33 Quotes by Rachel Field

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!

There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.