Best 13 quotes of Jane Stanton Hitchcock on MyQuotes

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

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

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

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

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 don't.

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 with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

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

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

The key to life is imagination.

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. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

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

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles