Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey quotes

“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.193, Penguin

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“Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.89, Penguin

#Time Quotes #Self Quotes #Thieves Quotes

“We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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“Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1987). “Joanna's Husband and David's Wife”, Dell Publishing Company

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“There is nothing like champagne to ensure sweet dreams.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.44, Penguin

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“Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin

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“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin

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“Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.”
-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.66, Penguin

#Contentment Quotes #Letters Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.”

“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”

“The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

“We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.”

“Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.”