Barbara Delinsky quotes

“Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2009). “While My Sister Sleeps”, p.270, Anchor

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“Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

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“I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.98, Anchor

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“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.99, Anchor

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“You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.101, Anchor

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“If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.102, Anchor

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“I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

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“Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.”
-- Barbara Delinsky

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2008). “Lake News”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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“Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.”

“Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.”

“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

“The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.”

“King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.”

“Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it”

Source : FaceBook post by Adrienne Maloof from Sep 13, 2011

“For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.”

“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (1929). “What is Communist Anarchism?”, New York : Dover Publications

“Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.”

Source : Song: Dancing With Myself, Album: Don't Stop, 1981