I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same… — Anna Quindlen Cup of tea Copy Share Image
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn… — Anna Quindlen Important Copy Share Image
I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.… — Anna Quindlen Circles Copy Share Image
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about… — Anna Quindlen Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the… — Anna Quindlen Enamored Copy Share Image
Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a… — Anna Quindlen Addiction Copy Share Image
I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had… — Anna Quindlen Books Copy Share Image
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen Adolescence Copy Share Image
Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. — Anna Quindlen Abuse Copy Share Image
“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form… — Anna Quindlen Friendship 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 Books Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Age Copy Share Image
The misdeeds of ordinary men can be buried with them, and their lives described in half-truths that are really half-lies. But not… — Anna Quindlen Buried Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to imagine yourself in the future. It’s why people do so many dumb things, because they’re mired in the moment.… — Anna Quindlen Marriage Copy Share Image
“Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the… — Anna Quindlen Best intentions Copy Share Image
Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time. — Anna Quindlen Beloved Copy Share Image
“The lightning bugs are back. They fly low to the ground as the lawn dissolves from green to black in the dusk.… — Anna Quindlen Ice cream Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Bedding Copy Share Image
As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34… — Anna Quindlen College Copy Share Image
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who… — Anna Quindlen Beach Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Brother Copy Share Image
