C. Elizabeth Quotes

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Someone loves us all.

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.

It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.

Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.