Stacey > Stacey's Quotes

“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Just like the Cheshire cat, someday I will suddenly leave, but the artificial warmth of my smile, that phony, clownish curve, the kind you see on miserably sad people and villains in Disney movies, will remain behind as an ironic remnant. I am the girl you see in the photograph from some party someplace or some picnic in the park, the one who is in fact soon to be gone. When you look at the picture again, I want to assure you, I will no longer be there. I will be erased from history, like a traitor in the Soviet Union. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible...”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The man began speaking to me. “When I was a boy, I worked as a messenger for the telegraph company. The sky was even darker from the mills then than it is today, and on bad days, I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. To deliver my messages in the allotted time, I had to memorize the streets because I couldn’t always see where I was going. Sometimes, I’d have to assist deliverymen who’d lost their way by walking along the curb with one hand on their horses. From this experience, I learned that when you’ve gone astray, a helping hand will always emerge from the darkness.”
― Marie Benedict, Carnegie's Maid

“She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“It’s a big deal to share your grief with other people—to give them a glimpse of the pain you carry.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Don’t leave it too long,” Marian admonished with a hint of gravity. “Time has a way of getting away from you. Things happen, and before you know it, you’ve missed your chance.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“But I have learned this. In every wound, there is a gift. Even the self-inflicted ones.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books

“Anyone who leaves home always carries a piece of it with them.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“Ruth handed her a slice of bacon, as if that would fix everything, which it nearly did, judging by the look on her face.”
― Mary Ellen Taylor, The Brighter the Light

“Indeed. But worry is a sign of a lack of trust. Praying does more than worrying ever will.”
― Pegg Thomas, Freedom's Price

“Will God send the wind?” Gwen asked when Thomas joined them. “If it pleases Him,” Thomas said. “And often it pleases Him to answer the prayers of the faithful.” “Does He not always answer prayers?” “I believe He does,” Thomas said. “But ’tis not always the answer we seek.” “I do not understand.” “The Lord knows what is best for us. He orders things according to His will and in such a way as will prosper us. Sometimes that means His answer to our prayer is no and sometimes it is ‘not yet.”
― Pegg Thomas, Freedom's Price

“Old brooms swept away dust and disappointment, but both came back.”
― Jane Kirkpatrick, Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist

“Writing something for publication caused a small conflict for her, which had kept her from submitting her poems. Her words in print would make her both a public and a private woman. She hadn’t yet shared that concern with anyone, including Ben. Writing had become a balm, different from being a reader.”
― Jane Kirkpatrick, Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist

“But when she watched Clara Belle prance around the room, singing, she wondered why such joy should be kept only in the kitchen or in a church choir. Why were women with gifts not allowed to show them? And she could hear that her daughter had a gifted singing voice.”
― Jane Kirkpatrick, Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist

“The things nearby, not the things afar Not what we seem but what we are These are the things that make or break that give the heart its joy or ache.”
― Jane Kirkpatrick, Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist

“Anger had always been a secondary emotion anyway. That’s what her mother had once told her, that fury rode on a fast horse charging through a relationship, trampling right over loss, disappointment, and grief. And if one wasn’t careful, wrath crushed love too. “Pay attention to those forgotten feelings when you lose your temper, Jenny. Those are the trio of emotions that if not recognized and dealt with, will surely bring a soul down and make ire the driving force in your days. Wounds must grow new flesh.”
― Jane Kirkpatrick, Something Worth Doing: A Novel of an Early Suffragist