Beth Ann > Beth Ann's Quotes

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”
― Anne Lamott

“The good news is God is beside you, and even if you aren’t strong enough to prevail, He will do for you what you don’t have the human power to do yourself.”
― Darlene Zschech, Revealing Jesus: A 365-Day Devotional

“Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—wait.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“The people who matter most will see.  What matters is that you live your life for you, not by what somebody else says is possible.”
― Miranda Gargasz, Lemonade and Holy Stuff: Collected Essays

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked out: drinking tea.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them."
"Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“Love’s kind of like sweet tea. The secret is all in having the patience to let it steep. Really, you barely know him.”
― Nancy Naigle, Sweet Tea and Secrets

“the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Forever is composed of nows,” she says.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“on what we heard—” “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man. . . .” But Jem took exception to Reverend Sykes, and we were subjected to a lengthy review of the evidence with Jem’s ideas on the law regarding rape: it wasn’t rape if she let you, but she had to be eighteen—in Alabama,”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think life asks more of you than watching TV.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“That’s really important in trying to understand shibui. It sounds simple, like a cliché, really; but it’s true: a woman is most beautiful when she is herself.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Once Upon a Time, There Was You

“Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night.”
― Barbara Pym, Excellent Women

“none of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost. What we aim to do in our little group is ensure that carrying them is not a burden, something that feels impossible to bear, a weight keeping us stuck in the same place. We want their presence to feel like a gift.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“I once spent an entire summer in Georgia with relatives who drank decaf. Worst summer of my life. Without caffeine, I didn't have the personality God gave a houseplant.”
― Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South: Whistling Dixie

“Drake is five years older than me and the biggest womanizer in the state—which is saying something since Utah was built by polygamists.”
― Destiny Ford, The Devil Drinks Coffee

“Don’t absorb criticism from people you wouldn’t go to for advice.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“What I suddenly understood was that a thank-you note isn’t the price you pay for receiving a gift, as so many children think it is, a kind of minimum tribute or toll, but an opportunity to count your blessings. And gratitude isn’t what you give in exchange for something; it’s what you feel when you are blessed—blessed to have family and friends who care about you, and who want to see you happy. Hence the joy from thanking.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club