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Jennifer Chiaverini QUOTES

Jennifer Chiaverini QUOTES

1 " One can never had too many librarian friends. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Wedding Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #18)

2 " Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Wedding Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #18)

3 " The union of their shared lives could be a masterpiece, even if the colors of one piece clashed with another, even if uneven stitches showed, even if, from time to time, they had to pick out seams, realign the pieces, and sew them back together again. It would not be perfect, but it could be beautiful, if they worked together and persevered. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Wedding Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts #18)

4 " People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Giving Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #20)

5 " Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Quilter's Apprentice (Elm Creek Quilts, #1)

6 " Perhaps Germany will serve as a warning,” said Arvid. “May they learn from us to snuff out fascism in America when the first sparks arise and not delay until democracy goes up in flames all around them.” “This could never happen in America. A nation that elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never elect a madman populist. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Resistance Women

7 " Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Sonoma Rose (Elm Creek Quilts, #19)

8 " She would almost prefer to fold her arms and sink into an eternal slumber, so that the great longing of her soul for peaceful rest would at last be gratified. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

9 " loving one’s children does not guarantee that one will never fail them, "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Enchantress of Numbers

10 " Hope is never false. One's hopes may not be fulfilled, but that doesn't not mean it was wrong to hope "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Spymistress

11 " Who said you had to fill his shoes?" said Karen. "Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be". "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , The Giving Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts, #20)

12 " On Christmas Day, the promise of peace offered a soft and shining light in dark times, an eternal flame that warfare could not douse, nor hatred extinguish. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Christmas Bells

13 " One of the great advantages that we may derive from machinery is the check that it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the dishonesty of human agents. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Enchantress of Numbers

14 " Mr Lincoln suggested that the Lord sent us this terrible war as punishment for the offense of slavery and that the war may be a mighty scourge to rid US of it "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

15 " The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Enchantress of Numbers

16 " The world is never ready for any innovation,” he grumbled. “The vast majority of people stubbornly cling to the past until people possessing foresight and a sense of adventure break a trail and bring them into the future. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Enchantress of Numbers

17 " And of course you believed their wise counsel," said Elizabeth lightly, "because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

18 " There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she must learn to trust the evidence of her own senses, of her own experiences, if it does not confirm what she has heard from others. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Enchantress of Numbers

19 " I understood that at eight years of age, but I had forgotten it by eighteen. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Enchantress of Numbers

20 " Then it occurred to her (Elizabeth Keckley) that if Tad (Lincoln’s son) had been a colored boy rather than the son of a president, and a teacher had found him so difficult to instruct, he would have been ridiculed as a dunce and held up as evidence of the inferiority of the entire race. Tad was bright; Elizabeth knew that well, and she was sure that with proper instruction and hard work, a glimmer of his father’s genius would show in him too. But Elizabeth knew many black boys Tad’s age who could read and write beautifully, and yet the myth of inferiority persisted. The unfairness of the assumptions stung. If a white child appeared dull, the entire race was deemed unintelligent. It seemed to Elizabeth that if one race should not judged by a single example, then neither should any other. "

― Jennifer Chiaverini , Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker