Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's… — Helen Van Slyke Boring Copy Share Image
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. — Helen Van Slyke Emotion Copy Share Image
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you… — Helen Van Slyke Familiar Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Firsts Copy Share Image
People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God. — Helen Van Slyke Blood Copy Share Image
The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat — Helen Van Slyke Becoming Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida. — Helen Van Slyke Age Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Delusion Copy Share Image
Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave… — Helen Van Slyke Air Copy Share Image
Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when… — Helen Van Slyke Aroma Copy Share Image
If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. — Helen Van Slyke Arrogance Copy Share Image
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded… — Helen Van Slyke Changed Copy Share Image
[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they… — Helen Van Slyke Devil Copy Share Image
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just… — Helen Van Slyke Age Copy Share Image
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to… — Helen Van Slyke Adults Copy Share Image
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