Lynn Anderson Quotes

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

Be true to yourself. Establish your own style and stick to it.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

I'm an American before any party preference.

You have to be careful who you meet. You can't unmeet them.

Things hurt and then don't hurt and hurt again.

Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.

Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

The rain sounded like it was washing the whole world away.

I am a poem in progresswith no clear beginning or endingjust a middleuntended, unintended, unfinished, hanging therelike the breath before a question

You love me, " she said. "That's enough. We love each other.""Yes. Yes, that's true." He smiled. "We are a love story.

Earth, " Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.

That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.

I'll teach you, " Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders."Did your mother teach you?" he asked."I don't have a mother, " she said. "Like you."For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.

Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.

She guarded herself like a secret.

People say I'm not much of a girl either, " Tiger Lily said.She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.

She let the jealousy slip out of her fingertips.

And always, I could see that, despite his weakness for her or because of it, he seemed uncatchable, as if he might slip away at any moment.

Failure has a hacksaw to my anklesand right now there is nothingI want more than to learnhow to walk on my hands.

We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

I wonder that if you keep growing and changing like you're supposed to, if you always end up embarrassed about how stupid you used to be. Every year I realize how dumb I was the year before.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.

Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

I think we carry home on our backs.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.

We don't know where Millie went, and we don't know if we'll see her again, but there's no reason not to hope. We don't know the answers, and maybe that's a nice thing.

life's better with girls. boys need girls.

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.

And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever.

Write. Write write write write WRITE. Write. Now.(This is an inspirational writing quote.)

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

Everyone will think I'm ugly."Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.