Ann Rinaldi Quotes

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

Sometimes it takes courage to leave.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

When I write I am the real me.

I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.

Haven't my past sermons taught you anyt

Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.