Alexandra Ripley Quotes

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

How could a man know the truth of his own soul?

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

Something happens to people when they're masked. They become too free, uncivilized. They may do anything.