Anne Spencer Quotes

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity,
Or draw a line daring them to cross. ~ Anne Spencer

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ~ Anne Spencer

He Said...

Your garden at dusk
Is the soul of love
Blurred in its beauty
And softly caressing;
I, gently daring
This sweetest confessing,
Say your garden at dusk
Is your soul, My Love. ~ Anne Spencer

He waited a few more seconds, hoping her tight jaw would unclench and she'd ask him to stay, but she sat staring down the empty track.
There was nothing for him to do but walk away. The drum of his boot heels as he left Amanda and Lydia behind sounded like the clang of the
door slamming shut on his prison cell in Lexington. Each step away from
them felt like a year added to his sentence.
Spence only walked about a hundred yards before he stopped. His chest ached so much he could hardly draw breath. He couldn't do this.
He looked back over his shoulder at Amanda sitting on the bench. She held Lydia on her lap facing her, resting against her arms and looking up into her face. They were involved in an intimate, one-sided conversation.
He stood and stared. He couldn't leave them, but Amanda had made it clear she didn't want him. God, he would give anything if he could go
back and change the way they'd met. But how could he have done things
differently and still have met Amanda? If he hadn't pretended to be Travis Baxter that day at the station, she never would've spoken to him at all. Spence couldn't regret what he'd done nor could he condone it. It was a double-edged sword. ~ Bonnie Dee

And this is the potency a first kiss should have: it should be earned. The moments leading up to it should be as tense as a crossbow drawn back. The reader should want it as badly as the hero and heroine, and feel as satisfied and transported and transformed as the hero and heroine in the wake of it. There are different ways to use kisses in a romance, but that first kiss is so meaningful, a pinnacle, and can be more intimate than sex. ~ Julie Anne Long

Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow. ~ Anne Rice

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. ~ Anne Michaels

Jewels! Today each twig is important,
each ring, each infection, each form
is all that the gods must have meant. ~ Anne Sexton

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story. ~ Anne Tyler

When people work hard at what they do the best,
We often think of them as unlike the rest.
But they aren't really different than others you meet.
Just everyday people who accomplished some feat. ~ Anne Emerick

I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom. ~ Spencer W. Kimball

The more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself. ~ Anne Truitt

USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose ~ Julie Anne Peters

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. ~ Anne Lamott

The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future. ~ Anne Rice

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'. ~ L.M. Montgomery

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster. ~ Anne Truitt

You can't control what anyone else says or does." Spencer tucked a wayward lock behind her ear. "But you can control how you respond to them. ~ Terri Osburn

You can't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past. ~ Julie-Anne

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] ~ Anne Lamott

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away. ~ Katherine Anne Porter

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight. ~ Anne Heche

It was not fear of ridicule,
to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life,
but this blank desertion of his own mind
that threw him into despair. ~ Anne Carson

But during the day ... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what happened in the bed at night. ~ Anne Bishop

Seven.
seven was when ethan had learned to ride a bicycle.
macon was visited by one of those memories that dent the skin, that strain the muscles. he felt the seat of ethan's bike pressing into his hand
the curled-under edge at the rear that you hold onto when you're trying to keep a bicycle upright. he felt the sidewalk slapping against his soles as he ran. he felt himself let go, slow to a walk, stop with his hands on his hips to call out, "you've got her now! you've got her!" and ethan rode away from him, strong and proud and straight-backed, his hair picking up the light till he passed beneath and oak tree. ~ Anne Tyler

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94] ~ Anne Lamott

Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube. ~ Julie Anne Peters

Little story that changed everything." "How so?" Nathan asked. "Well, the story changed the way I looked at change - from losing something to gaining something - and it showed me how to do it. After that, things quickly improved-at work and in my life. "At first I was annoyed with the obvious simplicity of the story because it sounded like something we might have been told in school. "Then I realized I was really annoyed with myself for not seeing the obvious and doing what works when things change. "When I realized the four characters in the story represented the various parts of myself, I decided who I wanted to act like and I changed. "Later, I passed the story on to some people in our company and they passed it on to others, and soon our business did much better, because most of us adapted to change better. And like me, many people said it helped them in their personal lives. "However there were a few people who said they ~ Spencer Johnson

He was tired and full of shame, and if Ernestino and the others wouldn't brave this rain, he would go it alone, he would find some place to sing, some place where, anonymous and numbed by drink, he could sing until he had forgotten everything. ~ Anne Rice

If you don't change, you will become extinct. ~ Spencer Johnson

If you let go of me now," I whispered, stretching against him, "it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk? ~ Anne Fortier

My lifelong and core belief, right after the conviction that I was defective, mildly annoying, and better than everyone else was that my help was helpful. ~ Anne Lamott

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating. ~ Anne Northup

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete. ~ Anne Perry

I feel the place is falling apart on me, but Mrs. Scarlatti says not to worry. It always looks like that, she says. Life is a continual shoring up, she says, against one thing and another just eroding and crumbling away. I'm beginning to think she's right. ~ Anne Tyler

He thought of the Englishman at the bar in the lobby again. That's what had brought it all back - the Englishman remarking to the bartender that he'd just come from New Orleans, and that certainly was a haunted city. ~ Anne Rice

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too. ~ Therese Anne Fowler

Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who hated her, as long as the king was at her beck and call. And she could ruin any man she chose. George ~ Philippa Gregory