Remembering Her Quotes

I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

I’m really not hungry,” she repeated, lifting the coffee cup and inhaling the fragrant steam before sipping. “Just a few bites,” he cajoled, taking his own place beside her. “You need to keep up your strength for tonight.” She gave him a heated, slumberous look, remembering her fantasy. “Why? Are you planning something special?” “I suppose I am,” he said consideringly. “It’s special every time we make love.

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. Annabeth about Percy

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I know why the caged bird sings.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

People will never forget how you made them feel.