Margaret Landon Quotes

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Perhaps nuns felt like this, she thought, when they passed within convent walls and left the glitter of the world behind. But their renunciation was of the will, while circumstances beyond her control had stripped her of the people who meant everything to her. And yet was it not possible that they had endured the same impoverishment, so that when the glory that was life had become husks they found it good to exchange those dead things for service and whatever vicarious happiness could be salvaged? Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.