Melanie Jackson > Quotes

“Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down”
― Melanie Jackson, Divine Fire

“Good God, is the man a heathen?’

‘Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture.”
― Melanie Jackson, Impression of Bones

“but she seemed to be made more of nerves than muscle and was always clutching at herself mentally, starting at shadows of thoughts that crept up on her.”
― Melanie Jackson, Portrait of a Gossip

“to Mr. Adams as Dan. For me this was due not only to the fact that he was my senior by”
― Melanie Jackson, Still Waters: A Canadian Cozy Thriller

“. As it says in Ecclesiastes there is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance. The wheel has turned and the season of grief has passed. I am Lazarus resurrected from an emotional grave. Like Lazarus, I suspect I will always be aware of the grave, but still I say, let the dance of life go on.”
― Melanie Jackson, A Curious Affair

“There was also the fact that thinking you were paranoid could make you paranoid.”
― Melanie Jackson, Wildside Volume 1: A Goblin Supernatural Romance Collection

“A squirrel dashed by, leaping from the apple tree to one of the white oaks a good eight feet away. He looked like a little old man in a tatty fur coat running after a bus.”
― Melanie Jackson

“it was black as a sinner’s heart once night fell,”
― Melanie Jackson, Portrait of a Gossip