Annie > Annie's Quotes

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
― Pablo Picasso

“One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.”
― J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

“Before they read words, children are reading pictures.”
― David Wiesner, Free Fall

“Messages are the death of an honest literary transaction with children”
― Maurice Sendak in William Zinsser's book of essays

“Every day is a good day if we are reading a picture book.”
― Vivian Kirkfield

“Being a mother isn't easy.”
― Linda Greenlaw, Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“You got to dance, even when there ain't no music.”
― Laura Lane McNeal

“Those called penny bags. Each of them got a brand-new penny on the bottom. The light reflecting off the penny supposed to confuse the flies, so they don’t come around and bother the food, although every time I see a fly, they confused enough already. Know what I mean?” Queenie chuckled.”
― Laura Lane McNeal, Dollbaby

“February is Mother Nature’s way of giving us the finger.” Amelia”
― P.J. Parrish, She's Not There

“My smile did not seem to be working. I used to have a good one. Now I get the feeling people regard it as something I just drop over my face, like a page on a flip chart.”
― walter walker

“Your guardian angel never, ever stops communicating with you.
I feel that at times they should be frustrated with us but they seem to have endless patience and they never ever give up on us. ”
― Lorna Byrne, Angels in My Hair

“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack ”
― Tana French, The Likeness

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”
― Tana French, The Likeness

“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”
― Tana French, The Likeness

“Sarte was right, Hell is other people”
― Tana French, The Likeness

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”
― Tomie dePaola

“In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".”
― Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona

“The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou art my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine.
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And fortune said it should be you.”
― Tomie dePaola, Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose

“Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“And so I was crushed,” Mimi said. “Because I thought I was such a good mother. I baked a cake and a pie every night. Or at least had Jell-O with whipped cream.”
― Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”
― Jennifer McMahon, Island of Lost Girls

“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”
― Jennifer McMahon, The Winter People

“The band responded by handing their instruments over to some fans during the encores, and leaving the stage. ‘That was the ultimate,’ Paul told Q. ‘People pay to come in and see us – and end up playing the bloody songs themselves.”
― Chris Bourke, Crowded House: Something So Strong

“Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked?”
― Carol Goodman

“You told me trees could speak
and the only reason one heard
silence in the forest
was that they had all been born knowing different languages.

That night I went into the forest
to bury dictionaries under roots,
so many books in so many tongues
as to insure speech.

and now this very moment,
the forest seems alive
with whispers and murmurs and rumblings of sound
wind-rushed into my ears.

I do not speak any language
that crosses the silence around me
but how soothing to know
that the yearning and grasping embodied
in trees’ convoluted and startling shapes
is finally being fulfilled
in their wind shouts to each other.

Yet we who both speak English
and have since we were born
are moving ever farther apart
even as branch tips touch.”
― Carol Goodman, The Drowning Tree

“I always thought that if those psychic phone lines were for real, I could just call them and not say a word and the psychic on the other end of the phone would rattle off my vital statistics, then tell me all about my future.”
― Jeff Belanger