Valerie Estelle Frankel quotes

“So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone I can't predict.”
-- Valerie Estelle Frankel

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“While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears the cries of this lost part of herself needing rescue, her journey truly begins.”
-- Valerie Estelle Frankel

Source : Valerie Estelle Frankel (2010). “From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend”, p.20, McFarland

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“Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.”
-- Valerie Estelle Frankel

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“During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic idea and got the plots and everything, but I wasn't sure who the audience was. I exist in this other world - in the book publishing and magazine world of people who would make fun of this project. We were driving home after two weeks in Maine, and we stopped in a gas station in Massachusetts and saw that Snooki had just been arrested. It was a surreal moment. My last few weeks were spent trying to get in this person's head, and there she was in on the cover of the New York Post .”
-- Valerie Estelle Frankel

Source : Source: www.slate.com

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“Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.”
-- Valerie Estelle Frankel

Source : Source: www.slate.com

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“There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.”

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts”

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”

“You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media