Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Quotes

In reality there is no normal. Normal is something people have agreed to invent so we have something to compare ourselves to. Normal should be the least of your worries. ~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Why not just tell my parents the boarding school thing wasn't working out, and go home? That offer had been on the table from the beginning, after all. I could live at home forever, growing white-haired and teaching piano and taking in stray cats until the neighborhood children started weaving tales of my tragic past and my story was adapted for Lifetime Television. ~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

There should be a phone service, I thought, something like 1-800-MEDIUM-1.Where an automated voice would direct you. Press one if an object in your home is levitating. Press two if there is ectoplasm oozing out of your walls. Press three if spirits are disrupting your cable service. Press four if you've inherited your mother's psychic abilities. ~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment. ~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

What do you want for them when they're grown? Surround them with people who are that - the kind of adults you want them to be. Children are such mimics ... if they see honesty and fair dealing and kindness, they will copy that. ~ Elizabeth Moon

The sun flitered in through the small, dirty windows, catches his eyes. They are brown, ordinary, but the way he looks at me - no one has ever looked at me like he does. He looks at me like he sees something. Someone.
Me.
"All right," he says, and puts his hands behind his head.
"Go ahead. ~ Elizabeth Scott

You're still alive because God has plans for you, even if we don't understand what they are yet. ~ Elizabeth Camden

Wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want. ~ Elizabeth Berg

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared. ~ Elizabeth Hand

Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Anybody's applause is better than nobody's. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else. ~ Elizabeth Strout

Straightening reluctantly, she strolled about the room with forced nonchalance, her hands clasped behind her back, looking blindly at the cobwebs in the corner of the ceiling, trying to think what to say. And then inspiration struck. The solution was demeaning but practical, and properly presented, it could appear she was graciously doing him a favor. She paused a moment to arrange her features into what she hoped was the right expression of enthusiasm and compassion, then she wheeled around abruptly. "Mr. Thornton!" Her voice seemed to explode in the room at the same time his startled amber gaze riveted on her face, then drifted down her bodice, roving boldly over her ripened curves. Unnerved but determined, Elizabeth forged shakily ahead: "It appears as if no one has occupied this house in quite some time."
"I commend you on that astute observation, lady Cameron," Ian mocked lazily, watching the tension and emotion play across her expressive face. For the life of him he could not understand what she was doing here or why she seemed to be trying to ingratiate herself this morning. Last night the explanation he'd given Jake had made sense; now, looking at her, he couldn't quite believe any of it. Then he remembered that Elizabeth Cameron had always robbed him of the ability to think rationally.
"Houses do have a way of succumbing to dirt when no one looks after them," she stated with a bright look.
"Another creditable observation. You've certainly a quick mind. ~ Judith McNaught

I mean, I do believe that when you walk on the stage, or onto the screen, that's your character - not you. So it's an interesting challenge, an interesting line to walk. ~ Cody Horn

To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal? ~ Kris Waldherr

The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die. ~ Cody Lundin

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I love pilates and yoga but don't do them regularly. ~ Elizabeth Hurley

So she hadn't completely lost her sense of propriety -- and for some reason he was glad of that. Yet even as he looked at her, there was that mischievous sparkle in her eyes again despite her protest.
A sparkle. An odd light as incongruous as her red hair.
No, he was imagining things. But where was the expected admonishment on propriety, the lecture on proper restraint? Just when he thought he understood the lady, knew how to knot up her corset strings and keep her at sixes and sevens, she'd turned the tide on him.
What had she said? You are not a man easily understood.
Perhaps she understood him better than he'd given her credit for. ~ Elizabeth Boyle

Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

She tells me words give people permission to be their fullest self and aren't these the poems I most needed to hear? ~ Elizabeth Acevedo

I have so much character that adding beauty to the mix would be greedy. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman. ~ Elizabeth Oakes Smith

I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened ... If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street, it's THEM I would fear for ... But as Yo La Tengo recently put it so succinctly: I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass. ~ Haven Kimmel

There it was again, that strange sensation. Sort of floaty. Completely lovely. "Why aren't we kissing yet?"

"The same question had crossed my mind." He leaned closer and pressed his lips to mine.

I could never get enough of this sweet, crazy kissing. How did anyone ever get anything done when they were falling in love? ~ Elizabeth Langston

It's torture, not being able to talk to him!! She's been so, so worried. How she hopes he's finally doing better now and sleeping soundly. ~ Elizabeth Scott

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

It's not paranoia if they are actually trying to kill you. ~ Elizabeth Hunter

One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over ... ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I know you're in there, Mercedes," Faye says. "I can see your dirty Converse shoes. You really should get a new pair."

"Did you see it?" I croak. "If you saw it, you probably saw a lot more of me. You probably shouldn't be seen talking to me. And I should probably switch schools."

"That's the thing," Faye says, stopping right outside the stall door and rapping on the metal with her fist.

"What's the thing?" I say, pushing my shoe against the toilet paper dispenser, making no move to let her in.

"I never was any good at doing what people tell me."

And like that, her head appears under the stall door, followed by her body. She pulls herself in and wipes her hands on her jeans.

I raise my eyebrows. "You know how disgusting that floor is?" I say. "Janitorial service at this school leaves a lot to be desired."

She cocks her head and puts her hands on her hips. She looks like what I imagine a stern parent would look like, not that I know from experience. I wonder if she got that posture from Lydia.

"First of all, you didn't let me in, so I had no choice. ~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting - its partner - and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing and worthwhile. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

God's joy can fill our days with gladness until we receive the answer we are waiting for. ~ Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

Only the most hardy of living things survive renewal. ~ Elizabeth Lowell

You Go Where You Place Your Energy ~ Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino

I do what I do because I like doing it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Friends are the balm that soothes the heart. – Nanny Tasha (former nanny to Felicity and Tally Langley) ~ Elizabeth Boyle

Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert