American Novelist Quotes

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And even the most pleasant of dreams could be painful under the light of the morning sun.

Christopher Golden

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand...

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

Everybody rich and happy. She smiled. Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

Dashiell Hammett

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

Elizabeth Hardwick

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
Then fill to-night, with hearts as light
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim
And break on the lips while meeting.

Charles Fenno Hoffman

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

Khaled Hosseini

I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.

Zora Neale Hurston

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

Helen Hunt Jackson

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

Shirley Jackson