Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It's a funny thing, hope. It's not like love, or fear, or hate. It's a feeling you don't really know you had… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“You make concessions when you're married a long time that you don't believe you'll ever make when you're beginning. You say to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
