Jacquelyn Mitchard > Quotes

“Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard

“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Breakdown Lane

“When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard

“I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard