9 Quotes & Sayings By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is the author of the bestselling novel, The View from Sky Hill, which won the Kentucky Book Award for Fiction. Her latest novel, Glorious, will be released in June. She is also the author of The Glorious Heresies, a novel based on the lives of St. Thomas More and his wife, Lady Alice Perrers Read more

She has published three novels with St. Martin's Press: The Last Disciple, The Last Confession, and The Last Confession of Alexander Pope. Her first novel was The Book of Secrets, which she wrote primarily as a gift to her son.

She has also written several nonfiction books including Deadly Words: Stalking Words and What They Tell Us About Homicide (with Dr. Gregory A. Jackson).

Barbara lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

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We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her! ' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work fun of the most exhausting sort. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison