Novelist Quotes

Kate and Mercer gave each other a smile with a future in it.

One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.

It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.

Margaret Widdemer

A gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.

The sun, we say, is the cause of heat, but the heat is the sun, hence on this window-ledge.

William Hale White

A man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska—sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

Of C. P. Snow

A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.

Anthony Trollope

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Philippa Gregory

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter...

Ye'll learn perhaps that in law, a friend prosecuting is better than a friend defending!

Elinor Macartney Lane

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Bernard Cornwell

All my life, I knew, all my life I would be haunted by words from Shakespeare.

Sarah Smith (writer)

He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullfighting had inspired any appreciable literature.

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new.

Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don't trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.