Marie Clair > Marie's Quotes

“Wear reality with grace, the alternative is awful.”
― Marie Clair

“To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect.”
― Cardinal Newman, Conscience, Consensus, and the Development of Doctrine

“Honest communication is open, healing new and old wounds.”
― Marie Clair

“Enjoy fantasy for what it is, fantastic! Not for what it might be.”
― Marie Clair

“Personal truth sets me free from fear for self. And Love is freedom from fear.”
― Marie Clair

“Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.”
― Marie Clair, Undone: Odette, Elle & me

“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette”
― Marie Clair, Undone: Odette, Elle & me

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
― Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books