M.K. McClintock > M.K.'s Quotes

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.”
― Kevin Sullivan

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“...Ethan, but I'm certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid."

"And you're not stupid."

"Not as far as I can tell"...”
― M.K. McClintock, Gallagher's Pride

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“The Colt rested in her lap. “You better wake up in the morning, Mr. Latimer because I don’t want to have to explain a dead man in my cabin to the sheriff.”

—Emma in "Emma of Crooked Creek”
― MK McClintock, Emma of Crooked Creek

“Finding her first smile since she read the telegram, Isabelle let out a soft sigh. "I sometimes wonder if you're even real, Mr. Gallagher."

He smiled in reply. "Oh, I'm real Isabelle. I promise you that."

-Gabriel and Isabelle in GALLAGHER'S HOPE”
― MK McClintock, Gallagher's Hope

“Put me down.”
Of course, the man couldn’t hear her. She barely heard the scratchy whisper.
“I said—”
“I heard you, Mrs. McBride, but I’m not putting you down.”

—Carson and Hattie in “Hattie of Crooked Creek”
― MK McClintock, Hattie of Crooked Creek