Louise Fitzhugh Quotes

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

All I ask of in the world is just one day after another with nothing planned.

People who love work, love life.

Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them

This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE'S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT'S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.