She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
Anna QuindlenOn the other hand, I think that Governor Romney has to worry that his turnout is going to be low, that he is not going to bring out the evangelicals, that he is not going to bring out the Tea Party stalwarts. If he does not, then it's pretty clear that he will lose the election. So I think turnout in key groups is going to be really, really key on Election Day.
Anna QuindlenI believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.
Anna QuindlenYour children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Anna QuindlenAnd yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.
Anna Quindlen