“You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“This was the face of slavery. To have nothing, and still have something more to lose.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“Sometimes good came out of hurt, compensation came out of pain. He gave with one hand, and He took with the other.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“Don’t be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can’t tell how heavy somebody else’s load is just from looking.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
“The two women worked easily together, but I soon sensed that, though Belle was in charge of the kitchen, Mama Mae was in charge of Belle.”
― Lalita Tademy, quote from Cane River
Lalita Tademy
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“If you are going to do wrong, at least make sure you don’t get fat from it.”
― Camron Wright, quote from The Rent Collector
“Silence gave the shadows and the darkness power”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Sanctum
“A need, a need, a need have I
A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Palace of Stone
“…Anne believed she would in the end hear the words she, like all women, longed to hear, but if he never spoke of it, she would be content with this. He loved her, and she knew it, and he was capable of such tenderness it left her trembling, overwhelmed by her own love for him.”
---The heroine, Anne, spoken of the hero, Cord”
― Ellen O'Connell, quote from Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
“David was the son of a famous Venetian rabbi. From his youth he had been accustomed to debate good principles and right conduct with all sorts of grave Jewish persons. These conversations had formed his own character and he naturally supposed that a small measure of the same could not help but improve other people's. In short he had come to believe that if only one talks long enough and expresses oneself properly, it is perfectly possible to argue people into being good and happy. With this aim in mind he generally took it upon himself to quarrel with Tom Brightwind several times a week -- all without noticeable effect.”
― Susanna Clarke, quote from The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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