Anita Diamant Quotes

Asked, Would you call yourself impetuous, Addie?

She said, Hiking is the same thing as walking, only hotter and twice as far as you want to go. But usually, you're glad you went.

I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to

How did I get to be the woman I am today? It started in that library, in the reading club. That's where I started to be my own person.

Yelled, and finally got me on my cheek with a loud slap that made

My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.

You told me about the other side of the universe, where darkness and light are not separated.

I'll give her the whole day off from work - with pay.

No girl is ever happy with her own hair, is she?

You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.

Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

With breast cancer." Father Sherry's hand was resting on the statue's shoulder. "Theresa was

I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

We didn't call it the First World War when it was happening.

He'd been back to Mrs. Stanley's house only three times in the years since Stanwood had chased him out.

Didn't mention that Jake wasn't really her

Death does not linger where he is defeated.

We are all born of the same mother

Being an artist is more than a job or a skill; it's a way of walking through the world.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

My heart is a ladle of sweet water brimming over.

Wherever you walk, I go with you. Selah.

brown paper bags from the pharmacist.

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

And then what do I do? Joyce asked, her voice suddenly pinched.

My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served.

Purple - the color of royalty and holiness and wealth.

But I believe that girls need gumption, too, especially in this day and age. I believe you are a girl with gumption.

Even a broken clock is right twice every day.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

He lay across the valley like a sparkling path, the setting sun catching fire on the way.

People don't talk so much about sad memories.

The hills in the distance held my life in a bowl filled with everything I could possibly want.

Italians are just as good as Jews when it comes to guilt.

The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents.

Their coupling was the coupling of the sea and the sky, of the rain and the parched earth. Of night and day, wind and water.

During the Middle Ages some weddings were even held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt a plague.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

Time is a mother's enemy.

A girl should always have her own money so she's never beholden to anyone." I

Please, let me explain why I have spoken about things that should never be discussed, and which I will never mention again. "Martha

That time, I knew she was asking for an opinion. "My mother thinks I am." She said mothers were right to be concerned for their

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Don't let anyone tell you things aren't better than they used to be.

kitchen, where she could count on Tirzah to be

When a shy person smiles, it's like the sun coming out.

Mind your business had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.

You know the saying about how revenge tastes better cold? Well, it tastes just as good warm.

I never cared for red headed men. I think they look like shrimp boiled to peel.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.

The world seemed so perfect, so complete, and yet so impermanent that I nearly wept.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

About flying out to see her. Don't tell your

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

I Have No Choice, Addie.

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [ ... ] the stronger the daughter.

How could she find the courage to kill herself when she had no courage for life?

From her perch, she studied the world...

He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

The other reason women wanted daughters was to keep their memories alive.

Sometimes luck was just another word for creation, which was as relentless as destruction.

As far as I can tell, common sense hasn't been in fashion for a long time.

Why is it you get more tired from sitting and doing nothing than from running around doing too much?

You should always be kind to people, Ava. You never know what sorrows they're carrying around.

Midwives do not fear life.

Never apologize for being smart.

Mameh would complain about America; how the apples had no taste

But I belong to that landscape now, to the sky and the mountains. I wouldn't be happy anywhere else.

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

I made her promise to write, but artists are artists, not writers. She did send postcards, though: a lot of postcards - sometimes

If you sit on the bank of a river, you see only a small part of its surface. And yet, the water before your eyes is proof of unknowable depths.

I'm still embarrassed and mad at myself. But after seventy years, I also feel sorry for the girl I used to be. She was awfully hard on herself.

It took me until I was almost forty before I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

Remember this moment, when your mother's body heals every trouble of your soul.