C. Elizabeth Quotes

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

Biology is destiny only for girls.

As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

Successful women don't sleep until noon.

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

Your tears are my prayers.

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

I can’t chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you’re a lot better-looking.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.