Kelli Barbour

“It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”
― Margaret Landon

“Perhaps nuns felt like this, she thought, when they passed within convent walls and left the glitter of the world behind. But their renunciation was of the will, while circumstances beyond her control had stripped her of the people who meant everything to her. And yet was it not possible that they had endured the same impoverishment, so that when the glory that was life had become husks they found it good to exchange those dead things for service and whatever vicarious happiness could be salvaged? Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.”
― Margaret Landon