Anya Seton Quote

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

She was a gypsy, as soon as you unravelled the many layers to her wild spirit she was on her next quest to discover her magic. She was relentless like that, the woman didn't need no body but an open r...

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.