Best Margaret Quotations
143 Margaret quotes by 116 unique authors
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Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I…
— Lauren Willig
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Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.
— Arundhati Roy
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Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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I wouldn't mind the early autumn if you came home today I'd tell you how much I miss you and know I'd be okay. It's…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)
— Joseph Brodsky
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Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.
— Judy Blume
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But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do…
— Kami Garcia
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I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
— Alice Hoffman
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Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring…
— Elmore Leonard
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The look she gave me reminded me of when is was seven and I'd proudly informed out housekeeper that I'd donated half my clothing to…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Yes, Your Grace," I correct her. "I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a…
— Philippa Gregory
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November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden.…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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