C. Elizabeth Quotes

The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.")

..for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.

It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it's really a time of renewal and reflection.

By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

This America of yours, does it always build what you dream?

But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way.

Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.

Right, I can't watch this shit." Kacey grunted as he got up. "It's one thing getting a hard-on over you, baby girl. The fact that Tyler happens to be in the picture…I'm freaking slightly.

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.We can choose to be taken by the evil.Or we can try to embrace the good.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

If love is a battlefield and we all get scars....These were my reminders…my necessary thorns.

Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?

August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.

I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.

New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.

When a man losses faith he betrays a hero

Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny.” - Wayan

Obviously, genies worked out in their off-hours. He looked so good it was distracting.

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Like all good mothers, she always knew the worst was going to happen and was disappointed and relieved when it finally did.

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.

3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.

He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive."She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With each passing day, your reasons for wanting a wife become clearer.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

Rule number six: no promises.""Okay", I agree easily. "No promises, ever.""Promise?" he asks."Promise.""And that's it.""That's the only one.

Bliss is terribly private.

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

sometimes the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else - Richard

Have you ever experienced human love?”“Yes. Once.”Regret shadowed his face. “Then why would you be willing to repeat it?”“What we learn is worth more than what we lose.

(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.

Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.

Remember to take time for God—it is life’s only lasting investment.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

We are horse folk, and that means more than we think it does.

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed but the spirit in which we face them that constitutes our comfort.

Fear is created not by the world around us but in the mind by what we think is going to happen.