Lynn Ann Averill Quotes

Violet Lynn Parker, you'd better spill or I'll start bellowing 'Happy Birthday' to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice. ~ Ann Charles

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas. ~ Jamie-Lynn Sigler

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

I think the most important quality in a birdwatcher is a willingness to stand quietly and see what comes. Our everyday lives obscure a truth about existence - that at the heart of everything there lies a stillness and a light. ~ Lynn Thomson

Luckily for me, I didn't know precisely what it was that I'd done to merit a visit from our pack's leader. There were any number of possibilities, none of which I wanted to openly admit on the off chance that there was something I'd done that he hadn't found out yet. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.'" John 7:37-38 (NIV)

As soon as we were old enough to understand fairy tales, we were told to start looking for the one.

Someday my prince will come.
Someday I'll find my love.

As we got older, Prince Charming looked a bit different. Our teenage hearts thrilled when the latest vocal sensation sang about finding us and how our love would last forever.

Wherever we turned, we were told our soul mate was waiting. And we were led to believe we were "less than" if we didn't find the one who would complete us!

Even now, whether we're 15, 45 or 75, the equation hasn't changed: "Guy + Me = Valuable."

So, if the movies, books and songs are so right, how come when we find the one, we can still feel like we're missing something? Why are there married people who are lonely with an emptiness that marriage can't fill? Our hearts can get confused if our reality doesn't match fantasy and we wonder:

Maybe my one isn't really the one? Or, whether we're married or single, we might wonder, is the one for me still out there?

In this place of uncertainty our hearts can grow perplexed. If we find ourselves in this vulnerable place of questioning, and all of a sudden a guy who seems ~ Lynn Cowell

Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower."
Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it! ~ Bryce Courtenay

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary? ~ Ann Voskamp

It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive. ~ Ann-Marie MacDonald

He sucked in a breath like he had a hole in his chest. Something ~ Ann Aguirre

I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. ~ Ann Voskamp

Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear. I'm invisible too. They look and don't see me. When they move, I have to guess their direction and get myself out of the way. ~ Shirley Ann Grau

It was about the inestimable burden of their lives: the work, the houses, the friendships, the marriages, the children, as if all the things they'd wanted and worked for had cemented the impossibility of any sort of happiness. The ~ Ann Patchett

When the odds are bad, you change the rules. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Then there's the woman in my arms. She's my future ... my whole world ... my lover ... my wife ... my BFF. ~ Jewel E. Ann

It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're. ~ Cara Lynn Shultz

Anorexics never have boyfriends ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend. ~ Ann Coulter

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life. ~ J. Lynn

If you show up to break me it won't happen, I am water, water doesn't break.
If you need to prove superiority it won't happen, I am air, air will always rise.
If you try to draw blood it won't happen, I am metal, your internal pain cannot penetrate my veins.
If you try to suppress me it won't happen, I am fire, my light cannot be extinguished. ~ Debbie Lynn - 360 Degrees Full Circle

She could deserve him one day. By all that is good, she will deserve him. Then she'll kiss him. ~ Ann Jacobus

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't. ~ Ann Herendeen

Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand. ~ Ann Patchett

Mr. Collins shook his head. "Stay off the roof," he ordered. Then he paused. "Stay off all the roofs." The fact that he felt he had to make that clarification told me a great deal about Asher Rhodes. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us. ~ Ann Coulter

The last three and a half months have been anything but easy. It still amazes me how far I've come in the last three and a half months. It amazes me even more that I survived the last three and a half months. ~ Sarah Ann Walker

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed. ~ Carrie Ann Inaba

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ. ~ Ann Voskamp

He pulled himself back up straight into his chair. Then, before she had any idea what he'd planned, he pulled her down into his lap. She fell, surprised. His embrace was passionless; more comforting than anything. She didn't mind. It was too late at night for anything else. Richard yawned as he snuggled her close and rested his cheek against the top of her head. "I'm not good at apologizing," he said with another yawn. She pulled back and put her hand over his mouth. "Yes, you are. Apology accepted. ~ Lynn Kurland

Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters. ~ Mimi Kennedy

There's nothing he can do here for me, but I hate that he left. ~ Ann Aguirre

Generosity does give birth to intimacy - but there's a far deeper intimacy when we're generous in sharing our brokenness. ~ Ann Voskamp

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote. ~ Ann Coulter

Our Mother, who art within us,
We celebrate your many names.
Your wisdom come. Your will be done,
Unfolding from the depths within us.

Each day you give us all that we need.
You remind us of our limits and we let go.
You support us in our power and we act with courage.

For you are the dwelling place within us,
the empowerment around us, and the celebration among us.
As it was in the very beginning, may it be now. ~ Patricia Lynn Reilly

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society. ~ Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

When you make sure you're on the same page with someone, also make sure you are in the same book, and all parties know how to read. -Words of wisdom ~ Lani Lynn Vale

How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable. ~ Ann Radcliffe

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. ~ Lynn Swann

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. ~ Ann Brashares

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. ~ Ann Patchett

You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it ... take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud! ~ Danell Lynn

It's called 'The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935'. They let a man named Yeats make the choosings. They shouldn't have. Who is he - and what does he know about verse?
I hunted through that book for poems by Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon. There weren't any - not one. And do you know why not? Because Mr Yeats said - he said, "I deliberately chose NOT to include any poems from World War I. I have a distaste for them. Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer