Sheila Kohler > Quotes

“If you find the truth within you, it will save you. If you ignore it, it will destroy you.”
― Sheila Kohler, Cracks

“It's stupid to ban books that tell you the truth about life.”
― Sheila Kohler, Cracks

“It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.”
― Sheila Kohler, Becoming Jane Eyre

“The truth is that there is almost nothing as tiresome as unwanted love.”
― Sheila Kohler, The Perfect Place

“Perhaps that is what growing up means: slowly realizing how right your mother has been.”
― Sheila Kohler, Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir

“The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended.”
― Sheila Kohler, The Perfect Place

“She was full of sultry grace
With her heavy, red lips and her soft, dark curls.”
― Sheila Kohler, Cracks

“Life has a way of evening out the injustices it has created.”
― Sheila Kohler, Once We Were Sisters: A Memoir

“The next morning, I lie in bed beside my sister, as we used to do as girls in the nursery. She is still sleeping soundly, an arm over her face, the light sheet like a shroud over her soft body. I think of my children waking alone in the apartment on”
― Sheila Kohler, Once We Were Sisters