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Quote by Johanna Lindsey

“Stupid people always ignored good advice”

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Johanna Lindsey is an American author known for her romance novels. Born on March 10, 1952, she has been publishing bestsellers since her first novel in 1979. more

“The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.”

Ifs Firsts Children Enough Might Mother Next Parent Changed Judging One Day Victim Heal Dreamer Bully Visionaries Pessimist Loner Define You

Book:Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.”

Believe Worst Willing Mary

Book:More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six

Source: More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six

“I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.”

People Thinking Believe Asks Guru

Author:A. S. Byatt

“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”

Thinking Knows World Feels Mind Matter Moments Happens Lasts Remember Moving Know How Forever Minutes No Matter What Details Bones Do You Know Shifting Rest Of Your Life One Minute Tumbling

Author:Jodi Picoult

“So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love.”

Tears Sweet Sorrow Strikes Heavenly

Author:William Shakespeare

“And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.”

Thinking Want Children Matter Kids Turns Perfect Our Children Bounds Spectacular Disappoint

Book:The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts

Source: The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts

“When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”

Should Made Helping Father Died Stranger Should I Embarrassed Ache Crow Ragged Father Died Rooftops Delhi My Father Died

Author:Kiran Desai

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