Elizabeth George Speare quote: "Tell them the truth if you like," responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that."

Daniel, he said. I would have you follow me.

Master!....I will fight for you to the end!....
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

We can never know," Simon answered slowly. "God hides the future from man's eyes. We are forced to c...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

Who would guess," he teased, "that I'd ever see you on a rooftop with straw in your hair?"

ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter t...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

I have no word of yours to assure me that our brief friendship held for you the same significance it...
ELIZABETH GEORGE SPEARE

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the consci...
GRACE SPEARE

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application -- practice. What you prac...
GRACE SPEARE

For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action ...
GRACE SPEARE

The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back.
GRACE SPEARE

Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that eve...
GRACE SPEARE

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a pict...
GRACE SPEARE

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think...
GRACE SPEARE

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open i...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that wr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a dete...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Novels were designed to entertain, and those of us who wish to keep the art form alive need to keep ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The art of writing is what you get to do once to do become familiar with the craft.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

There is no substitute for the strength that blesses a couple when they work together.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomp...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Writing was the way I felt most complete. It really has always fulfilled a need for creative balance...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The Bible is an ocean of instruction and wisdom. Dip daily into the vast pool to discover its truths...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The Witch of Blackbird Pond
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

And now, dear Lord, I acknowledge afresh that You are the God of all peace, my Jehovah-Shalom. My jo...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

So why do we worry? Why do we worry about food and clothing About finances and money? About security...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out you...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expressi...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

God’s supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Only one life, it will soon be past,
only what’s done for Christ will last.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The popularity of poker is absolutely phenomenal. It is head and shoulders over other types of colle...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

No one can give another human being the soul of an artist, the sensibility of a writer, or the passi...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided b...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that wr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her l...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Remember to take time for God—it is life’s only lasting investment.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth�...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden fr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Your attitude of serving the Lord can transform even the most menial of tasks into a magnificent sac...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

It’s not what you get, but what you give that is God’s true measure of a life.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Obedience is the key ingredient in living out God’s plan for you.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The Bible is the most important part of your faith.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I wri...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have ha...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a no...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

When you view yourself through the lens of God’s Word, you will better understand God’s love for...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

When we view ourselves through the lens of God's Word, we better understand God's love for us and th...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our fines...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every d...
ELIZABETH GEORGE

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

God’s Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
ELIZABETH GEORGE

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w...
ELIZABETH ESTY

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't le...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

A good night in is a series of documentaries.
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
ELIZABETH ARDEN

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Marriage is a great institution.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men g...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tom...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
ELIZABETH FISHEL

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most repleni...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of w...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our heart...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Education is not so important as people think.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it ha...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

We are minor in everything but our passions.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part ...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pock...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to ...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the high...
ELIZABETH ESTY

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
ELIZABETH DREW

My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
ELIZABETH MARVEL

We have the opportunity and the responsibility to lead our country to a better and brighter future, ...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

It's not the having, it's the getting.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scrip...
ELIZABETH WARREN

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa...
ELIZABETH STROUT

I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
ELIZABETH MOON

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. ...
ELIZABETH EMKEN

I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and un...
ELIZABETH REASER

The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a var...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right inf...
ELIZABETH WARREN

Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER

The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY

I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II

Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY

You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY

Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU

My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicate...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG

Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. T...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating
ELIZABETH SCOTT

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing...
ELIZABETH ALDER

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b...
ELIZABETH WINDER

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet throug...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

Tell them the truth if you like," responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that.

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Tell them the truth if you like," responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that.

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