I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You're fine and we're fine. I hope it's true.


Ann Brashares

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No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
ANN LANDERS
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS
What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, st...
ANN LANDERS
The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are ...
ANN LANDERS
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. ...
ANN LANDERS
At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t...
ANN LANDERS
The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANN OAKLEY
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS
Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE
If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
ANN LANDERS
Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
ANN LANDERS
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE
When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
ANN RADCLIFFE
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o...
ANN RADCLIFFE
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family...
ANN HOOD
Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think...
ANN COULTER
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonder...
ANN LANDERS
I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the deci...
ANN RICHARDS
I'm accusing Republicans of thinking the Jews have so much power.
ANN COULTER
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She too...
ANN HOOD