Grace Metalious Quotes

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway.Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one side.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

And often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Indian summer is like a woman.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.