16 Quotes by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Her husband was sent to boarding school at an early age and though deprived of his family's presence, their name was always ahead of him, opening every door.

How arrogant we are to think the survival of any life that begins in our shadow depends upon our continuing physical presence. Indeed our shadow too often stands between the new life we create- in whatever form- and the sun's life-giving rays.

It is ironic that the very ties that bind a husband and wife in theory- home and family- often serve to separate them in fact.

How much of what passes for grief in the world is really nothing more than regret?

La vejez tendría que ser la recompensa de una vida de mucho trabajo, pero no será más que un castigo si insistimos en seguir haciendo lo mismo de siempre, midiendo los logros del presente por el baremo de los del pasado y quedándonos cortos sin remedio.

Algunas veces, ser buena madre está reñido con ser buena persona.

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

..the alchemy of grief transforms the most awkward phrases into sentiments of purest gold..

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.