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Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. — Mary Doria Russell

When she finished, no one clapped or even breathed, for they were still inside that sacred place that music can sometimes create. — Mary Doria Russell

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year ... — Mary Russell Mitford

Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it." (Mirella)
"Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated." (Schramm) — Mary Doria Russell

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden! — Mary Russell Mitford

It's not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses. — Mary Doria Russell

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment? — Mary Doria Russell

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand. — Mary Doria Russell

They know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love. — Mary Russell Mitford

...[Emilio] felt once more the strangely visceral thrill of trying to disprove a hypothesis he suspected was robust. — Mary Doria Russell

Jesus Christ," Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past. — Mary Doria Russell

Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being. — Mary Doria Russell

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either. — Mary Russell Mitford

I suppose I should warn you, Padre. In the absence of male supervision, my mother has become a revolutionary." ~Renzo Leoni — Mary Doria Russell

Hope - cruelest of the evils that escaped Pandora's box - smiled on him gently all that summer. — Mary Doria Russell

Horses are mirrors. They'll show you back whatever you show them. Watch a man with a horse, and you'll see what's inside his own self. — Mary Doria Russell

Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it. — Mary Doria Russell

an insouciant flip of the wrist - — Mary Doria Russell

Show God what yer made of, man. Pucker up and kiss the cross. — Mary Doria Russell

I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing ... — Mary Russell Mitford

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead. — Mary Russell Mitford

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it. — Mary Doria Russell

Bein' born is craps," he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. "How we live is poker. — Mary Doria Russell

He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it. — Mary Doria Russell

God will break your heart. — Mary Doria Russell

...she was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist. — Mary Doria Russell

Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.' — Mary Doria Russell

The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning. — Mary Doria Russell

If anything could prove the existence of the soul, he thought, it was the utter emptiness of a corpse. — Mary Doria Russell

Your sorrow is of no interest to me," Sandoz said softly. "If you want absolution, go to a priest. — Mary Doria Russell

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day. — Mary Russell Mitford

The sparrow still falls. — Mary Doria Russell

[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission. — Mary Doria Russell

Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon. — Mary Doria Russell

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. — Mary Russell Mitford

And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son. — Mary Doria Russell

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts. — Mary Russell Mitford

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever. — Mary Russell Mitford

Tradition was safety; change was danger. — Mary Doria Russell

The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican. — Mary Doria Russell

You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism. — Mary Doria Russell

We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away. — Kelli Russell Agodon

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford

Until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago. — Mary Doria Russell

The Georgian had used more words in 5 minutes than Wyatt had spoken during 1872 and 1873 combined. — Mary Doria Russell

Maybe poetry is the only way we can get near the truth of God. ... And when the metaphors fail, we think it's God who's failed us! — Mary Doria Russell

You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning. — Mary Doria Russell

Flaubert tells us that three things are required for happiness: stupidity, selfishness, and good health. I am," he told Morgan, "an unhappy man - — Mary Doria Russell

Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher! — Mary Doria Russell

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them. — Mary Russell Mitford

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council. — Mary Doria Russell

The past was not dead but alive, and important by virtue of the very invisibility of its influence. — Mary Doria Russell

Well, great authors are great people - but I believe that they are best seen at a distance. — Mary Russell Mitford

Not just survival but a good life, full of learning, full of love, Emilio thought, and took a step closer to the death he felt inside himself. He — Mary Doria Russell

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking? — Mary Doria Russell

Guess - You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The — Mary Doria Russell

Fashion is a capricious deity ... — Mary Russell Mitford

After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know. — Mary Doria Russell

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. — Mary Russell Mitford

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. — Mary Doria Russell

I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day. — Mary Doria Russell

Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason ... — Mary Russell Mitford

Bein' born is craps. How we live is poker. Mamma played a bad hand well. — Mary Doria Russell

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently. — Mary Doria Russell

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace. — Mary Doria Russell

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age ... — Mary Russell Mitford

No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it. — Mary Doria Russell

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way — Mary Doria Russell

I had enjoyed something that did not belong to me, you see. When it was taken away, I was disappointed but not harmed. — Mary Doria Russell

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64) — Mary Doria Russell

It was politicians saying, Let's you and him fight! — Mary Doria Russell

You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. — Mary Doria Russell

To leave the apple unpicked - that was sin. — Mary Doria Russell

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? — Laurie R. King

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell

He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West. — Mary Doria Russell

I ain't movin' to Arizona! Dammit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions. — Mary Doria Russell

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically. — Mary Doria Russell

And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me? — Mary Doria Russell

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. — Mary Doria Russell

The Elder is called Dee, first-born, of the Yarbrough lineage, whose landname is VaWaco. — Mary Doria Russell

By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story. — Mary Doria Russell

His entire experience in this city sounded better than it lived. John — Mary Doria Russell

Friendship is the bread of the heart. — Mary Russell Mitford

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be. — Mary Doria Russell

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes. — Mary Doria Russell

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. — Mary Russell Mitford

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent. — Mary Russell Mitford

There is no running away from a great grief. — Mary Russell Mitford

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you. — Mary Doria Russell

Doc's idea of "clarifyin' a point of contention" came awful close to spitting in a man's eye. — Mary Doria Russell

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish. — Mary Russell Mitford

Wyatt, I'm from Chicago," Eddie told him. "Let me explain politics to you. — Mary Doria Russell

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt. — Mary Russell Mitford

Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76) — Mary Doria Russell

The world is filled with unreasonable hate. What's wrong with unreasonable love? — Mary Doria Russell