M.E. Kerr Quotes & Sayings

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid. — M.E. Kerr

Tucker, to make anything work, from meat loaf to a marriage, there are two things you have to do. Forgive and continue. — M.E. Kerr

It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. She couldn't wait to get away from me, and I couldn't wait to get away from her. Not because we didn't like each other, but because there wasn't any point to our being together any longer. — M.E. Kerr

I saw that a tender feeling was blossoming in her heart, like a rose in spring and I could not help recalling Petrarch's saying, "Innocence is often but a hair's breadth from ruin. — M.E. Kerr

Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers — M.E. Kerr

It seemed to him that anyone with any trouble at all eventually found his way to a city library, and the really troubled ones became regulars. — M.E. Kerr

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family. — M.E. Kerr