Best Mary Ann Shaffer Quotes
- I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking… Along
- Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again. Cry
- one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a… Abject
- She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says… Beautiful
- Isn't that something-to know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let a preacher tell me if I had… All
- Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on. Course
- I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga. Cover
- In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown Bad
- Moses: God or crowd control?!? Control
- Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. Approve
- People don't know how chickens can turn on you, but they can -- just like mad dogs. Chickens
- I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I… Become Entirely
- His writings have made me his friend. Friend
- This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. Dignity
- Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it… Disappointment
- Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes… Adding
- Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your… Dignity
- The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways. First Rule
- All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for… All
- My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path Head
- Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have to--you'd not grant anyone… Anyone
- Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey,… Asked
- Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different. Anyone
- Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.) Alphabetically
- I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. Always Finding