Lisa of Hopewell > Lisa of Hopewell's Quotes

“all that was missing...was everything else?

Ann Hood, the Knitting Circle”
― Ann Hood

“I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.”
― Karen White, The Beach Trees

“Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“Half of what’s wrong with people today is that they ain’t got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don’t reckon you got no place like that.”
― Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

“The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“The words you can't find, you borrow.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Home is to be a safe place, a refuge for all who enter, a protection from the harm and storms of the world. Yet often or even daily we open our doors -- usually via television or the internet -- to ideas and images that can damage our faith, abuse our hearts and minds, sear our psyches, and tear apart our peace. Home should be a place where, behind its doors, one should expect to find protection and safety from all the harms of life, including voices that do not speak truth or wisdom. Only the foolish would invite just anyone to enter the door of their home.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter, now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. 'Add' means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with character, he has to make character. Nor are we born with habits; we have to form habits on the basis of the new life God has put into us.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“I think it's degrading of you, Flora,' cried Mrs Smiling at breakfast. 'Do you truly mean that you don't ever want to work at anything?'

Her friend replied after some thought: 'Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as "Persuasion", but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say "Collecting material." No one can object to that. Besides, I shall be.'

Mrs Smiling drank some coffee in silent disapproval.

'If you ask me,' continued Flora, 'I think I have much in common with Miss Austen. She liked everything to be tidy and pleasant and comfortable around her, and so do I. You see Mary,' - and here Flora began to grow earnest and to wave one finger about - 'unless everything is tidy and pleasant and comfortable all about one, people cannot even begin to enjoy life. I cannot endure messes.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“Flora inherited, however, from her father a strong will and from her mother a slender ankle.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about heavy shapes, or sweat, or howls or bedposts, she just put the book back on the shelf, unread.”
― Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

“...going to the kingdom of cocaine, it was going to Hollywood...”
― Stella Gibbons

“Farrukh, tonight you have won a dishwasher”
― Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

“her bottle cap popping vagina”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“Life had made her an expert at mashing feelings into a storeable size but loneliness has a compass of its own.”
― Delia Ownes

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“...chasing a lie smaller than her dreams....

from: Save Me the Plums”
― Ruth Reichl

“How can you prepare for college if you can't prepare for breakfast?

From: Girlchild: A Novel”
― Tupelo Hassman

“...her body carried her worry like an extra limb....,”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“Not every place has a story”
― Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

“She became who she had been meant to be”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“Why did a strong woman need to be her own shield”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“...her unfulfilled life has always been a prison of her own making.”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“Her desperation was so palpable it should have had its own dressing room on set.”
― Melanie Benjamin, The Girls in the Picture

“In all my travels, only in the Midwest would someone spend their money in a place they hate simply because they feel bad for the proprietors. Also I suppose, because they know your name.”
― Nickolas Butler, Shotgun Lovesongs