Ethlie Ann Vare Quotes

Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But ... if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call from that special someone ... if you hear a loud buzzing in your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) ... if your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands ... if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships ... if you always feel like you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to leave the room ... welcome to the club. ~ Ethlie Ann Vare

A frequent exchange of text messages is not a relationship. It's not even a pen-pal. ~ Ethlie Ann Vare

My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy. ~ Ethlie Ann Vare

To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God. ~ Ann Voskamp

The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change. ~ Ann Cotton

A gentle, quiet young man who might sit languid at her feet and read his verses to her or who might paint or draw her portrait. He would hold her hand and whisper how beautiful she was, how precious to him. Of course you mustn't play the pianoforte, he would say. Only silly females who have no higher accomplishments squander their strength on such an empty pastime. Dancing? No, that is far too fatiguing. May I sit beside you and fan you while you read? ~ Ann Herendeen

Liberals pretend to believe that when two random hoodlums kill a gay man in Oklahoma, it's evidence of a national trend, but when a million people buy a book, it proves absolutely nothing about the book-buying public. ~ Ann Coulter

You sure you can do this?" he asked.
"Does the Tin Man have a sheet-metal dick? ~ Julie Ann Walker

The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around. ~ Ann Coulter

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again. ~ Ruth Ann Minner

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to this earth. ~ Ann Patchett

God's use of the ordinary to bring about the extraordinary is as much in evidence here in the early events of Exodus as anywhere in Scripture. His tendency to bring about his will through ordinary items, ordinary people, and ordinary events is no less at work today than it was in Jochebed's. ~ Ann Spangler

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic. ~ Rick Riordan

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy. ~ Ann Brashares

If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost. ~ Ann Voskamp

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. ~ Ann Brashares

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages. ~ Ann Nocenti

You're a fool," Quinhelm accused. "Any man who would allow himself to be bewitched by a woman needs a good dunking in a cold barrel of water." (Quinhelm, the wizard, from BRIGGEN) ~ Ann B. Keller

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more. ~ Carol Ann Susi

I do what I can, when I can, cuz when I can't, then I can't. ~ Paula Ann Lujan Quinene

Oh Carrie," he breathes in my ear, "there are so many places I want to touch you."
"Above the shoulder?"
"No. Though I love your neck, and it's worth exploring more. So if I were there, I would start at your nape right where those small dark curls point into the hollow, where I can feel your goose bumps against my tongue when I bite into you. ~ Mary Ann Rivers

Sometimes spending the night on the bathroom floor brings clarity to an otherwise cloudy situation. ~ Jewel E. Ann

If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed. ~ Ann Coulter

It wasn't every day that a lion shifter next in line to the throne, dealing with a possible uproar and war in his Pride, found himself a soon-to-be father with a not-so-human potential mate after he'd left her all alone because he'd been forced to hurt her. There weren't any manuals for this sort of thing ... ~ Carrie Ann Ryan

We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs? ~ Ann Widdecombe

Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it. ~ Ann Wigmore

The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. I'm not only speaking of the small actions that, cumulatively, over time, or in great numbers, alter the course of events in ways too chaotic or subtle to trace ... if everyone were to consider all the possible consequences of all one's possible choices, no one would move a millimetre, or even dare to breathe for fear of the ultimate results. ~ Ann Leckie

Vel once told me that the heart isn't like a cup of water. You can't drain it. It's more like an endless well, and the more you love, the more it pumps out. ~ Ann Aguirre

I write pretty much when I can. I used to be very particular about needing certain conditions for writing, but when I had children, I discovered that I was a lot more flexible than I thought. ~ Ann Packer

We are our mothers' daughters, are we not? ~ Corey Ann Haydu

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen. ~ Ann Patchett

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love. ~ Ann Voskamp

How you enter something is how it will unfold. ~ Deborah Ann Gordon

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories ... that they're there and they want to be told. ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald

Yeah, well lucky for you, once you stop gagging on your testicles you'll be fine. ~ Jewel E. Ann

I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning. ~ Ann Coulter

She never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her. ~ Ann Brashares

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it. ~ Ann Landers

Truth isn't invented; it's revealed ... The one who knows the truth has to tell us what it is. ~ Ann Tatlock

Together or apart, no matter ow far apart, we live in one anther. We go n together. ~ Ann Brashares

They take my breath away, Killian. How grand and marvelous, how utterly magnificent they are. I have never beheld such an astounding, impressive sight. Apart from seeing you unclothed, of course," she added. ~ Leigh Ann Edwards