Helen Simonson Quotes

• Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

  Helen Simonson

  Reading, Doe, Way

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• You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

  Helen Simonson

  Running, Heart, Running Away

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• But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.

  Helen Simonson

  Heart, Together, Watches

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black

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• I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

  Helen Simonson

  Passion, Views, Two

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• I know something of shame...How can we not all feel it? We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own adventure and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors......I think we wake up every day with high intentions and by dusk we have routinely fallen short. Sometimes I think God created the darkness just so he didn't have to look at us all the time.

  Helen Simonson

  Mistake, Adventure, Thinking

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• We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

  Helen Simonson

  Mistake, People, Earth

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• I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

  Helen Simonson

  Book, Long, Important

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• Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

  Helen Simonson

  Passion, Tea, Wells

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.347, A&C Black

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• The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think

  Helen Simonson

  Ignorance, Thinking, World

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.69, A&C Black

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• Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

  Helen Simonson

  Morality, Sometimes, Process

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• My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had often wondered how a wailing rendition of 'Greensleeves' would encourage greater raspberry production but Alice insisted that it worked far better than chemical fertilizers, and she did produce several kinds of fruit in pie-worthy quantitites. No sense of pitch, but plenty of enthusiasm, he added.

  Helen Simonson

  Music, Garden, Thinking

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