Quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only he brave can endure suspense