Lost Roses Quotes

“We call that guilt, dear. It’s the foundation of some of our most popular religions.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“By doing nothing you condone it.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Men may leave, but books will always remain true.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“I marveled at how, with some people, time apart never matters.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“For if we stick to just ‘our kind’ we’ll simply exist in this insular, petty world. A world that may be safe and predictable but with the life wrung out of it. Hang on to your grudges, if you must. Stoke your fear. Call in the authorities. But I will support these good people to my dying day, and if the police drag them out of here, I swear to the Almighty, they will have to take me, too.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Sometimes I think husbands complicate life.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Sadly, today authority, not truth, makes law,” Father said.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“But too much time in the past hobbles a person.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“And keep to your reading. Men may leave, but books will always remain true.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“But ‘though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.’ ” “Can you just say what you mean, Mother?” “Just remember to appreciate your own backyard.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“the feeling your life is about to be enlarged, profoundly changed, with no going back.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“When did you become so cruel, Varinka? I will never become unkind just to serve a cause.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Yes, but also some disgruntled factory workers and deserted soldiers, too. Ordinary town folk. But with newfound courage. Call themselves Reds. Seems once they wear a red armband they fear nothing and simply take what they want.” “Where are the police?”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Damnant quod non intellegunt,” she muttered. Agnessa looked to Father. “What is she saying?” “ ‘They condemn what they do not understand,’ ” he said.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Sadly, today authority, not truth, makes law,”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Today you can tour The Hay, now the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden, all ninety-six acres bequeathed to Connecticut Landmarks by Caroline. The building where Merrill Brothers Store stood is now a restaurant on the village green and the boulder Eliza allowed moved from their property still stands on the green, an honor roll stone memorial to Civil War and World War I veterans.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

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― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“But ‘though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.’ ”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“For if we stick to just ‘our kind’ we’ll simply exist in this insular, petty world. A world that may be safe and predictable but with the life wrung out of it.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Mensheviks.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“While I breathe, I hope.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Joy’s soul lies in the doing.’ ”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Perhaps that princess should have been more concerned about the people.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Would they kill a sweet child?”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Our own twenty-sixth President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, insisted aliens must assimilate. I quote: ‘We have room for but one language here and that is the English language.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Damnant quod non intellegunt,”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“Home was an estate named Malen Koye Nebo, “Little Heaven,”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses

“How smart Parisians had been to remove the great stained-glass windows of the cathedral of Notre-Dame and store them for safety, replacing them with pale yellow panes. Victory flags fluttered in the harsh wind from every streetlamp and window.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lost Roses