15 Quotes by Meg Waite Clayton

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...

My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it.

Most of us say what everyone else says, or we say nothing at all, so we won’t look like fools.

Bertrand made me laugh. I suppose he was the first man who really did, and if there is anything better than a man that makes you laugh, I don't know what it is.

It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.

The thinnest of silver linings on clouds banishing all light.

Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.

We didn’t know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other’s lives.

Not every book is for every reader.