Marlene > Marlene's Quotes

“During an interview;
Then McLain returns to the impact on Markham and Blixen of the death of Finch Hatton.
"You know, there's a line at the end of my book that goes, 'This time with Denys would fade, and it would last forever.'
That's something I actually believe about love. Sometimes we don't get to keep the people we love the most and who change us the most. That's an unromantic, uncommercial view of love. But to me it feels absolutely true.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“He only stopped when he’d met himself again.
The Armand who’d been standing on the side of the quiet road, in the middle of nowhere, waiting. At the intersection of truth and wishful thinking.
Where the straight road splayed. And he knew then. They were all going down.”
p.40”
― Louise Penny, Glass Houses

“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” p 463”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“All those years I spent trying to bring the men that murdered Roosevelt Haynes to justice, and turns out my daddy wasn’t Roosevelt but the leader of the lynch mob. How’s that for irony?”
― Robert Bailey, Legacy of Lies

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“I stared into the lion’s eyes and knew that he could take me down so easily. He’d swipe me with his curved claws, clamp his fangs around my throat or my skull, kill me in an instant.”
― Luanne Rice , The Shadow Box

“Protection came in many forms. My love of nature and my father, and their love for me, had made me strong and brave, and I had survived.”
― Luanne Rice, The Shadow Box

“It’s not my fault you have no friends and a dead-end job” she ranted, face reddening. She was seething now. “If you’re awkward and ugly, you have no one to blame but yourself. I gave you every opportunity. I gave up my career and my independence, plus any pretense whatsoever of a romantic relationship. I gave you everything, all of me---can you get that through your thick skull? And you thank me for my sacrifices by turning on me the first chance you get? By marching straight to the witness stand? You believed that wench Alex and her bigmouth mother over me? It’s your fault I’m in here, not mine”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“Most people font like holding on to anger. They feel it crushing and consuming them, so they let it go. They try to forget the ways they’ve been wronged.
But some of us cannot forget and will never forgive. We keep our axes sharp, ready to grind. We hold pleas for mercy between our teeth like jawbreakers.
They say a grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
Good thing we’re extra strong.”
― Stephanie Wrobel, Darling Rose Gold

“The stressful part is always making the decision,” Bea used to remind her employee. “Once you’ve made it, it’s done, and you feel better.”
That’s how it was with Blanch. Once Bea has decided that she has to die, it’s easy enough, and the rest of the steps fall into place.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

“Whatever is coming does not just come, as you say. It's helped by people willfully looking away. People develop the habit of swallowing lies rather than (learn) the truth. The minute you start thinking something else, then you've stopped paying attention ---and paying attention is all we've got."

"If the world had paid more attention in 1939, maybe we wouldn't be sitting here in the dark, dodging bombs"

"A story like a snapshot is caught, held for a moment and then delivered. But the people in them go on and on. And what happens next? What happens?"
Not knowing haunted her.”
― Sarah Blake

“Margaret said, “There’s a blue box on the shelf in the dressing room. Bring it to me. I tried to give her the package, but she said, “For you. I asked Felix to find it. When you wear it, I hope you’ll remember what you did, and realize what it means to be a true friend.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Love will come and go and come again. But if you’re lucky to have a true friend, treasure her. Don’t let her go.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Lily’s thoughts on grief:
“Grief is a sea made of your own tears. Salty swells cover the dark depths you must swim at your own pace. It takes time to build stamina. Some days, my arms sliced through the water, and I felt things would be okay, the shore wasn’t so far off. Then one memory, one moment would nearly drown me, and I’d be back to the beginning, fighting to stay above the waves, exhausted, sinking in my own sorrow.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“I have never had a feeling of belonging to any group of people. Yet here I was in rural Maine and what had just come to me was an understanding, I think that is the only way I can put it, of these people in their houses, these few houses we passed by. It was an odd thing, but it was real, for a few moments I felt this: that I understood where I was. And even, also, that I loved the people we did not see who inhabited the few houses and who had their trucks in the front of these houses. This is what I almost felt. This is what I felt.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

“Simplicity Stands as Technology Advances.”
― San Mateo

“No one is emotionally prepared to have their child predecease them. No one should ever have to experience it.”
― David Putnam, The Ruthless”
― David Putnam

“Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy and unthinking. It was meant to be a challenge, yes, but that challenge to a second life was meant to be laced with kindness. If someone forces you to choose between God is holy and God is love choose God is love because holiness without love translates into tyranny.”
― Murray Pura

“Life is free, food grows on trees.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“heal the roots, to see the tree grow vibrant.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“In my time, love often followed trends, yet greater love grows through it all.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Luxury is infantilization.”
― Matthew Edward Hall