Jacquelyn Mitchard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Spiritual #Unseen #Belief
Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Cat #People #Pet
I do a great deal of research. I donâ€™t want anyone to say, â€˜That could not have happened.â€™ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Fiction #Research #May
You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Regret #Sweat #Eating
Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Time #Women #Feel Good
Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Wanted #Humans #Heels
our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Daughter #Children #Home
Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Life #Pizza
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Sleep #Past #Childhood
Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Heart #Boys #Hormones
Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Teenager #Feelings #Feelings Change
Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Personality #Care #Share
When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Someone You Love #Behinds
Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#Mother #Wife #Special

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