Marie Bostwick > Quotes

“I realized that I'd been comparing the inside of my life with the outside of everyone else's; measuring my own fortunes against the cheerful how-are-you-I'm-fine facade that people put on for each other.”
― Marie Bostwick

“Between one breath and the next, your whole world can change. ”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread

“Novels force you to think—to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they’re valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. My”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Ignorance isn’t a chronic condition, unless you allow it to become one.”
― Marie Bostwick, Threading the Needle

“The book didn't solve the problem but it did put a name to it. Shining a light that helped women who felt isolated and powerless find one another - and their voices. That has been the very start of every revolution.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“That’s the thing I’ve learned about mountains: the joy you feel at scaling them is in direct proportion to how high and impassable the peak appears to be once you’re on the other side of it.”
― Marie Bostwick, Just In Time

“It's more like she left some of herself behind in the walls and the floors and the books, like there's something she wants to tell me.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister

“It's smart. It's what men do. Why do you think they join all those clubs —the Elks? The VFW? The Masons? Congress!" she cried. "To support one another, that's why. Why do you think they call them booster clubs? Because they're trying to boost each other over the wall or bend the rules in their favor, help the group.
If women stuck up for one another the way men do, this would be a very different world.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Nearly every generation can point to an unanticipated event that divided time into before and after, a day after which the world would never be the same, when the markets crashed, or bombs dropped, or wars began, or towers fell.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Having faith in yourself,” Alice said, “believing you have as much right to be in the room as anybody else, is half the battle.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Look I'm not saying you have to agree with everything that's in here but we all know there's a problem. If we can't be honest about that, how is anything ever going to change?”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“The invisible fence of rules and mores that confined women to a small, carefully defined patch of human achievement impacted men as well, required them to carry the bulk of a family’s financial burden, even if it meant doing work they disliked.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Examining thoughts and ideas that can impact your life is the whole point of reading,”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Every single thing we own owns us." Abigail from a thread of truth”
― Marie Bostwick

“death has a way of re-ranking your priorities and clearing your mind of debris. Maybe that is part of its purpose. On the other hand, maybe death is just death.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister

“She was tired of stale conversations, the company of generic women who made her feel like she had to swallow her opinions and camouflage her personality.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Do you know why money matters? Because it buys power. Power to influence outcomes and break people, power to bend the world to your will. And who has the money? The power? The control? “Men. Sure, every now and again, some clever girl manages to outlive her male relatives and get her hands on the inheritance, but the rest of us?” She shook her head. “We’ve got no choice but to dance to their tune, use our looks and wiles to convince those bastards to toss a few crumbs our direction.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“From those to whom much has been given, much is expected.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Old friends remind us of who we were and what we’ve become. New friends hint at who we could be and inspire us to move forward. We need both, the new and old, the grounding of the past and hope for the future, because life is terrible and wonderful all at once, and too hard to face alone.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

“Margaret liked that her daughter knew her own mind and wasn’t afraid to speak it. It was an underappreciated quality in women, one that often faded with age.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“But here’s the deal . . . Everything worthwhile takes longer than you think, trust me on this.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“If God wants you to be somewhere or do something, He'll supply everything you need at the moment you need it. And not one moment before. Never forget, Celia, God is in the business of Just In Time inventory.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Second Sister

“But it’s the battles you fight together that make two people one – the hardships, and failures, and occasional triumphs that cement your vows and teach you the meaning and practice of loving someone fully.”
― Marie Bostwick, Just In Time

“Life has a way of steering you toward the path you’re meant to take, whether you meant to take it or not.”
― Marie Bostwick, Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly

“Books sprung from an author’s imagination can be just as meaningful as those based on facts, figures, and events, or even more meaningful. Novels force you to think—to make your own conclusions about characters and themes, and decide if they’re valid or relevant or true or good, or the opposite, or maybe somewhere in between. My personal preference is for in between. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who was all one thing or the other, have you? Most people are a walking bundle of contradictions.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“When your dreams turn to dust, maybe its time to vacuum".”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread

“Acquaintances abound, but true friendships are rare and worth waiting for.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“there are countless good and right ways to be a woman and only two wrong. The first is to insist that your way is “the” way, the only way. The second is to buy into that nonsense and to spend your life limping along an aimless path in shoes that will never fit.”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“One thing I know from experience," she said, "it's always a lot easier to be a conqueror if you don't try to go it alone. You didn't see Napoleon riding off to battle with just himself and his trusty sword. He brought in some backup.”
― Marie Bostwick, A Single Thread