Ann M. Martin famous quotes

04-17-2025

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves
-- Ann M. Martin

#Home #Order #World
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Children #Reading #Thinking
Cats definitely have their own opinions.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Cat #Opinion
I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace
-- Ann M. Martin

#Horse #School #Independent
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike
-- Ann M. Martin

#Believe #Book #Love To Read
I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?
-- Ann M. Martin

#Goodbye #Saying Goodbye #Forever
Fight your battles with words, not fists
-- Ann M. Martin

#Fighting #Battle #Fists
I want her back" I said "I want HIM back"~Charlie
-- Ann M. Martin

#Want #Said
Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship
-- Ann M. Martin

#Party #Two #Needs
Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down our street and people drive down it and people ride their bicycles down it and all of them, even the ones I know, could be from another planet. And I'm a visiting alien.' And aliens don't belong anywhere,' Adam finishes for me, 'except in their own little corners of the universe.' Right,' I say. ~pgs 57-58 Hattie and Adam on alienation
-- Ann M. Martin

#People #World #Littles
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Other Worlds #Evil #Everyday
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Perfect #May #Safe
You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Inspirational #Education #Negative
Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.
-- Ann M. Martin

#Thinking #People #Want

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