Barbara Escher > Barbara's Quotes

“You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.”
― Tom Robbins

“From Mrs. Bennett to Jane: "I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Exhaustion is a friend to the grieving.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“I have a theory that we are at our meanest when we feel threatened.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“I made a choice to get inspired. I made lists of reasons to feel hopeful. I forced myself to look at the sky and see green.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“We're just going to have to wait for-" Then she saw us, and looked Ian over, in his flannel shirt and jeans. "The Brawny paper-towel guy.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“Qualifications,” he said, “pale in the face of confidence.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton