Peg Kehret Quotes

If you can't save the forest, plant a tree. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

Act like a criminal and that's how you'll be treated.

When they lock the door, climb out the window. – Mr. Morrison, volunteer at the Humane Society

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

Now that I had finally confronted him, he had lost his power over me.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

It made a good daydream, but I've learned that if you want dreams to come true, you have to take action.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

This minute is passing. And it will never come again. Never in all the world. When it is gone, it is gone. No power on earth could bring it back again. - Carson McCullers

Worse of all, I had to live with a terrible secret. I told lies to keep people from finding out what I'd done and then I had to tell more lies to cover up the first ones. Through it all, I felt like scum. I regretted what I had done and I hated pretending all the time but it was too late. - Kit Hathaway