Anne Ursu quote: "But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable."

She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabb...
ANNE URSU

Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting...
ANNE URSU

Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. ...
ANNE URSU

This morning, as Charlotte approached the brick facade of Hartnett, she found herself overcome with ...
ANNE URSU

The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indeciphera...
ANNE URSU

It’s a plié. You do it on all the positions. It’s very good for dramatic moments.
ANNE URSU

Something was wrong with him - and down deep he'd known his whole life. Maybe the wards had even sai...
ANNE URSU

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...
ANNE LAMOTT

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le...
ANNE LAMOTT

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday...
ANNE HATHAWAY

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and ...
ANNE LAMOTT

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ...
ANNE LAMOTT

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big ...
ANNE LAMOTT

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
ANNE BRADSTREET

Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more ...
ANNE FADIMAN

I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and ma...
ANNE BRONTE

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
ANNE BRONTE

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of ...
ANNE BRONTE

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise...
ANNE BRONTE

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
ANNE BRONTE

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
ANNE BRONTE

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for eve...
ANNE BRONTE

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him t...
ANNE BRONTE

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
ANNE BRONTE

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if ...
ANNE BRONTE

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin...
ANNE SMEDLEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old en...
ANNE HATHAWAY

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the ...
ANNE BURRELL

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist...
ANNE STEVENSON

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
ANNE BRADSTREET

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE

But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE

During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool...
ANNE HATHAWAY

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
ANNE LAMOTT

I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ...
ANNE SEXTON

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going a...
ANNE BURRELL

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva...
ANNE PERRY

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h...
ANNE PERRY

I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that...
ANNE PERRY

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it s...
ANNE PERRY

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
ANNE PERRY

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of pe...
ANNE PERRY

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well pr...
ANNE PERRY

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class...
ANNE PERRY

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history, ....
ANNE SULLIVAN

This is a real successful brand with great name recognition and household penetration.
ANNE SULLIVAN

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
ANNE SULLIVAN

Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event th...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger ...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Q-Tips is such a universally recognized and beloved brand with so much versatility. We look forward ...
ANNE SULLIVAN

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today, ... Re...
ANNE SULLIVAN

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in ...
ANNE LAMOTT

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the...
ANNE FRANK

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle yo...
ANNE ENRIGHT

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or st...
ANNE SPENCER

The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come vis...
ANNE SEXTON

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often...
ANNE LAMOTT

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
ANNE RICE

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
ANNE RICE

It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers.
ANNE SEXTON

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be buil...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
ANNE BRONTë

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the ...
ANNE LAMOTT

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist u...
ANNE LAMOTT

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person'...
ANNE FRANK

I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...
ANNE LAMOTT

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...
ANNE LAMOTT

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
ANNE FRANK

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK

A quiet conscience makes one strong!
ANNE FRANK

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith in...
ANNE LAMOTT

As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossibl...
ANNE FRANK

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.
ANNE BISHOP

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE

Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot o...
ANNE LAMOTT

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
ANNE BISHOP

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE

When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without...
ANNE SPOLLEN

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
ANNE SULLIVAN

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit ra...
ANNE PERRY

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is ...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you ...
ANNE FRANK

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is ...
ANNE FRANK

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
ANNE RICE

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, roma...
ANNE FRANK

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...
ANNE BYRHHE

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other peo...
ANNE FRANK

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
ANNE RIDLER

Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the i...
ANNE FRANK

You can plant a dream.
ANNE CAMPBELL

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thing...
ANNE SMEDLEY

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible...
ANNE FRANK

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at hear...
ANNE FRANK

I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surround...
ANNE FRANK

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
ANNE BAXTER

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from...
ANNE BAXTER

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE

Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.
ANNE AUSTIN

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY

Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t...
ANNE TUCKER

Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
ANNE HECHE

Sex is a short cut to everything.
ANNE CUMMING

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
ANNE FRANK

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and o...
ANNE LAMOTT

A hundred years from now? All new people.
ANNE LAMOTT

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...
ANNE LAMOTT

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
ANNE LAMOTT

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT

[Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent o...
ANNE LAMOTT

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on ...
ANNE LAMOTT

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...
ANNE BRADSTREET

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit r...
ANNE PERRY

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridicu...
ANNE SULLIVAN

As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
ANNE SEXTON

I wish to go on living even after my death.
ANNE FRANK

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and ...
ANNE FRANK

I think a lot, but I don't say much.
ANNE FRANK

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
ANNE FRANK

Whoever is happy will make others happy.
ANNE FRANK

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
ANNE FRANK

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
ANNE FRANK

All art requires courage.
ANNE TUCKER

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the...
ANNE BRONTE

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
ANNE TYLER

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
ANNE FRANK

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my o...
ANNE FRANK

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning wit...
ANNE FRANK

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to le...
ANNE FRANK

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
ANNE FRANK

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
ANNE FRANK

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cun...
ANNE FRANK

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then...
ANNE FRANK

I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length o...
ANNE FRANK

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly th...
ANNE FRANK

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
ANNE FRANK

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good ...
ANNE FRANK

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
ANNE FRANK

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound e...
ANNE FRANK

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can...
ANNE FRANK

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build ...
ANNE FRANK

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I h...
ANNE FRANK

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of ...
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these...
ANNE FRANK

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
ANNE FRANK

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
ANNE SEXTON

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limi...
ANNE MCCAFFREY

But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

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But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.

Anne Ursu

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