Kara > Kara's Quotes

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.”
― Donna Ball, At Home on Ladybug Farm

“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”
― Jodi Picoult, Perfect Match

“The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
― James E. Faust

“how women pay the price when their passions threaten men.”
― Tess Gerritsen, Choose Me

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me