Quotes from Mary Ann Shaffer

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

Moses: God or crowd control?!?

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

Life goes on. What nonsense, I though, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.