Jacquelyn Mitchard Quotes

This infuriated my father, who said BYU was a "meat market" and that if Heavenly Father didn't intend women to understand economics, why did He give them charge of households, and if women weren't intended to understand philosophy, why were they the first teachers of the word, and if they weren't intended to practice psychology, why did the Lord intend they should be mothers?

You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced.
"You made that up."
Juliet laughed. "I did. You have it though. You always feel like you're inconveniencing somebody."
"I am always inconveniencing somebody. I'm an inconvenient person."
"But you're not. We didn't ask to be born this way, Allie. The world owes you one. Not the other way around.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

Our sons and daughters are only passing through ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

They talk about everything that happened right in front of me like I'm not there. They don't see me. When you don't see someone, she disappears. That's why I'm vanishing.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could tell it had ever been an ordinary stone.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth.

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.