C. Elizabeth Quotes

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.

Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home.

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.

We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?