"At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world."

“After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.”

“People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.”

“Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.”

“Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.”

“I knew that I was not doing anything wrong, and I knew in my mind I was doing the right thing. I knew that the people who were going against me were not going against me for a good purpose. I knew that they were trying to justify their corruption and misgovernance.”

“What a blessing it is to love books.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

“Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.”

“Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.”