Margaret Landon Quotes & Sayings

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening. — Margaret Landon

She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself. — Margaret Landon

Perhaps nuns felt like this, she thought, when they passed within convent walls and left the glitter of the world behind. But their renunciation was of the will, while circumstances beyond her control had stripped her of the people who meant everything to her. And yet was it not possible that they had endured the same impoverishment, so that when the glory that was life had become husks they found it good to exchange those dead things for service and whatever vicarious happiness could be salvaged? Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level. — Margaret Landon

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world. — Margaret Landon

The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind. — Margaret Landon

Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God? — Margaret Landon

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are — Margaret Landon

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful. — Margaret Landon

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20! — Margaret Landon

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations — Margaret Landon

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart. — Margaret Landon

He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain. — Margaret Landon

To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence. — Margaret Landon

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort. — Margaret Landon

I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind. — Margaret Landon

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed. — Margaret Landon

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain? — Margaret Landon