Marie Bostwick > Quotes

“Between one breath and the next, your whole world can change. ”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread

“I realized that I'd been comparing the inside of my life with the outside of everyone else's; measuring my own fortunes against the cheerful how-are-you-I'm-fine facade that people put on for each other.”
― Marie Bostwick

“Novels force you to think—to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they’re valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. My”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Ignorance isn’t a chronic condition, unless you allow it to become one.”
― Marie Bostwick, Threading the Needle

“The book didn't solve the problem but it did put a name to it. Shining a light that helped women who felt isolated and powerless find one another - and their voices. That has been the very start of every revolution.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“That’s the thing I’ve learned about mountains: the joy you feel at scaling them is in direct proportion to how high and impassable the peak appears to be once you’re on the other side of it.”
― Marie Bostwick, Just In Time

“Having faith in yourself,” Alice said, “believing you have as much right to be in the room as anybody else, is half the battle.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“It's smart. It's what men do. Why do you think they join all those clubs —the Elks? The VFW? The Masons? Congress!" she cried. "To support one another, that's why. Why do you think they call them booster clubs? Because they're trying to boost each other over the wall or bend the rules in their favor, help the group.
If women stuck up for one another the way men do, this would be a very different world.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Nearly every generation can point to an unanticipated event that divided time into before and after, a day after which the world would never be the same, when the markets crashed, or bombs dropped, or wars began, or towers fell.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“It's more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to tell me.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister

“Examining thoughts and ideas that can impact your life is the whole point of reading,”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Acquaintances abound, but true friendships are rare and worth waiting for.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“death has a way of re-ranking your priorities and clearing your mind of debris. Maybe that is part of its purpose. On the other hand, maybe death is just death.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister

“The invisible fence of rules and mores that confined women to a small, carefully defined patch of human achievement impacted men as well, required them to carry the bulk of a family’s financial burden, even if it meant doing work they disliked.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Look I'm not saying you have to agree with everything that's in here but we all know there's a problem. If we can't be honest about that, how is anything ever going to change?”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Every single thing we own owns us." Abigail from a thread of truth”
― Marie Bostwick

“the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“She was tired of stale conversations, the company of generic women who made her feel like she had to swallow her opinions and camouflage her personality.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Do you know why money matters? Because it buys power. Power to influence outcomes and break people, power to bend the world to your will. And who has the money? The power? The control? “Men. Sure, every now and again, some clever girl manages to outlive her male relatives and get her hands on the inheritance, but the rest of us?” She shook her head. “We’ve got no choice but to dance to their tune, use our looks and wiles to convince those bastards to toss a few crumbs our direction.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“From those to whom much has been given, much is expected.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Margaret liked that her daughter knew her own mind and wasn’t afraid to speak it. It was an underappreciated quality in women, one that often faded with age.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“But it’s the battles you fight together that make two people one – the hardships, and failures, and occasional triumphs that cement your vows and teach you the meaning and practice of loving someone fully.”
― Marie Bostwick, Just In Time

“Think of it this way, Maggie. If you let us give you a boost today, then someday maybe you’ll be in a position to do the same for someone else. We’ve got to start someplace. If we don’t, how is anything ever going to change?”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“there are countless good and right ways to be a woman and only two wrong. The first is to insist that your way is “the” way, the only way. The second is to buy into that nonsense and to spend your life limping along an aimless path in shoes that will never fit.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“You can work hard, and you should. Because even the most spectacular failure serves its purpose, setting you up for the success to come. And as long as you learn, no lesson is never a waste. But the stuff that really matters tends to come with a built-in timeline that’s usually a secret and almost always different than yours.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“But here’s the deal . . . Everything worthwhile takes longer than you think, trust me on this.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“Old friends remind us of who we were and what we’ve become. New friends hint at who we could be and inspire us to move forward. We need both, the new and old, the grounding of the past and hope for the future, because life is terrible and wonderful all at once, and too hard to face alone.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

“When your dreams turn to dust, maybe its time to vacuum".”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread

“One thing I know from experience," she said, "it's always a lot easier to be a conqueror if you don't try to go it alone. You didn't see Napoleon riding off to battle with just himself and his trusty sword. He brought in some backup.”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister