Paula Munier > Quotes

“We enter the world of the story, delighted to go through that reliable and recognizable portal of promise, the magical words “Once upon a time.”
― Paula Munier, Writing With Quiet Hands: How to Shape Your Writing to Resonate with Readers

“Did I ever tell you about my first wife?” asked Gil. “No.” Troy didn’t know that his friend had been married before Françoise. “Did she collect hats, too?” “She collected favors.” Not knowing quite what to say to that, Troy said nothing. “That’s the secret to women,” Gil told him as they made their way through the dark forest. “What they collect.”
― Paula Munier, Blind Search

“We owe no allegiance, we bow to no throne, Our ruler is law and the law is our own; Our leaders themselves are our own fellow-men, Who can handle the sword and the scythe and the pen Hurrah for Vermont! For the land that we till Must have sons to defend her from valley and hill Our vow is recorded—our banner unfurled, In the name of Vermont we defy all the world! Then cheer, cheer, the green mountaineer, then cheer, cheer, the green mountaineer”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“Houston, we have a problem.”
― Paula Munier, The Wedding Plot

“Except for service dogs.”
― Paula Munier, The Wedding Plot

“Everyone has secret sorrows casting shadows on their hearts and their minds and their souls.”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“with L.L. Bean,”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“Newark.”
― Paula Munier, Blind Search

“Congregational church”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“rude sniffing.”
― Paula Munier, Blind Search

“six or seven,”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“Every morning they marched off their grief mile after mile in the mountains, where the cool greens of the forest could chase away the dark ghosts of the desert, at least until night fell.

but not today. today the wilderness held a hush that unnerved her, the same sort of hush that Martinez always called a disturbance in the Force when they went out on patrol. Bad things usually followed.”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“its libraries.”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“very big”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“elderly citizens”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“Ides of March,”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“his Kong.”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“working dogs and dog handlers everywhere”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“posted. In Vermont, the right to hunt, fish, and trap on open, private land had been guaranteed since the 1700s, In Vermont, the right to hunt, fish, and trap on open, private land had been guaranteed since the 1700s, unless”
― Paula Munier, Home at Night

“Oriflame makeup,”
― Paula Munier, Blind Search

“Lake Winnipesaukee”
― Paula Munier, The Wedding Plot

“Gérard’s sourdough”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“iron skillets,”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“was a good listener.”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. —DALAI LAMA”
― Paula Munier, The Wedding Plot

“and me.”
― Paula Munier, Blind Search

“The competition is fierce—and that’s why your first words must be fierce as well.”
― Paula Munier, The Writer's Guide to Beginnings: How to Craft Story Openings That Sell

“peanut-butter-filled Kong.”
― Paula Munier, The Hiding Place

“nearby brook”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones

“been Quakers,”
― Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones