Helen Hunt Jackson Quotes

“Will not the Senorita trust me?"Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. "Yes," she said. "I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not?""Yes, Senorita," he answered, greatly surprised, "I am Alessandro.”

“I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.”

“Do not disturb the sleeping dog.”

“don't think that warriors fit your standards”

“Only those who doubt pursue certainty; those who dissimulate certainness, only nurture illusion.”

“RISK IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD CHANCE”

“don't believe to your eyes believe to your actions”

“The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.”

“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”

“God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?”