Ann Warner > Quotes

“I know from our talks, you worry about making the right choices in your life. I cannot nor should anyone, tell you what to do. For that, my dear, you must listen to your own heart. And, never fear, it is speaking to you.
Perhaps I can help a little though, by showing you how I found my own way.”
― Ann Warner, Dreams for Stones

“It’s hard to con an honest man. Easy to con a dishonest one. Especially one who’s also greedy.”
― Ann Warner, The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club - Book Six: A Senior Sleuths Cozy Mystery

“And I had the absurd feeling that I knew him, although I also knew that wasn’t possible. I now think that sometimes, when we first meet someone who’s going to be important to us, we’re given a glimpse . . .”
― Ann Warner, The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club

“eddied”
― Ann Warner, Dreams for Stones

“Be not afraid.”
― Ann Warner, Dreams for Stones

“I’d been bingeing on Downton Abbey and decided to channel Maggie Smith at her most imperious.”
― Ann Warner, The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club Book Two

“It never paid to engage a bigot in a debate.”
― Ann Warner, Absence of Grace

“There are those who say we know we’re becoming wise when we see value in our deepest pains.”
― Ann Warner, Counterpointe: Romantic Book Club Fiction

“Smart alecks rarely make good students. They tend not to pay attention, and their technique invariably fails to enchant as a result.”
― Ann Warner, Counterpointe: Romantic Book Club Fiction

“shifted”
― Ann Warner, The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club

“next to him.”
― Ann Warner, Absence of Grace

“But the past can’t be picked up like a piece of knitting. And even if it could, I can’t ignore the stitches added in the past year.”
― Ann Warner, The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club

“I think the gift of life comes from God with the possibility for both joy and pain. None of us escapes without drinking a full measure of both.”
― Ann Warner, Absence of Grace

“Better off lonely than with the wrong person, I suppose.”
― Ann Warner, Absence of Grace

“Our past always comes with us. It shakes us up, no matter where we try to hide.”
― Ann Warner, Absence of Grace

“how funny it was that life often seemed to turn out that way—that the thing you thought you were running from was what saved you.”
― Ann Warner, Absence of Grace