Alexandra Ripley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Thinking #Needs #Next
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Book #Cereal #Deodorant
But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Past #Yesterday #Emptiness
It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Smell #Air #Years
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Would Be #Reason #Bother
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Caring #World #Littles
You belong with me, Scarlett, haven't you figured that out? And the world is where we belong, all of it. We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only half alive. We can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. But, my pet, we'll never belong to it. That's for other people, not for us.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Home #Long #People
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Heart #Rams #Break
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Mother #Fighting #Blood

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.
The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.

Alexandra Ripley famous quotes

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