“we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.”
―
Meg Waite Clayton,
The Wednesday Sisters
“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.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
“My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“Most of us say what everyone else says, or we say nothing at all, so we won’t look like fools.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
“We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.” ― Meg Waite Clayton
“It's daylight and I can see so many things I couldn't see back then. - Laney” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Four Ms. Bradwells
“What a different woman she would be but for the good people in her life.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“She turned to him, listening as closely as her parents had always listened to her. It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“The thinnest of silver linings on clouds banishing all light.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“...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...” ― Meg Waite Clayton
“How has Hitler convinced all of Germany that his lies are the truth and the truth is a lie?” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“It was something that was hard to see until you had some measure of success, but it wasn’t success that made one an artist. One was an artist. One was successful or not at selling work, but the sale of art no more made a man an artist than it made him a man. An artist simply was.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
“Henry Adams said, ‘One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible,’” she said. “What is it we’ve done so right in our lives that has made us five?” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
“A life of wealth and a life of riches aren’t always the same.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
“It was binary, the child had understood that. All of life was binary now. Right and wrong. Good and evil. Fight or surrender. War without the choice of neutrality this go-around.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“The Zweig line he'd read the night before came to him: A thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“Lügenpresse,” Hitler called the Austrian press who reported anything else. Lying press.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“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.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
“My father used to say courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather going forward in the face of it.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“Most of us say what everyone else says, or we say nothing at all, so we won’t look like fools.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
“We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.” ― Meg Waite Clayton
“It's daylight and I can see so many things I couldn't see back then. - Laney” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Four Ms. Bradwells
“What a different woman she would be but for the good people in her life.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“She turned to him, listening as closely as her parents had always listened to her. It was an honor, to be listened to closely, to be heard. One could honor someone without agreeing with them.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“The thinnest of silver linings on clouds banishing all light.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“...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...” ― Meg Waite Clayton
“How has Hitler convinced all of Germany that his lies are the truth and the truth is a lie?” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“It was something that was hard to see until you had some measure of success, but it wasn’t success that made one an artist. One was an artist. One was successful or not at selling work, but the sale of art no more made a man an artist than it made him a man. An artist simply was.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
“Henry Adams said, ‘One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible,’” she said. “What is it we’ve done so right in our lives that has made us five?” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Wednesday Sisters
“A life of wealth and a life of riches aren’t always the same.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
“It was binary, the child had understood that. All of life was binary now. Right and wrong. Good and evil. Fight or surrender. War without the choice of neutrality this go-around.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“The Zweig line he'd read the night before came to him: A thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
“Lügenpresse,” Hitler called the Austrian press who reported anything else. Lying press.” ― Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London
