“ You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks… Shannon L. Alder
“ The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out. Shannon L. Alder
“ History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart. Shannon L. Alder
“ The sisters' voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre. To the ear, they were twins; to the eye, nothing alike. Emily was tall and slender with her… Allegra Goodman
“ I don’t care, Nevada said. I want blue lilacs.And I want to fly away from here, but that wouldn’t happen anytime soon, would it?Anyway, I have to get back to the office, Nevada said. Text me if anythi… Ilona Andrews
“ You're a throwback.To what?Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxically old-fashioned in her life. She didn't even own a television. The nineteenth century, Jess concluded. No. Eight… Allegra Goodman
“ She designed the cakes and I worked out the recipes. The first year we each created a signature cake. Genie's was called the Goddess: really tall, all white on the outside, wrapped in mountains of coc… Ruth Reichl
“ I do love it when I am right,' Hyacinth said triumphantly. 'Which is fortunate, since I so often am. Julia Quinn
“ If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought intoevery-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake,… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie. Shannon L. Alder
“ If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought intoevery-day life; it was not the sunshiny rest of a placid lake,… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ I would be over the moon if you'd make me one of your famous apple cakes.Portia stared at the ingredients her sister had lined up with perfect precision on the scratched countertop. Apples. Butter. Br… Linda Francis Lee
“ I was too young that time to value her,But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together,Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,And wheresoe'er we went, li… William Shakespeare
“ Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home. Shannon L. Alder
