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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience. Ann Hood
Experience Fly Added Took Our Adds Ways Favorite Security Carrying Security Measures Some Only Misery Knitting Longer New Safe Although Lines Privilege Just Want After Board Us Measures Away Earlier Needles
Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work. Ann Hood
Work Hope Will Gone Everyone Promise About Someone Through Emotional Read Knows False Fertility Fueled Who Treatment Treatments Nightmare
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel. Ann Hood
Woman Glasses Wife Husband Beside Writer Written New Proud Am Who Cool Novel Her Vintage
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George. Ann Hood
Too Worse Married Ringo John Beatle None Wives Cousins George Wanted Paul Us Used Even Even Worse Play
As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever. Ann Hood
Losing Enormous Someone Remains Know Left Forever Child Behind Hole Who Lived Nightmare
God does give us more than we can bear sometimes. Ann Hood
God Sometimes Give More Bear Does Than Us
Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school. Ann Hood
Home School Church Nun Back Way Way Home Would Often Stop Wanted
I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to read or write, and friends suggested I take up knitting; almost immediately I fell under its spell. Ann Hood
Grace Daughter Spell Months Immediately Unable Write Take Almost Knit Knitting Fell Read Learned Up Friends Died Six Form After Suddenly Suggested
I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world. Ann Hood
Love Time Book People Writing Personality World Reading Too Book Tour Extroverted Out More More Than Anything Split Tour Part Study Feel Talking Than Going Often Anything Traveling
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one. Ann Hood
Myself Thought Reading Own Other Other Kids Seven Books Kids Kind About My Own Write Writer Never Outsider Up Just Being Wanting Preferred Growing Growing Up Started
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else. Anne Bronte
People Cats Father Everybody Everybody Else Else Neglected Slighted Valued She Courted Dogs Trusted Children Loved Poor Poor People Her
It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures! Anne Bronte
Love Nature Woman Blindly Constant Only Tenderly Bless Dear To Love Them Creatures Ever
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor. Anne Bronte
Great Quality Money Great Deal Men Trouble Beauty Worst Kinds Generally Most Likely Attractive Deal Which Next Therefore
We believe world peace is inevitable. Anne Perry
Peace World Inevitable Believe World Peace
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class. Anne Perry
Buy Me You Class Sometimes Country Say System Systems About American Human Different Human Beings Themselves Breeding Beings Different Thing Based Thing
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. Anne Perry
Life War Health My Life First Before Few Months Spent London Born Both Schooling Couple Periods Although Frequent Years Very Times Short Moves Short Periods Ill England Interrupted
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences? Anne Perry
Good People Past Differences Missed Because How Wonder May Often In The Past Based
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. Anne Rice
God Character Son Vital Mary Take Make Him Sought Gospels Did Breathing Believable Utterly Jesus
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. Anne Rice
Own White Out Would My Own Parlor Put Like House Laid Double Coffin Funeral Flowers
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. Anne Rice
Open Annihilate Answer Question May Door Whirlwind Ask Really
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. Anne Rice
Evil Goodness Difficulty Possible Always
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. Anne Rice
Me Inspire Own Though Characters My Own Mythology May Stories Created Realm Working Conscious
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't. Anne Rice
You Book Down Everything About Absolutely Feels Along Reach Know Up Authentic Move Deep Deep Down Bring
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. Anne Rice
Word Every Enough Say Something Write Meant
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. Anne Rice
You Yourself People Writing Own Meet Typewriter Computer Occasional May Where Really Your Groups
The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? Anne Rice
World Interview Vampire Find Immortal He Simply Quest Existing Louis Godless Theme Meaning Meaning Of Ask Whole Oldest
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