We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN What are you up to?”

“Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied.

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J. LYNN The silence was killing me.

And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Ke...
J. LYNN I really don’t think you could appear any badder, Ollie.” He huffed as he kicked up his legs ont...
J. LYNN Jase turned his head to me, brows raised. “If I liked guys—you know, swung that way, I’d get n...
J. LYNN Supposedly has been on a two-day bender, and today is the first day the guy has been sober. So whate...
J. LYNN This Is Forever
J. LYNN Sorry, but all I can think about are those people who were stranded in the snow and had to eat one a...
J. LYNN What I needed was to lose myself in a good book, one with tons of sex and angst, complete with an un...
J. LYNN I read this book once where the girl yelled 'cat' right before they were about to get some bow-chick...
J. LYNN I'm beginning to think cookies is a code word for something else."

"Maybe it is." He tugg...
J. LYNN You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.
J. LYNN What? I'm not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.
J. LYNN Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.
J. LYNN The Notebook? You own The Notebook?"
Cam stared at me blankly. "What's wrong with that?"
"...
J. LYNN And this must be Avery?"

"Oh, God, no," Cam said. "This is Candy, Mom."

His mo...
J. LYNN Leaning back against Cam's chest, I tipped my head back and I reached up, cupping his cheek. I drew ...
J. LYNN And then he rushed off, like a knight in shining armor, leaving the party and one very unhappy Littl...
J. LYNN Good God, you don’t give up.”
“Nope.”
I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his
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J. LYNN I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge car...
J. LYNN Something else?" She huffed as she pushed from the table, grabbing her husband's empty coffee cup. "...
J. LYNN They really are something else together."

"Something else? That's the nice way of saying ...
J. LYNN Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking."
Cam: "Oh God."
Avery: "Shut up.
J. LYNN Within a few short hours, he nearly had me agreeing to try deer jerky for the first time. Almost. If...
J. LYNN There’s nothing more powerful than the written word. It can transfer you to a place that exists ri...
J. LYNN The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
LYNN WESTMORELAND There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a sp...
LYNN MARGULIS It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your poten...
LYNN DAVIES Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
LYNN MARGULIS You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm...
LYNN COADY I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rin...
LORETTA LYNN I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
LYNN LAVNER When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
LORETTA LYNN I was extremely impressed with Lauren Miller. She finally had a more consistent match. I think this ...
AARON LYNN Lauren Jones again is playing well. She had two bad holes that kind of cost her, but if she gets to ...
AARON LYNN I was more pleased than with our previous matches. We've kind of started to turn it around a little ...
AARON LYNN This course wasn't easy. There were a lot of places where you could hit a good shot and get yourself...
AARON LYNN We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity whic...
LYNN WHITE Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.
LYNN MARGULIS God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
LYNN REDGRAVE A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
LORETTA LYNN I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish...
LORETTA LYNN My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
LORETTA LYNN The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the h...
LYNN BARBER Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
LYNN SWANN Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the ...
LYNN JOHNSTON On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space ...
LYNN JOHNSTON The most profound statements are often said in silence.
LYNN JOHNSTON True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our ...
LYNN COADY This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process...
LYNN COADY African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movie...
LYNN NOTTAGE I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway...
LYNN NOTTAGE The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
LORETTA LYNN I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they wo...
LYNN COADY If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on...
LYNN DAVIES Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply...
LYNN JURICH Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
LYNN JOHNSTON I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's impo...
LYNN DAVIES Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate...
LYNN COADY Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written do...
LYNN ABBEY Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's agel...
LYNN SHELTON Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.
LYNN GOOD I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
LORETTA LYNN As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look,...
LYNN REDGRAVE I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belong...
LORETTA LYNN When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
LYNN ABBEY With the right infrastructure in place, home solar will be recognized publicly as affordable, easy, ...
LYNN JURICH I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to ...
LYNN JURICH When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.
LYNN DAVIES As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ...
LYNN COADY I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
LYNN COLLINS I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
LORETTA LYNN We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go ...
LYNN JURICH This is just another example of the administration trying to create the illusion that it's in contro...
BARRY LYNN Some religious organizations are openly using the hurricane relief efforts to win new converts. If t...
BARRY LYNN We're picking a Supreme Court justice here, not a Sunday school teacher. President Bush and his alli...
BARRY LYNN I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of chur...
BARRY LYNN This whole contest is just totally inappropriate because of the themes of The Lion, the Witch and th...
BARRY LYNN I don't think the Constitution prohibits the use of this textbook, but I have real doubts about the ...
BARRY LYNN [Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are puttin...
BARRY LYNN It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along ...
BARRY LYNN 'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wound...
LYNN DOVE There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got...
LYNN DAVIES I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging ...
LYNN COLLINS If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you wou...
LYNN GOOD You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i...
LYNN JOHNSTON Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining....
LYNN MARGULIS Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help you...
LYNN COADY There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in ...
LYNN COADY All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that ...
LYNN MARGULIS What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nat...
GREG LYNN Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
LYNN GOOD My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at h...
LORETTA LYNN I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wante...
LYNN GOOD Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got...
LORETTA LYNN I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're...
LYNN GOOD Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficia...
LYNN MARGULIS Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away...
LYNN COADY Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously...
LYNN COADY You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on ...
LYNN COADY You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer&...
LYNN COADY Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on wome...
LYNN COADY That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
LYNN ABBEY The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
LORETTA LYNN ‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always...
LYNN WEINGARTEN For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, a...
LYNN SHELTON I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
LORETTA LYNN We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We ar...
LYNN COADY When wireless cellphones first came out, analysts predicted that at peak, it would only replace 5% o...
LYNN JURICH Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
LORETTA LYNN Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something li...
GREG LYNN It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, goin...
LYNN FLEWELLING I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my ...
LORETTA LYNN Finally! You're here!"
Uh....Do I know you?"
Well, no....But you're here, all the same...
LYNN WEINGARTEN My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent the...
LYNN MARGULIS I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
LYNN COLLINS I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
LYNN ABBEY An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of t...
LYNN GOOD Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay...
LYNN GOOD I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the h...
LYNN COADY I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a para...
LYNN ABBEY No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its...
LYNN COADY I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil ...
LYNN WESTMORELAND I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly lang...
LORETTA LYNN I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles...
LYNN NOTTAGE If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
LYNN GOOD If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the...
LYNN GOOD The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over ...
LYNN COADY If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits de...
LYNN GOOD As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinne...
LYNN STEWARD As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinne...
LYNN STEWARD I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the see...
LYNN NOTTAGE Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate,...
LYNN GOOD We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. W...
LYNN COADY You either have to be first, best, or different.
LORETTA LYNN The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doe...
LYNN LAVNER We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strength...
LYNN JOHNSTON The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's lik...
LYNN JOHNSTON You don't have to die in order to make a living.
LYNN JOHNSTON Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitt...
LYNN JOHNSTON No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
LYNN JOHNSTON Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about...
LYNN JOHNSTON We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
LYNN HALL I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way...
LYNN JURICH It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new ...
LYNN SAMUELS Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been em...
LYNN CAINE I was shocked when they nominated me for five different things,
LORETTA LYNN His son was so young. We need to make sure what happened to his son doesn't happen to anyone else's ...
LORETTA LYNN I lost a son, too, so I can relate.
LORETTA LYNN Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piec...
LORETTA LYNN Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
LORETTA LYNN In the long run, you make your own luck -- good, bad, or indifferent.
LORETTA LYNN I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish...
LORETTA LYNN It's kind of like my first one, ... It's back to real country.
LORETTA LYNN I just can't wait to come back, but what hurts me most, honey, is having to leave, ... That's home f...
LORETTA LYNN I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
LORETTA LYNN Nobody wants a fraternity in the center of their neighborhood. How many more headlines about drugs, ...
DAVID LYNN If your representative in Congress can't explain a vote on abortion or the environment without 'proo...
BARRY LYNN We must work together to strengthen Jerusalem as a modern, open capital and to foster welcoming, inc...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN Ascertain a trend rather than a reaction ? try not to read too much into economic numbers,
LYNN REASER By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharin...
GREG LYNN Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your des...
LYNN COADY One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they&...
LYNN COADY You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassaila...
LYNN COADY Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear...
LYNN GOOD No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few...
LYNN ABBEY Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, ...
LYNN COADY I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anym...
LYNN SHELTON There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more...
LYNN GOOD In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and ...
LYNN GOOD I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too tru...
LYNN COADY People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid t...
LYNN MARGULIS I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I th...
LYNN DAVIES While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent lea...
LYNN FRANCO Once consumers file online, they tend to stay online. The number of people filing their federal taxe...
LYNN FRANCO I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a po...
LYNN JOHNSTON It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthe...
LYNN DAVIES I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
LYNN BARBER Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-spec...
LYNN MARGULIS All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled...
LYNN MARGULIS When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into th...
LYNN ABBEY A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives wi...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN Wall Street breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as fears of mounting inflationary pressur...
LYNN REASER There's nothing cuter than a baby penguin.
LYNN DUNCAN After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a s...
LYNN CAINE They (investors) tend to overreact to individual economic reports which may be more statistical nois...
LYNN REASER Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gende...
LYNN COADY