28 Quotes by Jacqueline Kelly

It’s amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.

The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they’re weak.

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

It means that we should celebrate today’s failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over.

But my mother’s life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony.

We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.

By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat.

I don’t have that many days left,” he said as we sat together in the library. “Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn’t come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.

Packing and balancing them was an art and, every year, scores of men across the South were crushed and killed by unstable loads.