt she suffered has encircled her, it seems: it is the virgin's bower, that vine that cannot bear its own weight but lives by twining itself around another, making it's host unrecognizable.

Christina Meldrum

#4. My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

Erika Christensen

#5. Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless.

Christina Meldrum

#6. But not sorry I love you because I could never be sorry for that.

Jennifer Niven

#7. David Bowie heard about the fire and called from Switzerland. He asked me to come and stay with him. I said, 'No, I'll be fine,' but it was a beautiful gesture from a lovely guy.

Molly Meldrum

#8. Science describes the world; it doesn't explain it: it can describe the universe's formation, but it cannot explain why such an event would have occurred, how something can come from nothing.

Christina Meldrum

#9. There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

Stanley Bing

#11. There's no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it'll teach you its rhythm.

Henry Mosquera

#12. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

John Locke

#13. From within this chrysalis, the universe outside is the aberration; if I exit, the aberration will be me.

Christina Meldrum

#14. At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

Markus Zusak

#15. When things are hard and miserable, I'd been learning all my life, there's an adventure in there somewhere waiting to happen.

Crystal McVea

#16. I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.

Anne Frank

#17. [I]nternalized experiences of selfhood are linked to autobiographical narratives, which are linked to biographies, legal testimonies, and medical case histories, which are linked to forms of therapy and theories of the subject. . .

Anthony Kenny

#18. I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.

Anne Frank

#19. And I realized: souls don't stand alone. What makes a soul a soul is the shared burden and pain, the shared joy: it's the connection between us that carries on.

Christina Meldrum

#20. I want to start saying bad words all the time!

Chelsea Handler

#21. I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Ben Hecht