Ann Rinaldi
Ann Rinaldi
Ann Rinaldiis an American young-adult fiction author. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, "Numbering All The Bones" and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She has written a total of more than forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best novels of the preceding...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 August 1934
CountryUnited States of America
The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.
When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.
When I write I am the real me.
I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.
Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.
A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.
I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more....
I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.