Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna QuindlenTags: reading books journey travel
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna QuindlenI would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna QuindlenWhen you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.
Anna QuindlenIf your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna QuindlenTags: success
the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
Anna QuindlenTags: reading
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna QuindlenI conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.
Anna QuindlenI read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
Anna QuindlenThe rituals surrounding vacations among Manhattan's wealthiest and best-connected citizens are strange and specific. By vacations I don't mean country houses, which are part of the regular ebb and flow of life and which are frequently subjects for complaint - The kids never want to go! The caretaker missed the roof leak! The pipes froze! - as though having a six-thousand-square-foot, cedar-shingled cottage on five acres overlooking the ocean is nothing more or less than a constant test of character.
Anna QuindlenTags: humor
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