Mary Ann > Mary Ann's Quotes

“..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.”
― Nuala O'Faolain, My Dream of You

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.”
― Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
― Roald Dahl

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“He wanted to get away: this was like something out of Faulkner or Penn Warren, blasphemed southern ground, soaked in blood a generation old, white trash and black, white innocence and black, all commingled in a very small area on the same day.”
― Stephen Hunter, Black Light

“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham