But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.


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If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today, ... Re...
ANNE SULLIVAN
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in ...
ANNE LAMOTT
Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the...
ANNE FRANK
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle yo...
ANNE ENRIGHT
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or st...
ANNE SPENCER
The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come vis...
ANNE SEXTON
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often...
ANNE LAMOTT
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE
Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
ANNE RICE
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
ANNE RICE
It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers.
ANNE SEXTON
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be buil...
ANNE SULLIVAN
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
ANNE BRONTë
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...
ANNE LAMOTT
I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u...
ANNE LAMOTT
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person'...
ANNE FRANK
I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON
Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...
ANNE LAMOTT
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK
But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
ANNE FRANK
The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...
ANNE LAMOTT
As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP
A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE
Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON
It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE
When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë
Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN
... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK
I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE