Therese Anne Fowler Quotes

• Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Old Habits, People, Habit

  49 Copy quote

• There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Losing, Forget, Trouble

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.243, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Ocean, Ice, Rivers

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.274, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

• If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Life, People, Ifs

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.2, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Luxury, One Day, Way

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.118, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  New York, Cities, New York City

  4 Copy quote

• A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Men, Credit, Importance

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.34, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

• ... while I bathed, while I tried but failed to sleep, I considered how I might become more like the women I respected and admired. Surrounded as I was by ambitious, accomplished women, I couldn't ignore the little voice in my head that said maybe I was supposed to shed halfway, and do something significant. Contribute something. Accomplish something. Choose. Be.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Sleep, Voice, Ambitious

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin