Denise Ackley

“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

“I hope that's a good thing,' I said, thinking he might say I reminded him of a film star- then we'd actually have something in common. I was hoping for Anne Hathaway or Julia Roberts, and not the obvious Vivien Leigh. Even Angelina Jolie would have done, though I'd never quite forgiven her for stealing Brad's heart. Talking of Brad, was Sean starting to resemble him too? No, he could never be a Brad, a Matthew McConaughey maybe at a push, but never a Brad Pitt.”
― Ali McNamara, From Notting Hill with Love... Actually

“The best part of hiding is being found.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life