Under the Wide and Starry Sky Quotes

“In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure set afloat. The reader catches it, and he goes on his way rejoicing. It's the business of art to send him that way as often as possible.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Sooner or later, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“...but when you have a gift, it isn't yours to keep to yourself. It's the reason you're here. It's your purpose.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“You simply have to move forward despite all the notions about how we are supposed to be.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Did all women married to well-known men struggle for recognition?”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“He loved his wife, though love seemed an inadequate word to contain all the emotion that passed between married people.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Places like Edinburgh seemed staid and passé compared to, say, Chicago, where a man could capitalize upon his native talents in grand fashion, regardless of who his father was. In the scheme of things, it was hard not to feel some jealousy that America was on the ascent, and Europe was wallowing in decline, thanks to its own bad behavior. Judging”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“It was the sunny way he could tease her out of a snit, the way he looked at her so hungrily.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“My mother is my father’s wife. And the children of lovers are orphans.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“How could the human heart hold within its chambers at the same moment such grand measures of nobility and baseness? He wrote in his notebook: Indians at Omaha station: I am ashamed for this thing we call civilization.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“I knew early on I was different, and I had got the idea that I wasn't pretty. So, I gave up on the whole business of trying to be pleasing in a girlish way. It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Your life doesn't belong to just you.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Castoria”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“What good is a man if he will not defend the honor of the woman he loves? And”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Louis glanced at her face. He could tell she was mentally packing her trunk.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“The steadiness of your friendship warms me in this cold place. As”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Maybe he knew that life is not an even fight,” Louis mused. “Given the odds, it’s the stand one takes that matters.” T”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“It was a wilting July evening”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“am a cipher under a shadow,”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Their time together had become one long conversation—contentious sometimes, yes—yet she had opened his mind in many ways.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Fanny felt enlarged by his attentiveness. Was”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“that kind of work ultimately didn’t satisfy her deeper creative impulses, and it didn’t fetch any glory in Louis’s circle.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“The Story of a Lie.” …”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“the idea of America, where emigrants could meld with others in the great classless pot called the United States. Did it work, really?”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“You’ve known her for how long, a day and a half? Must you always fall so hard? Can’t you just play?”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“If you want to find out who you really are, then go travel. To move is the thing.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky

“Fanny believed their emotional landscapes were similar: Both were tenderhearted, headstrong, tough and vulnerable all at once.”
― Nancy Horan, Under the Wide and Starry Sky