Jacquelyn Mitchard Quotes

• It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Spiritual, Unseen, Belief

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1997). “The Deep End of the Ocean”, p.90, Penguin

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• Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Cat, People, Pet

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• I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Fiction, Research, May

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• Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Life, Pizza

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• The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Structure, Remains, Ideals

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• You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Regret, Sweat, Eating

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• Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Wanted, Humans, Heels

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.74, Penguin

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• Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Personality, Care, Share

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• our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

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  Daughter, Children, Home

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.58, Penguin

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• Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Time, Women, Feel Good

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.174, Penguin

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• There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Sleep, Past, Childhood

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• When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Someone You Love, Behinds, Dies

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• Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Heart, Boys, Hormones

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (2013). “What We Saw at Night”, p.106, Soho Press

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• Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Mother, Wife, Special

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• Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Teenager, Feelings, Feelings Change

  Jacquelyn Mitchard (2013). “What We Saw at Night”, p.68, Soho Press

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