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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.


Jane Rule

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A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are...
THOMAS S. MONSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not...
ELEANOR H. PORTER Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. Many people have asked me, 'How do you make a single life a happy one? My answer is, 'Create the bes...
KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our m...
KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all ...
DEYTH BANGER For me, dance is about the aesthetics and the hard work that goes into creating something so beautif...
YUAN YUAN TAN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
HARPER LEE We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is...
JUDITH BUTLER You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husban...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE

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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some...
JANE RULE My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conte...
JANE RULE The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our de...
JANE RULE Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morali...
JANE RULE People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than t...
JANE RULE Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
JANE RULE I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogm...
JANE RULE My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conte...
JANE RULE I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for...
JANE RULE Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.
JANE RULE Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent ...
JANE RULE My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be conten...
JANE RULE The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep...
JANE RULE I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because alt...
JANE RULE I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because alt...
JANE RULE If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of peo...
JANE RULE Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
JANE RULE The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own o...
JA RULE I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also s...
JA RULE I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1...
JA RULE I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate famili...
JA RULE I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
JA RULE Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
JA RULE I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
JA RULE I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
JA RULE The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
JA RULE There is only one me.
JA RULE Pain is love.
JA RULE Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking...
JA RULE Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I cal...
JA RULE These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.
JA RULE I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don&...
JA RULE People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room livi...
JA RULE That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the...
JA RULE I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in ...
JA RULE When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper ...
JA RULE After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not j...
JA RULE I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of ...
JA RULE I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burne...
JA RULE I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
JA RULE I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or ju...
JA RULE The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
ANN RULE Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
ANN RULE Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
ANN RULE I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a lit...
ANN RULE I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's ...
ANN RULE I always want to give the victim a voice.
ANN RULE I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because th...
ANN RULE Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own b...
ANN RULE For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a tri...
ANN RULE All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
ANN RULE I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN RULE It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN RULE It is kind of ironic that the rule was named after me, and I'm still here. It's kind of like God is ...
ALLAN RULE We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of spee...
JA RULE I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It...
ANN RULE My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from...
JA RULE A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very diff...
JA RULE Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, ...
JA RULE Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
ANN RULE The notion is not that if you're a monopoly, you compete less vigorously or with more deference to y...
CHARLES RULE I didn't want to be a boy; but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him a...
JANICE RULE doesn't like to see young black men help others who have criminal records.
JA RULE It's a war on hip hop,
JA RULE This is a war against hip-hop,
JA RULE The Best of Both Worlds.
JA RULE No, the Daily News is all right. That's the Post!
JA RULE I always study the enemy, so I might check it out. But it looks kinda bull-.
JA RULE He's my friend. He's my brother.
JA RULE Pain is Love
JA RULE I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions-I came to a conclusion: I am not into reli...
JA RULE They have to do the capability analysis for the sage grouse.
LAURIE RULE We undertook a project that had never been done before.
RICK RULE Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be...
ANN RULE We have no tolerance for fraud - not against FEMA, not against the American taxpayer, our partners a...
NATALIE RULE All a temporary restraining order gets is a 10-day order so all the parties involved can make their ...
CHARLES RULE Dr. Benjamin Spock, who worked in a veterans’ hospital dealing with emotional illnesses during Wor...
ANN RULE I don't know if it's fear or love, but it's a question of something Microsoft knows it has to do and...
CHARLES RULE The Court of Appeals decision pretty much made it impossible for the government to prevail, ... The ...
CHARLES RULE We're going to get to ship Windows 98 with all its Internet functionality intact? and that's the key...
CHARLES RULE You will begin to hear why Microsoft is doing these things and why they're good for consumers and fo...
CHARLES RULE Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names th...
ADI RULE Unfortunately, the congressman does not understand the rule-making process. There is only the best o...
NATALIE RULE He ruled that there were some flaws in their (the U.S. Forest Service's) decision. We were very happ...
LAURIE RULE They have to do this capability analysis in a site-specific manner.
LAURIE RULE We've got a huge population of people that have been evacuated with very little by way of possession...
NATALIE RULE Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
JA RULE I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
JA RULE I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before ...
JA RULE I was prepared for [being waived]. You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE I was prepared for (being waived). You have to be. The team has made changes already in preparation ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE It has everything to do with the deep feeling and desire I have to still contribute, the feeling tha...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE It is kind of ironic that the rule was named after me, and I'm still here. It's kind of like God is ...
ALLAN HOUSTON RULE It's going to be an excellent time, a really fun evening, and that's what we want -- excellent food,...
JUDY K. RULE I tell people the public library is a lot like public broadcasting. We depend more and more on the p...
JUDY K. RULE I'm ready. I went out and bought a dress, and I'm ready to go.
JUDY K. RULE You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g...
JANE KRAKOWSKI You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr...
JANE FONDA Every savage can dance.
JANE AUSTEN I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#...
JANE PAULEY To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
JANE AUSTEN At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome...
JANE ADDAMS There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di...
JANE JACOBS A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.
JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's.
JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...
JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
JANE ADDAMS Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
JANE ELLIOT The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi...
JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ...
JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...
JANE AUSTEN Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
JANE ADDAMS I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost ...
JANE LYNCH You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
JANE PAULEY I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know t...
JANE GREEN We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'...
JANE FONDA Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!
JANE BIRKIN Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag...
JANE SMILEY Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying...
JANE MCGONIGAL Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
JANE AUSTEN Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ...
JANE FONDA Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ...
JANE ELLIOT I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who...
JANE CAMPION I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi...
JANE AUSTEN My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re...
JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just...
JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her...
JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou...
JANE LINDSKOLD The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ...
JANE RIDLEY I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them...
JANE BIRKIN The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t...
JANE SMILEY A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.
JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh...
JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo...
JANE AUSTEN What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
JANE GOODALL I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...
JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces...
JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.

"Of a fine, stout, ...
JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f...
JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked...
JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...
JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...
JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to...
JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic...
JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ...
JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love
JANE AUSTEN