Gabrielle Quotes

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

Violence should not always beget more violence.

"I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.

It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

If we want to be sincere, we must admit that there is a well-nourished love and an ill-nourished love. And the rest is literature.

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!

You don't think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

I don't do fashion, i am fashion

...an irresistible of why we read and why we love.We are not quite novels.We are not quite short stories.In the end, we are collected works.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

There's a difference between being alive and living.

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

Why do we do so few when we can do so much?

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.

I've never kissed an art forger before" Lord Huntington to Eliza Somerton in "An Artful Seduction

Why are you crying?""I was reading.

I witness that I’m out of alignment with my power. I choose to see peace instead of this.

Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.

But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.