Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer

After all, what’s good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

Austen

Be Good

Good Enough

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged — after all, what’s good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it’s a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

Hero

Love

Lying

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted – and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

Book

Finding The One

Son

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I’ve said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren’t – they’re witty. I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.

Book

Thinking

Witty

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

Book

Do you suppose the St. Swithin’s furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Disappointment

Passion

Unlikely

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I’ll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He’d have to – you wouldn’t grant anyone else something you can’t have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

Hate

Kindness

Men

Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person’s name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and “fruitfulness” is drawn in.

Grace

Names

Thinking

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

Child Rearing

Children

Imagination

His writings have made me his friend.

Made

Writing

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Austen

Baby

Bad Mood

Be Good

Be Kind

Beautiful

Being Married

Believe

Blessing

Blight

Book

Bystanders

Cat

Child Rearing

Children

Christening

Clerks

Concentration

Condolences

Counting

Crowds

Cry

Curly Hair

Devil

Different

Dignity

Disappointment

Dog

Dumb

Ears

Fairy

Feels

Finding The One

Firsts

Flower

Flutes

Forever

Gentleman

Girl

Goes On

Gold

Gone

Good Enough

Grace

Grass

Grease

Grief

Hair

Hate

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Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer

Mary Ann Shaffer

After all, what’s good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged — after all, what’s good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it’s a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted – and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I’ve said, there was only one. Seneca. . .Maybe that sounds dull, but the letters aren’t – they’re witty. I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

Do you suppose the St. Swithin’s furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I’ll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He’d have to – you wouldn’t grant anyone else something you can’t have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

His writings have made me his friend.

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