Rhonda's favorite quotes

"Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

77 people liked it

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

tags: books, reading

83 people liked it

"I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

tags: marriage, silence, talk

50 people liked it

"Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. "
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

16 people liked it

"Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

12 people liked it

"Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

7 people liked it

""Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

7 people liked it

"I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and readin that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books."
— Mary Ann Shaffer (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)

7 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter

18,199 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling

14,723 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

9,411 people liked it

"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: death, life

345 people liked it

"...some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: heart, love

69 people liked it

"After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: stung

44 people liked it

"People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard."
— Sue Monk Kidd

tags: bees, life, secret

21 people liked it

"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."
— Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

tags: life, relationships

15 people liked it

"Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

tags: bailey, happiness, loser, sisterhood

109 people liked it

"I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies."
— Ann Brashares

40 people liked it

"You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place."
— Ann Brashares

tags: feeling

20 people liked it

"Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

18 people liked it

"Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what."
— Ann Brashares (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

23 people liked it

"Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness. "
— Ann Brashares (The Second Summer of the Sisterhood)

tags: life

13 people liked it

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
— Ann Brashares

tags: criticism

10 people liked it

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