Anne Osterlund Quotes

Dane: Damn it, Aerin you don't have a plane
Aerin: I'll take yours.
Dane: The hell you will! ~ Anne Osterlund

Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation. ~ Anne Osterlund

Don't care he reminded himself. Because if he didn't care she couldnt hurt him ~ Anne Osterlund

His fear came from needing her. It was the danger to her life that frightened him. ~ Anne Osterlund

He clung to her for his very soul. Until at last his pulse slowed to match hers. ~ Anne Osterlund

I was afraid you would walk off and never see me again and I would never be able to forget you. His hand came up and touched it. He pulled her head to him. And his lips met hers. Soft. So soft, at first, like melted ice cream. And then deeper. And her lips were answering his. ~ Anne Osterlund

Gregory: Go to hell.
Dane: I'd be glad to leave you in it. ~ Anne Osterlund

I am done living my life in the confines of others' dreams, waiting to live my own. ~ Anne Osterlund

I read nonfiction.
She reared back as if offended. ~ Anne Osterlund

Look, Aerin, preparation is only half the challenge of winning a debate."
"And the other half?"
He had her now. "You have to choose the right side."
"Your side, you mean." She bristled.
"No, the losing side."
"What?"
"Always choose the weaker side."
"Why would I do that?" Doubt edged her voice, but now she was sitting erect, her feet flat on the floor.
"Because then you have further to go to prove your case." He eased the feet of his chair down. "In a debate, there are two sides. If both make a good argument, then the less popular side wins because that side had further to go to prove its point. Simple logistics."
"If you don't care which side wins." She frowned.
"It's a debate. It doesn't matter which side wins."
"You mean it doesn't matter to you." The tone in her voice unsettled him. Or maybe it was the fact that that her criticism disturbed him at all.
"It's a class," he said. "The point is to flesh out the different sides of an argument."
"And you don't care if the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Don't you believe in anything?! ~ Anne Osterlund

Your mother never considered giving you up.
~ Anne Osterlund

Justice. That's what we're supposed to be learning.The law ... the law should be fair. Power should be used fairly. ~ Anne Osterlund

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland. ~ Anne Frank

Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point. ~ Anne Rice

And she and I, we will take that guilt to our graves of whatever we did and didn't do, or had to do, or failed to do ~ Anne Rice

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again, ironically, that today more of us in the world have the luxury of choice between simplicity and complication of life. And for the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication. War, prison, survival periods, enforce a form of simplicity on us. The monk and the nun choose it of their own free will. But if one accidentally finds it, as I have for a few days, one finds also the serenity it brings. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Paper is more patient than people. ~ Anne Frank

All these years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But what I've discovered since is that lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. ~ Anne Lamott

the past year or so that make me think Leigh Anne might be having an affair." "What kind of things?" "She's always been a big shopper, but now she's going several times a week. Always going to Austin or San Antone. I know she does actually go shopping sometimes, because she comes home with bags of stuff. Other times, nothing. She says she was just looking." "Well, you know, women do that. They can shop for ten hours and come home with one item that ~ Ben Rehder

How shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man
my greatest enemy
for none could injure me as he has done? Oh! when I think how fondly, how foolishly I have loved him, how madly I have trusted him, how constantly I have laboured, and studied, and prayed, and struggled for his advantage, and how cruelly he has trampled on my love, betrayed my trust, scorned my prayers and tears, and efforts for his preservation
crushed my hopes, destroyed my youth's best feelings, and doomed me to a life of hopeless misery
as far as man can do it
it is not enough to say that I no longer love my husband
I HATE him! The word stares me in the face like a guilty confession, but it is true: I hate him
I hate him! ~ Anne Bronte

I had seen my becoming a vampire in two lights: The first light was simply enchantment ... But the other light was my wish for self-destruction. ~ Anne Rice

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. ~ Anne Frank

Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time. ~ Anne Fine

If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can. ~ Anne Bradstreet

He was a seer of visions and a dreamer of dreams, unconsciously charming and unfailingly kind. ~ Anne Rice

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. ~ Anne Baxter

Some people have a lucky rabbit's good, or a lucky coin, but here in Goodhue, we have a lucky Button. Tugs Button. ~ Anne Ylvisaker

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely. ~ Anne Perry

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

I know God enjoys hearing my take on how best we should all proceed, as I'm always full of useful advice. I'm sure God says either, "Oh, I so love Annie's selfless and evolved thoughts," or else "Jeez. What a head case. ~ Anne Lamott

There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside. ~ Anne Lamott

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all. ~ Anne Tyler

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus. ~ Anne Graham Lotz

Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong. ~ Anne Enright

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job. ~ Anne Lamott

Anne sewed and planned little winter wardrobes ... "Nan must have a red dress, since she is so set on it" ... and sometimes thought of Hannah, weaving her little coat every year for the small Samuel. Mothers were the same all through the centuries ... a great sisterhood of love and service ... the remembered and the unremembered alike. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself! ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think. ~ Anne Bishop

To love someone, I have to admire and respect them. ~ Anne Frank

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything ... ~ Katherine Anne Porter

He couldn't regret Daemon's and Lucivar's existence, but he'd tortured himself for centuries with reports of what had been done to them. - Saetan ~ Anne Bishop