The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.

- Margaret George

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

- Margaret George

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

- Margaret George

One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon…

- Margaret George

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

- Margaret George

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

- Margaret George

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love …

- Margaret George

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

- Margaret George

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep…

- Margaret George