The American Lady Quotes

“trying”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“knowledge with me,”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“second-class passenger”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“That’s the whole trick of it, you see. Knowing when enough is enough.” He”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“Times change. Believe it or not, sometimes they change for the better,” she”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“If Mohammed would not go to the mountain, then the mountain would have to come to Mohammed!”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“There are some things that cannot be made right,” she”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“Where there’s wealth, there’s poverty too. And”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“there are two sides to every question? Light and shade, remember.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“Deeds, not words! Deeds, indeed!”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“everyone has their own road to follow. And”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“Could it be that someone was courting her cousin, who always looked as stiff as if she had swallowed a broom?”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“exhausted before a cliff, and I rested for one drop of a lifetime, deeper than a thousand years . . .”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“of the cliff and called out, ‘You are so miserly with your self-substance!’ And I cast my eyes upward and I blossomed forth, and a happiness took hold of my heart that had chosen me alone.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“Inspiration and an open mind are sisters in art—you need both to create anything really new.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“They laughed, they talked, they touched hands across the table, and every movement meant more than it ever had before; every twinkle in their eyes was a message meant for the other alone; every gesture was a secret that shut out the rest of the world.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“boiling up onions with rock candy,”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“more”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“as mild as a lamb! Sherlain had left her husband and their seven-year-old”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“camera had clearly been”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“Shaking her head, she walked out of the room. 7 “Stop, stop, that’s enough, girls. We’re taking a break!” Pandora Wilkens clapped her hands and shooed her dance class over to a corner where a table stood with a carafe of water. “You have to drink!” she called out. “Water is the elixir of life.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“And when the night became day and the day became a dream, all my questions fell into glittering dust.”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“strangely muffled, as though she were”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady

“and her eyes grew even rounder. “Every”
― Petra Durst-Benning, The American Lady