Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

I'm the furthest thing from an angel my love, if anything I'm the devil.""Maybe all the devil wanted was love.

I’d like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God.

Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure.

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.