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Explore our hand-picked selection of 9 inspiring quotes by Alexandra Ripley.

About Alexandra Ripley

  • Born: January 8, 1934
  • Died: January 10, 2004
  • Occupation: Writer
    • It's the centuries, scarlett darling. all the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. it's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. you cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. time. and mystery.
    Air Years Land
    To anyone with a drop of irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. it's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for
    Mother Fighting Blood
    If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
    Heart Rams Break
    You belong with me, scarlett, haven't you figured that out? and the world is where we belong, all of it. we're not home-and-hearth people. we're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. without challenge, we're only half alive. we can go anywhere, and as long as we're together, it will belong to us. but, my pet, we'll never belong to it. that's for other people, not for us.
    Home Long People
    And if things always stayed the same, scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
    Would Be Reason Bother
    Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
    Book Cereal Deodorant
    But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. there's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
    Past Maybe Tomorrow Yesterday
    One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
    Caring World Littles
    Should-haves solve nothing. it's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
    Thinking Needs Next
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