Maureen Daly > Quotes

“When I eat, everything tastes so good I can't get all the taste out of it; when I look at something-say, the lake-the waves are so green and the foam so white that it seems I can't look at it hard enough; there seems to be something there that I can't get at. And even when I'm with you, I can't seem to be with you...enough.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“A girl can't feel like a lady with a bottle of beer before her.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“It's funny how, having nice thoughts in your head, it is so pleasant to pull them all out and think them all over again.”
― Maureen Daly

“I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and evasive.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“A sudden thought struck me. Wouldn't it be odd if my mother got old! ... It is only natural that when your children are big you must be older but somehow I had never thought of its happening to my mother... What a peculiar thing to think of in the bright sunshine of the afternoon!”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“It's funny how, having nice thoughts in your head, it is so pleasant to pull them all out and think them all over again.”
― Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer

“Some mules just seem to be born with the hee-haw habit. Back home we call those fellows 'Missouri Nightingales'.”
― Maureen Daly, Small War of Sergeant Donkey

“Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.”
― Maureen Daly, Small War of Sergeant Donkey

“Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.”
― Maureen Daly, Small War of Sergeant Donkey