Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch wit…

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we do…

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. …

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock