Quotes from Roses

Leila Meacham ·  609 pages

Rating: (12.8K votes)


“I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


“A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


“How many more burdens do you think you can bear alone? How many more years can I go on alone, without you? Our days are filled from dawn to dusk, honey, but our lives are empty.”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


“The pathway to hell was paved with good intentions, but what about the wrongs committed for the right reasons? Were they included as well? Life had taught him that anything that starts wrong, ends wrong. In this case, he supposed that only time and its unpredictable mercies would tell. - Percy”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


“It was more as if they recognize they were two halves of a whole who'd found their missing.
Matt and Rachel”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses



“He ragarded her in surprise. This was a different tune from the one he'd expected to hear, certainly a change from the verse she'd sung when he was a boy. Commitment to ones' name, to one's heritage, to that which the sacrifices of others had made possible -- that was the song he used to hear from Aunt Mary.
"Yes, I do," she said, "If I've learned anything by now, it's that some things are too priceless to sacrifice for a name." - Mary and William”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


“Memory could be a terrible thing .. an instrument of torture that persists in its work long after a man has suffered his time upon the rack.”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


“silence. Finally, he said, “So you and”
― Leila Meacham, quote from Roses


About the author

Leila Meacham
Born place: The United States
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“But I'm taking small steps
'Cause I don't know where I'm going
I'm taking small steps
And I don't know what to say.
Small steps,
Trying to pull myself together
And maybe I'll discover
A clue along the way!”
― Louis Sachar, quote from Small Steps


“Just because things were fair didn't make them easy.”
― Rosamund Hodge, quote from Crimson Bound


“Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.”
― David Walliams, quote from Gangsta Granny


“If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a thouroughfare for all thoughts, and among them you must make choices.”
― Robertson Davies, quote from The Rebel Angels


“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll toast to us becoming great friends if you promise to tell me when you want something more with me."

My eyes rounded, then I tossed back my head, laughing at his deliberate word choice. When, not if.

"You're something else," I teased.

He shook his head. "Nah, just optimistic."

"All right." I lifted my glass. "You've got yourself a deal.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, quote from Everything We Keep


Interesting books

The Eternity Code
(105.9K)
The Eternity Code
by Eoin Colfer
Musashi
(11.8K)
Musashi
by Eiji Yoshikawa
Keys to the Demon Prison
(63.4K)
Keys to the Demon Pr...
by Brandon Mull
The Longest Ride
(94.7K)
The Longest Ride
by Nicholas Sparks
The Forsyte Saga
(16.7K)
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
The Bone People
(17.1K)
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.