Quotes by : Grace Metalious

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down....

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

...and often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton,....

If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If....

Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance?....

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it,....

It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious,....