47 Quotes by Ann Rinaldi

Sometimes it take courage to leave.

The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

When I write I am the real me.

I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.

And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more....