M.E. Kerr > Quotes

“Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers”
― M.E Kerr

“Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.”
― M.E. Kerr, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

“When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.”
― M.E. Kerr, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!

“It seemed to him that anyone with any trouble at all eventually found his way to a city library, and the really troubled ones became regulars.”
― M.E. Kerr, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!

“It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. She couldn't wait to get away from me, and I couldn't wait to get away from her. Not because we didn't like each other, but because there wasn't any point to our being together any longer.”
― M. E. Kerr

“Tucker, to make anything work, from meat loaf to a marriage, there are two things you have to do. Forgive and continue.”
― M.E. Kerr, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!

“I saw that a tender feeling was blossoming in her heart, like a rose in spring and I could not help recalling Petrarch’s saying, “Innocence is often but a hair’s breadth from ruin.”
― M.E. Kerr, If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?

“We were a golden couple without a cheering section. No one was for us but us.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“My father used to tell me never be ashamed of your tears, only be ashamed when you don't have any and the occasion calls for tears.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“Accept me as I am, so I may learn what I can become.”
― M.E. Kerr, I'll Love You When You're More Like Me

“Take long steps and by all means look back, you'll see everything behind you getting smaller and eventually passing completely out of view.”
― M.E. Kerr, I'll Love You When You're More Like Me

“Dreams are just mental noise. They're neurological junk the brain is discarding. Dreams are the trash bag of the brain!”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“I hated being in a group with someone who was ignored.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“You head for trouble like a paper clip toward a magnet.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“She smelled of roses, or she reminded me of how roses smell. I didn't know which.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“The phone put a stop to my sudden diarrhea of the mouth.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell Back

“The Deems lived on Jericho Road in a red brick house that Nina Deem told me she wouldn't mind dying and coming back as.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell Back

“Then out, out brief candle.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“Then she turned around, cupped her hands to her mouth, and called out, "Don’t you two be strangers!”
― M.E. Kerr, Deliver Us from Evie

“We jet crashes had our pride.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell Back

“The new minister is one of those guys who makes you feel good about something you shouldn't feel good about.”
― M.E. Kerr, Fell

“If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”
― M.E. Kerr, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!