T. R. Pearson Quotes

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

I think sometimes the media eggs on a lot of things and makes it worse. That's what puts a lot of things in people's heads.

I wonder at the weight of a Sparrow.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.

Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.

Words have longer lives than people.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her?

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

The quickest way to stop noticing something may be to buy it, just as the quickest way to stop appreciating a person may be to marry them.

On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know.

If you lose the Spirit, you are lost.

In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.

We get what we focus on consistently.

Choose to live by faith and not fear

Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.

I used to be someone.