Joanie Chevalier > Joanie's Quotes

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Memory is not to remember; memory is the job of calendars. To remember is to ache, yearn, lust, feel - hear a song and how does your heart sing? A poem, and what stirs? A picture of a loved one - do you tremble? Remembrance! That is remembrance!” Chapter 8, Exit Eleonora”
― Richard R. Allan

“Dad was the glue to the broken pieces of our family.”
― Joanie Chevalier, Save an Angel's Kiss for Me

“It was during the fourth week of my eavesdropping when it turned tragic or as Sister Agnes laments during prayer service, “The devil’s in the house!”
― Joanie Chevalier, Lunchtime Eavesdropper

“Time’s up, Mr. Andersen, I’m afraid.” Alyssa noticed his hesitation. “You should know an important clause in our agreement . . . you attorneys call it what, full disclosure? You give me $25,000 before I leave this office, or, well, I'll just have to ring up Heather again and let her in on a secret, a secret about something that happened in Chinatown not even three weeks ago. Hmmm…I wonder what she would think.”
― Joanie Chevalier, Deadly Dating Games

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King