Rylant Quotes

#1. The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.

Cynthia Rylant

#2. It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

Cynthia Rylant

#3. Selfies became too big. The selfie photos are not good. Fans ask me for a selfie, and I say, 'Let's just do a photo.' I'm not anti-selfie, but I like a classic photograph.

Marin Cilic

#4. One morning she happened upon a bit of cloth decorated with pictures of little red squirrels carrying small, brown,nutsacks,and she nearly fainted away.

Cynthia Rylant

#5. It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

Allison Tolman

#6. But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

Cynthia Rylant

#7. It is one thing to open job opportunities. It is another to train people to fill them, or to persuade American enterprise to seek Negro as well as white applicants.

Robert Kennedy

#8. It is a grace that comes, unexpected, after tragedy- this reminder that most hearts are good.

Cynthia Rylant

#9. In November, at winter's gate, the stars are brittle. The sun is a sometime friend. And the world has tucked her children in, with a kiss on their heads, till spring.

Cynthia Rylant

#10. That's insane! But then, we're talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren't renowned for their rationality.

Jennifer Bosworth

#11. In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

Cynthia Rylant

#12. You can't count on anyone else for your happiness, nor blame them for your misery.

Eden Carson

#13. In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.

Cynthia Rylant

#14. I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines.

Sherry Sontag

#15. Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

Cynthia Rylant

#16. We are the star and the darkness it peirces

Clive Barker

#17. Drop some of them bricks you keep hauling around with you. Life just ain't that heavy.

Cynthia Rylant

#18. I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important.

Cynthia Rylant

#19. It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

Cynthia Rylant

#20. When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

Cynthia Rylant

#21. God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and eating ham-sandwich biscuits, the dogs find a cloud bed for sleeping. God watches over each one of them. And there are no bad dreams.

Cynthia Rylant

#22. [May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.

Cynthia Rylant

#23. And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

#24. But he finally saw
how pain caused
one of two things:
A reverence for life.
Or killing.
Both grew from the same seed.

Cynthia Rylant

#25. A remarkable fact of nature is that problems almost always get solved just when they are meant to. And those who can help solve the problems almost always show up at the right time.

Cynthia Rylant

#26. Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

Cynthia Rylant

#27. But I know now that you can't expect anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, it's because he wants to. And it's never because it's what he's supposed to do.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

#28. That's got to be at least one of the benefits of heaven - never having to act normal again.

Cynthia Rylant

#29. I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.

Cynthia Rylant

#30. I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.

Anne Frank

#31. We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Cynthia Rylant

#32. Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

John Moody

#33. If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

Tim Gunn

#34. I have not eaten a lot of insects. I ate a termite in Africa, but it was on a bet. It was a soldier termite. It was alive, and I don't really recommend the live soldier termite as something you want to start with if you're going to start exploring eating insects.

Mary Roach

#35. But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.

Cynthia Rylant

#36. I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

Cynthia Rylant

#37. In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.

Cynthia Rylant

#38. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote