Thelma Drake Quotes

#1. Climate change is a reality.

Joseph Stiglitz

#2. Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

Thelma Drake

#3. I also knew that I was number one on the Yankees Cap hit parade. That settled me down. There's nothing like immident death to sharpen a guy's outlook.

Jim Stewart

#4. Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.

Lynn Austin

#5. We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

Thelma Drake

#6. There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.

Thelma Drake

#7. What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Thelma Drake

#8. It's lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New wishes ignited by old wishes.

Erin Morgenstern

#9. People can be so cruel to the different.

Lesley Kagen

#10. I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

Sarah Hall

#11. We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

Thelma Drake