171 Quotes by Anita Diamant

Her robes were purple – the color of royalty and holiness and wealth.

Biblical names are hot again.

Even the oldest of us,” she said, shaking a bony finger at me, “even we crones can pick up new tricks here and there.

I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together.

I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together. And the way she laughed at my wisecracks and thanked me for my opinions made me think maybe I was as smart and funny as she said i was.

I Have No Choice, Addie.

THE COURTSHIP of Oliver Younger and Polly Boynton began on the day he brought John Stanwood to yank out two of Tammy’s rotten teeth. Oliver was fourteen at the time, and though he’d gotten his height, his voice was still changing and he was far too shy to look Polly square in the eye as she stood, half hidden, in the doorway of her father’s house. She.

I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to.

There’s something almost adolescent about Whitman’s paean to everything that was and remains good about America.