Elise Broach > Quotes

“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“My mom says that when it rains you never feel like you should be anywhere but home.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“The treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.

—Albrecht Durer”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“The most important things in a friendship didn't have to be said out loud.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“A good friend is someone you can count on. No matter what.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“He HAD seen the world. It had been scary at times, but also exhilarating. Who could have imagined it would be such a complicated, interesting place?...When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden. ”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“This was different: the feeling of being chosen. Out of everybody in the world...this boy had picked him as the one he liked best of all.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand so much about human nature. And write about it in a way that still rings true, all these years later.' ". . . " 'That's Shakespeare's secret. . .”
― Elise Broach

“He remembered hearing Karl tell James once that it was hard for people to ever know what they really looked like. Reflections in mirrors weren’t accurate, Karl said, because when you stared at yourself in a mirror, you subconsciously composed your face in a way that wasn’t your natural expression.

Marvin wondered it that was true when you were with strangers too. Maybe you only looked like your true self with the people you loved. And maybe that was a face you yourself hardly ever got to see…”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“He was beginning to understand that some of the most irritating that his family did stemmed from the depth of their love. And suddenly it felt wonderful to be worried about and fussed over, to be reclaimed by their messy closeness.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“I suppose we never know what we have the capacity to forgive until we're truly tested.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“Sometimes it bothered him, but mostly it was pretty nice to know that his parents wholeheartedly believed he could do anything, yet were still bursting with pride when he did.”
― Elise Broach

“A great friendship is like a work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger.”
― Elise Broach, Shakespeare's Secret

“We're never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
― Elise Broach, The Wolf Keepers Chapter Sampler

“It was more than happiness. More than affection or gratitude. It was something deeper. It was the sense of being seen and loved exactly for who he was.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“The most important things in a friendship didn’t have to be said out loud. James”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece