Hannah > Hannah's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.”
― James Michener

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth.
There was no cure for what one had seen or done.”
― Hannah Blatchford

“His hair was shorter than I remembered, tawny in this half-light, the tousled edges casually framing the clean, commanding lines of his face. His mouth, normally so stern was relaxed now and as I stared a slight sweet smile touched his lips, its curve softening the straight strong lines of his nose and brow. Finally, inevitably, I met his eyes and felt a connection that seared straight through me, down through my soles and away. Those eyes, darker than mine, the darkest blue, dark and as impenetrable as glaciers. Tonight he was real, so very real that my heart thumped, my blood sang, my legs shook.”
― Hannah Blatchford, Friend Or Fae

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

“An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
― James A. Michener

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

“Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

“I wanted to scream with the pain, scream with the feeling of death pressing so close but I clenched my teeth together, grinding then until my head pounded and forced my trembling legs to stand. I had always been stubborn, wilful and no power on earth could change that.”
― Hannah Blatchford, Friend Or Fae